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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 72 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 +35
Contract jobs citing Kafka 81 35 43
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.85% 2.50% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.26% 13.62% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 23
10th Percentile £406 £385 £434
25th Percentile £413 £406 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -21.51%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £636
90th Percentile £630 £674 £690
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 611 257 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.46% 18.38% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 161 220
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
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 £676
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
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 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 23 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 23 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 43 £425 - 8
South Yorkshire -10 35 £503 -19.60% 6
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 28 (34.57%) OpenShift
2 24 (29.63%) AWS
3 19 (23.46%) GitHub
4 12 (14.81%) GCP
5 10 (12.35%) 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
2 1 (1.23%) NAS
2 1 (1.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.64%) Redis
4 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.94%) Hazelcast
5 4 (4.94%) Neo4j
5 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.23%) Parquet
7 1 (1.23%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
7 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 15 (18.52%) 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%) Games
7 3 (3.70%) Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Military
9 1 (1.23%) Advertising
9 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Developer
2 22 (27.16%) Lead
3 17 (20.99%) Data Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
4 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Backend Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Senior Backend Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Software Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Test Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Lead Test Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.47%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) QA 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
6 11 (13.58%) REST
7 10 (12.35%) JSON
7 10 (12.35%) Playwright
8 9 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 9 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (9.88%) Redux
10 7 (8.64%) Middleware
11 6 (7.41%) Spring Cloud
12 5 (6.17%) JPA
12 5 (6.17%) JWT
12 5 (6.17%) OAuth
12 5 (6.17%) OAuth2
13 4 (4.94%) JAX-RS
13 4 (4.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 9 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.94%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.94%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.47%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (2.47%) CMDB
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) FMCG
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
6 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 36 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 34 (41.98%) Microservices
2 34 (41.98%) Observability
3 31 (38.27%) DevOps
4 26 (32.10%) Test Automation
5 22 (27.16%) Agile
6 20 (24.69%) Validation
7 19 (23.46%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (19.75%) Event-Driven
8 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (18.52%) Data Engineering
9 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
10 12 (14.81%) Software Engineering
11 11 (13.58%) Analytics
11 11 (13.58%) BDD
11 11 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (12.35%) Code Quality
12 10 (12.35%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.09%) Java
2 22 (27.16%) SQL
3 20 (24.69%) 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 26 (32.10%) 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 10 (12.35%) 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%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow