Kafka Contracts in Suffolk

Apache Kafka
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 2.70% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £318 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -46.97% +14.29% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13 7 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 17.57% 11.48% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 28
10th Percentile £290 £419 £513
25th Percentile £313 £544 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +32.08%
75th Percentile £521 £647 -
90th Percentile £659 £650 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £499 £520
% change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Suffolk

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Suffolk

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich - 2 - - 11
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) logstash
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google