Kafka Contracts in Manchester

Apache Kafka
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 63 93 53
Rank change year-on-year +30 -40 +57
Contract jobs citing Kafka 20 15 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.72% 0.92% 3.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.09% 3.86% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 90
10th Percentile £443 £425 £459
25th Percentile £463 £510 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -11.17% +18.52%
75th Percentile £575 - £675
90th Percentile £628 £536 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.14% -11.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
North West median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +30.77% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 220 389 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 18.92% 23.79% 28.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 328 551
10th Percentile £334 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -3.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £683 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 14
10th Percentile £63.20 £60.50 £44.00
25th Percentile £64.25 £64.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £68.75 £70.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -2.14% +100.71%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.81 £79.50
90th Percentile £74.20 £79.88 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £56.59 £46.18 £75.00
% change year-on-year +22.54% -38.43% +88.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) npm
4 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.00%) Yarn
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (15.00%) Redis
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) Jasmine
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 3 (15.00%) Mocha
2 3 (15.00%) webpack
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Mockito
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (20.00%) Military
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
2 3 (15.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) XML
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) iPad
4 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Asynchronous Programming
7 3 (15.00%) Database Security
7 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (15.00%) Memory Management
7 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
7 3 (15.00%) OO
7 3 (15.00%) OOP
7 3 (15.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Podman
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Solace
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) VMware