Kafka Contracts in the South East

Apache Kafka
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 136 175
Rank change year-on-year +15 +39 -21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 36 62 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.12% 1.09% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.41% 7.87% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 20
10th Percentile £288 £361 £447
25th Percentile £346 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £553
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -14.03% -7.92%
75th Percentile £559 £497 £669
90th Percentile £591 £534 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £28.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +123.21% -64.10% +26.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 562 788 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.43% 13.80% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 526 675
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £402 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £583 £619 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 42
10th Percentile £22.73 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £56.65 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +33.16%
75th Percentile £58.70 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.79 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Hampshire +44 14 £435 +8.75% 7
Thames Valley -1 11 £563 +16.70% 10
West Sussex +2 9 £294 -20.11% 2
Berkshire +10 8 £531 +11.02% 7
Buckinghamshire -4 3 £575 +15.00% 1
Surrey +27 2 £635 +52.10% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Camunda
4 1 (2.78%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) GitHub
2 9 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (22.22%) Azure
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
4 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
5 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.56%) PaaS
7 2 (5.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
4 6 (16.67%) Big Data
4 6 (16.67%) Redis
5 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (11.11%) Spark SQL
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (8.33%) MySQL
7 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (5.56%) Apache Hive
8 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.78%) Couchbase
9 1 (2.78%) Power BI
9 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.78%) JIRA
3 9 (25.00%) Git
4 6 (16.67%) Subversion
5 2 (5.56%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.78%) ERwin
6 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Architect
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
5 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Project Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Project Leader
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Big Data Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Hadoop Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (22.22%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) GraphQL
2 7 (19.44%) gRPC
2 7 (19.44%) Keycloak
3 5 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (13.89%) YAML
4 4 (11.11%) PySpark
5 3 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.56%) JDBC
6 2 (5.56%) OpenJDK
6 2 (5.56%) React
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.78%) Spring
7 1 (2.78%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.78%) Symfony
7 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) CUDA
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) Scrum
4 12 (33.33%) Microservices
5 10 (27.78%) Analytics
5 10 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 10 (27.78%) DevOps
5 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 8 (22.22%) BDD
7 8 (22.22%) ETL
7 8 (22.22%) TDD
8 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (19.44%) Data Analytics
8 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
8 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (19.44%) Kanban
8 7 (19.44%) Observability
8 7 (19.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Go
2 9 (25.00%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) Bash
5 3 (8.33%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
3 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) Def Stans
2 2 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Terraform
3 7 (19.44%) Grafana
3 7 (19.44%) Prometheus
4 6 (16.67%) Ansible
5 5 (13.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Splunk
2 6 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) Databricks
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) Zend