Kafka Contracts in Hertfordshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 72 69 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 3 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.36% 0.53% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.31% 5.48% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £559 - £512
25th Percentile £572 £625 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £635
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +2.36% +20.95%
75th Percentile £697 £675 £718
90th Percentile £706 - £738
East of England median daily rate £600 £530 £537
% change year-on-year +13.21% -1.35% +2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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 130 73 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.46% 9.71% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 92
10th Percentile £325 £368 £375
25th Percentile £342 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% -0.91% -0.05%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £655
90th Percentile £701 £814 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.86% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 12 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £43.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -11.22% +8.89%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £49.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £51.20
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £60.56
% change year-on-year -21.82% -9.18% +34.57%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Hertfordshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Hertfordshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford +3 1 £675 +3.85% 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £600 - 1
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Micronaut
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) React Native
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) FMCG
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Cache
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform