Kafka Contracts in the South West

Apache Kafka
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 144 124
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 -34
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 24 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.65% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.93% 4.24% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 33
10th Percentile £365 £370 £430
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +5.19% +16.16%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £625
90th Percentile £735 £692 £658
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 566 753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.43% 15.37% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 447 525
10th Percentile £313 £389 £363
25th Percentile £386 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £666 £608 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £644
England median daily rate £550 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -2.65% +0.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 19 33
10th Percentile - £49.50 £48.84
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.28 £49.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.59% +27.20%
75th Percentile £74.44 £72.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Dorset +6 2 - -
Bristol +8 1 £350 -37.22% 4
Gloucestershire +3 1 £750 +15.38% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Django Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python/Django Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) Django
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (50.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) Business Development
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat