Kafka Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apache Kafka
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 92 120 134
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 25 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.93% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.64% 6.81% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £445 - £438
25th Percentile £503 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -1.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £544
90th Percentile - £628 £553
South East median daily rate £509 £475 £555
% change year-on-year +7.11% -14.41% -7.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +24 8 £505 +5.54% 26
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £575 - 26
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Camunda
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) HBase
4 1 (10.00%) HDInsight
4 1 (10.00%) Impala
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Terragrunt
2 1 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) JDBC
2 2 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (20.00%) OpenJDK
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) StreamSets