Kafka Contracts in South London

Apache Kafka
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 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 30 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 9 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.11% 3.21% 5.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 14.29% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile £417 £490 £538
25th Percentile £425 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £528 - £625
90th Percentile £550 £636 £635
London median daily rate £581 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South 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 54 84 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 24.66% 22.46% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 99
10th Percentile £425 £428 £388
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £639
90th Percentile £679 £708 £700
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.49
Median hourly rate - £52.97 £49.99
Median % change year-on-year - +5.97% +0.32%
75th Percentile - - £51.48
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £67.00 £44.88
% change year-on-year -36.57% +49.30% -10.25%

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 May 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 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
Croydon +1 9 £488 -2.50%
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 2 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 2 (22.22%) Parquet
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 3 (33.33%) React
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Avro
4 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (22.22%) Guice
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) Mustache
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Testing
5 1 (11.11%) BDD
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Lua
4 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) PHP
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 1 (11.11%) C
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Go
5 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Consul
2 1 (11.11%) Kibana
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) Spotify