Kafka Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 214 272 205
Rank change year-on-year +58 -67 -7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 199 159 395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 0.70% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.84% 3.86% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 106 274
10th Percentile £386 £450 £409
25th Percentile £423 £496 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% +2.17% +21.05%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £759
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +12.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £22.44 - -
25th Percentile £25.94 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.10% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 - -
90th Percentile £48.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +26.83% +12.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +48 76 £507 -22.00% 21
South East +41 59 £475 -14.03% 24
Yorkshire +29 39 £507 -23.47% 5
Scotland +60 37 £475 -9.52% 10
North West +33 37 £504 -8.41% 15
South West -13 11 £585 -2.50% 10
Midlands +12 8 £398 -26.90% 9
West Midlands +10 5 £363 -33.33% 6
Wales +21 4 £550 +10.00% 2
East of England -5 4 £600 +13.21% 12
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 3
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 44 (22.11%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.05%) Apache
3 10 (5.03%) Confluence
4 8 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (3.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (2.01%) Mule
7 3 (1.51%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.51%) nginx
7 3 (1.51%) OpenStack
8 2 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.50%) CMS
9 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (3.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.52%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.23%) AWS
2 55 (27.64%) Azure
3 43 (21.61%) GCP
4 26 (13.07%) OpenShift
5 24 (12.06%) Serverless
6 22 (11.06%) Amazon S3
7 14 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (6.53%) GitHub
9 10 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.52%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 7 (3.52%) Apigee
11 7 (3.52%) Kong
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.01%) npm
13 4 (2.01%) Yarn
14 3 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.51%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.54%) HTTP
2 10 (5.03%) SSL
3 5 (2.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.11%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (14.07%) Big Data
3 27 (13.57%) Hadoop
3 27 (13.57%) MongoDB
4 22 (11.06%) NoSQL
5 20 (10.05%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (9.05%) Relational Database
7 15 (7.54%) BigQuery
7 15 (7.54%) Data Lake
8 12 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (5.03%) Apache Hive
10 10 (5.03%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (4.52%) Couchbase
12 7 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (3.52%) OLAP
12 7 (3.52%) OLTP
12 7 (3.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (19.60%) Git
2 34 (17.09%) Jenkins
3 28 (14.07%) JIRA
4 12 (6.03%) GitLab
5 7 (3.52%) JMeter
6 6 (3.02%) Selenium
7 5 (2.51%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.51%) JUnit
8 4 (2.01%) Gatling
8 4 (2.01%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.01%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (2.01%) Liquibase
8 4 (2.01%) Log4j
8 4 (2.01%) Mocha
8 4 (2.01%) Mockito
8 4 (2.01%) Subversion
8 4 (2.01%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.01%) webpack
9 3 (1.51%) Maven
10 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.08%) Finance
3 31 (15.58%) Banking
4 21 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.02%) Retail
7 4 (2.01%) Automotive
7 4 (2.01%) German Language
8 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Games
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 77 (38.69%) Developer
2 56 (28.14%) Java Developer
3 29 (14.57%) Architect
4 21 (10.55%) Senior
5 15 (7.54%) Data Engineer
5 15 (7.54%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (7.04%) Site Engineer
6 14 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Lead
7 10 (5.03%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.52%) AWS Architect
8 9 (4.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (4.02%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.02%) DBA
10 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 5 (2.51%) AWS Developer
11 5 (2.51%) Backend Developer
11 5 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (2.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (27.64%) Spring
2 47 (23.62%) Spring Boot
3 28 (14.07%) REST
4 23 (11.56%) Web Services
5 22 (11.06%) RabbitMQ
6 20 (10.05%) RESTful
7 16 (8.04%) React
8 14 (7.04%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (5.03%) CSS
10 9 (4.52%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.52%) JSON
10 9 (4.52%) SOAP
11 8 (4.02%) .NET
11 8 (4.02%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.02%) J2EE
11 8 (4.02%) Node.js
11 8 (4.02%) OpenTracing
11 8 (4.02%) XML
12 7 (3.52%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Cloud Native
1 20 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.04%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.52%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.52%) DataPower
4 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.01%) PKI
7 2 (1.01%) Replication
8 1 (0.50%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.50%) FMCG
8 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.50%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.50%) Online Games
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.59%) Linux
2 15 (7.54%) Windows
3 12 (6.03%) Unix
4 7 (3.52%) Mac OS X
5 6 (3.02%) zOS
6 2 (1.01%) VMS
6 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.50%) CentOS
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.20%) DevOps
1 80 (40.20%) Microservices
2 78 (39.20%) Agile
3 52 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 45 (22.61%) Containerisation
5 31 (15.58%) Software Engineering
6 29 (14.57%) TDD
7 27 (13.57%) Test Automation
8 26 (13.07%) Scrum
9 25 (12.56%) Design Patterns
9 25 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (11.06%) Data Modelling
10 22 (11.06%) Event-Driven
11 21 (10.55%) Analytics
11 21 (10.55%) High Availability
12 20 (10.05%) Change Management
12 20 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (10.05%) ETL
13 19 (9.55%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 108 (54.27%) Java
2 44 (22.11%) Python
3 43 (21.61%) SQL
4 39 (19.60%) Scala
5 30 (15.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.53%) C#
6 11 (5.53%) Groovy
7 10 (5.03%) Go
8 9 (4.52%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.52%) Bash
10 6 (3.02%) PHP
11 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.51%) SPARQL
12 4 (2.01%) ABAP
12 4 (2.01%) Perl
13 3 (1.51%) C++
13 3 (1.51%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.51%) Ruby
13 3 (1.51%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.04%) Degree
4 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) OCP
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.01%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (2.01%) NIST
2 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.01%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 50 (25.13%) Docker
2 5 (2.51%) HDFS
3 4 (2.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (35.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.07%) Prometheus
2 26 (13.07%) Terraform
3 23 (11.56%) Grafana
4 15 (7.54%) Ansible
4 15 (7.54%) Kibana
5 14 (7.04%) Argo
5 14 (7.04%) Istio
6 8 (4.02%) Zipkin
7 6 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.51%) Puppet
9 2 (1.01%) Control-M
9 2 (1.01%) Kiali
10 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 28 (14.07%) Oracle
2 23 (11.56%) IBM
3 20 (10.05%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.53%) Google
5 12 (6.03%) Splunk
6 7 (3.52%) SAP
6 7 (3.52%) Solace
6 7 (3.52%) TSYS
7 6 (3.02%) Confluent
7 6 (3.02%) F5
7 6 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.51%) Qualys
9 3 (1.51%) Databricks
9 3 (1.51%) Informatica
10 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.50%) Palantir
11 1 (0.50%) Skytap