1 to 25 of 37 Contract Kafka Jobs in the UK

Devops

Hiring Organisation
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
scope technologies/products: "Streaming Platform: Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Streams, ZooKeeper/KRaft DevOps/CI-CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Container Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Confluent Control Centre Supporting: Terraform, Ansible" Skillsets required: 1. Core Kafka Expertise (Must-Have) • Kafka architecture: brokers, topics, partitions, replication • Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Streams, ZooKeeper/Kraft • Topic & partition management, consumer groups • Performance tuning, retention, throughput optimisation • Cluster setup, upgrades, scaling and failover • Troubleshooting (e.g. lag, ISR, leader issues) • Security: SSL/TLS, ACLs ...

Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist)

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day
Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist) 6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £550 per day London based - hybrid working - 3 days a week on site We are seeking an experienced Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist) to own and evolve our event-driven architecture … Responsibilities Own the design and implementation of event-driven architecture across the organisation. Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines using Kafka technologies. Develop stream processing applications using Kafka Streams and ksqlDB. Implement robust event models that support scalable, loosely coupled systems. Optimise streaming performance, resilience ...

Golang Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£280 - £300 per day
Azure DevOps. Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack. Preferred Skills Experience with event-driven architectures. Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging platforms. Exposure to distributed systems and high-volume transactional environments. Knowledge of gRPC and Protocol Buffers. Experience working in Agile/Scrum ...

Senior Software Enginner

Hiring Organisation
INTEC SELECT LIMITED
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£700 - £800 per day
platforms. Experience with data governance, metadata services, data catalogues, or secure data access models. Exposure to event-driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming. Experience evaluating or contributing to open-source technologies. ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer - FX e Trading - London

Hiring Organisation
Atrium Workforce Solutions UK Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Daily
engagement; able to lead initiatives and mentor others. * Experience with desktop container frameworks (OpenFin, Electron, or similar). * Experience with streaming/messaging (eg, Kafka, Solace) and low latency patterns. * Knowledge of web performance optimization and accessibility. Click Apply now/Contact Lianne to be considered for the Senior ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £700/day
e.g., Airflow, Databricks Workflows) Strong understanding of data modelling and lakehouse architecture Databricks certifications (e.g., Databricks Certified Data Engineer) Experience with streaming data pipelines (Kafka, Structured Streaming) Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices Knowledge of Delta Lake features (time travel, CDC, optimisation) Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes ...

Senior Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
GTC Recruitment
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £650/day
working in Agile environments Experience supporting live production systems Solid understanding of scalable web architecture Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments Desirable Experience Kafka, ActiveMQ, or similar messaging systems MongoDB or other NoSQL databases Mockito, Jackson, JAX-RS High-scale or high-traffic system experience Cloud platforms ...

UI Architect

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £570 per day
lazy loading and code splitting Experience using AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) within engineering workflows Nice to Have Event-driven architecture experience (Kafka, async patterns) Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) Frontend security (OAuth2, JWT) Automated testing frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Jest) Design systems and tooling (Storybook, Figma) Experience ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Huxley Associates
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500/hour
wider data platform modernisation programme Supporting both batch and streaming workloads Tech: Python, Java, Spark, Airflow, SQL, Cloud (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes (Kafka/streaming nice to have) Details: £700/day (Umbrella) 6-month contract 3 days onsite - City of London They're looking for a strong, hands ...

CGEMJP - Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 558 Daily
Azure cloud platforms Strong understanding of DevOps culture and modern engineering practices Experience supporting platform modernisation or legacy-to-modern migrations Desirable Experience Apache Kafka AI/ML model integration within platform environments Exposure to ITAR/defence/highly regulated systems Experience operating in environments with multiple maturity ...

CGEMJP00345529 - Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £558 per day + inside ir35
Azure cloud platforms Strong understanding of DevOps culture and modern engineering practices Experience supporting platform modernisation or legacy-to-modern migrations Desirable Experience Apache Kafka AI/ML model integration within platform environments Exposure to ITAR/defence/highly regulated systems Experience operating in environments with multiple maturity ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £598/day
Description: DevSecOps (continuous integration, automation, security scanning); Scripting: Bash/Linux/Python; Automation and containerisation; Solution based mindset; DevOps culture; Python; Apache Kafka; Kubernetes; Docker; CICD; Secure development in air gapped environments; AI/ML model integration experience. Role scope Primary focus : Is this role mainly hands ...

Software Developer (Java / Oracle) - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
maintainability Support and troubleshoot production environments Quickly learn and adapt to the RTGS2 ecosystem Essential Skills & Experience Oracle PL/SQL Java Spring Boot Kafka Hibernate Proven track record in code delivery and production support Strong organisational skills and self-motivation High level of integrity and accountability Excellent collaboration ...

Python Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £550/ day Outside IR35
retries, observability, scaling, and failure handling Engineers who still code heavily day-to-day Highly desirable: IoT, telemetry, or time-series style systems FastAPI Kafka/Service Bus/RabbitMQ/Event Hub Kubernetes Azure-native backend engineering This is a fast-moving contract process with a single technical ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
stateful applications Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EBS, IAM, VPC) Solid background in Go or Java services and service modernization Experience with Kafka or similar distributed/streaming platforms Solid background with Helm, Operators, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) Strong understanding of failure modes, scaling ...

Senior Java Developers - 12 months (Banking/Finance)

Hiring Organisation
NonStop Consulting
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
external use. Desirable :Knowledge of Mongo DB/Jackson/JAX-RS/mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms(ActiveMQ or Kafka). Interviews will start as soon good candidates are available, if you are interested do not delay the response and forward you updated CV today. ...

POD Lead (Kotlin/Java)

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £525 per day
with a small element of UI work using a simple HTML/JavaScript framework. * Build and evolve microservices, REST APIs and event-driven solutions (Kafka or similar), applying engineering best practices such as error handling, logging, resilience and security-by-design. * Collaborate with the Tech Lead on architecture ...

C# .Net Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £585 per day
highly regulated capital markets or financial services environments. Nice to Have: Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). Exposure to messaging technologies like Kafka If interested, please apply here ASAP or share your updated resume to Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this ...

SQL Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£430/day £430 p/d Inside IR35
expertise in C#, PowerShell scripting, WebAPI, and JSON/API integration Solid experience in backend development with MSSQL (MongoDB desirable) Hands-on experience with Kafka, Ansible (AAP 2.4/2.5), and DevOps tooling (Git, Jenkins, Confluence) Exposure to AI-assisted development (e.g. GitLab Duo, Claude) Good understanding of SDLC ...

Solution Architect, Payments, Banking, Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £575 per day + Hybrid
effectively with onshore and offshore teams Required Experience Strong background in Solution Architecture with extensive HLD ownership Hands-on experience designing event-driven architectures (Kafka, streaming, async patterns) Solid understanding of microservices, APIs and cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) Proven experience within B2B banking and payments , including ...

Booking and Messaging Java Developer (COMBJP00001223)

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600/day Negotiable
Senior Java Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems & Messaging) Location: London, UK (Hybrid) Role Type: Permanent Tech Stack: Java 8+, Concurrency, Apache Kafka/JMS/TIBCO, Spring Boot, Microservices, Low-Latency About the Team & Platform We are building and scaling a complex, high-throughput, electronic trading platform distributed across several … concurrency models, and non-blocking asynchronous processing. Messaging & Streaming Middleware: Heavy production experience with modern event-driven architectures and distributed streaming tools (e.g., Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or standard JMS APIs). Reactive Systems: Practical familiarity with Functional Reactive Programming frameworks (such as RxJava, ReactiveX, or the Java ...

Software Test Engineer: 3 Month Contract: Manchester/Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£100000 - £101000/annum
Experience testing in cloud-based environments including, deployments and configuration of CI/CD pipelines for test runs. Experiences with Grafana, RabitMQ or Apache Kafka, API testing, Kubernetes and SQL databases. Please apply now to be considered for this position. ...

Data Architect - Outside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Talent Locker
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £700 per day
Engineers, and Delivery teams What You'll Need Strong hands-on Data Architecture experience in delivery environments ETL/ELT and data streaming (Kafka) experience Strong understanding of microservices (essential) Experience in system integration and migration programmes AWS experience (GCP beneficial) Strong data mapping and data flow design skills ...

Application Designer

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
/v13 IBM WebSphere MQ v9 Databases: Oracle 19 (SQL, PL/SQL, data modelling) Messaging & Data Formats: MRM, XML, JSON Integration Exposure Kafka HP NonStop systems SWIFT connectivity Required Skills & Experience Proven experience across the full software development lifecycle Strong **analysis, design andHeres a clean, fully anonymised ...

OSS/BSS Solution architect

Hiring Organisation
IBU CONSULTING LTD
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Inventory, Service Assurance - understanding data models, system processes and integration patterns at implementation level - Integration architecture: microservices, API gateways, event-driven architectures, event brokers (Kafka), queues - handling 120+ integration points across systems and legacy stacks - Lead-to-Cash (L2C) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) solutions in Tier-1 telecom … frameworks for product and service APIs - Expertise in integration patterns ( OpenAPI , REST, gRPC , GraphQL ) - Strong background in pub/sub and event brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) including security (TLS/SASL), scaling and schema evolution - Knowledge of headers, correlation/tracking IDs, authentication/authorisation and versioning Product, Data & Application ...