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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Kafka 72 28 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.67% 2.45% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.02% 14.29% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 25
10th Percentile £403 £408 £405
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £507
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +8.48% -23.47%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £588 £698 £650
England median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -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 599 196 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.19% 17.12% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 125 235
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £446 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £615
90th Percentile £630 £615 £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 £49.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%

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 13 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 13 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 -19 36 £465 -25.60% 1
West Yorkshire -17 35 £425 -15.00% 4
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.33%) AWS
2 23 (31.94%) OpenShift
3 16 (22.22%) GitHub
4 13 (18.06%) GCP
5 11 (15.28%) Azure
6 9 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (11.11%) Serverless
8 7 (9.72%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.33%) Apigee
10 4 (5.56%) BrowserStack
10 4 (5.56%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.56%) Kong
11 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.17%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 1 (1.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) Network Security
3 3 (4.17%) DNS
3 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) NAS
4 1 (1.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.39%) MongoDB
2 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.33%) Redis
5 4 (5.56%) Hazelcast
5 4 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.39%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.39%) Parquet
7 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (27.78%) GitLab
3 11 (15.28%) Git
4 10 (13.89%) JIRA
5 8 (11.11%) REST Assured
5 8 (11.11%) Selenium
6 7 (9.72%) Jaeger
6 7 (9.72%) Serenity BDD
7 6 (8.33%) Gatling
7 6 (8.33%) Gradle
7 6 (8.33%) Maven
8 4 (5.56%) Snyk
9 3 (4.17%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.17%) Mockito
10 1 (1.39%) Appium
10 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.39%) JMeter
10 1 (1.39%) JUnit
10 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.39%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.22%) Finance
3 10 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Law
7 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Games
8 2 (2.78%) Military
8 2 (2.78%) Retail
9 1 (1.39%) Advertising
9 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Lead
2 17 (23.61%) Data Engineer
3 16 (22.22%) Developer
4 14 (19.44%) Senior
5 9 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Lead Test Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Backend Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
12 2 (2.78%) Java Engineer
12 2 (2.78%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.94%) Spring Boot
2 21 (29.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (22.22%) Spring
4 12 (16.67%) Apache Avro
4 12 (16.67%) Middleware
4 12 (16.67%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (13.89%) Playwright
6 9 (12.50%) JSON
7 7 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (9.72%) React
7 7 (9.72%) REST
8 6 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (6.94%) JPA
9 5 (6.94%) JWT
9 5 (6.94%) OAuth
9 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.56%) Hibernate
10 4 (5.56%) Spring WebFlux
10 4 (5.56%) WireMock
11 3 (4.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.72%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.78%) CMDB
7 2 (2.78%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.39%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.39%) Clustering
8 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.39%) NHS
8 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.39%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (1.39%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
2 6 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Observability
2 37 (51.39%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.83%) Microservices
4 32 (44.44%) DevOps
5 22 (30.56%) Test Automation
6 18 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (23.61%) Agile
7 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (23.61%) Validation
8 16 (22.22%) Data Modelling
9 14 (19.44%) Data Engineering
9 14 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (18.06%) DevSecOps
10 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
11 12 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (15.28%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.78%) Java
2 20 (27.78%) SQL
3 17 (23.61%) Python
4 6 (8.33%) Rust
5 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.56%) Go
6 4 (5.56%) Scala
7 3 (4.17%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) Degree
3 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.56%) SLA
3 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.78%) QA
5 1 (1.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (45.83%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) etcd
Systems Management
1 39 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (34.72%) Prometheus
3 19 (26.39%) Grafana
4 17 (23.61%) Terraform
5 9 (12.50%) Ansible
6 6 (8.33%) Kiali
7 5 (6.94%) Kustomize
8 4 (5.56%) Argo
9 3 (4.17%) Control-M
10 2 (2.78%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 27 (37.50%) Splunk
2 8 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.39%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.39%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.39%) New Relic