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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 73 55
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 +38
Contract jobs citing Kafka 81 35 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.84% 2.42% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.24% 12.92% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 17 24
10th Percentile £406 £385 £436
25th Percentile £413 £406 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.31% -21.13%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £630 £674 £726
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 612 271 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.44% 18.70% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 173 225
10th Percentile £362 £358 £393
25th Percentile £425 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £688
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
25th Percentile £50.31 £84.83 £14.21
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £39.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +133.04% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 42 £425 - 8
South Yorkshire -4 36 £501 -19.80% 5
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 (4.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 25 (30.86%) AWS
3 19 (23.46%) GitHub
4 13 (16.05%) GCP
5 11 (13.58%) Azure
6 9 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (8.64%) Serverless
9 6 (7.41%) Apigee
10 4 (4.94%) BrowserStack
10 4 (4.94%) Cloud Run
10 4 (4.94%) Kong
11 3 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.47%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.47%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.64%) Redis
4 4 (4.94%) Hazelcast
4 4 (4.94%) Neo4j
4 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.94%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.23%) Parquet
6 1 (1.23%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (22.22%) GitLab
3 10 (12.35%) Gradle
4 9 (11.11%) JIRA
5 8 (9.88%) Git
5 8 (9.88%) REST Assured
5 8 (9.88%) Selenium
6 7 (8.64%) Serenity BDD
7 6 (7.41%) Gatling
7 6 (7.41%) Maven
8 4 (4.94%) Mockito
8 4 (4.94%) Snyk
9 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.47%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.23%) Appium
10 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.23%) JUnit
10 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.23%) TestNG
10 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.17%) Retail
6 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Games
7 2 (2.47%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Advertising
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Developer
2 22 (27.16%) Lead
3 17 (20.99%) Data Engineer
4 13 (16.05%) Senior
5 12 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Backend Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Senior Backend Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Lead Test Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.47%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.10%) Spring Boot
2 25 (30.86%) Spring
3 16 (19.75%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (16.05%) React
5 12 (14.81%) Apache Avro
5 12 (14.81%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (14.81%) REST
6 10 (12.35%) JSON
6 10 (12.35%) Playwright
6 10 (12.35%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 8 (9.88%) Redux
9 6 (7.41%) Middleware
9 6 (7.41%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (6.17%) JPA
10 5 (6.17%) JWT
10 5 (6.17%) OAuth
10 5 (6.17%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.17%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.94%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.47%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (2.47%) CMDB
6 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.23%) FMCG
7 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.23%) NHS
7 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Unix
3 3 (3.70%) Mac OS X
3 3 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.23%) Android
4 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) CI/CD
2 35 (43.21%) Microservices
3 34 (41.98%) Observability
4 32 (39.51%) DevOps
5 26 (32.10%) Test Automation
6 23 (28.40%) Agile
7 20 (24.69%) Validation
8 19 (23.46%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (20.99%) Event-Driven
9 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (18.52%) Data Engineering
11 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (16.05%) Software Engineering
13 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
14 11 (13.58%) Analytics
14 11 (13.58%) BDD
14 11 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (12.35%) Code Quality
15 10 (12.35%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 44 (54.32%) Java
2 22 (27.16%) SQL
3 21 (25.93%) Python
4 8 (9.88%) PL/SQL
5 7 (8.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.47%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.23%) ABAP
8 1 (1.23%) Go
8 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.47%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.47%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) SEPA
4 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) etcd
Systems Management
1 37 (45.68%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.93%) Prometheus
3 17 (20.99%) Terraform
4 12 (14.81%) Grafana
5 8 (9.88%) Control-M
6 6 (7.41%) Argo
7 5 (6.17%) Ansible
7 5 (6.17%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.47%) Fluentd
9 1 (1.23%) Kiali
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Splunk
2 9 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (4.94%) Google
4 3 (3.70%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.23%) New Relic
5 1 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow