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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 79 76
Rank change year-on-year -27 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Kafka 410 802 1,350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.34% 3.15% 3.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.98% 11.84% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 607 989
10th Percentile £413 £463 £500
25th Percentile £463 £550 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -1.89% +15.22%
75th Percentile £710 £788 £750
90th Percentile £800 £825 £833
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - £71.85 £54.23
25th Percentile - £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.71% +32.23%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +12.23% +27.45%

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 4,565 6,772 11,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 26.62% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 5,094 9,264
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £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 28 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% -12.49%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.70 £75.44
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +22.64% +12.47%

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 1 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 1 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 -3 75 £650 -3.70% 10
West London +30 25 £475 -26.92% 1
South London +4 9 £488 -2.50%
East London -6 1 £436 -35.41%
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 55 (13.41%) Apache Spark
2 50 (12.20%) Apache
3 12 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.68%) Confluence
5 7 (1.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.49%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.44%) Endur
2 2 (0.49%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 222 (54.15%) AWS
2 114 (27.80%) Azure
3 73 (17.80%) GCP
4 54 (13.17%) Serverless
5 40 (9.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 37 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (7.07%) Amazon S3
8 28 (6.83%) GitHub
9 25 (6.10%) Azure AKS
9 25 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (5.12%) Amazon EMR
11 17 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (4.15%) Amazon MSK
12 16 (3.90%) Azure App Service
12 16 (3.90%) Azure Event Grid
13 15 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.17%) OpenShift
15 12 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.51%) HTTP
2 7 (1.71%) DNS
3 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
3 6 (1.46%) SSL
4 4 (0.98%) VPN
5 3 (0.73%) AMQP
5 3 (0.73%) IPv4
6 2 (0.49%) Firewall
7 1 (0.24%) DHCP
7 1 (0.24%) FTP
7 1 (0.24%) Internet
7 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.66%) Apache Cassandra
2 51 (12.44%) MongoDB
3 47 (11.46%) NoSQL
4 35 (8.54%) SQL Server
5 34 (8.29%) Flink
6 25 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (5.85%) Big Data
7 24 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 19 (4.63%) Hadoop
10 17 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (4.15%) DynamoDB
11 14 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.93%) Parquet
13 10 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 9 (2.20%) Couchbase
14 9 (2.20%) MySQL
15 8 (1.95%) HBase
Development Applications
1 43 (10.49%) Jenkins
2 33 (8.05%) Git
3 19 (4.63%) Cypress.io
4 18 (4.39%) Mockito
5 16 (3.90%) JIRA
6 13 (3.17%) GitLab
7 12 (2.93%) Maven
8 9 (2.20%) JMeter
9 8 (1.95%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.46%) Selenium
11 5 (1.22%) Pylint
11 5 (1.22%) Subversion
12 4 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.98%) JUnit
12 4 (0.98%) Snyk
12 4 (0.98%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.73%) Katalon Studio
13 3 (0.73%) Travis CI
General
1 83 (20.24%) Finance
2 71 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.76%) Banking
5 23 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.93%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.22%) Front Office
9 5 (1.22%) Retail
10 4 (0.98%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.49%) Publishing
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Electronics
13 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.24%) Games
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 173 (42.20%) Developer
2 66 (16.10%) Senior
3 65 (15.85%) Data Engineer
4 61 (14.88%) Java Developer
5 46 (11.22%) Scala Developer
6 44 (10.73%) Software Engineer
7 28 (6.83%) Architect
7 28 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (6.59%) Lead
9 24 (5.85%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.37%) Python Engineer
11 21 (5.12%) Full Stack Developer
12 20 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (4.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 16 (3.90%) Data Architect
15 16 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
16 15 (3.66%) Development Engineer
16 15 (3.66%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (15.85%) RESTful
2 44 (10.73%) Akka
3 36 (8.78%) .NET
3 36 (8.78%) React
4 32 (7.80%) Spring
5 31 (7.56%) Spring Boot
6 22 (5.37%) RabbitMQ
7 21 (5.12%) .NET Core
7 21 (5.12%) HTML
7 21 (5.12%) REST
8 17 (4.15%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (4.15%) Node.js
9 16 (3.90%) JAX-RS
10 14 (3.41%) AngularJS
10 14 (3.41%) JSON
11 13 (3.17%) CSS
11 13 (3.17%) Web Services
12 12 (2.93%) Apache Avro
12 12 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.93%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (5.12%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (3.41%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.20%) Derivative
8 8 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.71%) Machine to Machine
10 6 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.22%) Market Risk
12 4 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.73%) Solar Panel
14 2 (0.49%) Data Fabric
14 2 (0.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 76 (18.54%) Linux
2 46 (11.22%) Unix
3 14 (3.41%) Mac OS X
4 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.49%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (37.80%) Agile
2 138 (33.66%) Microservices
3 135 (32.93%) DevOps
4 107 (26.10%) CI/CD
5 84 (20.49%) TDD
6 80 (19.51%) Software Engineering
7 63 (15.37%) Test Automation
8 51 (12.44%) Pair Programming
9 49 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (10.00%) Machine Learning
12 40 (9.76%) ETL
13 36 (8.78%) GitOps
14 35 (8.54%) Full Stack Development
15 34 (8.29%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.29%) Unit Testing
16 33 (8.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 32 (7.80%) Clean Code
17 32 (7.80%) Data Engineering
18 30 (7.32%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 150 (36.59%) Java
2 147 (35.85%) Python
3 107 (26.10%) SQL
4 73 (17.80%) Scala
5 46 (11.22%) Go
6 42 (10.24%) C#
7 33 (8.05%) JavaScript
8 32 (7.80%) Shell Script
9 24 (5.85%) C++
10 12 (2.93%) Bash
10 12 (2.93%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.68%) Groovy
12 10 (2.44%) Perl
13 9 (2.20%) PHP
14 6 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.22%) Ruby
15 5 (1.22%) Rust
16 4 (0.98%) C
16 4 (0.98%) Haskell
17 3 (0.73%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 80 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 76 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.05%) Degree
4 12 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) OCP
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.22%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.98%) QA
4 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.73%) GDPR
4 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.49%) MiFID
6 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 111 (27.07%) Docker
2 12 (2.93%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.22%) HDFS
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 201 (49.02%) Kubernetes
2 54 (13.17%) Terraform
3 37 (9.02%) Prometheus
4 35 (8.54%) Grafana
5 21 (5.12%) Ansible
6 15 (3.66%) Consul
7 11 (2.68%) Argo
7 11 (2.68%) Packer
8 7 (1.71%) Puppet
9 5 (1.22%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.98%) Istio
11 2 (0.49%) Ambari
11 2 (0.49%) Oozie
11 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.24%) Kibana
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.32%) Oracle
3 21 (5.12%) Typelevel
4 19 (4.63%) Databricks
5 13 (3.17%) Confluent
5 13 (3.17%) Google
6 12 (2.93%) SaltStack
7 10 (2.44%) SAP
7 10 (2.44%) Splunk
8 7 (1.71%) Informatica
9 5 (1.22%) IBM
9 5 (1.22%) OpenLink
9 5 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.98%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.73%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.73%) Micro Focus
11 3 (0.73%) New Relic
11 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.73%) TIBCO