Kafka Contracts in Northampton

Apache Kafka
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 9.76% 1.57% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.29% 5.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £314 - -
25th Percentile £326 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £398 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% - -
75th Percentile £459 £406 -
90th Percentile £537 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £398 -
% change year-on-year -9.94% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northampton

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 34 35 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 27.64% 27.56% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 21
10th Percentile £257 £344 -
25th Percentile £313 £356 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £467 £330
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +41.52% -32.65%
75th Percentile £450 £620 £375
90th Percentile £537 £622 £538
Northamptonshire median daily rate £363 £475 £330
% change year-on-year -23.68% +43.94% -30.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Apigee
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (8.33%) Kong
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 2 (16.67%) Flink
3 2 (16.67%) Parquet
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospike
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 3 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Gradle
3 2 (16.67%) HP UFT
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) NetBeans
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Scala Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Avro
3 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) J2EE
3 2 (16.67%) jQuery
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
4 5 (41.67%) Open Source
5 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 4 (33.33%) ETL
6 3 (25.00%) Budget Control
6 3 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
6 3 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Project Planning
6 3 (25.00%) SDLC
6 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (16.67%) Data Science
7 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Scala
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Veracode