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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 76 64
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +20
Contract jobs citing Kafka 91 36 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.17% 2.38% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.09% 12.04% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 23 23
10th Percentile £402 £385 £469
25th Percentile £413 £396 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -3.93% -13.58%
75th Percentile £585 £675 £650
90th Percentile £669 £708 £730
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -11.11%

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 603 299 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.03% 19.74% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 190 224
10th Percentile £365 £350 £400
25th Percentile £424 £388 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £622
90th Percentile £638 £628 £700
England median daily rate £530 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £39.50 £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 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%

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 19 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 19 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 -9 48 £425 -19.05% 13
South Yorkshire +4 40 £538 -10.42% 4
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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
4 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.77%) AWS
2 26 (28.57%) GitHub
3 22 (24.18%) GCP
3 22 (24.18%) OpenShift
4 20 (21.98%) Azure
5 16 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (10.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (8.79%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (8.79%) Serverless
8 7 (7.69%) Apigee
9 6 (6.59%) Cloud Run
10 5 (5.49%) Kong
11 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.30%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (3.30%) LangSmith
13 2 (2.20%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (2.20%) Codefresh
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.99%) Redis
3 8 (8.79%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.49%) Hazelcast
5 5 (5.49%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.40%) Neo4j
6 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.20%) Tableau
9 1 (1.10%) Big Data
9 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.78%) GitLab
3 12 (13.19%) Git
3 12 (13.19%) Gradle
3 12 (13.19%) JIRA
4 7 (7.69%) Maven
4 7 (7.69%) Selenium
5 5 (5.49%) JMeter
5 5 (5.49%) REST Assured
6 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.40%) Gatling
6 4 (4.40%) LoadRunner
6 4 (4.40%) Mockito
6 4 (4.40%) Postman
6 4 (4.40%) Serenity BDD
6 4 (4.40%) Snyk
6 4 (4.40%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.30%) Zephyr
8 2 (2.20%) JUnit
General
1 20 (21.98%) Finance
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Games
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Law
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Military
7 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (30.77%) Developer
2 24 (26.37%) Lead
3 16 (17.58%) Senior
4 14 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.19%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Software Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Test Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Backend Developer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Lead Test Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (4.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Principal Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.67%) Spring
1 27 (29.67%) Spring Boot
2 20 (21.98%) REST
3 17 (18.68%) React
4 11 (12.09%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (10.99%) Hibernate
6 9 (9.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (9.89%) Redux
7 7 (7.69%) JSON
7 7 (7.69%) Playwright
8 6 (6.59%) Apache Avro
8 6 (6.59%) JPA
8 6 (6.59%) JWT
8 6 (6.59%) OAuth
8 6 (6.59%) OAuth2
8 6 (6.59%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (5.49%) HTML
9 5 (5.49%) Middleware
9 5 (5.49%) Spring WebFlux
9 5 (5.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.99%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 7 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.40%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.40%) Sports Betting
8 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) CMDB
9 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.10%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (1.10%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Mac OS X
2 3 (3.30%) Unix
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 40 (43.96%) Microservices
3 35 (38.46%) DevOps
4 33 (36.26%) Observability
5 30 (32.97%) Agile
5 30 (32.97%) Test Automation
6 27 (29.67%) Event-Driven
7 23 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (19.78%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (17.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 16 (17.58%) Software Engineering
9 16 (17.58%) Validation
10 13 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (12.09%) AI
12 11 (12.09%) Code Quality
12 11 (12.09%) Containerisation
12 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.75%) Java
2 27 (29.67%) SQL
3 24 (26.37%) Python
4 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.89%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.69%) Scala
6 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.40%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.20%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.10%) ABAP
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.10%) Degree
3 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) SEPA
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (32.97%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.20%) etcd
4 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.08%) Terraform
3 13 (14.29%) Grafana
4 12 (13.19%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.89%) Control-M
6 7 (7.69%) Argo
6 7 (7.69%) Kustomize
7 5 (5.49%) Ansible
8 2 (2.20%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 11 (12.09%) Splunk
3 7 (7.69%) Google
4 6 (6.59%) Databricks
4 6 (6.59%) IBM
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.40%) New Relic
5 4 (4.40%) VMware
6 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow