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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 78 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 +30
Contract jobs citing Kafka 81 34 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.82% 2.30% 2.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.19% 11.81% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 23
10th Percentile £406 £385 £434
25th Percentile £413 £406 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% -20.75%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £650
90th Percentile £609 £711 £730
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 614 288 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.39% 19.49% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 185 225
10th Percentile £363 £351 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £695
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 41 £425 -8.11% 11
South Yorkshire 0 37 £501 -19.80% 5
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 5 (6.17%) 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 27 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 23 (28.40%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) GitHub
4 13 (16.05%) GCP
5 11 (13.58%) 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%) 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%) BrowserStack
12 2 (2.47%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 8 (9.88%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.64%) Redis
4 4 (4.94%) Hazelcast
4 4 (4.94%) Neo4j
4 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.94%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.23%) Parquet
6 1 (1.23%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (32.10%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.75%) GitLab
3 11 (13.58%) Gradle
4 10 (12.35%) JIRA
5 8 (9.88%) Git
6 6 (7.41%) Maven
6 6 (7.41%) REST Assured
6 6 (7.41%) Selenium
7 5 (6.17%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (4.94%) Gatling
8 4 (4.94%) Mockito
8 4 (4.94%) Snyk
9 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.23%) Appium
10 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.23%) JMeter
10 1 (1.23%) JUnit
10 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.23%) TestNG
10 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Finance
3 9 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Retail
7 4 (4.94%) Banking
7 4 (4.94%) Games
8 1 (1.23%) Advertising
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Developer
2 22 (27.16%) Lead
3 17 (20.99%) Data Engineer
4 13 (16.05%) Java Developer
4 13 (16.05%) Senior
5 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 9 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Backend Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.41%) Test Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 3 (3.70%) Java Engineer
12 3 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (3.70%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.70%) Python Engineer
12 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.63%) Spring
1 24 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 14 (17.28%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (17.28%) React
2 14 (17.28%) REST
3 11 (13.58%) Apache Avro
3 11 (13.58%) Protocol Buffers
4 10 (12.35%) Hibernate
4 10 (12.35%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (11.11%) JSON
5 9 (11.11%) Redux
6 8 (9.88%) Playwright
7 5 (6.17%) JPA
7 5 (6.17%) JWT
7 5 (6.17%) Middleware
7 5 (6.17%) OAuth
7 5 (6.17%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.94%) HTML
8 4 (4.94%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
1 10 (12.35%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.17%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.94%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.47%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (2.47%) CMDB
5 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) FMCG
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) 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
3 30 (37.04%) Observability
4 29 (35.80%) DevOps
5 24 (29.63%) Agile
5 24 (29.63%) Test Automation
6 19 (23.46%) Event-Driven
6 19 (23.46%) Validation
7 18 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (17.28%) Data Engineering
12 13 (16.05%) Software Engineering
13 12 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (13.58%) Code Quality
15 10 (12.35%) Analytics
15 10 (12.35%) Data Modelling
16 9 (11.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 44 (54.32%) Java
2 24 (29.63%) SQL
3 20 (24.69%) Python
4 9 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.41%) Scala
8 4 (4.94%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.47%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.23%) ABAP
10 1 (1.23%) Go
10 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.47%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.47%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) SEPA
4 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (29.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) etcd
Systems Management
1 35 (43.21%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.99%) Prometheus
2 17 (20.99%) Terraform
3 9 (11.11%) Control-M
3 9 (11.11%) Grafana
4 6 (7.41%) Argo
5 5 (6.17%) Ansible
5 5 (6.17%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.47%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Splunk
2 11 (13.58%) 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%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow