Confluent Contract Job Trends 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 21 October 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 364 408
Rank change year-on-year -6 +44 +98
Contract jobs citing Confluent 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.041% 0.014%
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% 0.092% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile - £275 -
25th Percentile £410 £309 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -22.00% -
75th Percentile £438 £625 £638
90th Percentile £468 £694 -
UK median daily rate £458 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -26.80% -13.79% +8.21%

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 7,817 7,600 9,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.26% 44.68% 46.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,872 4,372 6,362
10th Percentile £220 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £383 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 461 526
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.12 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +102.38%
75th Percentile £34.99 £63.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

Confluent
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluent relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Confluent job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Confluent
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Confluent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Confluent

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 21 October 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
South East - 6 £423 - 4
North of England -29 1 £425 -34.62% 1
Yorkshire -29 1 £425 -38.18%
Confluent
UK

Confluent
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (85.71%) OCI
1 6 (85.71%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (85.71%) Couchbase
1 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) High Availability
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) Security Patching
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM