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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 65 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing Kafka 67 27 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.65% 2.59% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.78% 14.59% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 13 21
10th Percentile £387 £408 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +15.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £520
90th Percentile £588 £712 £600
England median daily rate £543 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -15.38%

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 569 185 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.51% 17.77% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 116 234
10th Percentile £366 £359 £375
25th Percentile £432 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £53.50 £88.26 £13.50
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.41 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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
South Yorkshire -26 34 £465 -25.60% 2
West Yorkshire -6 32 £436 -20.73% 7
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 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.84%) AWS
2 20 (29.85%) OpenShift
3 15 (22.39%) GitHub
4 10 (14.93%) GCP
5 9 (13.43%) Azure
6 7 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.96%) Apigee
7 6 (8.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (7.46%) Serverless
9 4 (5.97%) BrowserStack
9 4 (5.97%) Cloud Run
9 4 (5.97%) Kong
10 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.48%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.49%) NAS
3 1 (1.49%) Network Security
3 1 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.36%) MongoDB
2 10 (14.93%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.46%) Redis
5 4 (5.97%) Hazelcast
5 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.49%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.49%) Parquet
8 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) GitLab
2 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.91%) Git
4 10 (14.93%) Jaeger
5 7 (10.45%) JIRA
5 7 (10.45%) REST Assured
5 7 (10.45%) Selenium
6 6 (8.96%) Gatling
6 6 (8.96%) Gradle
6 6 (8.96%) Maven
6 6 (8.96%) Serenity BDD
7 4 (5.97%) Snyk
8 3 (4.48%) CircleCI
8 3 (4.48%) Mockito
9 1 (1.49%) Appium
9 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.49%) JUnit
9 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.49%) TestNG
9 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Financial Institution
4 7 (10.45%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Law
6 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Games
7 2 (2.99%) Military
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Advertising
8 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Data Engineer
1 17 (25.37%) Lead
2 16 (23.88%) Senior
3 14 (20.90%) Developer
4 10 (14.93%) Java Developer
4 10 (14.93%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Test Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Backend Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Lead Test Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Backend Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 21 (31.34%) Spring Boot
3 15 (22.39%) Middleware
3 15 (22.39%) Spring
4 12 (17.91%) Apache Avro
4 12 (17.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (13.43%) JSON
5 9 (13.43%) Playwright
6 7 (10.45%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (8.96%) REST
7 6 (8.96%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (7.46%) JPA
8 5 (7.46%) JWT
8 5 (7.46%) OAuth
8 5 (7.46%) OAuth2
8 5 (7.46%) React
9 4 (5.97%) Spring WebFlux
9 4 (5.97%) WireMock
10 3 (4.48%) JAX-RS
10 3 (4.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.99%) CMDB
6 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.49%) Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.49%) NHS
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.49%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.49%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Unix
2 6 (8.96%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.49%) Android
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (58.21%) Observability
2 36 (53.73%) CI/CD
3 33 (49.25%) Microservices
4 30 (44.78%) DevOps
5 19 (28.36%) Data Modelling
6 18 (26.87%) Test Automation
7 15 (22.39%) Agile
7 15 (22.39%) Data Pipeline
7 15 (22.39%) Validation
8 14 (20.90%) Data Engineering
8 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
10 12 (17.91%) DevSecOps
10 12 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (16.42%) Coaching
11 11 (16.42%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (16.42%) Process Improvement
11 11 (16.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) Java
2 19 (28.36%) SQL
3 17 (25.37%) Python
4 9 (13.43%) Rust
5 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.97%) Go
6 4 (5.97%) Scala
7 3 (4.48%) Bash
7 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.99%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) SLA
3 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.99%) QA
5 1 (1.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (49.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) etcd
Systems Management
1 38 (56.72%) Kubernetes
2 28 (41.79%) Prometheus
3 22 (32.84%) Grafana
4 14 (20.90%) Terraform
5 9 (13.43%) Kiali
6 6 (8.96%) Ansible
7 4 (5.97%) Argo
8 2 (2.99%) Fluentd
8 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 30 (44.78%) Splunk
2 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.49%) Databricks
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.49%) New Relic