Kafka Contracts in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 65 92
Rank change year-on-year -6 +27 +21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 31 41 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.36% 2.39% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.42% 11.48% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 20
10th Percentile £408 £430 £540
25th Percentile £413 £464 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £514 £663
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% -22.49% +15.22%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £700
90th Percentile £698 £685 -
England median daily rate £554 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -3.74% -11.54% -

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 231 357 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.58% 20.83% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 228 329
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £406 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £625
90th Percentile £634 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 £13.87 £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.69 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.70% - +84.69%
75th Percentile £98.56 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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
West Yorkshire +16 24 £500 -2.44% 36
South Yorkshire -19 10 £625 +23.27% 9
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (45.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 21 (67.74%) GCP
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon S3
3 6 (19.35%) Azure
4 5 (16.13%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.90%) AWS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (6.45%) dbt
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) SSL
2 4 (12.90%) NAS
2 4 (12.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Flink
2 10 (32.26%) MongoDB
2 10 (32.26%) NoSQL
3 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (16.13%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.45%) Bigtable
5 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Hazelcast
5 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.23%) Big Data
6 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.23%) Looker
6 1 (3.23%) Presto
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Jaeger
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) Log4j
General
1 10 (32.26%) Banking
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) International Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Data Architect
2 5 (16.13%) GCP Architect
2 5 (16.13%) GCP Data Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) Apache Beam
1 11 (35.48%) Spark Streaming
2 8 (25.81%) JDBC
3 6 (19.35%) LDAP
4 5 (16.13%) gRPC
4 5 (16.13%) REST
5 4 (12.90%) Middleware
6 3 (9.68%) Celery
6 3 (9.68%) Django
6 3 (9.68%) FastAPI
6 3 (9.68%) Flask
6 3 (9.68%) GraphQL
6 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 3 (9.68%) WebSockets
7 2 (6.45%) .NET
8 1 (3.23%) JMS
8 1 (3.23%) JNDI
8 1 (3.23%) OAuth
8 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Clustering
3 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Unix
2 3 (9.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (41.94%) High Availability
3 12 (38.71%) DevOps
4 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
4 11 (35.48%) Event-Driven
5 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
7 7 (22.58%) Data Ingestion
7 7 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (22.58%) Microservices
8 6 (19.35%) Agile
8 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (16.13%) Migration
10 4 (12.90%) Key Management
10 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
10 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
11 3 (9.68%) Architectural Design
11 3 (9.68%) Clean Code
11 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) Groovy
4 2 (6.45%) Scala
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) IBM Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (22.58%) Grafana
3 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.90%) Control-M
5 3 (9.68%) Ansible
6 2 (6.45%) Istio
6 2 (6.45%) Kiali
7 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Splunk
2 7 (22.58%) Confluent
3 4 (12.90%) Google
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.45%) xMatters
5 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) TIBCO