Kafka Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 220 270 202
Rank change year-on-year +50 -68 -12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 185 186 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.81% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.68% 4.43% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 120 268
10th Percentile £361 £440 £411
25th Percentile £420 £485 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -3.30% +19.74%
75th Percentile £540 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £22.24 - -
25th Percentile £23.81 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% - -
75th Percentile £38.94 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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 of England +29 70 £507 -11.83% 22
South East +26 48 £475 -14.03% 24
Scotland +53 44 £475 -9.52% 20
North West +23 40 £524 +5.81% 12
Yorkshire +17 30 £475 -26.92% 9
South West -7 9 £533 -11.17% 8
Midlands +22 8 £398 -24.29% 14
West Midlands +18 5 £400 -23.81% 7
East of England 0 4 £600 +13.21% 5
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 7
Wales +16 2 £1,000 +100.00% 7
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 33 (17.84%) Apache Spark
2 17 (9.19%) Confluence
3 16 (8.65%) Apache
4 7 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (3.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (2.16%) Mule
7 3 (1.62%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.62%) nginx
8 2 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (1.08%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.54%) CMS
9 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (3.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.54%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.62%) AWS
2 50 (27.03%) Azure
3 35 (18.92%) GCP
4 26 (14.05%) Serverless
5 19 (10.27%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.19%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.95%) GitHub
8 10 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.32%) Apigee
11 7 (3.78%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 7 (3.78%) Kong
12 5 (2.70%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.16%) npm
13 4 (2.16%) Yarn
14 3 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.62%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.03%) HTTP
2 8 (4.32%) SSL
3 3 (1.62%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.16%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (16.76%) MongoDB
3 26 (14.05%) NoSQL
4 23 (12.43%) Relational Database
5 18 (9.73%) Hadoop
6 17 (9.19%) Big Data
7 13 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (6.49%) RDBMS
9 11 (5.95%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (5.41%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (4.86%) BigQuery
11 9 (4.86%) Couchbase
11 9 (4.86%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (3.78%) OLAP
12 7 (3.78%) OLTP
13 6 (3.24%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 42 (22.70%) Git
2 35 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.92%) JIRA
3 14 (7.57%) Cucumber
3 14 (7.57%) JUnit
4 10 (5.41%) GitLab
5 8 (4.32%) Postman
6 7 (3.78%) JMeter
7 6 (3.24%) Selenium
8 5 (2.70%) IntelliJ
8 5 (2.70%) Subversion
9 4 (2.16%) Gatling
9 4 (2.16%) Jasmine
9 4 (2.16%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (2.16%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.16%) Log4j
9 4 (2.16%) Mocha
9 4 (2.16%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.16%) webpack
10 3 (1.62%) Mockito
General
1 36 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.22%) Finance
3 27 (14.59%) Banking
4 19 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.16%) Automotive
6 4 (2.16%) Retail
7 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.08%) Games
8 2 (1.08%) German Language
8 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Back Office
9 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Marketing
9 1 (0.54%) Police
9 1 (0.54%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 80 (43.24%) Developer
2 61 (32.97%) Java Developer
3 25 (13.51%) Senior
4 24 (12.97%) Architect
5 13 (7.03%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.95%) DBA
7 11 (5.95%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 10 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Lead
9 9 (4.86%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) AWS Architect
10 8 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) Backend Developer
12 5 (2.70%) Java Engineer
13 4 (2.16%) Cloud Developer
13 4 (2.16%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (32.43%) Spring
2 56 (30.27%) Spring Boot
3 37 (20.00%) REST
4 23 (12.43%) RabbitMQ
4 23 (12.43%) Web Services
5 21 (11.35%) RESTful
6 18 (9.73%) React
7 16 (8.65%) J2EE
8 15 (8.11%) Apache Camel
9 14 (7.57%) JSON
10 13 (7.03%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (7.03%) XML
11 11 (5.95%) CSS
11 11 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.86%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.86%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.86%) SOAP
13 8 (4.32%) OpenTracing
14 7 (3.78%) Apache NiFi
14 7 (3.78%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.65%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.78%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.78%) DataPower
5 6 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) PKI
9 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.54%) FMCG
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.54%) Online Games
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.14%) Linux
2 13 (7.03%) Windows
3 9 (4.86%) Unix
4 6 (3.24%) Mac OS X
5 5 (2.70%) zOS
6 2 (1.08%) VMS
6 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.54%) Android
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) CentOS
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (45.95%) Agile
2 71 (38.38%) DevOps
3 69 (37.30%) Microservices
4 42 (22.70%) CI/CD
5 34 (18.38%) TDD
6 32 (17.30%) Containerisation
7 30 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (14.05%) Scrum
8 26 (14.05%) Software Engineering
9 25 (13.51%) Design Patterns
10 24 (12.97%) Event-Driven
10 24 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (12.97%) Test Automation
11 23 (12.43%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (11.89%) End-to-End Testing
13 18 (9.73%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.19%) ETL
14 17 (9.19%) High Availability
15 16 (8.65%) Change Management
16 15 (8.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 109 (58.92%) Java
2 42 (22.70%) SQL
3 34 (18.38%) Python
4 33 (17.84%) Scala
5 27 (14.59%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.41%) C#
6 10 (5.41%) Go
7 9 (4.86%) Groovy
7 9 (4.86%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.24%) PHP
9 5 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.70%) SPARQL
10 4 (2.16%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.62%) Bash
11 3 (1.62%) Ruby
12 2 (1.08%) ABAP
12 2 (1.08%) Perl
12 2 (1.08%) R
13 1 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.57%) Degree
4 12 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.62%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (1.62%) NIST
2 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 47 (25.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (2.16%) HDFS
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (28.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.35%) Terraform
3 19 (10.27%) Prometheus
4 18 (9.73%) Grafana
5 13 (7.03%) Kibana
6 12 (6.49%) Ansible
7 10 (5.41%) Istio
8 9 (4.86%) Argo
9 8 (4.32%) Zipkin
10 6 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.54%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (18.92%) Oracle
2 22 (11.89%) IBM
3 15 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.86%) Splunk
5 8 (4.32%) Google
6 7 (3.78%) Solace
6 7 (3.78%) TSYS
7 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.70%) Confluent
8 5 (2.70%) F5
8 5 (2.70%) SAP
9 4 (2.16%) Qualys
10 3 (1.62%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.62%) Informatica
11 2 (1.08%) Databricks
11 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.54%) Adobe
12 1 (0.54%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.54%) ION Trading
12 1 (0.54%) Teradata