Kafka Contracts in West Sussex

Apache Kafka
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 13 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.74% 4.98% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.43% 20.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile - £205 -
25th Percentile - £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £368 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% - -
75th Percentile £325 £382 -
90th Percentile £340 £422 -
South East median daily rate £509 £475 £555
% change year-on-year +7.11% -14.41% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £31.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 35 63 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 23.97% 24.14% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 66
10th Percentile £334 £355 £350
25th Percentile £350 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £544
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -21.80% +5.02%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £634
90th Percentile £629 £724 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £23.60 £22.17
25th Percentile - £24.88 £22.18
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year - +20.12% -57.62%
75th Percentile - £34.63 £25.56
90th Percentile - £38.00 £26.24
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in West Sussex

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in West Sussex

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region 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
Burgess Hill -2 4 £300 -13.42% 6
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central