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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 66 81
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +28
Contract jobs citing Kafka 59 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.57% 2.43% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.99% 12.50% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 13 15
10th Percentile £387 £520 £400
25th Percentile £413 £600 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £708 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +57.33% -34.55%
75th Percentile £526 £738 £502
90th Percentile £581 £748 £640
England median daily rate £539 £598 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +8.64% -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 537 184 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.38% 19.43% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 111 227
10th Percentile £363 £360 £345
25th Percentile £431 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 4
10th Percentile - £84.38 £15.21
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £19.09
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £33.75
90th Percentile - - £51.75
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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -28.46% 2
West Yorkshire -19 26 £425 -40.35% 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 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) OpenShift
2 18 (30.51%) AWS
3 8 (13.56%) GitHub
4 7 (11.86%) Azure
5 6 (10.17%) GCP
6 5 (8.47%) Serverless
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.08%) AWS KMS
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.08%) BrowserStack
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.39%) Apigee
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) FTP
3 1 (1.69%) NAS
3 1 (1.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.69%) Parquet
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) GitLab
2 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.25%) Git
3 9 (15.25%) Jaeger
4 5 (8.47%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) Gatling
5 4 (6.78%) Mockito
5 4 (6.78%) REST Assured
5 4 (6.78%) Selenium
6 3 (5.08%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.08%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (3.39%) Gradle
7 2 (3.39%) Maven
8 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.69%) JMeter
8 1 (1.69%) JUnit
8 1 (1.69%) Newman
8 1 (1.69%) Postman
8 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.69%) TestNG
General
1 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Financial Institution
4 6 (10.17%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Law
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Military
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Games
8 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Data Engineer
2 13 (22.03%) Lead
3 11 (18.64%) Senior
4 10 (16.95%) Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Test Engineer
11 2 (3.39%) Architect
11 2 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (3.39%) Kafka Engineer
11 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
12 1 (1.69%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (27.12%) Spring Boot
3 14 (23.73%) Middleware
4 9 (15.25%) JSON
4 9 (15.25%) Spring
5 8 (13.56%) Apache Avro
5 8 (13.56%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (10.17%) Playwright
7 5 (8.47%) React
8 4 (6.78%) JAX-RS
8 4 (6.78%) REST
8 4 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.08%) OpenAPI
9 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (5.08%) Swagger
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Amplify
10 2 (3.39%) Fluent Bit
10 2 (3.39%) Jest
10 2 (3.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) CMDB
6 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Clustering
7 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.69%) NHS
7 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.69%) Replication
7 1 (1.69%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.69%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Unix
3 5 (8.47%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Observability
2 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
3 25 (42.37%) Microservices
4 22 (37.29%) DevOps
5 19 (32.20%) Data Modelling
6 15 (25.42%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.42%) Mentoring
7 14 (23.73%) Agile
7 14 (23.73%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
8 13 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (20.34%) API Design
9 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (20.34%) Process Improvement
10 11 (18.64%) DevSecOps
10 11 (18.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (18.64%) Validation
11 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (16.95%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Java
2 14 (23.73%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) Rust
4 3 (5.08%) Bash
4 3 (5.08%) Go
4 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.39%) Scala
5 2 (3.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) SLA
2 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (40.68%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) etcd
Systems Management
1 34 (57.63%) Kubernetes
2 21 (35.59%) Prometheus
3 15 (25.42%) Grafana
4 9 (15.25%) Kiali
4 9 (15.25%) Terraform
5 4 (6.78%) Ansible
6 2 (3.39%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 26 (44.07%) Splunk
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle
3 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.69%) Pega