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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 161 135
Rank change year-on-year +74 -26 -56
Contract jobs citing Kafka 277 200 463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.80% 1.31% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.74% 5.48% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 155 349
10th Percentile £400 £409 £463
25th Percentile £481 £463 £505
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 £560 £540 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% -16.92% +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 2,580 3,647 6,489
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.07% 23.91% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,881 2,547 4,823
10th Percentile £368 £331 £394
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.92%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £657
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 81
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £43.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -31.20% +27.55%
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% +31.31%

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

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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 3 May 2025.

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 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 (16.25%) Apache Spark
2 44 (15.88%) Apache
3 34 (12.27%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (5.05%) Confluence
5 5 (1.81%) Camunda
5 5 (1.81%) nginx
5 5 (1.81%) Traefik
6 4 (1.44%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.36%) CICS
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Endur
1 4 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 141 (50.90%) AWS
2 57 (20.58%) Azure
3 52 (18.77%) Serverless
4 43 (15.52%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (14.44%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (12.64%) dbt
7 33 (11.91%) OpenShift
8 21 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (6.86%) Entra ID
10 18 (6.50%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (6.14%) GCP
11 17 (6.14%) GitHub
12 11 (3.97%) Snowflake
13 10 (3.61%) AWS Fargate
13 10 (3.61%) Azure AKS
13 10 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.89%) DNS
2 7 (2.53%) 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 (23.83%) MongoDB
2 57 (20.58%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (18.05%) Relational Database
4 32 (11.55%) DB2
5 31 (11.19%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (10.83%) Apache Iceberg
6 30 (10.83%) Dremio
6 30 (10.83%) NoSQL
7 28 (10.11%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (10.11%) Apache Ignite
8 24 (8.66%) Redis
9 18 (6.50%) MySQL
10 17 (6.14%) SQL Server
11 16 (5.78%) Big Data
12 15 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (3.97%) RDBMS
15 10 (3.61%) Hadoop
16 9 (3.25%) Data Lake
17 7 (2.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (18.41%) JUnit
2 45 (16.25%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.83%) Artifactory
4 20 (7.22%) JIRA
5 17 (6.14%) GitLab
6 16 (5.78%) Gradle
7 14 (5.05%) Git
7 14 (5.05%) Mockito
8 13 (4.69%) Maven
9 9 (3.25%) Liquibase
10 7 (2.53%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.17%) IntelliJ
11 6 (2.17%) Postman
11 6 (2.17%) Selenium
11 6 (2.17%) Subversion
11 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.44%) HP UFT
12 4 (1.44%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.08%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.08%) NetBeans
General
1 112 (40.43%) Finance
2 77 (27.80%) Social Skills
3 63 (22.74%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (20.58%) Banking
5 48 (17.33%) Front Office
6 37 (13.36%) Investment Banking
7 17 (6.14%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.25%) Retail
9 7 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.81%) Back Office
10 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) 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%) Portuguese Language
13 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 120 (43.32%) Developer
2 72 (25.99%) Java Developer
3 52 (18.77%) Senior
4 49 (17.69%) Data Engineer
5 43 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 39 (14.08%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (14.08%) Python Engineer
7 33 (11.91%) AWS DevOps
7 33 (11.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (10.47%) Senior Developer
9 27 (9.75%) Architect
9 27 (9.75%) Lead
10 25 (9.03%) C# Developer
11 24 (8.66%) Senior Java Developer
12 19 (6.86%) SQL Developer
13 18 (6.50%) C++ Developer
13 18 (6.50%) C++/C# Developer
13 18 (6.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
14 16 (5.78%) Lead Developer
14 16 (5.78%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (23.47%) Spring
2 42 (15.16%) Spring Boot
3 37 (13.36%) J2EE
4 33 (11.91%) PySpark
5 26 (9.39%) .NET
6 25 (9.03%) JMS
6 25 (9.03%) Web Services
7 24 (8.66%) RESTful
8 23 (8.30%) .NET Core
9 21 (7.58%) REST
10 20 (7.22%) ASP.NET
10 20 (7.22%) WCF
11 18 (6.50%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.50%) React
12 17 (6.14%) Swagger
13 16 (5.78%) ActiveMQ
14 15 (5.42%) OAuth
15 14 (5.05%) OpenAPI
16 12 (4.33%) Keycloak
16 12 (4.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.91%) Data Structures
2 27 (9.75%) Equities
3 19 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (6.50%) Legacy Applications
5 10 (3.61%) PKI
6 9 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.53%) Derivative
8 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.17%) Replication
9 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.44%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.44%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.08%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.69%) Linux
2 16 (5.78%) Unix
3 7 (2.53%) CentOS
3 7 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.17%) Windows
5 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (55.60%) Agile
2 119 (42.96%) DevOps
3 97 (35.02%) CI/CD
4 71 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (25.27%) Software Engineering
6 69 (24.91%) Open Source
7 63 (22.74%) Microservices
8 41 (14.80%) Data Engineering
9 40 (14.44%) Containerisation
10 39 (14.08%) Analytics
10 39 (14.08%) SDLC
11 33 (11.91%) Performance Tuning
12 31 (11.19%) Multithreading
12 31 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 30 (10.83%) Asset Management
13 30 (10.83%) Event-Driven
13 30 (10.83%) TDD
14 26 (9.39%) Database Tuning
15 24 (8.66%) Mentoring
15 24 (8.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (56.68%) Java
2 113 (40.79%) Python
3 97 (35.02%) SQL
4 41 (14.80%) Go
5 35 (12.64%) C#
6 30 (10.83%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 19 (6.86%) C++
8 19 (6.86%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.97%) Bash
10 6 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.17%) Scala
11 4 (1.44%) Perl
11 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.08%) Groovy
13 2 (0.72%) Clojure
13 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.36%) JCL
14 1 (0.36%) Ruby
14 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.50%) Degree
4 13 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.89%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (2.53%) 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 10 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.25%) NCSC
3 6 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.17%) GDPR
4 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.44%) QA
4 4 (1.44%) 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 (31.05%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 103 (37.18%) Kubernetes
2 71 (25.63%) Terraform
3 25 (9.03%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.22%) Grafana
5 13 (4.69%) Istio
6 8 (2.89%) Packer
6 8 (2.89%) Rancher
7 7 (2.53%) Ansible
7 7 (2.53%) Consul
7 7 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.53%) linkerd
7 7 (2.53%) ZABBIX
8 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.17%) Puppet
9 5 (1.81%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.08%) Control-M
10 3 (1.08%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.72%) QRadar
11 2 (0.72%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 42 (15.16%) Oracle
2 31 (11.19%) Sybase
3 13 (4.69%) Splunk
4 11 (3.97%) Google
5 7 (2.53%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.53%) Okta
5 7 (2.53%) VMware
6 6 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (2.17%) Confluent
7 5 (1.81%) Apple
7 5 (1.81%) ESET
7 5 (1.81%) IBM
7 5 (1.81%) Informatica
7 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.44%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (1.44%) Databricks
8 4 (1.44%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.44%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.44%) Sparx
9 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow