Apache Kafka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 139 97
Rank change year-on-year -31 -42 +19
Contract jobs citing Kafka 628 1,140 2,369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.44% 1.91% 2.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.01% 8.21% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 819 1,649
10th Percentile £380 £463 £475
25th Percentile £456 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £746 £726
90th Percentile £745 £800 £802
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -10.33% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £22.24 £71.85 £54.80
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%
75th Percentile £38.94 £81.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -59.62% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,961 13,886 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.56% 23.27% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 10,139 17,680
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £661
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -33 542 £548 -15.77% 236
London -40 379 £550 -15.38% 150
Work from Home -27 203 £575 -11.54% 164
UK excluding London +43 166 £482 -10.33% 101
North of England +31 61 £492 -9.68% 23
South East +23 45 £475 -14.41% 29
Scotland +45 41 £460 -12.38% 15
North West +23 40 £523 -2.79% 16
Yorkshire +30 21 £450 -25.00% 5
Midlands +25 9 £355 -32.38% 13
West Midlands +22 6 £313 -40.48% 9
East of England +4 5 £488 -7.14% 7
South West -8 4 £550 -4.35% 8
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 4
Wales +11 1 - - 3

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 78 (12.42%) Apache Spark
2 74 (11.78%) Apache
3 27 (4.30%) Confluence
4 26 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.59%) nginx
6 5 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.80%) Tornado
7 4 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.64%) Mule
7 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.43%) Endur
2 5 (0.80%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.64%) Shopify
4 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 310 (49.36%) AWS
2 145 (23.09%) Azure
3 83 (13.22%) Serverless
4 80 (12.74%) GCP
5 45 (7.17%) Amazon Kinesis
5 45 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (5.89%) Amazon S3
7 29 (4.62%) GitHub
8 25 (3.98%) Amazon EMR
9 22 (3.50%) OpenShift
10 19 (3.03%) Azure AKS
10 19 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (2.71%) Amazon MSK
12 16 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (1.75%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.73%) HTTP
2 11 (1.75%) SSL
3 8 (1.27%) DNS
4 5 (0.80%) Firewall
5 4 (0.64%) VPN
6 3 (0.48%) 5G
6 3 (0.48%) DHCP
6 3 (0.48%) Internet
6 3 (0.48%) IPv4
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
7 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.16%) MQTT
7 1 (0.16%) SSH
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (15.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 87 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 68 (10.83%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (7.96%) Big Data
5 46 (7.32%) Flink
6 45 (7.17%) SQL Server
7 41 (6.53%) Relational Database
8 38 (6.05%) Hadoop
9 31 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (3.03%) Apache Hive
11 19 (3.03%) MySQL
12 17 (2.71%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.71%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.71%) Redis
13 15 (2.39%) Couchbase
13 15 (2.39%) RDBMS
14 14 (2.23%) HBase
Development Applications
1 68 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 67 (10.67%) Git
3 47 (7.48%) JIRA
4 27 (4.30%) JUnit
5 25 (3.98%) Cucumber
6 23 (3.66%) Mockito
7 17 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 16 (2.55%) Maven
9 15 (2.39%) GitLab
9 15 (2.39%) JMeter
9 15 (2.39%) Postman
10 13 (2.07%) Selenium
11 11 (1.75%) Subversion
12 9 (1.43%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.43%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.11%) Liquibase
13 7 (1.11%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.96%) IntelliJ
15 5 (0.80%) Gradle
15 5 (0.80%) Pylint
General
1 118 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 93 (14.81%) Finance
3 63 (10.03%) Banking
4 57 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 12 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.43%) Retail
9 8 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.80%) Marketing
12 4 (0.64%) Automotive
12 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.64%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Back Office
13 3 (0.48%) Games
13 3 (0.48%) Legal
13 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.32%) Front Office
14 2 (0.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 244 (38.85%) Developer
2 121 (19.27%) Senior
3 119 (18.95%) Java Developer
4 93 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 89 (14.17%) Software Engineer
6 48 (7.64%) Architect
7 43 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (6.69%) Senior Developer
9 40 (6.37%) Scala Developer
10 33 (5.25%) Lead
11 27 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 27 (4.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 26 (4.14%) Site Engineer
13 25 (3.98%) Full Stack Developer
13 25 (3.98%) Python Engineer
14 24 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (3.18%) Java Engineer
17 19 (3.03%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.65%) Spring
2 87 (13.85%) Spring Boot
3 74 (11.78%) REST
4 68 (10.83%) RESTful
5 54 (8.60%) React
6 43 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
7 39 (6.21%) .NET
8 37 (5.89%) Akka
9 35 (5.57%) Web Services
10 34 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
11 33 (5.25%) Node.js
12 32 (5.10%) AngularJS
12 32 (5.10%) JSON
13 26 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
14 24 (3.82%) .NET Core
15 22 (3.50%) PySpark
16 21 (3.34%) JAX-RS
17 20 (3.18%) J2EE
18 18 (2.87%) Apache Camel
18 18 (2.87%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.55%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.27%) Derivative
8 8 (1.27%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.11%) Machine to Machine
10 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.80%) DataPower
11 5 (0.80%) IoT
11 5 (0.80%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.80%) Solar Panel
12 4 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.45%) Linux
2 41 (6.53%) Unix
3 21 (3.34%) Mac OS X
4 14 (2.23%) Windows
5 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.48%) zOS
7 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (42.52%) Agile
2 192 (30.57%) Microservices
3 183 (29.14%) DevOps
4 142 (22.61%) Software Engineering
5 141 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 116 (18.47%) TDD
7 80 (12.74%) Test Automation
8 79 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (10.35%) Data Pipeline
10 58 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
11 57 (9.08%) Data Engineering
12 53 (8.44%) Fintech
12 53 (8.44%) User Experience
13 51 (8.12%) Pair Programming
14 48 (7.64%) Full Stack Development
14 48 (7.64%) Scrum
15 47 (7.48%) Containerisation
15 47 (7.48%) User Research
15 47 (7.48%) UX Design
16 46 (7.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 266 (42.36%) Java
2 189 (30.10%) Python
3 159 (25.32%) SQL
4 98 (15.61%) Scala
5 82 (13.06%) Go
6 57 (9.08%) JavaScript
7 50 (7.96%) C#
8 26 (4.14%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.18%) C++
10 19 (3.03%) Groovy
11 18 (2.87%) PHP
12 15 (2.39%) TypeScript
13 13 (2.07%) Bash
13 13 (2.07%) Perl
14 11 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.27%) Ruby
16 5 (0.80%) C
16 5 (0.80%) Rust
17 4 (0.64%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 116 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 104 (16.56%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.21%) Degree
4 20 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.59%) QA
3 4 (0.64%) GDPR
4 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.32%) MiFID
5 2 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 182 (28.98%) Docker
2 17 (2.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 12 (1.91%) HDFS
4 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 265 (42.20%) Kubernetes
2 70 (11.15%) Terraform
3 48 (7.64%) Prometheus
4 44 (7.01%) Grafana
5 32 (5.10%) Ansible
6 19 (3.03%) Argo
7 14 (2.23%) Consul
8 13 (2.07%) Kibana
9 12 (1.91%) Istio
10 8 (1.27%) Hadoop YARN
10 8 (1.27%) Packer
11 6 (0.96%) Puppet
11 6 (0.96%) Zipkin
12 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.48%) Oozie
14 2 (0.32%) Ambari
14 2 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 70 (11.15%) Oracle
2 41 (6.53%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.46%) Databricks
4 25 (3.98%) IBM
5 19 (3.03%) Typelevel
6 17 (2.71%) SAP
7 15 (2.39%) Confluent
8 14 (2.23%) Google
8 14 (2.23%) Splunk
9 11 (1.75%) SaltStack
10 9 (1.43%) Informatica
10 9 (1.43%) Solace
11 8 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.96%) Adobe
13 5 (0.80%) New Relic
13 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.80%) TSYS
14 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.64%) OpenLink
14 4 (0.64%) Red Hat