Kafka Contracts in South Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 38 47 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.68% 1.97% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.16% 7.63% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £506 - £450
25th Percentile £600 £430 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £442 £600
Median % change year-on-year +41.56% -26.42% -
75th Percentile £695 £502 £625
90th Percentile £711 £591 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £675 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 76 118 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.38% 25.82% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 57
10th Percentile £360 £397 £403
25th Percentile £400 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £462 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -23.08% +33.33%
75th Percentile £641 £588 £700
90th Percentile £709 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in South Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in South Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in South Yorkshire

Kafka
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 within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +6 10 £625 +41.56% 12
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Flink
2 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) Hazelcast
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jaeger
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Beam
1 4 (40.00%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (20.00%) gRPC
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Control-M
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Istio
2 2 (20.00%) Kiali
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (20.00%) Confluent
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
1 2 (20.00%) xMatters
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Google