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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -37 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing Kafka 43 19 26
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.01% 2.15% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.58% 10.80% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 16
10th Percentile £355 £527 £406
25th Percentile £413 £549 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £452
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +60.58% -35.50%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £569
90th Percentile £639 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 501 176 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.43% 19.93% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 108 259
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £729 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £55.38 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £62.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -35 26 £458 -15.48% 8
West Yorkshire -26 17 £598 -17.59% 7
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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) AWS
2 10 (23.26%) OpenShift
3 8 (18.60%) Azure
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
4 6 (13.95%) GitHub
5 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.98%) AWS KMS
5 3 (6.98%) BrowserStack
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) FTP
3 1 (2.33%) NAS
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) GitLab
1 9 (20.93%) Jaeger
2 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.28%) Git
4 5 (11.63%) JIRA
4 5 (11.63%) Mockito
5 3 (6.98%) CircleCI
5 3 (6.98%) Gatling
5 3 (6.98%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.98%) Selenium
5 3 (6.98%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (4.65%) Gradle
6 2 (4.65%) JUnit
6 2 (4.65%) Log4j
6 2 (4.65%) Maven
6 2 (4.65%) Subversion
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Financial Institution
4 6 (13.95%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Law
7 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Military
7 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Advertising
8 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Lead
1 10 (23.26%) Senior
2 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Data Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Agile Java Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Java Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Solutions Analyst
9 1 (2.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) OpenTelemetry
2 15 (34.88%) Spring Boot
3 14 (32.56%) Middleware
4 7 (16.28%) Apache Avro
4 7 (16.28%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (16.28%) Spring
5 6 (13.95%) JSON
6 5 (11.63%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (6.98%) JAX-RS
7 3 (6.98%) Playwright
8 2 (4.65%) .NET
8 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (4.65%) Node.js
8 2 (4.65%) PowerMock
8 2 (4.65%) React
8 2 (4.65%) RESTful
9 1 (2.33%) Express.js
9 1 (2.33%) JMS
9 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (18.60%) Management Information System
3 6 (13.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Unix
3 3 (6.98%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Microservices
1 23 (53.49%) Observability
2 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 19 (44.19%) DevOps
3 17 (39.53%) Data Modelling
4 16 (37.21%) Mentoring
5 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (27.91%) Process Improvement
5 12 (27.91%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (25.58%) Computer Science
6 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
6 11 (25.58%) DevSecOps
7 10 (23.26%) Agile
7 10 (23.26%) API Design
7 10 (23.26%) Coaching
7 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (23.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (20.93%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Java
2 14 (32.56%) SQL
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 9 (20.93%) Rust
5 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) Go
5 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Degree
2 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.98%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (67.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (44.19%) Prometheus
3 15 (34.88%) Grafana
4 9 (20.93%) Kiali
5 7 (16.28%) Terraform
6 4 (9.30%) Ansible
7 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Splunk
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.33%) Pega
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) SAP