Kafka Contracts in Surrey

Apache Kafka
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 54 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.34% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 2.47% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £372 £666
25th Percentile - £386 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £418 £688
Median % change year-on-year - -39.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile - £446 £697
90th Percentile - £457 £699
South East median daily rate £509 £475 £555
% change year-on-year +7.11% -14.41% -7.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 56 81 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 18.79% 13.80% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 82
10th Percentile £350 £251 £313
25th Percentile £416 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £588
90th Percentile £663 £658 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £41.00 £50.50
25th Percentile £37.80 £55.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.26% +45.45% +171.60%
75th Percentile £43.39 - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Surrey

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Surrey

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian