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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 76 65
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +26
Contract jobs citing Kafka 90 39 37
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.11% 2.54% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.90% 12.87% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 23 22
10th Percentile £401 £385 £468
25th Percentile £413 £406 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £554
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -0.68% -16.42%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £644
90th Percentile £624 £708 £734
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.76%

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 604 303 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.88% 19.75% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 190 224
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £424 £388 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +2.56%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £613
90th Percentile £638 £628 £700
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
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 16 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 16 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 -12 49 £425 -15.00% 12
South Yorkshire +1 38 £514 -17.76% 7
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) nginx
4 1 (1.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) AWS
2 27 (30.00%) GitHub
3 22 (24.44%) OpenShift
4 21 (23.33%) GCP
5 20 (22.22%) Azure
6 16 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (8.89%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (8.89%) Serverless
9 7 (7.78%) Apigee
10 6 (6.67%) Cloud Run
11 5 (5.56%) Kong
12 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (3.33%) LangSmith
14 2 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (2.22%) BrowserStack
14 2 (2.22%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.78%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.11%) Redis
3 9 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.56%) Hazelcast
5 5 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.44%) Neo4j
6 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.22%) Tableau
9 1 (1.11%) Big Data
9 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.11%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (37.78%) Jenkins
2 19 (21.11%) GitLab
3 12 (13.33%) Git
3 12 (13.33%) Gradle
4 11 (12.22%) JIRA
5 8 (8.89%) Selenium
6 7 (7.78%) Maven
7 6 (6.67%) REST Assured
8 5 (5.56%) Gatling
8 5 (5.56%) JMeter
8 5 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
9 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.44%) LoadRunner
9 4 (4.44%) Mockito
9 4 (4.44%) Postman
9 4 (4.44%) Snyk
9 4 (4.44%) SoapUI
10 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.22%) JUnit
11 2 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (21.11%) Finance
2 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Banking
4 7 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.56%) Retail
7 4 (4.44%) Games
8 2 (2.22%) Military
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Law
9 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) Developer
2 24 (26.67%) Lead
3 16 (17.78%) Senior
4 14 (15.56%) Data Engineer
4 14 (15.56%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 10 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Backend Developer
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Lead Test Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
13 3 (3.33%) Automation Test Lead
13 3 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
13 3 (3.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.11%) Spring
1 28 (31.11%) Spring Boot
2 19 (21.11%) REST
3 17 (18.89%) React
4 11 (12.22%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 9 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (10.00%) Redux
7 8 (8.89%) Playwright
8 7 (7.78%) JSON
9 6 (6.67%) Apache Avro
9 6 (6.67%) JPA
9 6 (6.67%) JWT
9 6 (6.67%) Middleware
9 6 (6.67%) OAuth
9 6 (6.67%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.67%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (5.56%) HTML
10 5 (5.56%) Spring WebFlux
10 5 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (7.78%) AI Agents
4 7 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Autonomous Agent
6 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.44%) Sports Betting
7 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.22%) CMDB
8 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) FMCG
9 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.11%) NHS
9 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Mac OS X
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 39 (43.33%) Microservices
3 35 (38.89%) DevOps
4 32 (35.56%) Observability
5 30 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 29 (32.22%) Agile
7 25 (27.78%) Event-Driven
8 21 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.78%) Validation
11 15 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (14.44%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (13.33%) AI
14 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (12.22%) Code Quality
15 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
16 10 (11.11%) Data Engineering
16 10 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Java
2 27 (30.00%) SQL
3 23 (25.56%) Python
4 11 (12.22%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.78%) Scala
6 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.11%) ABAP
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.11%) Degree
3 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.33%) QA
3 2 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) SEPA
4 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (34.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) etcd
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (45.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.33%) Terraform
3 14 (15.56%) Grafana
4 13 (14.44%) Prometheus
5 9 (10.00%) Control-M
6 7 (7.78%) Argo
6 7 (7.78%) Kustomize
7 5 (5.56%) Ansible
8 2 (2.22%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Oracle
1 12 (13.33%) Splunk
2 6 (6.67%) Databricks
2 6 (6.67%) Google
2 6 (6.67%) IBM
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) New Relic
4 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow