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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 71 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +31
Contract jobs citing Kafka 97 49 37
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.32% 3.12% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.51% 11.06% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 31 23
10th Percentile £381 £385 £489
25th Percentile £409 £406 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £598 £573
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +4.37% -15.19%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £710 £730
England median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -5.81%

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 718 443 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.61% 28.16% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 284 273
10th Percentile £388 £363 £381
25th Percentile £438 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -7.82%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £590
90th Percentile £638 £675 £654
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £41.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 October 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 October 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
South Yorkshire +8 53 £558 -7.08% 7
West Yorkshire -22 41 £425 -29.02% 30
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 (5.15%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.06%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.93%) AWS
2 29 (29.90%) GCP
2 29 (29.90%) GitHub
3 28 (28.87%) Azure
4 19 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (12.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (10.31%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.22%) Serverless
8 6 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (6.19%) Cloud Run
9 5 (5.15%) Apigee
9 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.15%) Kong
10 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.12%) LangSmith
11 3 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.06%) Codefresh
12 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) Network Security
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.31%) Redis
3 7 (7.22%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.19%) Neo4j
4 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.15%) Hazelcast
5 5 (5.15%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.09%) Tableau
8 2 (2.06%) Big Data
8 2 (2.06%) Flink
8 2 (2.06%) Power BI
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.03%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.03%) Looker
Development Applications
1 33 (34.02%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.46%) GitLab
3 12 (12.37%) Gradle
4 11 (11.34%) JIRA
5 10 (10.31%) Git
6 8 (8.25%) Selenium
7 7 (7.22%) Maven
8 6 (6.19%) JMeter
9 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
9 5 (5.15%) Gatling
9 5 (5.15%) LoadRunner
9 5 (5.15%) Postman
9 5 (5.15%) REST Assured
9 5 (5.15%) SoapUI
10 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.12%) Mockito
10 4 (4.12%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (4.12%) Snyk
11 3 (3.09%) Zephyr
12 2 (2.06%) eggPlant
General
1 27 (27.84%) Finance
2 17 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Banking
4 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Retail
7 3 (3.09%) Games
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Law
8 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.03%) Military
8 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.03%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Developer
2 23 (23.71%) Senior
3 18 (18.56%) Lead
4 15 (15.46%) Java Developer
5 13 (13.40%) Architect
6 11 (11.34%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.31%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (9.28%) Test Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.25%) Software Developer
9 8 (8.25%) Software Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Backend Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Architect
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Cloud Architect
11 6 (6.19%) Java Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Lead Test Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (32.99%) Spring Boot
2 31 (31.96%) Spring
3 24 (24.74%) REST
3 24 (24.74%) Terraform
4 14 (14.43%) React
5 11 (11.34%) Hibernate
6 9 (9.28%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (9.28%) Redux
7 8 (8.25%) JSON
8 7 (7.22%) HTML
8 7 (7.22%) JPA
8 7 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (6.19%) Apache Avro
9 6 (6.19%) JWT
9 6 (6.19%) OAuth
9 6 (6.19%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (5.15%) Playwright
10 5 (5.15%) Spring WebFlux
10 5 (5.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.68%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.49%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (15.46%) Private Cloud
4 12 (12.37%) Product Ownership
5 11 (11.34%) Onboarding
6 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (8.25%) AI Agents
8 7 (7.22%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (5.15%) Autonomous Agent
9 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
11 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (3.09%) Sports Betting
12 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (2.06%) Reference Data
13 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (1.03%) FMCG
13 1 (1.03%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Mac OS X
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (72.16%) CI/CD
2 59 (60.82%) Microservices
3 42 (43.30%) Event-Driven
4 41 (42.27%) DevOps
5 39 (40.21%) Observability
6 37 (38.14%) Test Automation
7 36 (37.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (35.05%) Agile
9 27 (27.84%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (22.68%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (20.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (19.59%) Software Engineering
13 17 (17.53%) Validation
14 15 (15.46%) Containerisation
14 15 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (15.46%) GitOps
14 15 (15.46%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (15.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (14.43%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.67%) Java
2 28 (28.87%) SQL
3 25 (25.77%) Python
4 12 (12.37%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.19%) Scala
7 5 (5.15%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.06%) Bash
10 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.03%) ABAP
11 1 (1.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.03%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) SEPA
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (34.02%) Docker
2 13 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (55.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.49%) Grafana
3 12 (12.37%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.31%) Kustomize
5 9 (9.28%) Control-M
6 7 (7.22%) Argo
7 6 (6.19%) Ansible
8 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) VMware
2 11 (11.34%) Oracle
3 10 (10.31%) Splunk
4 8 (8.25%) Databricks
4 8 (8.25%) IBM
5 7 (7.22%) Google
6 5 (5.15%) New Relic
7 4 (4.12%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.09%) Mistral
9 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.03%) SAP
9 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow