Kafka Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 141 82
Rank change year-on-year -19 -59 +42
Contract jobs citing Kafka 208 465 1,409
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.34% 1.76% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.62% 7.00% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 353 1,035
10th Percentile £418 £463 £477
25th Percentile £475 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £713
90th Percentile £713 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £535 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -17.69% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £25.20 - £55.13
25th Percentile £28.88 £64.50 £59.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £66.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +0.19% -
75th Percentile £51.88 £69.50 £73.44
90th Percentile £62.00 - £76.63
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,704 6,642 13,394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.82% 25.21% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 4,950 9,934
10th Percentile £331 £399 £388
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +11.46%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £763 £754 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 78 125
10th Percentile £22.63 £22.40 £21.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £37.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.02% +29.08% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.48 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Kafka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Kafka hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 26 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.73%) Apache
3 6 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.92%) Confluence
4 4 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.44%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.44%) nginx
5 3 (1.44%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.96%) Endur
2 2 (0.96%) Shopify
3 1 (0.48%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (49.52%) AWS
2 38 (18.27%) Azure
3 26 (12.50%) Serverless
4 19 (9.13%) GCP
5 13 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
7 6 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (1.92%) Apigee
9 4 (1.92%) Kong
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.44%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) DNS
2 3 (1.44%) VPN
3 2 (0.96%) SSL
4 1 (0.48%) IPv4
4 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.71%) MongoDB
2 40 (19.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 30 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 23 (11.06%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.21%) Big Data
7 14 (6.73%) RDBMS
8 13 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (5.77%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.81%) Hadoop
11 9 (4.33%) Flink
12 8 (3.85%) MySQL
13 7 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (3.37%) OLAP
13 7 (3.37%) OLTP
14 6 (2.88%) Power BI
15 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
15 5 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.21%) Git
2 8 (3.85%) JIRA
3 7 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.37%) JUnit
4 5 (2.40%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.40%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.40%) Mockito
4 5 (2.40%) Selenium
5 4 (1.92%) GitLab
5 4 (1.92%) Subversion
6 3 (1.44%) HP UFT
6 3 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.44%) Snyk
6 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.96%) EasyMock
7 2 (0.96%) Hamcrest
7 2 (0.96%) Maven
7 2 (0.96%) Pylint
7 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.96%) TestNG
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.38%) Finance
3 22 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.13%) Banking
5 7 (3.37%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Automotive
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.48%) Games
10 1 (0.48%) German Language
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (35.58%) Developer
2 52 (25.00%) Senior
3 44 (21.15%) Software Engineer
4 33 (15.87%) Java Developer
5 22 (10.58%) Data Engineer
5 22 (10.58%) Senior Software Engineer
6 20 (9.62%) Senior Developer
7 16 (7.69%) Architect
8 14 (6.73%) Full Stack Developer
8 14 (6.73%) Site Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (6.25%) DBA
9 13 (6.25%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 12 (5.77%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Lead
12 9 (4.33%) Scala Developer
13 8 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (2.88%) Agile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.94%) Spring Boot
2 28 (13.46%) Spring
3 26 (12.50%) REST
4 24 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (10.10%) AngularJS
5 21 (10.10%) JSON
6 20 (9.62%) RESTful
7 18 (8.65%) React
8 15 (7.21%) XML
9 12 (5.77%) Web Services
10 11 (5.29%) PySpark
11 10 (4.81%) Node.js
12 8 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (3.85%) SOAP
13 7 (3.37%) .NET
13 7 (3.37%) Symfony
14 6 (2.88%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.88%) HTML
15 5 (2.40%) J2EE
15 5 (2.40%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.29%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.92%) DataPower
5 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.44%) Derivative
6 3 (1.44%) IoT
6 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.48%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.83%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.92%) Windows
4 3 (1.44%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (46.15%) Agile
2 59 (28.37%) DevOps
2 59 (28.37%) Microservices
3 57 (27.40%) Software Engineering
4 41 (19.71%) CI/CD
5 34 (16.35%) Fintech
6 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (15.87%) User Experience
7 31 (14.90%) UX Design
8 30 (14.42%) User Research
8 30 (14.42%) UX Research
9 28 (13.46%) TDD
10 24 (11.54%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (11.06%) Test Automation
12 19 (9.13%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (8.17%) Data Engineering
14 17 (8.17%) Data Modelling
14 17 (8.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (6.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 88 (42.31%) Java
2 56 (26.92%) Python
3 44 (21.15%) Go
4 27 (12.98%) SQL
5 22 (10.58%) Scala
6 17 (8.17%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.73%) PHP
8 11 (5.29%) Shell Script
9 9 (4.33%) C++
10 8 (3.85%) C#
11 7 (3.37%) Bash
12 5 (2.40%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.44%) Groovy
15 2 (0.96%) Bicep
15 2 (0.96%) C
15 2 (0.96%) Perl
15 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.48%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 19 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.33%) Degree
4 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) QA
3 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) GRC
3 1 (0.48%) MiFID
System Software
1 70 (33.65%) Docker
2 12 (5.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.48%) HDFS
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (47.60%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.58%) Prometheus
3 20 (9.62%) Grafana
4 14 (6.73%) Terraform
5 13 (6.25%) Consul
6 9 (4.33%) Ansible
7 7 (3.37%) Argo
8 3 (1.44%) Packer
8 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.96%) Istio
9 2 (0.96%) Kibana
9 2 (0.96%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.96%) Puppet
9 2 (0.96%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.48%) Oozie
10 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.48%) Rancher
10 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (16.35%) Oracle
2 16 (7.69%) IBM
3 15 (7.21%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.25%) Databricks
5 12 (5.77%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.88%) Google
7 4 (1.92%) TSYS
8 3 (1.44%) Confluent
8 3 (1.44%) Informatica
8 3 (1.44%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.44%) SAP
9 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.96%) Solace
9 2 (0.96%) Splunk
9 2 (0.96%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.96%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.48%) Okta