Kafka Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 260 197
Rank change year-on-year +28 -63 +5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 167 197 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.82% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.14% 4.50% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 123 274
10th Percentile £349 £440 £413
25th Percentile £400 £485 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £543 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +12.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £22.24 - -
25th Percentile £23.81 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% - -
75th Percentile £38.94 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +0.65% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,251 4,374 6,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.31% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 3,275 4,420
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 90 144
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.47 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.35 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +25 61 £492 -14.39% 21
South East +29 46 £475 -21.16% 30
Scotland +54 41 £473 -10.00% 20
North West +27 40 £523 +4.50% 13
Yorkshire +16 21 £450 -30.77% 7
Midlands +24 8 £398 -24.29% 11
West Midlands +15 5 £400 -23.81% 6
South West 0 5 £750 +25.00% 8
East of England +8 4 £600 +13.74% 6
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 5
Wales +13 2 £1,000 +100.00% 4
Kafka
UK

Kafka
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 23 (13.77%) Apache Spark
2 19 (11.38%) Confluence
3 11 (6.59%) Apache
4 8 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (2.40%) Mule
7 3 (1.80%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.80%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.80%) nginx
8 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.60%) CMS
9 1 (0.60%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.60%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.93%) AWS
2 30 (17.96%) Azure
3 23 (13.77%) GCP
4 20 (11.98%) Serverless
5 11 (6.59%) Amazon S3
6 10 (5.99%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.79%) GitHub
8 7 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.59%) Apigee
10 5 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.99%) Kong
11 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.40%) npm
11 4 (2.40%) Yarn
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.80%) CloudBees
12 3 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.79%) HTTP
1 8 (4.79%) SSL
2 3 (1.80%) 5G
2 3 (1.80%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.75%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (17.37%) MongoDB
3 26 (15.57%) NoSQL
4 23 (13.77%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.19%) RDBMS
6 11 (6.59%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (6.59%) Hadoop
7 10 (5.99%) Big Data
7 10 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (5.99%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (5.99%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.79%) Apache Hive
8 8 (4.79%) Couchbase
9 6 (3.59%) Redis
10 5 (2.99%) HBase
10 5 (2.99%) OLAP
10 5 (2.99%) OLTP
10 5 (2.99%) Oracle OLAP
11 4 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (23.95%) Git
2 35 (20.96%) Jenkins
3 34 (20.36%) JIRA
4 19 (11.38%) Cucumber
4 19 (11.38%) JUnit
5 12 (7.19%) Postman
6 7 (4.19%) JMeter
7 6 (3.59%) GitLab
7 6 (3.59%) IntelliJ
7 6 (3.59%) Selenium
8 5 (2.99%) Subversion
9 4 (2.40%) Gatling
9 4 (2.40%) Jasmine
9 4 (2.40%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (2.40%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.40%) Log4j
9 4 (2.40%) Mocha
9 4 (2.40%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.40%) webpack
10 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.17%) Finance
3 19 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.38%) Banking
4 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.99%) Retail
6 4 (2.40%) Automotive
7 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Games
8 2 (1.20%) German Language
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 76 (45.51%) Developer
2 57 (34.13%) Java Developer
3 25 (14.97%) Senior
4 14 (8.38%) Senior Developer
5 13 (7.78%) Architect
6 12 (7.19%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (6.59%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) DBA
7 11 (6.59%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 9 (5.39%) Lead
8 9 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Site Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (3.59%) Java Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) AWS Architect
12 4 (2.40%) AWS Developer
12 4 (2.40%) Backend Developer
12 4 (2.40%) Cloud Developer
12 4 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (32.34%) Spring
2 52 (31.14%) Spring Boot
3 39 (23.35%) REST
4 22 (13.17%) RabbitMQ
5 20 (11.98%) Web Services
6 19 (11.38%) RESTful
7 17 (10.18%) Apache Camel
7 17 (10.18%) J2EE
8 16 (9.58%) React
9 14 (8.38%) JSON
10 13 (7.78%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (7.78%) XML
11 11 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.99%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.19%) .NET
13 7 (4.19%) Node.js
13 7 (4.19%) SOAP
14 6 (3.59%) .NET Core
14 6 (3.59%) OpenTracing
15 5 (2.99%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.59%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.99%) DataPower
6 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) PKI
10 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.60%) Online Games
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.37%) Linux
2 13 (7.78%) Windows
3 9 (5.39%) Unix
4 6 (3.59%) Mac OS X
5 5 (2.99%) zOS
6 2 (1.20%) VMS
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.60%) Android
7 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) CentOS
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (52.10%) Agile
2 62 (37.13%) Microservices
3 54 (32.34%) DevOps
4 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
4 38 (22.75%) TDD
5 35 (20.96%) Continuous Integration
6 27 (16.17%) Software Engineering
7 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (14.37%) Scrum
8 24 (14.37%) Test Automation
9 23 (13.77%) Event-Driven
10 21 (12.57%) End-to-End Testing
11 19 (11.38%) Design Patterns
12 17 (10.18%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (8.98%) Change Management
14 14 (8.38%) SDLC
15 13 (7.78%) Computer Science
15 13 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (58.68%) Java
2 41 (24.55%) SQL
3 31 (18.56%) Scala
4 28 (16.77%) Python
5 21 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.59%) Go
7 10 (5.99%) Groovy
8 9 (5.39%) C#
9 7 (4.19%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.59%) PHP
10 6 (3.59%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.80%) Bash
12 3 (1.80%) Ruby
13 2 (1.20%) ABAP
13 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 2 (1.20%) R
14 1 (0.60%) C
14 1 (0.60%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (8.38%) Degree
1 14 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (1.80%) NIST
2 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.20%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 38 (22.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (3.59%) HDFS
3 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (25.75%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.58%) Prometheus
3 14 (8.38%) Terraform
4 12 (7.19%) Ansible
4 12 (7.19%) Grafana
4 12 (7.19%) Kibana
5 8 (4.79%) Istio
6 7 (4.19%) Argo
7 6 (3.59%) Zipkin
8 4 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.20%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (22.16%) Oracle
2 20 (11.98%) IBM
3 7 (4.19%) Solace
3 7 (4.19%) Splunk
4 6 (3.59%) Confluent
4 6 (3.59%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.59%) SAP
4 6 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.99%) F5
5 5 (2.99%) TSYS
6 4 (2.40%) Informatica
6 4 (2.40%) Qualys
7 3 (1.80%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.20%) Databricks
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.60%) Adobe
9 1 (0.60%) Google
9 1 (0.60%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.60%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.60%) Teradata