Kafka Contracts in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 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 74 91 86
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Kafka 30 27 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.80% 1.22% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.40% 6.25% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 36
10th Percentile £400 £514 £500
25th Percentile £430 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +15.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £520 £700 £675
90th Percentile £600 - £725
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 advertised in Yorkshire 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 357 432 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.42% 19.45% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 327 404
10th Percentile £375 £413 £352
25th Percentile £430 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £13.50 £61.25 -
25th Percentile £13.87 £63.44 £33.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £70.00 £33.84
Median % change year-on-year -67.86% +106.86% +30.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £34.09
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Yorkshire +6 17 £507 -15.50% 3
West Yorkshire +22 12 £450 -35.71% 5
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (43.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.00%) Apache
3 3 (10.00%) Jupyter
3 3 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
1 13 (43.33%) GCP
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 9 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (23.33%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 7 (23.33%) Serverless
5 3 (10.00%) CloudBees
5 3 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) SSL
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) Big Data
2 10 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 9 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (30.00%) BigQuery
3 9 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (23.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (10.00%) ClickHouse
6 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
7 2 (6.67%) Flink
7 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
8 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.67%) Gatling
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) Mockito
3 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 2 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Architect
2 9 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Build Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Cassandra Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Scala Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (13.33%) Web Services
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Beam
3 3 (10.00%) Keycloak
4 2 (6.67%) JAX-RS
5 1 (3.33%) Akka
5 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.33%) J2EE
5 1 (3.33%) RESTful
5 1 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Unix
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (13.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
3 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 9 (30.00%) ETL
6 8 (26.67%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 8 (26.67%) Data Integration
6 8 (26.67%) High Availability
7 7 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (23.33%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (20.00%) Change Management
8 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (20.00%) ITIL
8 6 (20.00%) ITSM
9 5 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Java
2 15 (50.00%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) SQL
4 8 (26.67%) Scala
5 5 (16.67%) Groovy
6 3 (10.00%) Go
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.00%) Ruby
7 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Terraform
2 9 (30.00%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (13.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Google
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) IBM
2 6 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (20.00%) Solace
3 1 (3.33%) Confluent
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk