Kafka Contracts in West London

Apache Kafka
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 17 41
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 0
Contract jobs citing Kafka 5 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.85% 7.77% 4.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 22.12% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 16
10th Percentile £405 £318 £369
25th Percentile £430 £400 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -19.15% +17.50%
75th Percentile £530 £488 £650
90th Percentile £556 £595 £656
London median daily rate £620 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -4.62% -3.70% +0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £75.00
25th Percentile - £36.25 £78.75
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.33% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.00 £31.65 £90.00
% change year-on-year +76.96% -64.84% +22.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West London

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 104 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 17.71% 35.14% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 79 98
10th Percentile £370 £350 £371
25th Percentile £425 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -3.08%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £608
90th Percentile £705 £640 £650
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.80 £75.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.65 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.45% -65.94% +140.00%
75th Percentile - £47.81 -
90th Percentile - £64.13 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +16.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in West London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in West London.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in West London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in West London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in West London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in West London.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Hounslow -8 2 £395 -16.84%
Hillingdon -16 1 £565 +18.95%
Kafka
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Appium
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management Architect
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Hystrix
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) JVM Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Confluent