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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 14 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 7.53% 1.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.72% 4.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £321 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £398 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% - -
75th Percentile £413 £406 -
90th Percentile £537 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £356 £398 -
% change year-on-year -10.44% - -

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 71 43 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 38.17% 24.02% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 16
10th Percentile £257 £354 £231
25th Percentile £308 £366 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £489 £340
Median % change year-on-year -25.87% +43.82% -32.00%
75th Percentile £419 £600 £456
90th Percentile £491 £622 £556
Northamptonshire median daily rate £363 £482 £350
% change year-on-year -24.79% +37.71% -28.57%

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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 29 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 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Apigee
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Kong
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Flink
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Parquet
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospike
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) IntelliJ
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Gradle
3 2 (14.29%) HP UFT
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) NetBeans
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
4 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) J2EE
3 3 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 3 (21.43%) JSON
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) Ajax
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
4 2 (14.29%) Bootstrap
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) jQuery
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) REST
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (35.71%) Open Source
5 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
6 3 (21.43%) API Development
6 3 (21.43%) Budget Control
6 3 (21.43%) Contingency Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Project Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Scala
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Solace
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Veracode