Kafka Contracts in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 66 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing Kafka 75 124 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.13% 3.36% 4.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.51% 12.61% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 157
10th Percentile £463 £513 £510
25th Percentile £490 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -1.85% +12.50%
75th Percentile £731 £778 £775
90th Percentile £800 £874 £847
London median daily rate £581 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 555 983 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.19% 26.64% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 632 1,093
10th Percentile £408 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +232.00%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £42.50 £67.00 £44.88
% change year-on-year -36.57% +49.30% -10.25%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
City of London -2 70 £650 -1.89% 10
City of Westminster +3 4 £650 -22.39%
West End of London - 1 - - 2
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.33%) Apache
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.67%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.33%) nginx
5 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.00%) AWS
2 22 (29.33%) Azure
3 15 (20.00%) Serverless
4 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (12.00%) GitHub
5 8 (10.67%) Azure AKS
5 8 (10.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (10.67%) GCP
6 7 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (4.00%) Azure App Service
9 3 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Kerberos
1 2 (2.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) MongoDB
2 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (10.67%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.00%) Parquet
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.00%) MySQL
7 3 (4.00%) Tableau
8 2 (2.67%) Big Data
8 2 (2.67%) Data Mart
9 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.33%) Scylla
9 1 (1.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.00%) Mockito
3 5 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.67%) JMeter
4 4 (5.33%) Maven
5 3 (4.00%) Git
5 3 (4.00%) GitLab
5 3 (4.00%) Gradle
5 3 (4.00%) JUnit
5 3 (4.00%) Selenium
5 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.67%) HP UFT
6 2 (2.67%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (2.67%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.67%) TestNG
7 1 (1.33%) Deequ
7 1 (1.33%) Postman
7 1 (1.33%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) Developer
2 14 (18.67%) Data Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Site Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.67%) Python Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Senior
7 6 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Lead
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.00%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Architect
9 3 (4.00%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Development Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) RESTful
2 12 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
2 12 (16.00%) React
3 9 (12.00%) HTML
4 7 (9.33%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.00%) .NET
5 6 (8.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (8.00%) Apache Avro
5 6 (8.00%) CSS
5 6 (8.00%) JSON
5 6 (8.00%) Node.js
5 6 (8.00%) Spring
5 6 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.33%) JAX-RS
6 4 (5.33%) PySpark
6 4 (5.33%) REST
7 3 (4.00%) CSS3
7 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.00%) HTML5
7 3 (4.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 10 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.33%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.00%) Machine to Machine
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (37.33%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
3 3 (4.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) CI/CD
2 27 (36.00%) DevOps
3 25 (33.33%) Microservices
4 16 (21.33%) Agile
4 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.33%) SDLC
6 12 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (14.67%) ETL
8 10 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 10 (13.33%) Task Automation
9 9 (12.00%) Architectural Design
9 9 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (9.33%) Data Engineering
10 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.00%) SFIA
11 6 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.00%) Python
2 28 (37.33%) Java
3 25 (33.33%) SQL
4 13 (17.33%) Shell Script
5 9 (12.00%) C#
5 9 (12.00%) Go
5 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.33%) C++
7 5 (6.67%) Scala
8 2 (2.67%) Perl
8 2 (2.67%) PHP
8 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.33%) C
9 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 26 (34.67%) Docker
2 11 (14.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (54.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.33%) Terraform
3 15 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 14 (18.67%) Grafana
5 11 (14.67%) Consul
6 5 (6.67%) Argo
7 4 (5.33%) Ansible
8 3 (4.00%) Packer
9 1 (1.33%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.33%) Nagios
9 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) SaltStack
3 5 (6.67%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Confluent
4 3 (4.00%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.67%) IBM
5 2 (2.67%) Micro Focus
5 2 (2.67%) Murex
5 2 (2.67%) New Relic
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.33%) Unisys