Kafka Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apache Kafka
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 131 137
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing Kafka 33 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.25% 0.49% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.12% 2.91% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 17
10th Percentile £458 £431 £413
25th Percentile £463 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -21.74% +64.29%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £623
90th Percentile £613 £555 £660
South East median daily rate £475 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -14.41% -3.48% +22.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 362 481 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.73% 16.81% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 349 440
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £695 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 6
10th Percentile £56.61 £52.90 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £41.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +22.23% +71.81%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.03
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.48 £74.32
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% +44.44% -14.29%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +4 21 £479 +6.33% 2
Buckinghamshire +39 12 £538 -3.15% 2
Kafka
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.03%) Azure
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (15.15%) Big Data
3 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
4 4 (12.12%) Apache Hive
4 4 (12.12%) Impala
5 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.06%) Sqoop
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.03%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) NWDI
3 1 (3.03%) NWDS
General
1 2 (6.06%) Banking
1 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (3.03%) Finance
2 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Java Developer
3 11 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 11 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 10 (30.30%) Spring
3 7 (21.21%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (15.15%) Symfony
5 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.09%) REST
6 2 (6.06%) Mustache
6 2 (6.06%) Node.js
6 2 (6.06%) React
6 2 (6.06%) Web Services
7 1 (3.03%) IDoc
7 1 (3.03%) SOAP
7 1 (3.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Microservices
2 13 (39.39%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) DevOps
3 12 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 11 (33.33%) GitOps
4 11 (33.33%) ITSM
4 11 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 10 (30.30%) Change Management
5 10 (30.30%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (30.30%) Incident Response
5 10 (30.30%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (30.30%) Task Automation
6 7 (21.21%) TDD
7 4 (12.12%) Analytics
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
7 4 (12.12%) Scrum
7 4 (12.12%) SOLID
8 2 (6.06%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Java
2 9 (27.27%) Scala
3 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) PHP
5 3 (9.09%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) Python
7 1 (3.03%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 11 (33.33%) Argo
3 11 (33.33%) Grafana
3 11 (33.33%) Istio
3 11 (33.33%) Kibana
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Informatica
3 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) SAP