Kafka Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 89 160 139
Rank change year-on-year +71 -21 -58
Contract jobs citing Kafka 276 201 456
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.79% 1.31% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.76% 5.48% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 155 349
10th Percentile £404 £409 £463
25th Percentile £486 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £750
90th Percentile £838 £713 £800
UK median daily rate £565 £536 £650
% change year-on-year +5.36% -17.50% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.20 -
25th Percentile £91.25 £28.88 £64.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 £35.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +164.29% -47.76% +0.19%
75th Percentile £93.75 £51.88 £69.50
90th Percentile - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year +171.75% -58.82% -1.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Kafka
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka.

Kafka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kafka over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Kafka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka.

Kafka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (16.30%) Apache
1 45 (16.30%) Apache Spark
2 34 (12.32%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (5.07%) Confluence
4 5 (1.81%) Camunda
4 5 (1.81%) nginx
4 5 (1.81%) Traefik
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) CICS
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Endur
1 4 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 141 (51.09%) AWS
2 57 (20.65%) Azure
3 52 (18.84%) Serverless
4 43 (15.58%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (14.86%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (13.04%) dbt
7 33 (11.96%) OpenShift
8 21 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (6.88%) Entra ID
10 18 (6.52%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.16%) GCP
11 17 (6.16%) GitHub
12 15 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.35%) Snowflake
14 11 (3.99%) AWS Fargate
15 10 (3.62%) Azure AKS
15 10 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.90%) DNS
2 7 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.72%) Firewall
3 2 (0.72%) HTTP
3 2 (0.72%) SSL
4 1 (0.36%) MQTT
4 1 (0.36%) SMS
4 1 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (23.91%) MongoDB
2 56 (20.29%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (18.12%) Relational Database
4 32 (11.59%) DB2
5 31 (11.23%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (11.23%) NoSQL
6 30 (10.87%) Apache Iceberg
6 30 (10.87%) Dremio
7 28 (10.14%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (10.14%) Apache Ignite
8 24 (8.70%) Redis
9 18 (6.52%) MySQL
10 17 (6.16%) SQL Server
11 16 (5.80%) Big Data
11 16 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (4.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (3.99%) RDBMS
14 10 (3.62%) Hadoop
15 9 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (3.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (18.48%) JUnit
2 44 (15.94%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.87%) Artifactory
4 19 (6.88%) JIRA
5 17 (6.16%) GitLab
6 16 (5.80%) Gradle
7 14 (5.07%) Git
7 14 (5.07%) Mockito
8 13 (4.71%) Maven
9 9 (3.26%) Liquibase
10 7 (2.54%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.17%) IntelliJ
11 6 (2.17%) Postman
11 6 (2.17%) Selenium
11 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.81%) Subversion
13 4 (1.45%) HP UFT
13 4 (1.45%) REST Assured
14 3 (1.09%) CA Release Automation
14 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
General
1 111 (40.22%) Finance
2 76 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 62 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (20.29%) Banking
5 48 (17.39%) Front Office
6 36 (13.04%) Investment Banking
7 17 (6.16%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.26%) Retail
9 7 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.81%) Back Office
10 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.09%) Games
12 2 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Law
12 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) German Language
13 1 (0.36%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 118 (42.75%) Developer
2 71 (25.72%) Java Developer
3 52 (18.84%) Senior
4 50 (18.12%) Data Engineer
5 43 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 39 (14.13%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (14.13%) Python Engineer
7 33 (11.96%) AWS DevOps
7 33 (11.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (10.51%) Senior Developer
9 26 (9.42%) Architect
9 26 (9.42%) Lead
10 24 (8.70%) C# Developer
10 24 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
11 19 (6.88%) SQL Developer
12 18 (6.52%) C++ Developer
12 18 (6.52%) C++/C# Developer
12 18 (6.52%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 15 (5.43%) Lead Developer
13 15 (5.43%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (23.55%) Spring
2 42 (15.22%) Spring Boot
3 37 (13.41%) J2EE
4 33 (11.96%) PySpark
5 27 (9.78%) .NET
6 25 (9.06%) JMS
6 25 (9.06%) RESTful
6 25 (9.06%) Web Services
7 23 (8.33%) .NET Core
8 20 (7.25%) ASP.NET
8 20 (7.25%) REST
8 20 (7.25%) WCF
9 19 (6.88%) AngularJS
10 18 (6.52%) React
11 17 (6.16%) Swagger
12 15 (5.43%) OAuth
13 14 (5.07%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (5.07%) OpenAPI
14 12 (4.35%) Keycloak
14 12 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.96%) Data Structures
2 27 (9.78%) Equities
3 19 (6.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.52%) Legacy Applications
5 10 (3.62%) PKI
6 9 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.54%) Derivative
7 7 (2.54%) Replication
8 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.45%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.45%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.09%) iPad
11 3 (1.09%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.75%) Linux
2 16 (5.80%) Unix
3 7 (2.54%) CentOS
3 7 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.17%) Windows
5 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (54.71%) Agile
2 118 (42.75%) DevOps
3 97 (35.14%) CI/CD
4 70 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 68 (24.64%) Open Source
7 62 (22.46%) Microservices
8 41 (14.86%) Containerisation
8 41 (14.86%) Data Engineering
9 40 (14.49%) Analytics
10 39 (14.13%) SDLC
11 34 (12.32%) Performance Tuning
12 31 (11.23%) Multithreading
12 31 (11.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 30 (10.87%) Asset Management
14 29 (10.51%) Event-Driven
15 28 (10.14%) TDD
16 26 (9.42%) Database Tuning
17 24 (8.70%) Mentoring
17 24 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (56.88%) Java
2 113 (40.94%) Python
3 98 (35.51%) SQL
4 40 (14.49%) Go
5 35 (12.68%) C#
6 30 (10.87%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.97%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.25%) JavaScript
9 19 (6.88%) C++
10 11 (3.99%) Bash
11 7 (2.54%) Scala
12 6 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.45%) Perl
13 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.09%) Groovy
15 2 (0.72%) Clojure
15 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.36%) COBOL
16 1 (0.36%) Ruby
16 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.80%) Degree
4 13 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.54%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.72%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.26%) NCSC
3 6 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.17%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.45%) QA
4 4 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.72%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.36%) EMIR
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (31.16%) Docker
2 5 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 106 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 72 (26.09%) Terraform
3 25 (9.06%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.25%) Grafana
5 13 (4.71%) Istio
6 8 (2.90%) Packer
6 8 (2.90%) Rancher
7 7 (2.54%) Ansible
7 7 (2.54%) Consul
7 7 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.54%) linkerd
7 7 (2.54%) ZABBIX
8 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.17%) Puppet
9 5 (1.81%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.09%) Control-M
10 3 (1.09%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.72%) logstash
11 2 (0.72%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (15.22%) Oracle
2 31 (11.23%) Sybase
3 13 (4.71%) Splunk
4 11 (3.99%) Google
5 8 (2.90%) VMware
6 7 (2.54%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.54%) Okta
7 5 (1.81%) Apple
7 5 (1.81%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (1.81%) Confluent
7 5 (1.81%) ESET
7 5 (1.81%) IBM
7 5 (1.81%) Informatica
7 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (1.45%) Databricks
8 4 (1.45%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.45%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.45%) Sparx
9 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow