Kafka Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 59 71
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing Kafka 71 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.74% 2.68% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.05% 15.22% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 13 22
10th Percentile £395 £408 £401
25th Percentile £413 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +14.58% -26.15%
75th Percentile £544 £650 £531
90th Percentile £588 £712 £645
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 589 184 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.73% 17.64% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 118 236
10th Percentile £365 £358 £375
25th Percentile £435 £408 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £563 £574 £600
90th Percentile £622 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 8
10th Percentile £37.50 - £13.50
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £62.75 £91.69 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +307.51% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -28 37 £465 -25.60% 3
West Yorkshire -13 33 £436 -20.73% 3
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.21%) AWS
2 20 (28.17%) OpenShift
3 16 (22.54%) GitHub
4 13 (18.31%) GCP
5 11 (15.49%) Azure
6 9 (12.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (11.27%) Serverless
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.45%) Apigee
10 4 (5.63%) BrowserStack
10 4 (5.63%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.63%) Kong
11 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.23%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) Network Security
3 3 (4.23%) DNS
3 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) NAS
4 1 (1.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) MongoDB
2 10 (14.08%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.04%) Redis
5 4 (5.63%) Hazelcast
5 4 (5.63%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.41%) Parquet
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (29.58%) GitLab
2 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.90%) Git
4 10 (14.08%) Jaeger
4 10 (14.08%) JIRA
5 8 (11.27%) REST Assured
5 8 (11.27%) Selenium
6 7 (9.86%) Serenity BDD
7 6 (8.45%) Gatling
7 6 (8.45%) Gradle
7 6 (8.45%) Maven
8 4 (5.63%) Snyk
9 3 (4.23%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.23%) Mockito
10 1 (1.41%) Appium
10 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.41%) JUnit
10 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.41%) TestNG
10 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Financial Institution
5 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Banking
7 4 (5.63%) Law
8 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.82%) Games
9 2 (2.82%) Military
9 2 (2.82%) Retail
10 1 (1.41%) Advertising
10 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Lead
2 17 (23.94%) Data Engineer
3 16 (22.54%) Senior
4 14 (19.72%) Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Java Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (11.27%) Test Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) Lead Test Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Backend Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Senior Backend Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.82%) Java Engineer
12 2 (2.82%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 2 (2.82%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 21 (29.58%) Spring Boot
3 15 (21.13%) Middleware
3 15 (21.13%) Spring
4 12 (16.90%) Apache Avro
4 12 (16.90%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (14.08%) Playwright
6 9 (12.68%) JSON
7 7 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (8.45%) REST
8 6 (8.45%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (7.04%) JPA
9 5 (7.04%) JWT
9 5 (7.04%) OAuth
9 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
9 5 (7.04%) React
10 4 (5.63%) Spring WebFlux
10 4 (5.63%) WireMock
11 3 (4.23%) JAX-RS
11 3 (4.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.27%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.82%) CMDB
7 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.41%) Clustering
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.41%) NHS
8 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.41%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (1.41%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Unix
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.41%) Android
4 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (59.15%) Observability
2 40 (56.34%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.11%) Microservices
4 34 (47.89%) DevOps
5 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
6 19 (26.76%) Data Modelling
7 18 (25.35%) Agile
7 18 (25.35%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (21.13%) DevSecOps
9 15 (21.13%) Validation
10 14 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (19.72%) Data Engineering
10 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (19.72%) Mentoring
11 13 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (18.31%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (18.31%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (15.49%) API Design
12 11 (15.49%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.11%) Java
2 19 (26.76%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) Python
4 9 (12.68%) Rust
5 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) Go
6 4 (5.63%) Scala
7 3 (4.23%) Bash
7 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.08%) Degree
3 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.63%) SLA
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.82%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.82%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (52.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) etcd
Systems Management
1 41 (57.75%) Kubernetes
2 28 (39.44%) Prometheus
3 22 (30.99%) Grafana
4 17 (23.94%) Terraform
5 9 (12.68%) Ansible
5 9 (12.68%) Kiali
6 5 (7.04%) Kustomize
7 4 (5.63%) Argo
8 2 (2.82%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 30 (42.25%) Splunk
2 5 (7.04%) Oracle
3 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) New Relic