Kafka Contracts in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 77 74
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Kafka 421 778 1,347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.40% 3.09% 3.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.08% 11.63% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 589 982
10th Percentile £413 £463 £506
25th Percentile £463 £550 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £658 £663
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -0.75% +15.22%
75th Percentile £722 £788 £750
90th Percentile £823 £825 £838
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £71.85 £53.65
25th Percentile - £75.00 £55.38
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +34.15% +17.01%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £71.75
90th Percentile - - £75.95
England median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +26.83% +12.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,636 6,690 11,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.41% 26.60% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,428 5,028 9,274
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £488 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £713
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 40 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £30.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £43.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £66.00 £44.88
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +47.08% -14.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.70 £75.39
England median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +22.64% +15.22%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in London.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London 0 78 £650 -3.70% 12
West London +35 26 £475 -26.92% 2
South London +6 9 £488 -2.50%
East London -6 1 £436 -35.41% 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 54 (12.83%) Apache Spark
2 49 (11.64%) Apache
3 11 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.61%) Confluence
4 7 (1.66%) nginx
5 4 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.71%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.71%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.61%) Endur
2 3 (0.71%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.48%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 226 (53.68%) AWS
2 118 (28.03%) Azure
3 77 (18.29%) GCP
4 53 (12.59%) Serverless
5 41 (9.74%) Amazon Kinesis
6 37 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (7.36%) Amazon S3
8 29 (6.89%) GitHub
9 26 (6.18%) Azure Service Bus
10 25 (5.94%) Azure AKS
11 21 (4.99%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (4.28%) Amazon MSK
13 17 (4.04%) Azure App Service
13 17 (4.04%) Azure Event Grid
14 16 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.50%) HTTP
2 7 (1.66%) DNS
2 7 (1.66%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.66%) SSL
3 6 (1.43%) AMQP
4 4 (0.95%) VPN
5 3 (0.71%) Firewall
5 3 (0.71%) IPv4
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.06%) Apache Cassandra
2 54 (12.83%) MongoDB
3 48 (11.40%) NoSQL
4 35 (8.31%) SQL Server
5 34 (8.08%) Flink
6 25 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (5.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.46%) Big Data
9 20 (4.75%) Relational Database
10 18 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (4.28%) DynamoDB
11 17 (4.04%) Hadoop
12 13 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (2.85%) Couchbase
13 12 (2.85%) Parquet
14 10 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.14%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.14%) MySQL
16 8 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 45 (10.69%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.31%) Git
3 19 (4.51%) Mockito
4 18 (4.28%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.80%) JIRA
6 13 (3.09%) GitLab
6 13 (3.09%) Maven
7 10 (2.38%) JMeter
8 8 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.43%) Selenium
9 6 (1.43%) Subversion
10 5 (1.19%) JUnit
10 5 (1.19%) Pylint
10 5 (1.19%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.95%) Gradle
11 4 (0.95%) Snyk
12 3 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (0.71%) ScalaTest
General
1 91 (21.62%) Finance
2 71 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.69%) Banking
4 41 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.66%) Front Office
8 7 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.19%) Retail
10 4 (0.95%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.71%) Publishing
12 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Legal
12 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.24%) Electronics
13 1 (0.24%) Games
13 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (42.52%) Developer
2 64 (15.20%) Data Engineer
2 64 (15.20%) Senior
3 63 (14.96%) Java Developer
4 47 (11.16%) Scala Developer
5 45 (10.69%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.13%) Architect
6 30 (7.13%) Lead
7 29 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (5.46%) Python Engineer
8 23 (5.46%) Senior Developer
9 22 (5.23%) Full Stack Developer
10 20 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) Data Architect
13 16 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.56%) Development Engineer
14 15 (3.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.15%) RESTful
2 45 (10.69%) Akka
3 38 (9.03%) React
4 37 (8.79%) .NET
5 33 (7.84%) Spring
5 33 (7.84%) Spring Boot
6 23 (5.46%) HTML
7 22 (5.23%) .NET Core
7 22 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (5.23%) REST
8 17 (4.04%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (4.04%) Node.js
9 16 (3.80%) AngularJS
9 16 (3.80%) JAX-RS
10 15 (3.56%) CSS
10 15 (3.56%) JSON
11 14 (3.33%) Web Services
12 12 (2.85%) Apache Avro
12 12 (2.85%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (5.23%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.80%) Data Structures
3 16 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.56%) Hedge funds
5 11 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.14%) Derivative
7 8 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.66%) Machine to Machine
8 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.43%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.19%) Market Risk
11 4 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.95%) Replication
12 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.71%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.71%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.53%) Linux
2 48 (11.40%) Unix
3 14 (3.33%) Mac OS X
4 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.48%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (37.29%) Agile
2 143 (33.97%) DevOps
2 143 (33.97%) Microservices
3 112 (26.60%) CI/CD
4 85 (20.19%) TDD
5 84 (19.95%) Software Engineering
6 63 (14.96%) Test Automation
7 52 (12.35%) Pair Programming
8 48 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (10.21%) Machine Learning
10 39 (9.26%) ETL
11 38 (9.03%) GitOps
12 37 (8.79%) Full Stack Development
13 35 (8.31%) Unit Testing
14 34 (8.08%) Containerisation
15 33 (7.84%) Clean Code
16 32 (7.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 31 (7.36%) BDD
17 31 (7.36%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (36.10%) Java
2 149 (35.39%) Python
3 106 (25.18%) SQL
4 76 (18.05%) Scala
5 47 (11.16%) Go
6 43 (10.21%) C#
7 35 (8.31%) JavaScript
8 33 (7.84%) Shell Script
9 25 (5.94%) C++
10 14 (3.33%) TypeScript
11 12 (2.85%) Bash
11 12 (2.85%) Groovy
12 9 (2.14%) Perl
12 9 (2.14%) PHP
13 6 (1.43%) Haskell
13 6 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.43%) Rust
14 4 (0.95%) C
14 4 (0.95%) Clojure
14 4 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 76 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.08%) Degree
4 13 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) OCP
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.19%) QA
4 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.71%) GDPR
4 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.48%) MiFID
6 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 110 (26.13%) Docker
2 12 (2.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 208 (49.41%) Kubernetes
2 54 (12.83%) Terraform
3 38 (9.03%) Prometheus
4 36 (8.55%) Grafana
5 21 (4.99%) Ansible
6 15 (3.56%) Consul
7 12 (2.85%) Argo
7 12 (2.85%) Packer
8 6 (1.43%) Puppet
9 5 (1.19%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.95%) Istio
11 2 (0.48%) Ambari
11 2 (0.48%) Oozie
12 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.24%) Kibana
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 35 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.36%) Oracle
3 22 (5.23%) Typelevel
4 17 (4.04%) Databricks
5 14 (3.33%) Confluent
5 14 (3.33%) Google
6 12 (2.85%) SaltStack
7 10 (2.38%) Splunk
8 9 (2.14%) SAP
9 7 (1.66%) Informatica
10 6 (1.43%) OpenLink
10 6 (1.43%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.19%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.19%) IBM
12 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.71%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.71%) ION Trading
13 3 (0.71%) New Relic
13 3 (0.71%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.71%) Trayport