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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 67 95
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Kafka 49 37 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.15% 2.46% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.16% 12.25% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 20
10th Percentile £385 £469 £573
25th Percentile £406 £507 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £573 £688
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -16.73% +8.91%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £710 £730 -
England median daily rate £550 £608 £675
% change year-on-year -9.54% -9.93% +5.88%

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 346 302 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.22% 20.08% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 213 318
10th Percentile £358 £419 £398
25th Percentile £400 £465 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £512 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.90% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - -39.54% -36.12%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -5.40%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 +21 43 £599 +14.05% 8
South Yorkshire -22 9 £600 +4.80%
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (24.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) GCP
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
3 11 (22.45%) Azure
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.20%) Serverless
6 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (4.08%) dbt
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.04%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Kong
7 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 15 (30.61%) NoSQL
3 10 (20.41%) Flink
4 5 (10.20%) BigQuery
5 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (8.16%) RDBMS
5 4 (8.16%) Redis
5 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.12%) DocumentDB
7 2 (4.08%) Bigtable
7 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.08%) Hazelcast
8 1 (2.04%) GIS
8 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) Mockito
2 12 (24.49%) Git
3 11 (22.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
4 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.12%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) Log4j
6 2 (4.08%) Gradle
6 2 (4.08%) Jaeger
6 2 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (4.08%) Maven
6 2 (4.08%) Subversion
7 1 (2.04%) Selenium
7 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.04%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Developer
2 17 (34.69%) Architect
3 16 (32.65%) Java Developer
4 13 (26.53%) Senior
5 11 (22.45%) Senior Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Kafka Architect
7 5 (10.20%) Data Architect
7 5 (10.20%) GCP Architect
7 5 (10.20%) GCP Data Architect
7 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Lead
10 2 (4.08%) Digital Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Digital Transformation
10 2 (4.08%) Kafka Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (28.57%) JAX-RS
2 10 (20.41%) Apache Beam
2 10 (20.41%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (16.33%) JDBC
4 6 (12.24%) gRPC
4 6 (12.24%) React
4 6 (12.24%) RESTful
5 5 (10.20%) Node.js
6 4 (8.16%) Celery
6 4 (8.16%) Django
6 4 (8.16%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.16%) Flask
6 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
6 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (8.16%) WebSockets
7 3 (6.12%) .NET
8 2 (4.08%) JMS
8 2 (4.08%) Spring
8 2 (4.08%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.04%) FMCG
4 1 (2.04%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Unix
2 14 (28.57%) Linux
3 10 (20.41%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Microservices
2 25 (51.02%) Agile
3 20 (40.82%) DevOps
4 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (28.57%) BDD
5 14 (28.57%) TDD
6 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
7 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
7 12 (24.49%) Pair Programming
8 11 (22.45%) Continuous Deployment
9 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven
9 10 (20.41%) Responsive Web Design
9 10 (20.41%) Web Design
10 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
10 9 (18.37%) Web Development
11 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
12 7 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (14.29%) High Availability
12 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) Java
2 8 (16.33%) Python
3 6 (12.24%) SQL
4 2 (4.08%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) Groovy
4 2 (4.08%) Scala
4 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
1 4 (8.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Control-M
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
3 3 (6.12%) Ansible
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Istio
4 2 (4.08%) Kiali
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Google
2 3 (6.12%) Splunk
3 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.08%) Confluent
3 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.08%) xMatters
4 1 (2.04%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.04%) IBM
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) TIBCO