Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in South London

Kafka Engineer
London > South London

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in South London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.57% 0.50% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £700 £575 £708
% change year-on-year +21.74% -18.73% +1.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 164 196 303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 97.51% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 127 230
10th Percentile £213 £245 £324
25th Percentile £337 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £567 £600
90th Percentile £719 £748 £675
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 20
10th Percentile - - £14.73
25th Percentile - £17.25 £18.75
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -55.52% -0.62%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile - £73.75 £65.34
London median hourly rate £31.49 £33.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -6.00% -10.67% +15.38%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings that featured Kafka Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Engineer in South London

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in South London

Kafka Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Engineer within the South London region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Croydon -2 1 £575 +6.48%
Kafka Engineer
London

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Kafka Engineer 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 South London region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (100.00%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent