Kafka Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Apache Kafka
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 12 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 3.85% 3.78% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.57% 17.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 0
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £552 £418 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.95% - -
75th Percentile £580 £472 -
90th Percentile £598 £530 -
Hampshire median daily rate £565 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +29.89% +8.75% -20.00%

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 42 39 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 13.46% 21.08% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 6
10th Percentile £492 - £400
25th Percentile £521 £418 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £514 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -23.88% +17.43%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £690
90th Percentile £656 £596 -
Hampshire median daily rate £580 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +13.17% -10.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +1.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.63 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.63 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £54.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.23% -21.61% +3.70%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Portsmouth

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (8.33%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) AI
2 10 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 10 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 9 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (50.00%) DevOps
6 5 (41.67%) SFIA
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Agile
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
9 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
9 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (8.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Rancher
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) VMware