Confluent Contracts

Confluent
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Confluent products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluent over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Confluent, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 566 631
Rank change year-on-year +69 +65 +156
Contract jobs citing Confluent 23 16 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.037% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.087% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 42
10th Percentile £500 £275 £521
25th Percentile £531 £425 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £680
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -4.41% +0.74%
75th Percentile £594 £763 £813
90th Percentile £700 £855 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £563
% change year-on-year +2.78% -20.00% -6.25%

All Vendors
UK

Confluent falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Confluent
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Confluent as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Confluent in the UK

Confluent
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluent.

Daily rate trend for Confluent in the UK

Confluent
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluent over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluent in the UK

Confluent
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluent within the UK 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
England +60 17 £570 -15.56% 10
UK excluding London +67 10 £463 +2.78% 4
London +38 9 £588 -21.67% 7
North of England +25 8 £463 -33.93% 2
Yorkshire +14 7 £463 -33.93% 1
Work from Home +41 5 £670 +123.33% 6
Scotland +13 2 - -
North West +17 1 - - 1

Confluent
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (21.74%) Apache
2 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.70%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub
3 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (21.74%) Snowflake
4 4 (17.39%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
5 3 (13.04%) Datadog
5 3 (13.04%) dbt
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) IaaS
6 2 (8.70%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) SSL
2 4 (17.39%) NAS
2 4 (17.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (21.74%) Flink
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) DB2
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 4 (17.39%) Banking
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Data Product Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Product Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Products Support Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Applications Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) Kafka
2 6 (26.09%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) LDAP
4 4 (17.39%) Middleware
5 2 (8.70%) OAuth
5 2 (8.70%) PySpark
6 1 (4.35%) EDIFACT
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (4.35%) OpenID
6 1 (4.35%) Spring
6 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
1 4 (17.39%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
2 7 (30.43%) High Availability
3 6 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) ETL
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Key Management
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Observability
6 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Agile
7 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (8.70%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
3 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
4 5 (21.74%) Grafana
5 1 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) IBM
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.70%) Informatica
3 2 (8.70%) MKS
3 2 (8.70%) StreamSets
4 1 (4.35%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic