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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +30
Contract jobs citing Kafka 79 31 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.79% 2.29% 2.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.74% 12.70% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 13 24
10th Percentile £405 £408 £430
25th Percentile £413 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +7.11% -22.49%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £629
90th Percentile £630 £698 £685
England median daily rate £550 £551 £588
% change year-on-year -0.18% -6.21% -9.62%

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 620 244 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.87% 18.01% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 155 226
10th Percentile £366 £359 £400
25th Percentile £434 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £608
90th Percentile £630 £615 £681
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +46.70% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -7.46%

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 13 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 13 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 -12 40 £425 -15.00% 6
South Yorkshire -12 36 £501 -19.80% 2
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 (5.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.65%) AWS
1 25 (31.65%) OpenShift
2 19 (24.05%) GitHub
3 12 (15.19%) GCP
4 11 (13.92%) Azure
5 9 (11.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.13%) Serverless
7 7 (8.86%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (7.59%) Apigee
9 4 (5.06%) BrowserStack
9 4 (5.06%) Cloud Run
9 4 (5.06%) Kong
10 3 (3.80%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.53%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Network Security
2 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 1 (1.27%) DNS
3 1 (1.27%) NAS
3 1 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.66%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.86%) Redis
4 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.06%) Hazelcast
5 4 (5.06%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.27%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.27%) Parquet
7 1 (1.27%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (30.38%) Jenkins
2 18 (22.78%) GitLab
3 9 (11.39%) JIRA
4 8 (10.13%) Git
4 8 (10.13%) REST Assured
4 8 (10.13%) Selenium
5 7 (8.86%) Gradle
5 7 (8.86%) Serenity BDD
6 6 (7.59%) Gatling
6 6 (7.59%) Maven
7 4 (5.06%) Mockito
7 4 (5.06%) Snyk
8 3 (3.80%) Jaeger
9 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.27%) Appium
10 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.27%) Newman
10 1 (1.27%) Postman
10 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Finance
3 10 (12.66%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.33%) Retail
6 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Games
7 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.53%) Military
9 1 (1.27%) Advertising
9 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Developer
1 22 (27.85%) Lead
2 17 (21.52%) Data Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Senior
4 12 (15.19%) Senior Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.13%) Backend Developer
6 8 (10.13%) Senior Backend Developer
6 8 (10.13%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (10.13%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Lead Test Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.53%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 2 (2.53%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.38%) Spring Boot
2 22 (27.85%) Spring
3 17 (21.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (15.19%) Apache Avro
4 12 (15.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (12.66%) JSON
5 10 (12.66%) Playwright
5 10 (12.66%) React
5 10 (12.66%) REST
6 9 (11.39%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (10.13%) Middleware
8 6 (7.59%) Hibernate
8 6 (7.59%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (6.33%) JPA
9 5 (6.33%) JWT
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth2
9 5 (6.33%) Redux
10 4 (5.06%) JAX-RS
10 4 (5.06%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.06%) Sports Betting
5 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.53%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (2.53%) CMDB
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) FMCG
7 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Unix
3 3 (3.80%) Mac OS X
3 3 (3.80%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 36 (45.57%) Microservices
3 35 (44.30%) Observability
4 33 (41.77%) DevOps
5 26 (32.91%) Test Automation
6 22 (27.85%) Agile
7 20 (25.32%) Validation
8 18 (22.78%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (20.25%) Event-Driven
11 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.72%) Data Engineering
13 12 (15.19%) Data Modelling
13 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
13 12 (15.19%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (13.92%) BDD
15 10 (12.66%) Analytics
15 10 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 10 (12.66%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.90%) Java
2 19 (24.05%) Python
2 19 (24.05%) SQL
3 7 (8.86%) TypeScript
4 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.59%) Scala
5 5 (6.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.53%) Rust
6 2 (2.53%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.27%) ABAP
7 1 (1.27%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) Degree
4 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) SEPA
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (35.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) etcd
Systems Management
1 38 (48.10%) Kubernetes
2 22 (27.85%) Prometheus
3 18 (22.78%) Terraform
4 13 (16.46%) Grafana
5 6 (7.59%) Ansible
5 6 (7.59%) Argo
5 6 (7.59%) Kustomize
6 5 (6.33%) Control-M
7 2 (2.53%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.53%) Kiali
Vendors
1 20 (25.32%) Splunk
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 3 (3.80%) Google
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.27%) New Relic
5 1 (1.27%) SAP
5 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow