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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 285 202
Rank change year-on-year +79 -83 -12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 195 164 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.72% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.87% 3.97% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 105 274
10th Percentile £372 £450 £408
25th Percentile £425 £495 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £626
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.79% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £22.34 - -
25th Percentile £24.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.10% - -
75th Percentile £37.63 - -
90th Percentile £51.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +12.23% +27.45%

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 3,323 4,131 6,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.12% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,175 3,067 4,314
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £692 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 89 137
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.22 £19.95
25th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.47 £65.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +19.82% +20.56%
75th Percentile £67.56 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £79.19 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +16.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +53 73 £507 -15.50% 22
South East +26 54 £475 -14.41% 24
Scotland +53 42 £475 -9.52% 16
North West +42 41 £523 -5.00% 15
Yorkshire +21 32 £480 -26.15% 6
South West -8 11 £585 -2.50% 4
Midlands +14 7 £349 -33.57% 10
Wales +19 4 £550 +10.00% 6
West Midlands +6 4 £300 -42.86% 7
East of England -2 4 £600 +13.21% 10
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 3
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 37 (18.97%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.23%) Apache
3 15 (7.69%) Confluence
4 7 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (3.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (2.05%) Mule
7 3 (1.54%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.54%) nginx
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.51%) CMS
9 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (42.56%) AWS
2 50 (25.64%) Azure
3 37 (18.97%) GCP
4 26 (13.33%) Serverless
5 23 (11.79%) OpenShift
6 20 (10.26%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.67%) GitHub
8 10 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (4.10%) Apigee
10 7 (3.59%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 7 (3.59%) Kong
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.05%) npm
12 4 (2.05%) Yarn
13 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.54%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.18%) HTTP
2 10 (5.13%) SSL
3 3 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.59%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (16.41%) MongoDB
3 27 (13.85%) NoSQL
4 23 (11.79%) Relational Database
5 21 (10.77%) Big Data
5 21 (10.77%) Hadoop
6 18 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (6.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 12 (6.15%) RDBMS
8 11 (5.64%) Data Lake
9 10 (5.13%) BigQuery
9 10 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
10 9 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (4.62%) Couchbase
11 7 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (3.59%) Apache Hive
11 7 (3.59%) OLAP
11 7 (3.59%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 41 (21.03%) Git
2 34 (17.44%) Jenkins
3 33 (16.92%) JIRA
4 12 (6.15%) GitLab
5 10 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.13%) JUnit
6 7 (3.59%) JMeter
7 6 (3.08%) Selenium
8 5 (2.56%) Postman
8 5 (2.56%) Subversion
9 4 (2.05%) Gatling
9 4 (2.05%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.05%) Jasmine
9 4 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (2.05%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.05%) Log4j
9 4 (2.05%) Mocha
9 4 (2.05%) Mockito
9 4 (2.05%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.05%) webpack
General
1 33 (16.92%) Finance
1 33 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.90%) Banking
3 18 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.56%) Retail
6 4 (2.05%) Automotive
7 3 (1.54%) German Language
7 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.03%) Games
8 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Legal
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Police
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 79 (40.51%) Developer
2 59 (30.26%) Java Developer
3 26 (13.33%) Architect
4 23 (11.79%) Senior
5 15 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.15%) Site Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) DBA
8 11 (5.64%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 11 (5.64%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (4.62%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Lead
10 9 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.56%) Backend Developer
12 5 (2.56%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.56%) Security Engineer
13 4 (2.05%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.26%) Spring
2 53 (27.18%) Spring Boot
3 33 (16.92%) REST
4 24 (12.31%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (11.79%) Web Services
6 21 (10.77%) RESTful
7 17 (8.72%) React
8 14 (7.18%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (7.18%) JSON
9 13 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (6.67%) XML
10 12 (6.15%) J2EE
11 11 (5.64%) Apache Camel
12 10 (5.13%) CSS
13 9 (4.62%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.62%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.62%) SOAP
14 8 (4.10%) .NET
14 8 (4.10%) Node.js
14 8 (4.10%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.21%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.59%) DataPower
5 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.03%) PKI
8 2 (1.03%) Replication
9 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.51%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.44%) Linux
2 15 (7.69%) Windows
3 11 (5.64%) Unix
4 7 (3.59%) Mac OS X
5 6 (3.08%) zOS
6 2 (1.03%) VMS
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.51%) Android
7 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.51%) CentOS
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (43.59%) Agile
2 76 (38.97%) DevOps
2 76 (38.97%) Microservices
3 47 (24.10%) CI/CD
4 37 (18.97%) Containerisation
5 33 (16.92%) TDD
6 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
7 27 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (13.85%) Test Automation
8 26 (13.33%) Scrum
9 25 (12.82%) Design Patterns
10 23 (11.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (11.79%) Event-Driven
10 23 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (9.74%) High Availability
12 18 (9.23%) Change Management
12 18 (9.23%) Data Modelling
12 18 (9.23%) End-to-End Testing
12 18 (9.23%) ETL
13 17 (8.72%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 109 (55.90%) Java
2 42 (21.54%) SQL
3 38 (19.49%) Python
4 34 (17.44%) Scala
5 29 (14.87%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.64%) C#
7 10 (5.13%) Go
8 9 (4.62%) Groovy
8 9 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.08%) PHP
10 5 (2.56%) Bash
10 5 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.56%) SPARQL
11 4 (2.05%) Perl
12 3 (1.54%) ABAP
12 3 (1.54%) Ruby
12 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.03%) R
14 1 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Degree
4 12 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (2.05%) NIST
2 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 50 (25.64%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (2.05%) HDFS
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.28%) Prometheus
2 22 (11.28%) Terraform
3 21 (10.77%) Grafana
4 15 (7.69%) Kibana
5 13 (6.67%) Ansible
5 13 (6.67%) Istio
6 12 (6.15%) Argo
7 8 (4.10%) Zipkin
8 6 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.51%) Control-M
9 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (17.44%) Oracle
2 23 (11.79%) IBM
3 17 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.13%) Google
4 10 (5.13%) Splunk
5 7 (3.59%) Confluent
5 7 (3.59%) Solace
5 7 (3.59%) TSYS
6 6 (3.08%) F5
6 6 (3.08%) SAP
6 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.56%) Qualys
8 3 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.54%) Informatica
9 2 (1.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.51%) Adobe
10 1 (0.51%) Skytap
10 1 (0.51%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.51%) Teradata