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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 64
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +32
Contract jobs citing Kafka 71 28 40
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.62% 2.43% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.93% 14.00% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 25
10th Percentile £399 £408 £405
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £550 £507
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% +8.48% -23.47%
75th Percentile £552 £600 £550
90th Percentile £592 £698 £650
England median daily rate £545 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -0.91% -1.12% -14.42%

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 595 200 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.95% 17.33% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 128 225
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £442 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £615
90th Percentile £630 £608 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £29.55 - £13.25
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -15 35 £425 -15.00% 8
South Yorkshire -19 35 £465 -25.60% 8
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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) OpenShift
2 22 (30.99%) AWS
3 14 (19.72%) GitHub
4 11 (15.49%) GCP
5 9 (12.68%) Azure
5 9 (12.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (11.27%) Serverless
7 7 (9.86%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (8.45%) Apigee
9 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.63%) BrowserStack
10 4 (5.63%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.63%) Kong
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) DNS
3 1 (1.41%) NAS
3 1 (1.41%) SAN
3 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) MongoDB
2 10 (14.08%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.45%) Redis
4 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Hazelcast
5 4 (5.63%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.41%) Parquet
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Jenkins
2 18 (25.35%) GitLab
3 9 (12.68%) Git
4 8 (11.27%) JIRA
4 8 (11.27%) REST Assured
4 8 (11.27%) Selenium
5 7 (9.86%) Jaeger
5 7 (9.86%) Serenity BDD
6 6 (8.45%) Gatling
6 6 (8.45%) Gradle
6 6 (8.45%) Maven
7 4 (5.63%) Snyk
8 3 (4.23%) Mockito
9 1 (1.41%) Appium
9 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.41%) JMeter
9 1 (1.41%) JUnit
9 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.41%) TestNG
9 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Financial Institution
4 6 (8.45%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Games
6 2 (2.82%) Law
6 2 (2.82%) Military
6 2 (2.82%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Advertising
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Data Engineer
1 17 (23.94%) Developer
1 17 (23.94%) Lead
2 14 (19.72%) Senior
3 9 (12.68%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.68%) Senior Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Lead Test Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Backend Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Backend Developer
7 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.80%) Spring Boot
2 21 (29.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (22.54%) Spring
4 12 (16.90%) Apache Avro
4 12 (16.90%) Middleware
4 12 (16.90%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (14.08%) Playwright
6 9 (12.68%) JSON
7 8 (11.27%) React
8 7 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (9.86%) REST
9 6 (8.45%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
10 5 (7.04%) JPA
10 5 (7.04%) JWT
10 5 (7.04%) OAuth
10 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
11 4 (5.63%) Redux
11 4 (5.63%) Spring WebFlux
11 4 (5.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.82%) CMDB
7 2 (2.82%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.41%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.41%) Clustering
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.41%) NHS
8 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Unix
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.41%) Android
4 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) Observability
2 35 (49.30%) CI/CD
3 33 (46.48%) Microservices
4 30 (42.25%) DevOps
5 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
6 18 (25.35%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (23.94%) Agile
7 17 (23.94%) Validation
8 16 (22.54%) Data Modelling
8 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.72%) Data Engineering
10 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (15.49%) DevSecOps
11 11 (15.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (15.49%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
11 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (14.08%) BDD
12 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.11%) Java
2 19 (26.76%) SQL
3 15 (21.13%) Python
4 6 (8.45%) Rust
5 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.63%) Scala
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.86%) Degree
3 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.82%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) SLA
4 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (43.66%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) etcd
Systems Management
1 37 (52.11%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.21%) Prometheus
3 17 (23.94%) Grafana
4 15 (21.13%) Terraform
5 7 (9.86%) Ansible
6 6 (8.45%) Kiali
7 5 (7.04%) Kustomize
8 4 (5.63%) Argo
8 4 (5.63%) Control-M
9 2 (2.82%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Splunk
2 7 (9.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) New Relic