Kafka Contracts in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 117 146 128
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing Kafka 70 66 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.51% 1.18% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.74% 6.06% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 90
10th Percentile £400 £440 £511
25th Percentile £450 £459 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £535 £680 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £739
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
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
North of England

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 North of England 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 904 1,089 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.47% 19.49% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 848 1,218
10th Percentile £362 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North of England 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
North West +23 40 £524 +5.81% 12
Yorkshire +17 30 £475 -26.92% 9
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (24.29%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.57%) Confluence
2 6 (8.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (5.71%) Mule
5 3 (4.29%) Apache
5 3 (4.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (4.29%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (38.57%) AWS
2 20 (28.57%) Serverless
3 19 (27.14%) Azure
4 14 (20.00%) GCP
5 9 (12.86%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.00%) Apigee
7 7 (10.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 7 (10.00%) Kong
8 4 (5.71%) npm
8 4 (5.71%) Yarn
9 3 (4.29%) CloudBees
9 3 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.86%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (2.86%) GitHub
11 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) SSL
2 5 (7.14%) HTTP
3 3 (4.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 14 (20.00%) Big Data
2 14 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 13 (18.57%) Hadoop
4 12 (17.14%) Relational Database
5 11 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (15.71%) RDBMS
6 10 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (12.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (12.86%) BigQuery
7 9 (12.86%) Data Lake
8 7 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (10.00%) OLAP
8 7 (10.00%) OLTP
9 6 (8.57%) Oracle OLAP
10 5 (7.14%) Redis
11 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.86%) Git
3 13 (18.57%) JIRA
4 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.71%) Gatling
4 4 (5.71%) Jasmine
4 4 (5.71%) JMeter
4 4 (5.71%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (5.71%) Liquibase
4 4 (5.71%) Log4j
4 4 (5.71%) Mocha
4 4 (5.71%) Selenium
4 4 (5.71%) WebDriver
4 4 (5.71%) webpack
5 2 (2.86%) GitLab
5 2 (2.86%) Mockito
5 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.43%) JUnit
6 1 (1.43%) Maven
6 1 (1.43%) RStudio
General
1 14 (20.00%) Finance
2 11 (15.71%) Banking
3 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Automotive
6 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.43%) Games
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
6 1 (1.43%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Architect
2 14 (20.00%) Developer
3 11 (15.71%) DBA
3 11 (15.71%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 10 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (11.43%) AWS Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) Lead
7 6 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Test Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.86%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Build Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Cassandra Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 1 (1.43%) Games Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) Web Services
2 13 (18.57%) ActiveMQ
3 12 (17.14%) JSON
4 11 (15.71%) XML
5 9 (12.86%) Spring
5 9 (12.86%) Spring Boot
6 8 (11.43%) J2EE
7 7 (10.00%) IBM Integration Bus
7 7 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (10.00%) SOAP
8 6 (8.57%) Apache Camel
8 6 (8.57%) Spring Integration
9 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.14%) RESTful
10 4 (5.71%) Hibernate
10 4 (5.71%) React
10 4 (5.71%) REST
11 3 (4.29%) .NET Framework
11 3 (4.29%) Apache Beam
11 3 (4.29%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) DataPower
2 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.43%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Online Gambling
5 1 (1.43%) Online Games
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.86%) Linux
2 9 (12.86%) Windows
3 8 (11.43%) Unix
4 6 (8.57%) Mac OS X
5 3 (4.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) DevOps
2 30 (42.86%) Agile
3 21 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.14%) ETL
8 12 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 12 (17.14%) Microservices
8 12 (17.14%) OO
9 11 (15.71%) Data Governance
9 11 (15.71%) Database Security
10 10 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (14.29%) Risk Management
11 9 (12.86%) Data Integration
11 9 (12.86%) High Availability
11 9 (12.86%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Java
2 19 (27.14%) Python
3 16 (22.86%) SQL
4 13 (18.57%) Scala
5 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.00%) Groovy
7 6 (8.57%) C#
8 4 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.29%) Go
9 3 (4.29%) Ruby
10 2 (2.86%) Perl
11 1 (1.43%) Bash
11 1 (1.43%) R
11 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.43%) NIST
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (20.00%) Terraform
2 9 (12.86%) Ansible
3 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.71%) Grafana
5 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Oracle
2 15 (21.43%) IBM
3 7 (10.00%) Google
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.00%) TSYS
4 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 6 (8.57%) Solace
5 3 (4.29%) F5
6 2 (2.86%) Splunk
7 1 (1.43%) Confluent
7 1 (1.43%) Databricks
7 1 (1.43%) Qualys