kappa Contracts

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UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for kappa skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited kappa over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 690 788
Rank change year-on-year +105 +98 -107
Contract jobs citing kappa 5 9 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.016% 0.064%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.097% 0.10% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 17
10th Percentile £558 - £535
25th Percentile £563 £650 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £744 £813 £763
90th Percentile - £850 £988
UK excluding London median daily rate £656 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

kappa is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,133 8,605 15,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 14.89% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,447 6,065 11,120
10th Percentile £353 £382 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 237 217
10th Percentile £33.60 £44.62 £38.57
25th Percentile £46.63 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +16.85% +16.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.42
90th Percentile £79.75 £81.00 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for kappa in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for kappa in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing kappa over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for kappa in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing kappa within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +102 5 £650 -7.14%
UK excluding London - 4 £656 -
Midlands - 2 £573 -
South East - 2 £738 -
West Midlands - 2 £573 -
Work from Home +114 1 £570 -18.57%
London +90 1 £650 -7.14%

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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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Neptune
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (20.00%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (40.00%) Big Data
3 2 (40.00%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 2 (40.00%) OLAP
3 2 (40.00%) OLTP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (40.00%) Data Design
2 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO