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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 80 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 +22
Contract jobs citing Kafka 83 34 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.90% 2.24% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.83% 11.45% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 18 20
10th Percentile £406 £385 £448
25th Percentile £413 £406 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% -21.13%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £650
90th Percentile £606 £711 £739
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%

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 600 297 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.96% 19.53% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 188 222
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £424 £389 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £636 £600 £700
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -9.20%

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 August 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 August 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 -12 42 £425 -8.11% 18
South Yorkshire +2 38 £498 -20.40% 12
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 5 (6.02%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (31.33%) OpenShift
2 24 (28.92%) AWS
3 20 (24.10%) GitHub
4 14 (16.87%) GCP
5 13 (15.66%) Azure
6 9 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (10.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (9.64%) Serverless
8 7 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (7.23%) Apigee
10 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.82%) Cloud Run
10 4 (4.82%) Kong
11 3 (3.61%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.41%) BrowserStack
12 2 (2.41%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) MongoDB
2 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.43%) Redis
4 4 (4.82%) Hazelcast
4 4 (4.82%) Neo4j
4 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.82%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.20%) Parquet
6 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.20%) Tableau
6 1 (1.20%) Trino
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.28%) GitLab
3 11 (13.25%) Gradle
4 10 (12.05%) JIRA
5 9 (10.84%) Git
6 6 (7.23%) Maven
6 6 (7.23%) REST Assured
6 6 (7.23%) Selenium
7 5 (6.02%) Gatling
7 5 (6.02%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (4.82%) Mockito
8 4 (4.82%) Snyk
9 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.41%) JMeter
11 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.20%) eggPlant
11 1 (1.20%) JUnit
11 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.20%) TestNG
General
1 19 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Finance
3 8 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Banking
7 4 (4.82%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Developer
2 21 (25.30%) Lead
3 18 (21.69%) Data Engineer
4 13 (15.66%) Java Developer
4 13 (15.66%) Senior
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.84%) Software Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Backend Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Test Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Java Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Python Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.92%) Spring
1 24 (28.92%) Spring Boot
2 14 (16.87%) React
2 14 (16.87%) REST
3 13 (15.66%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (12.05%) Apache Avro
4 10 (12.05%) Hibernate
4 10 (12.05%) Protocol Buffers
4 10 (12.05%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (10.84%) Redux
6 8 (9.64%) JSON
6 8 (9.64%) Playwright
7 5 (6.02%) JPA
7 5 (6.02%) JWT
7 5 (6.02%) Middleware
7 5 (6.02%) OAuth
7 5 (6.02%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.82%) JAX-RS
8 4 (4.82%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (4.82%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.05%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.02%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.41%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (2.41%) CMDB
6 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.20%) FMCG
7 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
7 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Unix
3 3 (3.61%) Mac OS X
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
4 1 (1.20%) Android
4 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.78%) CI/CD
2 34 (40.96%) Microservices
3 31 (37.35%) DevOps
4 30 (36.14%) Observability
5 26 (31.33%) Agile
6 25 (30.12%) Test Automation
7 19 (22.89%) Event-Driven
8 18 (21.69%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (21.69%) Validation
9 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.87%) Data Engineering
13 13 (15.66%) Software Engineering
14 12 (14.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 12 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (13.25%) Code Quality
16 10 (12.05%) Analytics
16 10 (12.05%) Data Modelling
17 9 (10.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.01%) Java
2 25 (30.12%) SQL
3 21 (25.30%) Python
4 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.84%) PL/SQL
5 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Scala
7 4 (4.82%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.41%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.20%) ABAP
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) SEPA
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (30.12%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) etcd
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (43.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.69%) Terraform
3 17 (20.48%) Prometheus
4 11 (13.25%) Grafana
5 9 (10.84%) Control-M
6 6 (7.23%) Argo
7 5 (6.02%) Ansible
7 5 (6.02%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.41%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Splunk
2 12 (14.46%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Databricks
3 4 (4.82%) Google
4 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.41%) New Relic
6 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow