Kafka Contracts in West Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 86 79
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 -7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 17 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.72% 1.10% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.21% 4.42% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 28
10th Percentile £400 £650 £493
25th Percentile £406 £663 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +21.74% +39.39%
75th Percentile £544 - £647
90th Percentile £650 - £691
Yorkshire median daily rate £507 £663 £575
% change year-on-year -23.47% +15.22% +39.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 207 362 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 20.89% 24.78% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 275 299
10th Percentile £383 £413 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £13.87 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.81% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £38.19 £62.50 £33.84
% change year-on-year -38.90% +84.69% +30.15%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Leeds +19 17 £450 -35.71% 2
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
3 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Big Data
2 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
3 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (17.65%) Apache Hive
4 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (17.65%) Spark SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Flink
6 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.76%) Gatling
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 2 (11.76%) Mockito
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Scala Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) JAX-RS
3 1 (5.88%) Akka
3 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.88%) J2EE
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Unix
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) BDD
2 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
2 5 (29.41%) TDD
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
3 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (23.53%) Data Science
3 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
1 6 (35.29%) Python
1 6 (35.29%) Scala
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Groovy
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) HDFS
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Confluent
2 1 (5.88%) Foundry
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Palantir
2 1 (5.88%) Skytap
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk