Kafka Contract Job Trends in Southwark

Apache Kafka
Central London > Southwark

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southwark requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southwark 11.76% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £540 £585 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -16.43% +3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Southwark

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 Southwark.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southwark 35.29% 21.43% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £413 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £501
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -25.07% +8.22%
75th Percentile £625 £388 £526
90th Percentile £781 - -
Central London median daily rate £574 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.27% -3.51% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Southwark

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Southwark

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southwark citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southwark citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southwark 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft