Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Kafka Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
North East median daily rate £510 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 477 235 220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 96.71% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 177 100
10th Percentile £198 £223 £250
25th Percentile £369 £350 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £596 £625 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 10 41
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £26.66 £12.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +361.54% -25.71% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £23.69 £48.75
90th Percentile - £49.08 £60.00
North East median hourly rate £61.16 £13.00 £13.99
% change year-on-year +370.46% -7.08% -71.45%

Kafka Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £510 -
Kafka Engineer
North East

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Tyne and Wear region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 EMR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks