Kafka Contracts in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 108 79 73
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Kafka 392 819 1,365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.25% 3.17% 3.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.78% 11.68% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 618 999
10th Percentile £416 £463 £500
25th Percentile £463 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £750
90th Percentile £788 £822 £825
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £70.80 £54.23
25th Percentile - - £56.81
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.91% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
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 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 4,463 7,009 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.57% 27.09% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 5,249 9,292
10th Percentile £377 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £704
90th Percentile £825 £810 £794
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.60 £32.13
25th Percentile £23.80 £41.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +36.97% -1.09%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.40 £78.98
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in London.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London -8 70 £630 -1.18% 16
West London +28 25 £475 -26.92% 5
South London +4 9 £488 -2.50%
East London -5 1 £436 -35.41% 6
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 57 (14.54%) Apache
2 50 (12.76%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.04%) Confluence
4 8 (2.04%) nginx
5 5 (1.28%) Tornado
6 4 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.77%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.55%) Endur
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 211 (53.83%) AWS
2 103 (26.28%) Azure
3 58 (14.80%) GCP
4 55 (14.03%) Serverless
5 42 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
6 37 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (6.38%) GitHub
8 24 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 20 (5.10%) Azure AKS
10 19 (4.85%) Amazon EMR
10 19 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (4.08%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.81%) OpenShift
15 10 (2.55%) Azure App Service
15 10 (2.55%) Azure Event Grid
15 10 (2.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.42%) HTTP
2 7 (1.79%) DNS
3 4 (1.02%) VPN
4 3 (0.77%) Firewall
4 3 (0.77%) IPv4
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) DHCP
5 2 (0.51%) Internet
5 2 (0.51%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.51%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 49 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 40 (10.20%) Flink
4 37 (9.44%) NoSQL
5 35 (8.93%) SQL Server
6 25 (6.38%) Big Data
7 24 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (4.85%) Relational Database
11 18 (4.59%) Hadoop
12 16 (4.08%) DynamoDB
13 15 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (3.06%) Parquet
15 11 (2.81%) Data Lake
16 9 (2.30%) Apache Hive
16 9 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (2.30%) Couchbase
16 9 (2.30%) HBase
Development Applications
1 38 (9.69%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.40%) Git
3 19 (4.85%) Cypress.io
3 19 (4.85%) Mockito
4 14 (3.57%) JIRA
5 13 (3.32%) GitLab
5 13 (3.32%) Maven
6 9 (2.30%) JMeter
7 8 (2.04%) Selenium
8 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.28%) JUnit
10 5 (1.28%) Pylint
10 5 (1.28%) Subversion
11 4 (1.02%) Snyk
11 4 (1.02%) TestNG
12 3 (0.77%) Postman
12 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
General
1 74 (18.88%) Finance
2 68 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 38 (9.69%) Banking
4 34 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.30%) Investment Banking
6 9 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.28%) Front Office
8 4 (1.02%) Marketing
8 4 (1.02%) Retail
8 4 (1.02%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.51%) Back Office
9 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.51%) Legal
9 2 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.26%) Electronics
10 1 (0.26%) Games
10 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 159 (40.56%) Developer
2 65 (16.58%) Senior
3 64 (16.33%) Data Engineer
4 59 (15.05%) Java Developer
5 44 (11.22%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.20%) Scala Developer
7 33 (8.42%) Architect
8 28 (7.14%) Lead
9 25 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.87%) Python Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.85%) Data Architect
12 19 (4.85%) Full Stack Developer
13 17 (4.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.83%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.83%) Site Engineer
16 14 (3.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.03%) RESTful
2 38 (9.69%) Akka
2 38 (9.69%) React
3 33 (8.42%) .NET
4 31 (7.91%) Spring
4 31 (7.91%) Spring Boot
5 25 (6.38%) REST
6 21 (5.36%) Node.js
7 19 (4.85%) HTML
7 19 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (4.59%) .NET Core
8 18 (4.59%) JAX-RS
9 17 (4.34%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (3.57%) JSON
11 13 (3.32%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (3.32%) pytest
11 13 (3.32%) Web Services
12 12 (3.06%) Apache Avro
12 12 (3.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (4.34%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.32%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.06%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.04%) Derivative
8 8 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.79%) Machine to Machine
9 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.28%) Solar Panel
12 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.77%) Data Fabric
13 3 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.11%) Linux
2 35 (8.93%) Unix
3 14 (3.57%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (38.27%) Agile
2 125 (31.89%) DevOps
3 124 (31.63%) Microservices
4 105 (26.79%) CI/CD
5 78 (19.90%) Software Engineering
6 76 (19.39%) TDD
7 62 (15.82%) Test Automation
8 48 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
9 46 (11.73%) Pair Programming
10 45 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (9.44%) Data Engineering
12 36 (9.18%) Machine Learning
13 33 (8.42%) Unit Testing
14 32 (8.16%) Containerisation
14 32 (8.16%) ETL
14 32 (8.16%) Full Stack Development
15 30 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (7.40%) GitOps
17 28 (7.14%) BDD
17 28 (7.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 148 (37.76%) Java
2 142 (36.22%) Python
3 105 (26.79%) SQL
4 64 (16.33%) Scala
5 39 (9.95%) C#
5 39 (9.95%) Go
6 37 (9.44%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.87%) Shell Script
8 21 (5.36%) C++
9 14 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.81%) Perl
11 10 (2.55%) Bash
12 9 (2.30%) Groovy
12 9 (2.30%) PHP
13 6 (1.53%) Ruby
14 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.28%) Rust
15 4 (1.02%) C
15 4 (1.02%) Haskell
16 3 (0.77%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 92 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 87 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.14%) Degree
4 10 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.28%) QA
3 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.51%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (26.02%) Docker
2 12 (3.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (1.53%) HDFS
4 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 183 (46.68%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.52%) Terraform
3 31 (7.91%) Grafana
3 31 (7.91%) Prometheus
4 19 (4.85%) Ansible
5 15 (3.83%) Consul
6 10 (2.55%) Argo
7 9 (2.30%) Packer
8 6 (1.53%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.53%) Puppet
9 3 (0.77%) Istio
9 3 (0.77%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.77%) Oozie
9 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.51%) Ambari
11 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.26%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) Nagios
11 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.40%) Oracle
3 25 (6.38%) Databricks
4 19 (4.85%) Typelevel
5 12 (3.06%) SaltStack
6 11 (2.81%) Confluent
7 10 (2.55%) Google
7 10 (2.55%) SAP
7 10 (2.55%) Splunk
8 5 (1.28%) OpenLink
9 4 (1.02%) Adobe
9 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.02%) IBM
9 4 (1.02%) Informatica
9 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.77%) Micro Focus
10 3 (0.77%) New Relic
10 3 (0.77%) TIBCO