The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 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
25,042
12,883
21,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
28.51%
30.34%
29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted
18,236
9,147
15,043
10th Percentile
£383
£315
£328
25th Percentile
£450
£400
£405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£550
£480
£493
Median % change year-on-year
+14.58%
-2.54%
+3.47%
75th Percentile
£650
£575
£575
90th Percentile
£738
£655
£650
UK excluding London median daily rate
£488
£425
£450
% change year-on-year
+14.71%
-5.56%
+5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted
246
158
190
10th Percentile
£21.00
£25.49
£18.80
25th Percentile
£35.25
£35.00
£33.44
Median hourly rate
£50.00
£45.00
£46.20
Median % change year-on-year
+11.11%
-2.60%
+10.00%
75th Percentile
£65.54
£57.88
£53.00
90th Percentile
£76.72
£63.25
£78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£50.00
£45.00
£45.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11%
-
+7.54%
Kafka Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Kafka Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka.
Kafka Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 27 January 2022.
Kafka Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka.
Kafka Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 27 January 2022.
Kafka Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 27 January 2022. 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
For the 6 months to 27 January 2022, IT contractor jobs citing Kafka also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Kafka.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
