Kafka Contracts in South Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 43 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 18 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.81% 1.54% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.77% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 0
10th Percentile £432 £450 -
25th Percentile £464 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% - -
75th Percentile £524 £625 -
90th Percentile £593 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -26.15% +13.04% +22.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 141 64 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.81% 12.33% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 58 72
10th Percentile £400 £375 £300
25th Percentile £430 £458 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £588 £700 £538
90th Percentile £641 - £575
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.63 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £38.19 £66.25 £33.84
% change year-on-year -42.36% +95.77% +30.15%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in South Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in South Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in South Yorkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +6 18 £507 -15.50% 3
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 9 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (16.67%) Jupyter
2 3 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) GCP
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 8 (44.44%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
3 8 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) CloudBees
4 3 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) SSL
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Big Data
1 9 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (44.44%) BigQuery
2 8 (44.44%) Data Lake
3 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (16.67%) ClickHouse
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (50.00%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cassandra Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Beam
2 3 (16.67%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
2 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (50.00%) ETL
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (44.44%) Analytics
4 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (44.44%) High Availability
4 8 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (33.33%) Change Management
5 6 (33.33%) ITIL
5 6 (33.33%) ITSM
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) Groovy
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Ruby
3 3 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Google
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) IBM
2 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) Solace