Kafka Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.17% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £433 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +5.00% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.85% 7.78% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £350 £206 £500
25th Percentile £481 £234 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £338 £550
Median % change year-on-year +62.96% -38.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £491 £634
90th Percentile - £541 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 2026. 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
Oxford - 1 - -
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Celery
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft