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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 58 96
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 44 20 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.19% 2.11% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.89% 11.05% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 12
10th Percentile £344 £551 £401
25th Percentile £448 £600 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +55.56% -35.71%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £500
90th Percentile £688 £750 £613
England median daily rate £545 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% +6.52% -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 495 181 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.63% 19.07% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 112 273
10th Percentile £363 £425 £375
25th Percentile £443 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £571 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £54.63 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £60.69 - £53.20
90th Percentile £68.75 - £62.88
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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
West Yorkshire -8 28 £650 -10.34% 1
South Yorkshire -49 16 £399 -33.13% 5
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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) GCP
3 5 (11.36%) GitHub
4 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.82%) AWS KMS
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.82%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) BrowserStack
5 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) DNS
2 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) FTP
3 1 (2.27%) NAS
3 1 (2.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (52.27%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.55%) Redis
5 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.27%) GIS
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (38.64%) Mockito
2 9 (20.45%) Jaeger
3 8 (18.18%) Git
3 8 (18.18%) GitLab
3 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.09%) JIRA
5 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
5 3 (6.82%) Selenium
6 2 (4.55%) Gatling
6 2 (4.55%) Gradle
6 2 (4.55%) JUnit
6 2 (4.55%) Log4j
6 2 (4.55%) Maven
6 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (4.55%) Subversion
7 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Financial Institution
4 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Law
6 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Senior
2 17 (38.64%) Developer
2 17 (38.64%) Java Developer
3 11 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 11 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 9 (20.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Lead
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Digital Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Digital Transformation
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Test Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Agile Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Kafka Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Senior Agile Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Senior Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) ActiveMQ
1 15 (34.09%) JAX-RS
2 14 (31.82%) Spring Boot
3 10 (22.73%) Middleware
3 10 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (13.64%) Spring
5 4 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (6.82%) Node.js
6 3 (6.82%) React
7 2 (4.55%) .NET
7 2 (4.55%) Playwright
7 2 (4.55%) PowerMock
7 2 (4.55%) RESTful
8 1 (2.27%) JMS
8 1 (2.27%) JSON
8 1 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.27%) SOAP
8 1 (2.27%) Spring WebFlux
8 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) PDA
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (52.27%) Linux
2 16 (36.36%) Unix
3 10 (22.73%) Mac OS X
4 4 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) Microservices
2 22 (50.00%) Agile
3 19 (43.18%) DevOps
4 18 (40.91%) BDD
4 18 (40.91%) Test Automation
5 17 (38.64%) TDD
6 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 16 (36.36%) Mentoring
7 15 (34.09%) Observability
8 14 (31.82%) Pair Programming
9 12 (27.27%) Process Improvement
9 12 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (25.00%) Computer Science
10 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 11 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
10 11 (25.00%) DevSecOps
11 10 (22.73%) Data Modelling
11 10 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (22.73%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (88.64%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Rust
4 5 (11.36%) Python
5 3 (6.82%) Bash
5 3 (6.82%) Go
5 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.82%) Grafana
3 12 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 9 (20.45%) Kiali
5 7 (15.91%) Terraform
6 4 (9.09%) Ansible
7 1 (2.27%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Splunk
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Pega
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) SAP