Kafka Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 139 100
Rank change year-on-year -11 -39 +16
Contract jobs citing Kafka 683 1,066 2,270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 1.90% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.54% 8.28% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 767 1,587
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £459 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £775 £816 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -14.78% - +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 4
10th Percentile £22.44 - £54.23
25th Percentile £25.94 £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.10% +12.23% +27.45%
75th Percentile £36.31 £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £48.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -64.10% - -

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

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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 1 June 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 -19 598 £550 -15.38% 250
London -27 410 £581 -10.58% 177
Work from Home -23 206 £550 -15.38% 140
UK excluding London +65 195 £490 -14.78% 87
North of England +44 70 £504 -19.44% 23
South East +33 57 £475 -14.03% 27
Scotland +53 41 £475 -9.52% 10
North West +37 37 £514 -6.59% 16
Yorkshire +26 33 £480 -26.15% 6
South West -9 11 £585 -2.50% 4
Midlands +18 8 £398 -24.29% 9
West Midlands +6 5 £363 -30.95% 6
Wales +18 4 £550 +10.00% 4
East of England -5 4 £600 +13.21% 7
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 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 97 (14.20%) Apache Spark
2 70 (10.25%) Apache
3 26 (3.81%) Confluence
4 24 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.46%) nginx
6 6 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.73%) Mule
7 5 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.46%) Endur
2 7 (1.02%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 354 (51.83%) AWS
2 187 (27.38%) Azure
3 116 (16.98%) GCP
4 80 (11.71%) Serverless
5 49 (7.17%) Amazon S3
6 42 (6.15%) OpenShift
7 41 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (6.00%) GitHub
8 40 (5.86%) Amazon Kinesis
9 26 (3.81%) Azure AKS
9 26 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 24 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
14 17 (2.49%) Azure App Service
15 16 (2.34%) Azure Event Grid
15 16 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.20%) HTTP
2 18 (2.64%) SSL
3 7 (1.02%) DNS
4 6 (0.88%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.73%) Firewall
6 4 (0.59%) VPN
7 3 (0.44%) AMQP
7 3 (0.44%) IPv4
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) FTP
8 1 (0.15%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (14.93%) Apache Cassandra
2 87 (12.74%) MongoDB
3 71 (10.40%) NoSQL
3 71 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (7.61%) Big Data
5 46 (6.73%) SQL Server
6 44 (6.44%) Flink
7 43 (6.30%) Hadoop
8 39 (5.71%) Relational Database
9 38 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (3.51%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.93%) DynamoDB
14 19 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (2.64%) Couchbase
16 17 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (2.34%) Apache Hive
18 15 (2.20%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 78 (11.42%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.13%) Git
3 49 (7.17%) JIRA
4 25 (3.66%) GitLab
5 23 (3.37%) Mockito
6 21 (3.07%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.34%) JMeter
8 14 (2.05%) Cucumber
8 14 (2.05%) JUnit
8 14 (2.05%) Maven
9 13 (1.90%) Selenium
10 11 (1.61%) Subversion
11 10 (1.46%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.02%) Mocha
14 6 (0.88%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.88%) Postman
15 5 (0.73%) Pylint
15 5 (0.73%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.73%) Travis CI
General
1 122 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 116 (16.98%) Finance
3 78 (11.42%) Banking
4 63 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 13 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.46%) Retail
9 7 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.73%) Front Office
10 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.59%) Automotive
11 4 (0.59%) German Language
11 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.59%) Marketing
11 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.44%) Games
12 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Legal
13 2 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 266 (38.95%) Developer
2 121 (17.72%) Java Developer
3 115 (16.84%) Senior
4 93 (13.62%) Data Engineer
5 86 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 58 (8.49%) Architect
7 50 (7.32%) Scala Developer
8 44 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (5.56%) Lead
11 35 (5.12%) Senior Developer
12 29 (4.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
13 27 (3.95%) Full Stack Developer
13 27 (3.95%) Site Engineer
14 26 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
15 24 (3.51%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.37%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
18 20 (2.93%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (13.47%) Spring
2 87 (12.74%) RESTful
3 85 (12.45%) Spring Boot
4 58 (8.49%) REST
5 53 (7.76%) React
6 48 (7.03%) Akka
6 48 (7.03%) RabbitMQ
7 45 (6.59%) .NET
8 35 (5.12%) Web Services
9 34 (4.98%) ActiveMQ
10 32 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 30 (4.39%) Node.js
12 28 (4.10%) .NET Core
13 27 (3.95%) HTML
14 26 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (3.66%) JSON
16 23 (3.37%) CSS
17 21 (3.07%) GraphQL
18 20 (2.93%) JAX-RS
19 17 (2.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.54%) Data Structures
4 28 (4.10%) Algorithms
5 26 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 12 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.46%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.32%) Derivative
9 9 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.02%) DataPower
10 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.02%) Machine to Machine
11 5 (0.73%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.59%) Replication
12 4 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.28%) Linux
2 59 (8.64%) Unix
3 22 (3.22%) Mac OS X
4 20 (2.93%) Windows
5 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) zOS
7 3 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (39.24%) Agile
2 226 (33.09%) DevOps
3 224 (32.80%) Microservices
4 158 (23.13%) CI/CD
5 146 (21.38%) Software Engineering
6 119 (17.42%) TDD
7 94 (13.76%) Test Automation
8 79 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (10.54%) Containerisation
10 62 (9.08%) Pair Programming
11 60 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (8.64%) ETL
13 56 (8.20%) Continuous Integration
14 52 (7.61%) Event-Driven
14 52 (7.61%) Machine Learning
15 51 (7.47%) Fintech
15 51 (7.47%) GitOps
16 50 (7.32%) Design Patterns
16 50 (7.32%) Full Stack Development
17 49 (7.17%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 282 (41.29%) Java
2 200 (29.28%) Python
3 160 (23.43%) SQL
4 112 (16.40%) Scala
5 87 (12.74%) Go
6 60 (8.78%) JavaScript
7 54 (7.91%) C#
8 37 (5.42%) Shell Script
9 25 (3.66%) C++
10 21 (3.07%) Groovy
11 18 (2.64%) Bash
12 17 (2.49%) PHP
13 16 (2.34%) TypeScript
14 15 (2.20%) Kotlin
15 14 (2.05%) Perl
16 9 (1.32%) Ruby
17 7 (1.02%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.73%) C
18 5 (0.73%) Rust
19 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.03%) Degree
4 24 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.29%) OCP
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.73%) QA
5 4 (0.59%) GDPR
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.59%) NIST
6 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 208 (30.45%) Docker
2 16 (2.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 9 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.32%) HDFS
4 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 314 (45.97%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.86%) Terraform
3 62 (9.08%) Prometheus
4 58 (8.49%) Grafana
5 38 (5.56%) Ansible
6 24 (3.51%) Argo
7 16 (2.34%) Istio
7 16 (2.34%) Kibana
8 15 (2.20%) Consul
9 11 (1.61%) Packer
10 8 (1.17%) Puppet
10 8 (1.17%) Zipkin
11 6 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.73%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.29%) Ambari
14 2 (0.29%) Oozie
15 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 62 (9.08%) Oracle
2 57 (8.35%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.39%) IBM
4 23 (3.37%) Google
5 22 (3.22%) Databricks
5 22 (3.22%) Typelevel
6 21 (3.07%) Splunk
7 20 (2.93%) Confluent
8 19 (2.78%) SAP
9 12 (1.76%) SaltStack
10 10 (1.46%) Informatica
11 9 (1.32%) Solace
12 8 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.02%) TSYS
14 6 (0.88%) F5
15 5 (0.73%) OpenLink
15 5 (0.73%) Qualys
16 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg
16 4 (0.59%) Dynatrace