Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Kafka Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.099% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 916 322 389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 90.96% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 217 237
10th Percentile £335 £213 £225
25th Percentile £406 £385 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +1.06% -14.55%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £564
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +3.78% - -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 17
10th Percentile - £16.37 £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +37.60% -29.85%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.45
% change year-on-year +100.09% +46.96% -46.96%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Kafka Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 April 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
Sheffield - 1 £463 -
Kafka Engineer
Yorkshire

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 4 April 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk