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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 525 574
Rank change year-on-year -10 +49 +208
Contract jobs citing Confluent 16 44 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% 0.26% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 47
10th Percentile £382 £319 £545
25th Percentile £417 £539 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £700 £680
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% +2.94% +0.74%
75th Percentile £588 £769 £810
90th Percentile £603 £938 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -22.92% +6.67% -10.00%

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 15,695 16,966 23,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 43.75% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,568 10,590 15,046
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 839 658
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.68 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £39.58
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -29.25% +77.87%
75th Percentile £47.12 £61.52 £62.38
90th Percentile £67.60 £70.00 £73.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -9.84% +53.96%

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 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluent in the UK

Confluent
Top 7 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 16 August 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 -19 12 £565 -19.29% 6
London -12 7 £575 -20.85% 4
UK excluding London +1 6 £463 -22.92% 4
Yorkshire -11 5 £463 -33.93%
North of England -14 5 £463 -33.93% 1
Work from Home +7 3 £383 -29.17% 4
Scotland -11 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 4 (25.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) SSL
2 2 (12.50%) NAS
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.25%) DB2
3 1 (6.25%) Flink
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Environment Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Kafka
2 7 (43.75%) JSON
3 4 (25.00%) EDIFACT
3 4 (25.00%) XML
4 3 (18.75%) LDAP
4 3 (18.75%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) Middleware
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) JSON Schema
6 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) API Integration
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Key Management
4 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Agile Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) Low Latency
5 1 (6.25%) Microservices
5 1 (6.25%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 5 (31.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) Istio
4 1 (6.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Guidewire
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) StreamSets