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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Kafka 62 24 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.53% 2.33% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.44% 13.11% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 11 14
10th Percentile £387 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £525 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +33.33% -30.77%
75th Percentile £538 £680 £526
90th Percentile £588 £712 £635
England median daily rate £537 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -8.16% +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 542 183 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.13% 17.75% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 113 218
10th Percentile £363 £360 £371
25th Percentile £428 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £615
90th Percentile £625 £685 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £53.50 £88.26 £13.50
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.41 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 -25 33 £465 -25.60% 3
West Yorkshire -12 28 £436 -20.73% 4
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 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.26%) OpenShift
2 18 (29.03%) AWS
3 11 (17.74%) GitHub
4 8 (12.90%) Azure
4 8 (12.90%) GCP
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.06%) Apigee
7 4 (6.45%) BrowserStack
7 4 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (6.45%) Serverless
8 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.84%) AWS KMS
8 3 (4.84%) Cloud Run
8 3 (4.84%) Kong
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) NAS
3 1 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.90%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.45%) Redis
5 3 (4.84%) Hazelcast
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.61%) Parquet
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) GitLab
2 13 (20.97%) Jenkins
3 11 (17.74%) Git
4 10 (16.13%) Jaeger
5 6 (9.68%) JIRA
6 5 (8.06%) Gradle
6 5 (8.06%) Maven
7 4 (6.45%) Gatling
7 4 (6.45%) REST Assured
7 4 (6.45%) Selenium
8 3 (4.84%) CircleCI
8 3 (4.84%) Mockito
8 3 (4.84%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (4.84%) Snyk
9 1 (1.61%) Appium
9 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.61%) JUnit
9 1 (1.61%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.61%) TestNG
9 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Financial Institution
4 6 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Law
6 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Games
7 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Military
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Data Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Senior
3 14 (22.58%) Lead
4 13 (20.97%) Developer
5 9 (14.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Java Developer
5 9 (14.52%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Backend Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Test Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Java Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 1 (1.61%) Agile Java Developer
12 1 (1.61%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (37.10%) OpenTelemetry
2 18 (29.03%) Spring Boot
3 15 (24.19%) Middleware
4 12 (19.35%) Spring
5 11 (17.74%) Apache Avro
5 11 (17.74%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (14.52%) JSON
7 6 (9.68%) Playwright
7 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (8.06%) React
8 5 (8.06%) REST
9 4 (6.45%) JPA
9 4 (6.45%) JWT
9 4 (6.45%) OAuth
9 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
9 4 (6.45%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (4.84%) JAX-RS
10 3 (4.84%) OpenAPI
10 3 (4.84%) RESTful
10 3 (4.84%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.23%) CMDB
5 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.61%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.61%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.19%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Unix
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.61%) Android
4 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) Observability
2 31 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 28 (45.16%) Microservices
4 25 (40.32%) DevOps
5 19 (30.65%) Data Modelling
6 14 (22.58%) Agile
6 14 (22.58%) Data Engineering
6 14 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (22.58%) Test Automation
6 14 (22.58%) Validation
7 13 (20.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (20.97%) Mentoring
8 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (17.74%) API Design
9 11 (17.74%) DevSecOps
9 11 (17.74%) Process Improvement
9 11 (17.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (16.13%) Coaching
10 10 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (51.61%) Java
2 18 (29.03%) SQL
3 17 (27.42%) Python
4 9 (14.52%) Rust
5 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.45%) Go
6 4 (6.45%) Scala
7 3 (4.84%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.23%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) SLA
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (45.16%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) etcd
Systems Management
1 36 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 25 (40.32%) Prometheus
3 19 (30.65%) Grafana
4 12 (19.35%) Terraform
5 9 (14.52%) Kiali
6 5 (8.06%) Ansible
7 3 (4.84%) Argo
8 2 (3.23%) Fluentd
9 1 (1.61%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 28 (45.16%) Splunk
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.61%) New Relic