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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 61 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 +16
Contract jobs citing Kafka 41 38 25
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.39% 2.73% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.90% 14.07% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 19
10th Percentile £368 £489 £500
25th Percentile £390 £510 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -18.21% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 -
90th Percentile £700 £730 -
England median daily rate £550 £602 £650
% change year-on-year -8.68% -7.35% +4.00%

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 414 270 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.15% 19.37% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 181 313
10th Percentile £358 £425 £388
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £550 £590 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.82 £30.30
25th Percentile - £26.73 £35.59
Median hourly rate - £39.35 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year - -11.37% -11.22%
75th Percentile - £52.10 £53.20
90th Percentile - £59.09 £58.48
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +9 38 £598 -8.08% 5
South Yorkshire -44 3 £325 -40.76% 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 6 (14.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) GCP
3 10 (24.39%) Azure
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.63%) Serverless
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (4.88%) dbt
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) Kong
7 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) FTP
1 1 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (60.98%) MongoDB
2 12 (29.27%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.76%) Flink
3 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
3 4 (9.76%) Redis
3 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.32%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.32%) DocumentDB
5 2 (4.88%) Bigtable
5 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.44%) GIS
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Mockito
2 13 (31.71%) Git
3 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
4 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.32%) GitLab
5 3 (7.32%) Log4j
6 2 (4.88%) Gradle
6 2 (4.88%) JUnit
6 2 (4.88%) Maven
6 2 (4.88%) Subversion
7 1 (2.44%) Selenium
7 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Developer
1 16 (39.02%) Java Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Architect
2 13 (31.71%) Senior
3 11 (26.83%) Senior Developer
3 11 (26.83%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Technical Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.76%) GCP Architect
6 4 (9.76%) GCP Data Architect
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead
8 2 (4.88%) Digital Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Digital Transformation
8 2 (4.88%) Kafka Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (34.15%) JAX-RS
2 6 (14.63%) React
2 6 (14.63%) RESTful
3 5 (12.20%) JDBC
3 5 (12.20%) Node.js
3 5 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (9.76%) .NET
4 4 (9.76%) Apache Beam
4 4 (9.76%) Celery
4 4 (9.76%) Django
4 4 (9.76%) FastAPI
4 4 (9.76%) Flask
4 4 (9.76%) GraphQL
4 4 (9.76%) gRPC
4 4 (9.76%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (9.76%) WebSockets
5 3 (7.32%) Spring
5 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.88%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) FMCG
4 1 (2.44%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Unix
2 12 (29.27%) Linux
3 10 (24.39%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (73.17%) Microservices
2 25 (60.98%) Agile
3 18 (43.90%) DevOps
4 15 (36.59%) BDD
4 15 (36.59%) TDD
5 14 (34.15%) Test Automation
6 12 (29.27%) Pair Programming
7 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
7 11 (26.83%) Continuous Deployment
7 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (24.39%) Responsive Web Design
8 10 (24.39%) Web Design
9 9 (21.95%) Web Development
10 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
10 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
10 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
11 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (14.63%) AI
12 6 (14.63%) Design Patterns
12 6 (14.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) Java
2 7 (17.07%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Scala
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Degree
5 1 (2.44%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
1 4 (9.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Control-M
4 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Google
2 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.44%) IBM
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) TIBCO