Kafka Contracts in Cheshire

Apache Kafka
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.75% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.14% -11.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +30.77% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 94 43 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.32% 10.62% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 33 57
10th Percentile £307 £410 £350
25th Percentile £356 £438 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +11.11% +7.78%
75th Percentile £543 £540 £630
90th Percentile £638 £579 £632
North West median daily rate £455 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £56.59 £46.18 £75.00
% change year-on-year +22.54% -38.43% +88.80%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Knutsford - 9 £520 - 1
Kafka
North West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) Apigee
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Kong
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) OLAP
2 2 (22.22%) OLTP
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
2 2 (22.22%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (22.22%) J2EE
2 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (22.22%) DataPower
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) PLM
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (22.22%) API Management
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) TSYS
3 1 (11.11%) Genesys
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat