Kafka Contracts in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 109 157 148
Rank change year-on-year +48 -9 -21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 76 45 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.57% 0.83% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.28% 4.28% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 39 80
10th Percentile £400 £450 £498
25th Percentile £450 £533 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £540 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £700
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 918 1,052 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.95% 19.33% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 819 1,183
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +2.44% +14.40%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 35
10th Percentile £13.87 £37.77 £14.25
25th Percentile £37.63 £39.89 £31.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £54.34 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% -16.40% +132.14%
75th Percentile £70.81 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.70 £66.88 £79.60
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +29 39 £507 -23.47% 5
North West +33 37 £504 -8.41% 16
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 22 (28.95%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.89%) Confluence
2 6 (7.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (6.58%) Apache
4 4 (5.26%) Mule
5 3 (3.95%) Jupyter
5 3 (3.95%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.74%) AWS
2 24 (31.58%) Azure
3 18 (23.68%) GCP
3 18 (23.68%) Serverless
4 12 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 9 (11.84%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 7 (9.21%) Apigee
7 7 (9.21%) Kong
8 4 (5.26%) npm
8 4 (5.26%) Yarn
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 3 (3.95%) CloudBees
9 3 (3.95%) GitHub
9 3 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) SSL
2 5 (6.58%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (31.58%) MongoDB
2 19 (25.00%) Big Data
3 17 (22.37%) Hadoop
4 12 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (15.79%) BigQuery
4 12 (15.79%) Data Lake
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
6 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (9.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (9.21%) OLAP
7 7 (9.21%) OLTP
7 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
8 6 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (7.89%) Oracle OLAP
8 6 (7.89%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (7.89%) RDBMS
9 5 (6.58%) Redis
10 4 (5.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (30.26%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.00%) Git
3 13 (17.11%) JIRA
4 4 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.26%) Gatling
4 4 (5.26%) GitLab
4 4 (5.26%) Jasmine
4 4 (5.26%) JMeter
4 4 (5.26%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (5.26%) Liquibase
4 4 (5.26%) Log4j
4 4 (5.26%) Mocha
4 4 (5.26%) Selenium
4 4 (5.26%) WebDriver
4 4 (5.26%) webpack
5 3 (3.95%) Mockito
6 2 (2.63%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.32%) RStudio
7 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (18.42%) Finance
2 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Banking
4 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Automotive
6 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Developer
3 13 (17.11%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Architect
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Lead
7 6 (7.89%) DBA
7 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (6.58%) AWS Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.63%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.63%) Cassandra Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Scala Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) Web Services
2 14 (18.42%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
3 9 (11.84%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.53%) J2EE
5 7 (9.21%) IBM Integration Bus
5 7 (9.21%) JSON
5 7 (9.21%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (9.21%) SOAP
6 6 (7.89%) Apache Camel
6 6 (7.89%) Spring Integration
6 6 (7.89%) XML
7 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.58%) RESTful
8 4 (5.26%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.26%) React
8 4 (5.26%) REST
9 3 (3.95%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.95%) JAX-RS
9 3 (3.95%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) DataPower
2 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.32%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Online Gambling
5 1 (1.32%) Online Games
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (26.32%) Linux
2 10 (13.16%) Windows
3 9 (11.84%) Unix
4 7 (9.21%) Mac OS X
5 3 (3.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (55.26%) DevOps
2 27 (35.53%) Agile
3 20 (26.32%) Containerisation
3 20 (26.32%) Design Patterns
4 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 18 (23.68%) Data Modelling
5 18 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (19.74%) Microservices
6 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (18.42%) Data Governance
7 14 (18.42%) ETL
8 13 (17.11%) Analytics
9 12 (15.79%) Data Integration
9 12 (15.79%) OO
9 12 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (14.47%) High Availability
11 10 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (13.16%) Risk Management
11 10 (13.16%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Java
2 23 (30.26%) Python
2 23 (30.26%) SQL
3 14 (18.42%) Scala
4 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.21%) Groovy
6 6 (7.89%) C#
7 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.95%) Go
8 3 (3.95%) Ruby
9 2 (2.63%) Perl
10 1 (1.32%) Bash
10 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.32%) R
10 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.95%) HDFS
3 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Terraform
2 12 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (14.47%) Ansible
4 6 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.58%) Grafana
6 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.63%) Kiali
7 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.63%) Puppet
8 1 (1.32%) Argo
8 1 (1.32%) Istio
8 1 (1.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) IBM
2 13 (17.11%) Oracle
3 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.84%) Google
5 7 (9.21%) TSYS
6 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.89%) Solace
7 4 (5.26%) Splunk
8 3 (3.95%) F5
9 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.63%) Confluent
10 1 (1.32%) Databricks
10 1 (1.32%) Foundry
10 1 (1.32%) Palantir
10 1 (1.32%) Qualys
10 1 (1.32%) Skytap