Confluent Contracts in the UK excluding London

Confluent
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Confluent products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluent over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Confluent, Inc.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 393 440
Rank change year-on-year +64 +47 +56
Contract jobs citing Confluent 10 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.029% 0.029%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.068% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £421 - £499
25th Percentile £434 £275 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £484 £656 £609
90th Percentile £494 £713 £611
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £680
% change year-on-year -11.54% -4.41% +0.74%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Confluent falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 8,846 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.84% 42.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 5,327 7,325
10th Percentile £216 £205 £205
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 949 474
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.61 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Confluent
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Confluent as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Confluent in the UK excluding London

Confluent
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluent in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Confluent in the UK excluding London

Confluent
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluent within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +29 8 £463 -33.93% 3
Yorkshire +13 7 £463 -33.93% 2
Scotland +13 2 - -
North West +14 1 - - 1
Confluent
UK

Confluent
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (40.00%) NAS
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) DB2
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Gradle
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Environment Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) LDAP
2 5 (50.00%) REST
3 4 (40.00%) Middleware
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Key Management
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Testing
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Interface Catalogue
5 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Groovy
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (20.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic