Kafka Architect Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Kafka Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Kafka Architect daily rate in West Yorkshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Architect 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.92% - 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £775
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £725 £775
% change year-on-year -17.24% -6.45% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 731 769 1,350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.31% 92.32% 97.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 482 890
10th Percentile £285 £326 £318
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £648 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 18
10th Percentile - £17.18 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £19.50 £15.43
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% +27.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £22.02
90th Percentile - £48.75 £24.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +0.64% +3.24% +12.16%

Kafka Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Architect in West Yorkshire

Kafka Architect
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Architect job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Architect job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Kafka Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Architect within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Leeds - 7 £600 -
Kafka Architect
Yorkshire

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Kafka Architect 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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring Kafka Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 7 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
1 7 (100.00%) Flink
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Beam
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
2 6 (85.71%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) JDBC
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Flink
2 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
2 4 (57.14%) JDBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible