Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Kafka Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 852 278 312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 90.85% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 186 190
10th Percentile £350 £225 £336
25th Percentile £411 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £588
90th Percentile £650 £646 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +1.05% +1.06% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £16.37 -
25th Percentile - £18.10 £10.90
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.25% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.21 £13.23
% change year-on-year - +37.60% -29.85%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 4 April 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk