Kafka Contracts in Portsmouth

Apache Kafka
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 26 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 1.63% - 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.70% - 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 - -
75th Percentile £564 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 23 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 18.70% 7.69% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 25
10th Percentile £468 £299 -
25th Percentile £507 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.44% +7.22%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £676
90th Percentile - £861 -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £52.25 £58.13 £59.63
25th Percentile £55.09 £61.56 £64.38
Median hourly rate £57.63 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -10.71% +12.63%
75th Percentile £62.25 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £62.63 £70.00 £72.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -10.71% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk