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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing Kafka 95 49 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.30% 3.17% 2.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.38% 11.34% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 25
10th Percentile £380 £385 £471
25th Percentile £425 £406 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £598 £549
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +8.92% -18.73%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £710 £723
England median daily rate £550 £550 £611
% change year-on-year - -10.02% -5.96%

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 710 432 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.64% 27.96% 25.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 277 275
10th Percentile £382 £362 £381
25th Percentile £433 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -7.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £592
90th Percentile £638 £675 £653
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £50.94 - £63.75
90th Percentile £61.63 - -
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +4 52 £565 -5.83% 7
West Yorkshire -24 40 £438 -26.93% 26
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
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 4 (4.21%) Apache
1 4 (4.21%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.53%) AWS
2 28 (29.47%) GCP
2 28 (29.47%) GitHub
3 26 (27.37%) Azure
4 18 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (12.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.32%) Cloud Run
7 6 (6.32%) Serverless
8 5 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (5.26%) Apigee
8 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.26%) Kong
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.21%) LangSmith
10 3 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.53%) Redis
3 6 (6.32%) Neo4j
3 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.26%) Hazelcast
4 5 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.16%) Tableau
7 2 (2.11%) Big Data
7 2 (2.11%) Flink
7 2 (2.11%) Power BI
8 1 (1.05%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.05%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.05%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.05%) Trino
Development Applications
1 32 (33.68%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.79%) GitLab
3 12 (12.63%) Gradle
4 11 (11.58%) JIRA
5 10 (10.53%) Git
6 7 (7.37%) Maven
6 7 (7.37%) Selenium
7 6 (6.32%) JMeter
8 5 (5.26%) Gatling
8 5 (5.26%) LoadRunner
8 5 (5.26%) REST Assured
9 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (4.21%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.21%) Mockito
9 4 (4.21%) Postman
9 4 (4.21%) Serenity BDD
9 4 (4.21%) Snyk
9 4 (4.21%) SoapUI
10 3 (3.16%) Zephyr
11 2 (2.11%) eggPlant
General
1 25 (26.32%) Finance
2 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Retail
7 3 (3.16%) Games
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.37%) Developer
2 23 (24.21%) Senior
3 18 (18.95%) Lead
4 15 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 13 (13.68%) Architect
6 11 (11.58%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (9.47%) Test Engineer
9 8 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.42%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.42%) Software Developer
9 8 (8.42%) Software Engineer
10 7 (7.37%) Backend Developer
10 7 (7.37%) Senior Architect
10 7 (7.37%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (7.37%) Senior Cloud Architect
11 6 (6.32%) Java Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Lead Test Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (33.68%) Spring Boot
2 31 (32.63%) Spring
3 24 (25.26%) REST
4 23 (24.21%) Terraform
5 14 (14.74%) React
6 11 (11.58%) Hibernate
7 9 (9.47%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (9.47%) Redux
8 8 (8.42%) JSON
9 7 (7.37%) JPA
9 7 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (6.32%) Apache Avro
10 6 (6.32%) HTML
10 6 (6.32%) JWT
10 6 (6.32%) OAuth
10 6 (6.32%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.32%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (5.26%) Playwright
11 5 (5.26%) Spring WebFlux
11 5 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.11%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (15.79%) Private Cloud
3 12 (12.63%) Product Ownership
4 11 (11.58%) Onboarding
5 10 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (8.42%) AI Agents
7 6 (6.32%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (5.26%) Autonomous Agent
8 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
10 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (3.16%) Sports Betting
11 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
12 1 (1.05%) Synthetic Data
12 1 (1.05%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Mac OS X
2 3 (3.16%) Unix
3 1 (1.05%) Android
3 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (71.58%) CI/CD
2 58 (61.05%) Microservices
3 41 (43.16%) Event-Driven
4 40 (42.11%) DevOps
5 38 (40.00%) Observability
6 35 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (36.84%) Test Automation
7 32 (33.68%) Agile
8 27 (28.42%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (23.16%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 18 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (17.89%) Validation
13 15 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (15.79%) GitOps
13 15 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (14.74%) Change Management
15 13 (13.68%) AI
Programming Languages
1 53 (55.79%) Java
2 28 (29.47%) SQL
3 24 (25.26%) Python
4 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.47%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.32%) Scala
7 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 2 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.05%) ABAP
11 1 (1.05%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.05%) Degree
3 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) SEPA
4 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (32.63%) Docker
2 13 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (54.74%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.79%) Grafana
3 11 (11.58%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.53%) Kustomize
5 9 (9.47%) Control-M
6 7 (7.37%) Argo
7 6 (6.32%) Ansible
8 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (13.68%) VMware
2 11 (11.58%) Oracle
3 10 (10.53%) Splunk
4 8 (8.42%) Databricks
5 7 (7.37%) Google
5 7 (7.37%) IBM
6 5 (5.26%) New Relic
7 4 (4.21%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.16%) Mistral
9 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.05%) SAP
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow