Kafka Contracts in West Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 48 75
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Kafka 28 22 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.86% 2.62% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% 10.89% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 13
10th Percentile £385 £435 £650
25th Percentile £390 £469 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -23.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £675 -
90th Percentile £600 £758 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £663
% change year-on-year -5.66% -20.00% +1.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 202 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.24% 24.02% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 145 246
10th Percentile £366 £400 £412
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +561.07% - -
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.52 -
90th Percentile - £16.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £16.19 -
% change year-on-year +466.34% - -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Leeds +1 22 £500 -6.98% 6
Bradford - 4 - - 1
Halifax - 3 £413 -
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
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 12 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) GCP
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (21.43%) Azure
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.29%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (7.14%) dbt
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (3.57%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SSL
2 2 (7.14%) NAS
2 2 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 11 (39.29%) NoSQL
3 10 (35.71%) Flink
4 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (7.14%) Bigtable
6 2 (7.14%) DocumentDB
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
6 2 (7.14%) Redis
6 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Log4j
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Banking
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
2 5 (17.86%) GCP Architect
2 5 (17.86%) GCP Data Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Apache Beam
1 10 (35.71%) Spark Streaming
2 8 (28.57%) JDBC
3 4 (14.29%) Celery
3 4 (14.29%) Django
3 4 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 4 (14.29%) Flask
3 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 4 (14.29%) gRPC
3 4 (14.29%) LDAP
3 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (14.29%) React
3 4 (14.29%) RESTful
3 4 (14.29%) WebSockets
4 3 (10.71%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) SAML
6 1 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (35.71%) High Availability
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 9 (32.14%) Event-Driven
4 9 (32.14%) Microservices
5 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 7 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.86%) ETL
9 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.29%) OOP
9 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Scala
3 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
1 3 (10.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Control-M
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Splunk
2 3 (10.71%) Confluent
2 3 (10.71%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) TIBCO