Kafka Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -41 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 19 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.59% 4.02% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 19.39% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 5
10th Percentile £315 £498 -
25th Percentile £319 £507 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £549 £600
Median % change year-on-year -40.76% -8.57% +9.09%
75th Percentile £387 £622 £625
90th Percentile £417 £685 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £573 £675
% change year-on-year +0.44% -15.19% +5.88%

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 180 98 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 26.51% 20.72% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 70 68
10th Percentile £350 £460 £375
25th Percentile £400 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +1.62% +8.25%
75th Percentile £538 £624 £656
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Kafka

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 13 October 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 -41 4 £325 -40.76% 2
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
1 1 (25.00%) JMS
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) FMCG
1 1 (25.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Confluent
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP