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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 77 65
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +26
Contract jobs citing Kafka 93 45 37
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.23% 2.77% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.21% 9.83% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 27 23
10th Percentile £381 £371 £489
25th Percentile £409 £396 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.44% -15.19%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £730
England median daily rate £550 £550 £603
% change year-on-year - -8.79% -7.83%

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 704 458 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.48% 28.20% 25.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 289 275
10th Percentile £382 £362 £381
25th Percentile £433 £406 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -7.73%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £638 £675 £653
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.53%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £41.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +15 51 £558 +71.54% 7
West Yorkshire -17 39 £425 -27.51% 32
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
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 5 (5.38%) Apache
2 4 (4.30%) Confluence
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.15%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.26%) AWS
2 29 (31.18%) GCP
2 29 (31.18%) GitHub
3 27 (29.03%) Azure
4 19 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (12.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (10.75%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.53%) Serverless
8 6 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (6.45%) Cloud Run
9 5 (5.38%) Apigee
9 5 (5.38%) Kong
10 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.30%) LangSmith
11 3 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.15%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.05%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.75%) Redis
3 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.45%) Neo4j
4 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.38%) Hazelcast
5 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.23%) Tableau
8 2 (2.15%) Big Data
8 2 (2.15%) Flink
8 2 (2.15%) Power BI
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.08%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.08%) Looker
9 1 (1.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 32 (34.41%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.05%) GitLab
3 11 (11.83%) JIRA
4 10 (10.75%) Gradle
5 9 (9.68%) Git
6 7 (7.53%) Selenium
7 5 (5.38%) JMeter
7 5 (5.38%) LoadRunner
7 5 (5.38%) Maven
8 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.30%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.30%) Gatling
8 4 (4.30%) Postman
8 4 (4.30%) REST Assured
8 4 (4.30%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (4.30%) Snyk
8 4 (4.30%) SoapUI
9 3 (3.23%) Zephyr
10 2 (2.15%) eggPlant
10 2 (2.15%) Mockito
General
1 27 (29.03%) Finance
2 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Banking
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Retail
7 3 (3.23%) Games
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Military
8 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.08%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Developer
2 21 (22.58%) Senior
3 18 (19.35%) Lead
4 13 (13.98%) Architect
4 13 (13.98%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Backend Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Senior Architect
8 7 (7.53%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Lead Test Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 30 (32.26%) Spring
3 24 (25.81%) Terraform
4 22 (23.66%) REST
5 14 (15.05%) React
6 11 (11.83%) Hibernate
7 9 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (9.68%) Redux
8 8 (8.60%) JSON
9 7 (7.53%) HTML
9 7 (7.53%) JPA
10 6 (6.45%) Apache Avro
10 6 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (6.45%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (5.38%) JWT
11 5 (5.38%) Middleware
11 5 (5.38%) OAuth
11 5 (5.38%) OAuth2
11 5 (5.38%) Spring WebFlux
11 5 (5.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.20%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (16.13%) Private Cloud
4 11 (11.83%) Onboarding
4 11 (11.83%) Product Ownership
5 10 (10.75%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (8.60%) AI Agents
7 7 (7.53%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (5.38%) Autonomous Agent
8 5 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
10 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (3.23%) Sports Betting
11 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (2.15%) Reference Data
12 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.08%) FMCG
12 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 1 (1.08%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Android
2 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.08%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (73.12%) CI/CD
2 56 (60.22%) Microservices
3 40 (43.01%) DevOps
3 40 (43.01%) Event-Driven
4 37 (39.78%) Observability
5 36 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (35.48%) Test Automation
7 32 (34.41%) Agile
8 27 (29.03%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (23.66%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (20.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (20.43%) Software Engineering
11 18 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (16.13%) GitOps
12 15 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (16.13%) Validation
13 14 (15.05%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
13 14 (15.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (53.76%) Java
2 27 (29.03%) SQL
3 25 (26.88%) Python
4 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.68%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.45%) Scala
7 5 (5.38%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.15%) Bash
10 2 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.08%) ABAP
11 1 (1.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.08%) Degree
3 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (33.33%) Docker
2 13 (13.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (55.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.20%) Grafana
3 12 (12.90%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.75%) Kustomize
5 9 (9.68%) Control-M
6 7 (7.53%) Argo
7 6 (6.45%) Ansible
8 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) VMware
2 11 (11.83%) Oracle
3 9 (9.68%) Splunk
4 8 (8.60%) Databricks
4 8 (8.60%) IBM
5 7 (7.53%) Google
6 5 (5.38%) New Relic
7 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.23%) Mistral
9 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.08%) SAP
9 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow