Apache Pulsar Contract Job Trends

Apache Pulsar
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Pulsar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 521 589
Rank change year-on-year -113 +68 +97
Contract jobs citing Apache Pulsar 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.094% 0.031% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £354 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.69%
75th Percentile £404 - £613
90th Percentile £432 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Apache Pulsar falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,271 3,260 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 11.14% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,871 2,150 3,029
10th Percentile £313 £281 £262
25th Percentile £403 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £707 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 64 164
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.33 £13.33
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.42 £15.61
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.07% -42.55%
75th Percentile £63.19 £70.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.71% +78.70% -35.83%

Apache Pulsar
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Pulsar relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Pulsar job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Pulsar
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Pulsar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Pulsar

Apache Pulsar
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Pulsar within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
England - 4 £358 - 2
South East - 2 £354 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £354 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £350 -
London - 1 £450 - 1

Apache Pulsar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Apigee
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (50.00%) Kong
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (25.00%) gRPC
3 1 (25.00%) Micronaut
3 1 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (25.00%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (25.00%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
2 2 (50.00%) linkerd
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft