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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +26
Contract jobs citing Kafka 97 43 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.39% 2.82% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.40% 11.11% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 26 24
10th Percentile £375 £385 £470
25th Percentile £413 £406 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.88% -13.19%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £663
90th Percentile £672 £705 £746
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -9.77%

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 724 387 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.32% 25.36% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 249 281
10th Percentile £381 £358 £381
25th Percentile £426 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.00 £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 £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%

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 28 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 28 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 -14 51 £425 -22.73% 26
South Yorkshire -1 43 £514 -14.33% 9
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 4 (4.12%) Apache
1 4 (4.12%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.02%) AWS
2 28 (28.87%) GitHub
3 25 (25.77%) GCP
4 24 (24.74%) Azure
5 21 (21.65%) OpenShift
6 16 (16.49%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (11.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (9.28%) Serverless
9 8 (8.25%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (7.22%) Apigee
11 6 (6.19%) Cloud Run
12 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.15%) Kong
13 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (3.09%) LangSmith
15 2 (2.06%) Amazon EventBridge
15 2 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.56%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.31%) Redis
3 8 (8.25%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.15%) Hazelcast
5 5 (5.15%) Neo4j
5 5 (5.15%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.06%) Power BI
8 2 (2.06%) Tableau
9 1 (1.03%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.03%) Flink
9 1 (1.03%) Parquet
9 1 (1.03%) Trino
Development Applications
1 33 (34.02%) Jenkins
2 18 (18.56%) GitLab
3 12 (12.37%) Git
3 12 (12.37%) Gradle
4 11 (11.34%) JIRA
5 7 (7.22%) Maven
5 7 (7.22%) Selenium
6 5 (5.15%) JMeter
6 5 (5.15%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.12%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.12%) Gatling
7 4 (4.12%) LoadRunner
7 4 (4.12%) Mockito
7 4 (4.12%) Postman
7 4 (4.12%) Serenity BDD
7 4 (4.12%) Snyk
7 4 (4.12%) SoapUI
8 3 (3.09%) Zephyr
9 2 (2.06%) JUnit
General
1 23 (23.71%) Finance
2 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Banking
4 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Retail
6 4 (4.12%) Games
6 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Law
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Military
7 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (30.93%) Developer
2 24 (24.74%) Lead
3 17 (17.53%) Java Developer
3 17 (17.53%) Senior
4 14 (14.43%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) Senior Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Software Developer
7 9 (9.28%) Test Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Backend Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Lead Test Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Java Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Principal Cloud Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (31.96%) Spring
1 31 (31.96%) Spring Boot
2 24 (24.74%) Terraform
3 23 (23.71%) REST
4 17 (17.53%) React
5 11 (11.34%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (10.31%) Hibernate
7 9 (9.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (9.28%) Redux
8 7 (7.22%) JSON
8 7 (7.22%) Playwright
9 6 (6.19%) Apache Avro
9 6 (6.19%) HTML
9 6 (6.19%) JPA
9 6 (6.19%) JWT
9 6 (6.19%) OAuth
9 6 (6.19%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (5.15%) Spring WebFlux
10 5 (5.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.22%) AI Agents
3 7 (7.22%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (7.22%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.15%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Autonomous Agent
6 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Sports Betting
7 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.06%) CMDB
8 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.03%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (1.03%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Mac OS X
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.82%) CI/CD
2 49 (50.52%) Microservices
3 41 (42.27%) DevOps
4 35 (36.08%) Agile
4 35 (36.08%) Observability
5 34 (35.05%) Test Automation
6 32 (32.99%) Event-Driven
7 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (21.65%) Software Engineering
9 20 (20.62%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (19.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (16.49%) Validation
12 14 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (12.37%) AI
13 12 (12.37%) Code Quality
13 12 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (11.34%) Containerisation
14 11 (11.34%) Mentoring
15 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.67%) Java
2 29 (29.90%) SQL
3 25 (25.77%) Python
4 12 (12.37%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.22%) Scala
6 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.15%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.06%) Bash
9 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.06%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.03%) ABAP
10 1 (1.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) SEPA
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (32.99%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) etcd
4 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (44.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.43%) Grafana
3 13 (13.40%) Prometheus
4 9 (9.28%) Control-M
5 8 (8.25%) Kustomize
6 7 (7.22%) Argo
7 6 (6.19%) Ansible
8 2 (2.06%) Fluentd
9 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Oracle
2 11 (11.34%) Splunk
3 7 (7.22%) Databricks
3 7 (7.22%) Google
4 6 (6.19%) IBM
5 5 (5.15%) VMware
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.12%) New Relic
7 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.03%) SAP
8 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow