Kafka Contracts in the North West

Apache Kafka
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 115 108
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 40 40 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.47% 1.27% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.94% 6.83% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 55
10th Percentile £311 £418 £449
25th Percentile £482 £440 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £534 £650 £675
90th Percentile £595 £680 £728
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +0.65% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 586 988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.54% 18.55% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 461 743
10th Percentile £360 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +22.02%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 25
10th Percentile £37.63 £39.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £41.40 £25.50
Median hourly rate £47.31 £45.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% +13.26% +16.85%
75th Percentile £71.87 - £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £63.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +29 31 £534 -2.91% 9
Cheshire 0 9 £438 -1.69%
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
1 13 (32.50%) Serverless
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Apigee
3 5 (12.50%) Kong
4 4 (10.00%) npm
4 4 (10.00%) Yarn
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (47.50%) MongoDB
2 12 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (27.50%) RDBMS
4 10 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (12.50%) OLAP
5 5 (12.50%) OLTP
5 5 (12.50%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (12.50%) Redis
6 4 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
7 3 (7.50%) HBase
7 3 (7.50%) MySQL
7 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.50%) Azkaban
8 1 (2.50%) Big Data
8 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.50%) Metadata
8 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) JIRA
2 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) Jasmine
3 4 (10.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (10.00%) Liquibase
3 4 (10.00%) Log4j
3 4 (10.00%) Mocha
3 4 (10.00%) webpack
4 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.00%) Gatling
5 2 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (5.00%) JMeter
5 2 (5.00%) JUnit
5 2 (5.00%) Maven
5 2 (5.00%) Selenium
5 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.50%) RStudio
6 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Banking
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) DBA
1 11 (27.50%) Developer
1 11 (27.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) Web Services
2 12 (30.00%) JSON
3 11 (27.50%) XML
4 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.00%) Spring
6 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.50%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (12.50%) J2EE
6 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (12.50%) REST
6 5 (12.50%) SOAP
7 4 (10.00%) Apache Camel
7 4 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 4 (10.00%) React
7 4 (10.00%) RESTful
7 4 (10.00%) Spring Integration
8 3 (7.50%) .NET
8 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
8 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) DataPower
1 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Online Gambling
4 1 (2.50%) Online Games
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
1 3 (7.50%) zOS
2 2 (5.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile
2 17 (42.50%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) Design Patterns
3 14 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 11 (27.50%) Database Security
6 10 (25.00%) OO
7 9 (22.50%) Microservices
8 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven
9 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (17.50%) TOGAF
10 6 (15.00%) Scrum
11 5 (12.50%) CQRS
11 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (12.50%) Multithreading
11 5 (12.50%) OOP
11 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
11 5 (12.50%) SOA
11 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Java
2 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) C#
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) Scala
5 4 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (5.00%) Groovy
6 2 (5.00%) Perl
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) R
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) IBM
3 5 (12.50%) TSYS
4 3 (7.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Confluent
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) Qualys
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk