Kafka Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Apache Kafka
South East > Surrey

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.25% - 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% - 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.42%
75th Percentile - - £778
90th Percentile - - £784
South East median daily rate £433 £497 £575
% change year-on-year -12.89% -13.65% -4.17%

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 113 65 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.11% 14.19% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 43 92
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £205 £514
Median % change year-on-year +131.71% -60.10% -6.59%
75th Percentile £551 £519 £582
90th Percentile £660 £661 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - £41.93
25th Percentile £27.50 - £54.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile £85.05 - £76.72
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -2.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared