Kafka Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 240 279
Rank change year-on-year +90 +39 -80
Contract jobs citing Kafka 220 162 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.72% 0.78% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.25% 4.92% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 103 115
10th Percentile £357 £332 £431
25th Percentile £408 £400 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -9.77% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £650
90th Percentile £680 £645 £700
UK median daily rate £565 £536 £650
% change year-on-year +5.36% -17.50% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
Median hourly rate £78.70 £31.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.84% -59.62% -
UK median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year +171.75% -58.82% -1.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 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 +58 104 £525 +7.14% 106
North West +41 64 £500 -4.08% 62
Scotland +17 46 £470 - 42
Yorkshire +16 29 £675 +50.00% 31
South East +27 26 £509 +7.11% 168
Midlands +31 17 £399 +0.38% 89
East Midlands +19 12 £358 -9.94% 32
North East - 11 £465 - 13
Northern Ireland - 10 £470 - 17
South West +51 9 £513 -6.82% 50
East of England +35 9 £318 -46.97% 49
West Midlands +14 5 £550 +37.50% 50
Wales +1 1 - - 9
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 32 (14.55%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.82%) Apache
3 9 (4.09%) Confluence
4 8 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (3.18%) nginx
5 7 (3.18%) Traefik
6 3 (1.36%) Camunda
7 2 (0.91%) GemFire
7 2 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.45%) Mule
8 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.00%) AWS
2 27 (12.27%) Serverless
3 26 (11.82%) GCP
4 25 (11.36%) Azure
5 21 (9.55%) GitHub
6 20 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 17 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (7.73%) OpenShift
8 16 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.45%) AWS Fargate
10 10 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.09%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.64%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.73%) dbt
13 6 (2.73%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.09%) DNS
1 9 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.27%) SSL
3 4 (1.82%) NAS
3 4 (1.82%) SAN
4 2 (0.91%) SMS
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (37.73%) MongoDB
2 59 (26.82%) Relational Database
3 51 (23.18%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (19.55%) NoSQL
5 31 (14.09%) DB2
6 21 (9.55%) Big Data
6 21 (9.55%) RDBMS
7 19 (8.64%) Hadoop
7 19 (8.64%) MySQL
8 16 (7.27%) Flink
9 15 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.55%) Apache Hive
10 10 (4.55%) BigQuery
10 10 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (3.64%) Data Lake
13 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
13 7 (3.18%) Redis
14 5 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 52 (23.64%) Jenkins
2 49 (22.27%) JUnit
3 35 (15.91%) GitLab
4 20 (9.09%) JIRA
5 15 (6.82%) Gradle
6 13 (5.91%) Git
7 11 (5.00%) Maven
7 11 (5.00%) Mockito
8 10 (4.55%) Liquibase
9 7 (3.18%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.18%) Subversion
10 5 (2.27%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.27%) gulp
10 5 (2.27%) IntelliJ
10 5 (2.27%) Selenium
10 5 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.82%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (1.82%) HP UFT
11 4 (1.82%) NetBeans
12 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 57 (25.91%) Finance
1 57 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (15.91%) Banking
4 30 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.64%) Front Office
6 12 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.55%) Electronics
7 10 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.55%) Marketing
8 7 (3.18%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.27%) Law
10 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 2 (0.91%) Military
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.45%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (38.64%) Developer
2 60 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 40 (18.18%) Architect
4 30 (13.64%) Senior
5 21 (9.55%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.36%) Data Architect
6 14 (6.36%) Lead
6 14 (6.36%) Software Engineer
7 11 (5.00%) DBA
7 11 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.55%) Java Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (3.18%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 7 (3.18%) React Developer
11 7 (3.18%) SQL Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.73%) Spring
2 45 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 27 (12.27%) React
4 25 (11.36%) JMS
5 16 (7.27%) AngularJS
5 16 (7.27%) REST
5 16 (7.27%) RESTful
6 15 (6.82%) JSON
7 14 (6.36%) Keycloak
7 14 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (6.36%) Swagger
8 13 (5.91%) OpenAPI
8 13 (5.91%) PySpark
9 11 (5.00%) Middleware
9 11 (5.00%) XML
10 10 (4.55%) cloud-init
10 10 (4.55%) Node.js
11 9 (4.09%) Hibernate
12 8 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (3.64%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Data Structures
2 23 (10.45%) Equities
3 14 (6.36%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.09%) PKI
6 8 (3.64%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.73%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.82%) Clustering
9 4 (1.82%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.36%) Derivative
10 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.36%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.82%) Linux
2 26 (11.82%) Unix
3 10 (4.55%) CentOS
3 10 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.82%) Windows
5 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (43.18%) Agile
2 86 (39.09%) CI/CD
3 66 (30.00%) Microservices
4 65 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (27.73%) DevOps
6 46 (20.91%) Containerisation
7 45 (20.45%) Event-Driven
8 40 (18.18%) Open Source
8 40 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 37 (16.82%) SDLC
10 34 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (13.64%) Analytics
12 29 (13.18%) Mentoring
12 29 (13.18%) Multithreading
13 26 (11.82%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (11.36%) ETL
15 23 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
16 21 (9.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (50.91%) Java
2 88 (40.00%) SQL
3 84 (38.18%) Python
4 26 (11.82%) Shell Script
5 20 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.18%) Go
7 14 (6.36%) Bash
7 14 (6.36%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.73%) Scala
9 4 (1.82%) PHP
10 3 (1.36%) Clojure
10 3 (1.36%) Groovy
10 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) C#
12 1 (0.45%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.36%) AWS Certification
3 14 (6.36%) Degree
4 10 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.91%) CISSP
8 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 11 (5.00%) NCSC
2 8 (3.64%) Def Stans
3 6 (2.73%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.82%) QA
5 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.36%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 44 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 40 (18.18%) Terraform
3 29 (13.18%) Prometheus
4 27 (12.27%) Grafana
5 11 (5.00%) Istio
5 11 (5.00%) Packer
6 9 (4.09%) Ansible
6 9 (4.09%) Consul
6 9 (4.09%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (4.09%) linkerd
6 9 (4.09%) Rancher
6 9 (4.09%) ZABBIX
7 8 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.18%) HAProxy
9 5 (2.27%) Kibana
9 5 (2.27%) logstash
10 4 (1.82%) Puppet
11 2 (0.91%) Control-M
11 2 (0.91%) Kiali
12 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 27 (12.27%) Oracle
1 27 (12.27%) Sybase
2 25 (11.36%) Splunk
3 12 (5.45%) SAP
4 11 (5.00%) Google
4 11 (5.00%) VMware
5 10 (4.55%) Confluent
6 9 (4.09%) Okta
7 8 (3.64%) Databricks
7 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.18%) Apple
8 7 (3.18%) ESET
8 7 (3.18%) IBM
9 5 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.82%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.82%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.82%) Microsoft
10 4 (1.82%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.82%) Zend
11 3 (1.36%) DocuSign