Kafka Contracts in South London

Apache Kafka
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 34 41
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Kafka 19 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 10.27% 3.31% 3.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 37.25% 13.79% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 11
10th Percentile £447 £425 -
25th Percentile £459 £436 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £714 £539 £625
90th Percentile £738 £550 -
London median daily rate £650 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -1.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 51 58 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 27.57% 23.97% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 66
10th Percentile £380 £425 £438
25th Percentile £449 £453 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% -13.87%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £649
90th Percentile £738 £671 £706
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.16 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -27.97% +9.04%
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
% change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in South London

Kafka
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 within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +17 18 £600 +23.08% 1
Bromley - 1 £600 - 1
Kafka
London

Kafka
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 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Camunda
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL
3 3 (15.79%) Parquet
4 2 (10.53%) GIS
4 2 (10.53%) Redis
5 1 (5.26%) Data Mart
5 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
5 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Gradle
2 5 (26.32%) JUnit
2 5 (26.32%) Liquibase
2 5 (26.32%) Mockito
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Electronics
3 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 5 (26.32%) Marketing
3 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Java Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Strategy Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Spring
1 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
2 5 (26.32%) OpenAPI
2 5 (26.32%) React
2 5 (26.32%) Swagger
3 3 (15.79%) Apache Avro
3 3 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (15.79%) JSON
3 3 (15.79%) Keycloak
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Microservices
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (26.32%) Code Quality
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (26.32%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Programme Management
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) TDD
6 4 (21.05%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (21.05%) ETL
6 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 7 (36.84%) Python
4 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.53%) Lua
6 2 (10.53%) Perl
6 2 (10.53%) PHP
7 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 15 (78.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Istio
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Rancher
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) Confluent
2 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace