Kafka Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Kafka Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Kafka Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Architect 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.52% 0.25% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £725 -
% change year-on-year -17.24% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 526 342 392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 86.58% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 184 256
10th Percentile £284 £375 £388
25th Percentile £379 £460 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £587
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -8.50% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £675
90th Percentile £610 £646 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £473 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £14.67
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.31% +3.70% +13.29%

Kafka Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Kafka Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Architect in Sheffield

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Kafka Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Kafka Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
1 3 (100.00%) Flink
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Beam
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Banking

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Flink
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving