Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kafka Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Kafka Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 357 423
Rank change year-on-year +7 +66 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 12 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.045% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.049% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £474 £300 -
25th Percentile £515 £328 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £400 £675
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -40.74% +17.39%
75th Percentile £545 £489 £688
90th Percentile - £490 -
UK median daily rate £530 £381 £850
% change year-on-year +39.02% -55.15% +41.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,862 16,482 20,359
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.81% 92.34% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,505 9,644 13,656
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 1,486 1,161
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Kafka Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in the UK excluding London

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Kafka Developer
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 Kafka Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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 - 8 £530 -
North West - 6 £530 -
Scotland - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
Kafka Developer
UK

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, Kafka Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Kafka
2 10 (83.33%) Java
3 9 (75.00%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) Migration
5 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (50.00%) Spring
5 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (50.00%) Microservices
5 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (41.67%) React
6 5 (41.67%) Swagger
6 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (41.67%) Liquibase
6 5 (41.67%) GitLab
6 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (41.67%) Build Automation
6 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
6 5 (41.67%) Clean Code
6 5 (41.67%) OpenAPI
6 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (41.67%) Marketing
6 5 (41.67%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (41.67%) TDD
6 5 (41.67%) SQL
6 5 (41.67%) JUnit
6 5 (41.67%) SAP
6 5 (41.67%) Electronics
6 5 (41.67%) Telecoms

Kafka Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
1 5 (41.67%) Gradle
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (41.67%) JUnit
1 5 (41.67%) Liquibase
1 5 (41.67%) Mockito
General
1 5 (41.67%) Electronics
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
1 5 (41.67%) Marketing
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) Kafka
2 6 (50.00%) Spring
2 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (41.67%) OpenAPI
3 5 (41.67%) React
3 5 (41.67%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) Build Automation
4 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Clean Code
4 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (41.67%) Programme Management
4 5 (41.67%) TDD
5 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
6 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Confluent