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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 64 68
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Kafka 69 30 36
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.58% 2.67% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.50% 15.46% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 13 24
10th Percentile £391 £408 £404
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £550 £496
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% +10.89% -23.69%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £562
90th Percentile £588 £698 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -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 600 194 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.40% 17.24% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 123 245
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £447 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £568 £550 £600
90th Percentile £630 £620 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £29.55 - £13.25
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -16 36 £465 -25.60% 1
West Yorkshire -25 32 £425 -15.00% 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 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Apache
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 20 (28.99%) OpenShift
3 16 (23.19%) GitHub
4 13 (18.84%) GCP
5 11 (15.94%) Azure
6 9 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (11.59%) Serverless
8 7 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.70%) Apigee
10 4 (5.80%) BrowserStack
10 4 (5.80%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.80%) Kong
11 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.35%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.90%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Firewall
2 4 (5.80%) Network Security
3 3 (4.35%) DNS
3 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.45%) NAS
4 1 (1.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.54%) MongoDB
2 10 (14.49%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.25%) Redis
5 4 (5.80%) Hazelcast
5 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.80%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.45%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.45%) Parquet
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (28.99%) GitLab
2 18 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 11 (15.94%) Git
4 10 (14.49%) JIRA
5 9 (13.04%) Jaeger
6 8 (11.59%) REST Assured
6 8 (11.59%) Selenium
7 7 (10.14%) Serenity BDD
8 6 (8.70%) Gatling
8 6 (8.70%) Gradle
8 6 (8.70%) Maven
9 4 (5.80%) Snyk
10 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
10 3 (4.35%) Mockito
11 1 (1.45%) Appium
11 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.45%) JUnit
11 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.45%) TestNG
11 1 (1.45%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Financial Institution
4 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Law
7 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Games
8 2 (2.90%) Military
8 2 (2.90%) Retail
9 1 (1.45%) Advertising
9 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Lead
2 17 (24.64%) Data Engineer
3 15 (21.74%) Senior
4 13 (18.84%) Developer
5 9 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 9 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Test Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Lead Test Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Backend Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Senior Backend Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Java Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (28.99%) Spring Boot
3 14 (20.29%) Middleware
3 14 (20.29%) Spring
4 12 (17.39%) Apache Avro
4 12 (17.39%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (14.49%) Playwright
6 9 (13.04%) JSON
7 7 (10.14%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (8.70%) REST
8 6 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (7.25%) JPA
9 5 (7.25%) JWT
9 5 (7.25%) OAuth
9 5 (7.25%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.80%) React
10 4 (5.80%) Spring WebFlux
10 4 (5.80%) WireMock
11 3 (4.35%) JAX-RS
11 3 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.90%) CMDB
6 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.90%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.45%) Clustering
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.45%) NHS
7 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.45%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.45%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Linux
2 6 (8.70%) Unix
2 6 (8.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.45%) Android
4 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (59.42%) Observability
2 38 (55.07%) CI/CD
3 35 (50.72%) Microservices
4 33 (47.83%) DevOps
5 22 (31.88%) Test Automation
6 18 (26.09%) Data Modelling
6 18 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (24.64%) Agile
7 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (21.74%) Validation
9 14 (20.29%) Data Engineering
9 14 (20.29%) DevSecOps
9 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (18.84%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
11 12 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (15.94%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (15.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.72%) Java
2 18 (26.09%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) Python
4 8 (11.59%) Rust
5 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.80%) Go
6 4 (5.80%) Scala
7 3 (4.35%) Bash
7 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.90%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) Degree
3 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.80%) SLA
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.90%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.90%) QA
5 1 (1.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) etcd
Systems Management
1 40 (57.97%) Kubernetes
2 27 (39.13%) Prometheus
3 21 (30.43%) Grafana
4 17 (24.64%) Terraform
5 9 (13.04%) Ansible
6 8 (11.59%) Kiali
7 5 (7.25%) Kustomize
8 4 (5.80%) Argo
9 2 (2.90%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 29 (42.03%) Splunk
2 5 (7.25%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.45%) Databricks
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.45%) New Relic