Kafka Contracts in Reading

Apache Kafka
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 58 83 80
Rank change year-on-year +25 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.67% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 4.00% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £444 -
25th Percentile £563 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -2.56% -18.75%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £541
90th Percentile - £491 £546
Berkshire median daily rate £505 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +5.54% +6.33% -25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (50.00%) HDInsight
2 1 (50.00%) Impala
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) StreamSets