Kafka Contracts in Reading

Apache Kafka
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 83 85
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.68% 0.58% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.17% 2.68% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £444 - £611
25th Percentile £463 £450 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £645
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -24.42% +84.29%
75th Percentile £488 £541 £690
90th Percentile £491 £546 £704
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £615
% change year-on-year +5.56% -26.83% +75.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 192 224 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.24% 21.68% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 177 175
10th Percentile £325 £410 £363
25th Percentile £425 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £598
90th Percentile £679 £725 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £56.50 £72.76 £28.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.89 £29.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +143.66% -46.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%

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

Kafka
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 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 6 (75.00%) Spring
3 5 (62.50%) Symfony
4 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (25.00%) Mustache
6 2 (25.00%) Node.js
6 2 (25.00%) React
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (50.00%) SOLID
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform