Kafka Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Apache Kafka
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.18% - 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £406
% change year-on-year -8.33% +47.69% -36.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 119 14 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 21.10% 10.85% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 8 3
10th Percentile £400 £425 £360
25th Percentile £446 £435 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +21.25% -32.77%
75th Percentile £512 £523 £425
90th Percentile £636 £538 £440
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £469
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.00% -14.77%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 1 - - 1
Kafka
West Midlands

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Balsamiq
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Pega Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Decision Table
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pega