Kafka Contracts in Berkshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 103 118
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -17
Contract jobs citing Kafka 24 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.23% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.72% 3.29% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 4
10th Percentile £415 £431 £486
25th Percentile £458 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £570
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.05% +26.67%
75th Percentile £493 £500 £645
90th Percentile £499 £530 £686
South East median daily rate £475 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -14.03% -7.92% +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 311 304 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.88% 17.09% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 219 296
10th Percentile £325 £350 £341
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +11.41%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £708 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 5
10th Percentile £56.61 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +28.05% +95.24%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £68.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year -10.40% +48.65% -7.50%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Wokingham +7 11 £485 -3.00%
Reading -9 10 £475 +5.56% 1
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) NWDI
3 1 (4.17%) NWDS
General
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Integration Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Spring Boot
2 6 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.83%) Symfony
4 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) Mustache
6 2 (8.33%) Node.js
6 2 (8.33%) React
6 2 (8.33%) Web Services
7 1 (4.17%) IDoc
7 1 (4.17%) SOAP
7 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Microservices
2 14 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 13 (54.17%) Agile
3 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 13 (54.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 12 (50.00%) GitOps
4 12 (50.00%) ITSM
4 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (45.83%) Change Management
5 11 (45.83%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (45.83%) Incident Response
5 11 (45.83%) Performance Tuning
5 11 (45.83%) Task Automation
6 6 (25.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 4 (16.67%) Scrum
8 4 (16.67%) SOLID
9 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) PHP
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) Groovy
4 3 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (54.17%) Prometheus
3 12 (50.00%) Argo
3 12 (50.00%) Grafana
3 12 (50.00%) Istio
3 12 (50.00%) Kibana
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) SAP