Kafka Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Apache Kafka
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 30 17
Rank change year-on-year -26 -13 -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.46% 1.25% 6.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 6.67% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £352 - £475
25th Percentile £358 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 - £489
75th Percentile £388 - £498
90th Percentile £392 - £499
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £505 £484
% change year-on-year -5.94% +4.45% +3.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 80 30 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 18.22% 18.75% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 17 22
10th Percentile £358 £411 £338
25th Percentile £393 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £497
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -9.37% -0.70%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £565
90th Percentile £582 £525 £586
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Flask
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Linear Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes