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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 136 84
Rank change year-on-year -19 -52 +32
Contract jobs citing Kafka 208 440 1,325
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.42% 1.84% 2.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 7.36% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 344 964
10th Percentile £409 £463 £475
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £750 £810 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +13.27%
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 £28.00 £78.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +26.83% +12.78%

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 3,691 5,982 13,176
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.18% 25.00% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 4,484 9,777
10th Percentile £344 £390 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 78 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £24.78 £22.50
25th Percentile - £47.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.02% +20.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £66.27
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.20 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

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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 8 June 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 8 June 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 28 (13.46%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.65%) Apache
3 9 (4.33%) Confluence
4 8 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.96%) Mule
7 2 (0.96%) nginx
7 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.96%) Endur
3 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (51.92%) AWS
2 48 (23.08%) Azure
3 24 (11.54%) GCP
4 19 (9.13%) Serverless
5 14 (6.73%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.33%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.88%) GitHub
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.40%) Apigee
9 5 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.40%) Kong
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.44%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.33%) HTTP
2 6 (2.88%) SSL
3 3 (1.44%) DNS
3 3 (1.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.48%) AMQP
5 1 (0.48%) IPv4
5 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.71%) Apache Cassandra
2 39 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 27 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.62%) Relational Database
5 17 (8.17%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 12 (5.77%) Flink
8 11 (5.29%) Big Data
9 9 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (4.33%) Hadoop
9 9 (4.33%) OLAP
10 8 (3.85%) OLTP
10 8 (3.85%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.37%) MySQL
11 7 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (8.65%) Git
2 17 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.77%) JIRA
4 10 (4.81%) GitLab
5 5 (2.40%) Selenium
6 4 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.92%) JUnit
6 4 (1.92%) Mockito
6 4 (1.92%) Subversion
7 3 (1.44%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (1.44%) Snyk
8 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.96%) Pylint
8 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.96%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.48%) Gradle
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 57 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.71%) Finance
3 25 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.02%) Banking
4 9 (4.33%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.44%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.96%) Automotive
8 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.96%) Front Office
8 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Games
9 1 (0.48%) German Language
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (33.65%) Developer
2 43 (20.67%) Software Engineer
3 42 (20.19%) Senior
4 33 (15.87%) Java Developer
5 25 (12.02%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (7.69%) Architect
8 15 (7.21%) Lead
8 15 (7.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (6.73%) Java Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.73%) Site Engineer
10 11 (5.29%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.37%) Development Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 7 (3.37%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.42%) Spring Boot
2 26 (12.50%) RESTful
3 25 (12.02%) Spring
4 23 (11.06%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (10.10%) REST
6 20 (9.62%) AngularJS
7 17 (8.17%) React
8 15 (7.21%) JSON
9 13 (6.25%) Web Services
10 10 (4.81%) Node.js
11 9 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (4.33%) HTML
11 9 (4.33%) SOAP
11 9 (4.33%) XML
12 8 (3.85%) CSS
12 8 (3.85%) PySpark
13 7 (3.37%) .NET
13 7 (3.37%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.37%) Symfony
14 6 (2.88%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 13 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.40%) DataPower
6 5 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.92%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) IoT
8 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Replication
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.48%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.71%) Linux
2 9 (4.33%) Unix
3 5 (2.40%) Windows
4 3 (1.44%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.38%) Agile
2 74 (35.58%) DevOps
3 63 (30.29%) Microservices
4 61 (29.33%) Software Engineering
5 53 (25.48%) CI/CD
6 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (14.90%) Fintech
7 31 (14.90%) Test Automation
8 29 (13.94%) User Experience
9 27 (12.98%) User Research
9 27 (12.98%) UX Design
9 27 (12.98%) UX Research
10 26 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
11 24 (11.54%) TDD
12 21 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (8.17%) Event-Driven
14 16 (7.69%) Containerisation
15 15 (7.21%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
16 14 (6.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 102 (49.04%) Java
2 61 (29.33%) Python
3 47 (22.60%) Go
4 31 (14.90%) SQL
5 22 (10.58%) Scala
6 20 (9.62%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.21%) C++
7 15 (7.21%) Shell Script
8 13 (6.25%) PHP
9 9 (4.33%) C#
10 8 (3.85%) Bash
11 6 (2.88%) Groovy
12 5 (2.40%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.40%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.44%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.96%) Bicep
14 2 (0.96%) C
14 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.48%) ABAP
15 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.77%) Degree
4 9 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.48%) MiFID
3 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 75 (36.06%) Docker
2 12 (5.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (49.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 24 (11.54%) Grafana
4 17 (8.17%) Terraform
5 13 (6.25%) Consul
6 12 (5.77%) Ansible
7 5 (2.40%) Argo
7 5 (2.40%) Puppet
8 4 (1.92%) Packer
8 4 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.44%) Zipkin
10 2 (0.96%) Istio
10 2 (0.96%) Kibana
11 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.48%) Nagios
11 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.48%) Rancher
11 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (13.94%) Oracle
2 19 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.17%) IBM
4 12 (5.77%) SaltStack
5 11 (5.29%) Confluent
6 10 (4.81%) Databricks
7 9 (4.33%) Google
8 5 (2.40%) TSYS
9 3 (1.44%) Informatica
9 3 (1.44%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.44%) SAP
9 3 (1.44%) Splunk
9 3 (1.44%) Typelevel
10 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.96%) F5
10 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.96%) Solace
10 2 (0.96%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central