Kafka Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 159 135 80
Rank change year-on-year -24 -55 +41
Contract jobs citing Kafka 205 453 1,361
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.84% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 7.28% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 346 993
10th Percentile £413 £463 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £725
90th Percentile £724 £810 £800
UK median daily rate £540 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £25.20 - £55.13
25th Percentile £28.88 £64.50 £59.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £66.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +0.19% -
75th Percentile £51.88 £69.50 £73.44
90th Percentile £62.00 - £76.63
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,629 6,225 12,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.52% 25.26% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 4,638 9,580
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Kafka
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Kafka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Kafka hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (13.17%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.83%) Apache
3 6 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.93%) Confluence
4 5 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.46%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.46%) nginx
5 3 (1.46%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.46%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.46%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.49%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.98%) Endur
2 2 (0.98%) Shopify
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (51.22%) AWS
2 44 (21.46%) Azure
3 23 (11.22%) Serverless
4 20 (9.76%) GCP
5 13 (6.34%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (3.41%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.44%) Apigee
9 5 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.44%) GitHub
9 5 (2.44%) Kong
10 4 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.95%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (1.46%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) HTTP
2 3 (1.46%) DNS
2 3 (1.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.98%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) IPv4
4 1 (0.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.49%) MongoDB
2 40 (19.51%) Apache Cassandra
3 26 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.73%) Relational Database
5 21 (10.24%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.34%) Big Data
6 13 (6.34%) SQL Server
7 11 (5.37%) RDBMS
8 10 (4.88%) Flink
8 10 (4.88%) Hadoop
8 10 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.90%) OLAP
10 8 (3.90%) OLTP
11 7 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.93%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (8.29%) Git
2 13 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.88%) GitLab
3 10 (4.88%) JIRA
4 5 (2.44%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.44%) JUnit
4 5 (2.44%) Mockito
4 5 (2.44%) Selenium
5 4 (1.95%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.95%) Subversion
6 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.46%) HP UFT
6 3 (1.46%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.46%) Snyk
6 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.98%) Maven
7 2 (0.98%) Postman
7 2 (0.98%) Pylint
7 2 (0.98%) TestNG
7 2 (0.98%) Travis CI
General
1 56 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.07%) Finance
3 23 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.24%) Banking
5 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.41%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Automotive
9 2 (0.98%) Front Office
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.49%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) German Language
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (33.66%) Developer
2 44 (21.46%) Senior
2 44 (21.46%) Software Engineer
3 32 (15.61%) Java Developer
4 21 (10.24%) Data Engineer
4 21 (10.24%) Senior Software Engineer
5 19 (9.27%) Architect
6 15 (7.32%) Senior Developer
7 14 (6.83%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (6.34%) Site Engineer
9 12 (5.85%) Java Engineer
9 12 (5.85%) Python Engineer
10 11 (5.37%) Lead
11 10 (4.88%) DBA
11 10 (4.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 8 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (2.93%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.12%) Spring Boot
2 28 (13.66%) Spring
3 24 (11.71%) REST
4 23 (11.22%) RabbitMQ
4 23 (11.22%) RESTful
5 20 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 18 (8.78%) JSON
7 17 (8.29%) React
8 15 (7.32%) Web Services
9 12 (5.85%) XML
10 10 (4.88%) Node.js
11 9 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (4.39%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.39%) HTML
11 9 (4.39%) PySpark
11 9 (4.39%) SOAP
12 8 (3.90%) .NET
12 8 (3.90%) CSS
13 7 (3.41%) Symfony
14 6 (2.93%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.37%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.44%) DataPower
6 5 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.95%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.46%) Derivative
8 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.98%) IoT
9 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.49%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.51%) Linux
2 7 (3.41%) Unix
3 5 (2.44%) Windows
4 3 (1.46%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.98%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (42.93%) Agile
2 67 (32.68%) DevOps
3 61 (29.76%) Microservices
4 59 (28.78%) Software Engineering
5 49 (23.90%) CI/CD
6 33 (16.10%) Fintech
7 32 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (15.61%) User Experience
8 30 (14.63%) UX Design
9 29 (14.15%) User Research
9 29 (14.15%) UX Research
10 28 (13.66%) Test Automation
11 26 (12.68%) Full Stack Development
12 23 (11.22%) TDD
13 18 (8.78%) Containerisation
13 18 (8.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (7.80%) Event-Driven
15 15 (7.32%) Data Modelling
15 15 (7.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (47.32%) Java
2 57 (27.80%) Python
3 43 (20.98%) Go
4 28 (13.66%) SQL
5 21 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.27%) Scala
7 13 (6.34%) C++
7 13 (6.34%) PHP
7 13 (6.34%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.88%) C#
9 7 (3.41%) Bash
10 5 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.95%) Groovy
12 3 (1.46%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) C
13 2 (0.98%) Perl
13 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.85%) Degree
4 9 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) MiFID
2 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 75 (36.59%) Docker
2 12 (5.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.49%) HDFS
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (48.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.22%) Prometheus
3 21 (10.24%) Grafana
4 16 (7.80%) Terraform
5 13 (6.34%) Consul
6 9 (4.39%) Ansible
7 4 (1.95%) Argo
7 4 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.46%) Packer
8 3 (1.46%) Puppet
8 3 (1.46%) Zipkin
9 2 (0.98%) Istio
9 2 (0.98%) Kibana
9 2 (0.98%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.49%) Nagios
10 1 (0.49%) Oozie
10 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.49%) Rancher
10 1 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (15.61%) Oracle
2 19 (9.27%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.29%) IBM
4 12 (5.85%) SaltStack
5 10 (4.88%) Databricks
6 6 (2.93%) Confluent
6 6 (2.93%) Google
7 5 (2.44%) TSYS
8 3 (1.46%) Informatica
8 3 (1.46%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.46%) Splunk
9 2 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.98%) F5
9 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.98%) SAP
9 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.98%) Solace
9 2 (0.98%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.98%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.49%) Checkmarx