Kafka Contracts in the East Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Contract jobs citing Kafka 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% - 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% - 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £719
25th Percentile £389 - £803
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - +107.32%
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands 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 129 229 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.75% 22.65% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 216 240
10th Percentile £258 £308 £325
25th Percentile £325 £334 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -2.78% +13.92%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £503
90th Percentile £625 £700 £576
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 9
10th Percentile - - £16.65
25th Percentile £10.90 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £23.37 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £28.44 - £45.00
90th Percentile £35.93 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £398 - 2
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
Kafka
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Police
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) RAML
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle