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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -34 +21 +22
Contract jobs citing Kafka 47 20 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.25% 2.19% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.25% 10.81% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 15
10th Percentile £355 £531 £405
25th Percentile £413 £580 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £725 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +61.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £630 £747 £525
90th Percentile £680 £751 £640
England median daily rate £538 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -11.89% +6.09% -11.54%

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 508 185 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.36% 20.26% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 112 279
10th Percentile £371 £401 £358
25th Percentile £447 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +4.34% -6.67%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £655
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £62.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -11 25 £620 -14.48% 4
South Yorkshire -43 22 £439 -19.91% 4
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 1 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) OpenShift
3 8 (17.02%) Azure
3 8 (17.02%) GCP
4 6 (12.77%) GitHub
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.38%) AWS KMS
5 3 (6.38%) BrowserStack
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) FTP
3 1 (2.13%) NAS
3 1 (2.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (42.55%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.13%) GIS
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Mockito
2 9 (19.15%) GitLab
2 9 (19.15%) Jaeger
3 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (14.89%) Git
5 3 (6.38%) CircleCI
5 3 (6.38%) Gatling
5 3 (6.38%) JIRA
5 3 (6.38%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.38%) Selenium
5 3 (6.38%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (4.26%) Gradle
6 2 (4.26%) JUnit
6 2 (4.26%) Log4j
6 2 (4.26%) Maven
6 2 (4.26%) Subversion
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Financial Institution
4 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
5 6 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Banking
6 3 (6.38%) Law
7 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Military
8 1 (2.13%) Advertising
8 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Senior
2 13 (27.66%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Lead
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Data Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Agile Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Agile Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Agile Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Agile Java Developer
9 1 (2.13%) Digital Developer
9 1 (2.13%) Digital Transformation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) OpenTelemetry
2 15 (31.91%) Spring Boot
3 11 (23.40%) JAX-RS
3 11 (23.40%) Middleware
4 10 (21.28%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (14.89%) Apache Avro
5 7 (14.89%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (14.89%) Spring
6 6 (12.77%) JSON
7 5 (10.64%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (6.38%) Playwright
9 2 (4.26%) .NET
9 2 (4.26%) Node.js
9 2 (4.26%) PowerMock
9 2 (4.26%) React
9 2 (4.26%) RESTful
10 1 (2.13%) Express.js
10 1 (2.13%) JMS
10 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (17.02%) Management Information System
3 6 (12.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (42.55%) Linux
2 13 (27.66%) Unix
3 6 (12.77%) Mac OS X
4 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) Microservices
2 22 (46.81%) Observability
3 19 (40.43%) DevOps
4 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
5 16 (34.04%) Agile
5 16 (34.04%) Data Modelling
5 16 (34.04%) Mentoring
6 15 (31.91%) BDD
6 15 (31.91%) Test Automation
7 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (27.66%) TDD
8 12 (25.53%) Process Improvement
8 12 (25.53%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (23.40%) Computer Science
9 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
9 11 (23.40%) DevSecOps
9 11 (23.40%) Pair Programming
10 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (21.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (74.47%) Java
2 14 (29.79%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 9 (19.15%) Rust
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Go
5 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) Degree
3 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (42.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (55.32%) Kubernetes
2 19 (40.43%) Prometheus
3 15 (31.91%) Grafana
4 9 (19.15%) Kiali
5 7 (14.89%) Terraform
6 4 (8.51%) Ansible
7 1 (2.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Splunk
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.13%) Pega
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SAP