Kafka Contracts in the North West

Apache Kafka
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 98 131 122
Rank change year-on-year +33 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Kafka 37 19 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.33% 0.63% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.39% 3.45% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 48
10th Percentile £311 £434 £519
25th Percentile £477 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £675
90th Percentile £720 £683 £704
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 501 551 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.94% 18.29% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 435 720
10th Percentile £350 £338 £362
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 31
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.77 £29.63
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -42.01% +118.75%
75th Percentile £72.03 £44.78 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £45.62 £81.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +21 25 £534 -2.91% 8
Cheshire +4 11 £489 -28.09% 3
Lancashire - 1 £493 -
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.81%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Serverless
3 7 (18.92%) Apigee
3 7 (18.92%) Kong
4 4 (10.81%) npm
4 4 (10.81%) Yarn
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) MongoDB
2 7 (18.92%) OLAP
2 7 (18.92%) OLTP
2 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (16.22%) Oracle OLAP
3 6 (16.22%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
4 5 (13.51%) Redis
5 4 (10.81%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
6 3 (8.11%) HBase
6 3 (8.11%) MySQL
6 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.70%) Azkaban
8 1 (2.70%) Big Data
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata
8 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) JIRA
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) Git
3 4 (10.81%) Jasmine
3 4 (10.81%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (10.81%) Liquibase
3 4 (10.81%) Log4j
3 4 (10.81%) Mocha
3 4 (10.81%) webpack
4 3 (8.11%) GitLab
5 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.41%) Gatling
5 2 (5.41%) JMeter
5 2 (5.41%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.70%) JUnit
6 1 (2.70%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Mockito
6 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Banking
3 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) AWS Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) DBA
3 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Python Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Site Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) Web Services
2 8 (21.62%) Spring
2 8 (21.62%) Spring Boot
3 7 (18.92%) IBM Integration Bus
3 7 (18.92%) J2EE
3 7 (18.92%) JSON
3 7 (18.92%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (18.92%) SOAP
4 6 (16.22%) Apache Camel
4 6 (16.22%) Spring Integration
4 6 (16.22%) XML
5 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
6 4 (10.81%) React
6 4 (10.81%) REST
6 4 (10.81%) RESTful
7 3 (8.11%) .NET
7 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
7 3 (8.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) DataPower
2 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.70%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Online Gambling
6 1 (2.70%) Online Games
6 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Mac OS X
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Agile
2 16 (43.24%) Design Patterns
3 14 (37.84%) DevOps
4 12 (32.43%) Microservices
4 12 (32.43%) OO
5 9 (24.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (24.32%) Event-Driven
5 9 (24.32%) TOGAF
6 8 (21.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (18.92%) API Management
7 7 (18.92%) CQRS
7 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (18.92%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
7 7 (18.92%) OOA/OOD
7 7 (18.92%) Risk Management
7 7 (18.92%) SOA
7 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (18.92%) Technical Debt
8 6 (16.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 5 (13.51%) Scala
5 4 (10.81%) Python
6 2 (5.41%) Groovy
6 2 (5.41%) Perl
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) R
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Argo
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Istio
3 1 (2.70%) Kibana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Oracle
2 9 (24.32%) IBM
3 7 (18.92%) TSYS
4 3 (8.11%) F5
5 1 (2.70%) Qualys
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk