Kafka Contracts in South London

Apache Kafka
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 22 34 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 14 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.90% 4.61% 10.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.42% 22.03% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 36
10th Percentile £463 £540 £500
25th Percentile £538 £575 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £625
90th Percentile £650 - -
London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +7.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 53 59 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 26.11% 20.92% 37.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 52 114
10th Percentile £410 £357 £425
25th Percentile £500 £444 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -1.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £723 £675 £684
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.12
25th Percentile - - £45.76
Median hourly rate - - £49.99
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.89%
75th Percentile - - £52.22
90th Percentile - - £52.67
London median hourly rate £45.00 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -26.53% -5.77% +28.83%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Croydon +11 13 £553 -11.60% 2
Bromley - 1 £575 - 1
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Guice
3 1 (7.14%) Mustache
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Microservices
3 2 (14.29%) Observability
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Testing
4 1 (7.14%) BDD
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
4 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Data Science
4 1 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) TDD
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Scala
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Grafana
2 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Confluent
1 7 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (35.71%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Spotify