Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends

Kafka Developer
UK

The median Kafka Developer daily rate in the UK is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 548 625
Rank change year-on-year +40 +77 +197
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 42 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.039% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.042% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 8 17
10th Percentile £434 £300 £463
25th Percentile £515 £323 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £381 £850
Median % change year-on-year +39.02% -55.15% +41.67%
75th Percentile £988 £488 £1,000
90th Percentile - £490 £1,040
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £400 £675
% change year-on-year +32.50% -40.74% +17.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,033 35,612 47,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 93.02% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,934 22,137 32,503
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,556 1,741 1,472
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.73 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.06 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £52.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Kafka Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in the UK

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in the UK

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka Developer over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka Developer in the UK

Kafka Developer
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 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 +34 36 £753 +97.38% 1
London +47 28 £975 +188.89% 1
Work from Home +37 23 £975 +205.88%
UK excluding London +7 12 £530 +32.50%
North of England - 8 £530 -
North West - 6 £530 -
Scotland - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, Kafka Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Kafka
2 33 (78.57%) Java
3 32 (76.19%) Finance
4 31 (73.81%) SQL
5 27 (64.29%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (64.29%) TDD
6 18 (42.86%) Agile
6 18 (42.86%) AWS
7 17 (40.48%) Banking
8 16 (38.10%) Management Information System
8 16 (38.10%) Risk Management
8 16 (38.10%) Investment Banking
8 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
8 16 (38.10%) Market Risk
8 16 (38.10%) Derivative
8 16 (38.10%) Analytics
9 15 (35.71%) Migration
9 15 (35.71%) Event-Driven
10 14 (33.33%) DevOps
11 13 (30.95%) Docker
11 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
12 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
12 12 (28.57%) Microservices
12 12 (28.57%) React
12 12 (28.57%) Spring Boot
12 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
12 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
12 12 (28.57%) Spring
13 11 (26.19%) Marketing

Kafka Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Azure
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (64.29%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (26.19%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) GitLab
1 11 (26.19%) Gradle
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
1 11 (26.19%) JUnit
1 11 (26.19%) Liquibase
1 11 (26.19%) Mockito
General
1 32 (76.19%) Finance
2 17 (40.48%) Banking
3 16 (38.10%) Investment Banking
4 11 (26.19%) Electronics
4 11 (26.19%) Manufacturing
4 11 (26.19%) Marketing
4 11 (26.19%) Public Sector
4 11 (26.19%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) Kafka
2 12 (28.57%) React
2 12 (28.57%) Spring
2 12 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 11 (26.19%) OpenAPI
3 11 (26.19%) Swagger
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) Django
5 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.38%) Flask
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Derivative
1 16 (38.10%) Management Information System
1 16 (38.10%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) TDD
2 18 (42.86%) Agile
3 16 (38.10%) Analytics
3 16 (38.10%) Risk Management
3 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
4 15 (35.71%) Event-Driven
4 15 (35.71%) Migration
5 14 (33.33%) DevOps
6 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
7 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 12 (28.57%) Microservices
8 11 (26.19%) Build Automation
8 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (26.19%) Clean Code
8 11 (26.19%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (26.19%) Programme Management
9 4 (9.52%) Multithreading
10 3 (7.14%) API Development
10 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) Java
2 31 (73.81%) SQL
3 11 (26.19%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.52%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Python
6 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) SAP
2 3 (7.14%) Confluent
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce