Kafka Contracts in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 79 113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +34 -31
Contract jobs citing Kafka 29 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.85% 1.24% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.34% 6.05% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £456 £400 £456
25th Percentile £550 £413 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £453 £656
90th Percentile £744 £630 £698
England median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -

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 189 347 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.58% 20.54% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 229 319
10th Percentile £360 £348 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £731 £675 £690
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £84.38 £13.37 £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 £13.87 £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%
75th Percentile £102.00 £43.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Yorkshire

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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 May 2025. 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 +26 22 £650 +44.44% 19
South Yorkshire +9 10 £625 +41.56% 7
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (37.93%) Apache Spark
2 5 (17.24%) nginx
2 5 (17.24%) Traefik
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) GCP
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (24.14%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 6 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.90%) Collibra
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) DNS
1 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (17.24%) SSL
3 4 (13.79%) NAS
3 4 (13.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) MongoDB
2 8 (27.59%) Flink
3 5 (17.24%) BigQuery
4 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Hazelcast
6 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.45%) Big Data
6 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.45%) Looker
6 1 (3.45%) Presto
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 7 (24.14%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Banking
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Military
4 2 (6.90%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.45%) International Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Applications Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Architect
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Apache Beam
1 8 (27.59%) Spark Streaming
2 7 (24.14%) cloud-init
3 6 (20.69%) Keycloak
4 5 (17.24%) LDAP
4 5 (17.24%) REST
5 4 (13.79%) JDBC
5 4 (13.79%) Middleware
6 2 (6.90%) gRPC
6 2 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PKI
2 4 (13.79%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
1 9 (31.03%) Unix
2 7 (24.14%) CentOS
2 7 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) DevOps
2 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (34.48%) High Availability
2 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (31.03%) Observability
4 8 (27.59%) Event-Driven
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (24.14%) Secrets Management
6 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
6 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (20.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Identity Management
6 6 (20.69%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Agile
7 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (17.24%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (13.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 7 (24.14%) Go
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) Java
6 2 (6.90%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (55.17%) Grafana
2 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (48.28%) Prometheus
3 8 (27.59%) Istio
4 7 (24.14%) Packer
4 7 (24.14%) Terraform
5 6 (20.69%) Consul
5 6 (20.69%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (20.69%) linkerd
5 6 (20.69%) Rancher
5 6 (20.69%) ZABBIX
6 5 (17.24%) HAProxy
7 2 (6.90%) Control-M
7 2 (6.90%) Kiali
8 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Splunk
2 7 (24.14%) Confluent
3 6 (20.69%) Okta
4 5 (17.24%) Apple
4 5 (17.24%) ESET
5 4 (13.79%) AppDynamics
5 4 (13.79%) Oracle
6 2 (6.90%) Google
6 2 (6.90%) IBM
6 2 (6.90%) xMatters
7 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace