Kafka Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 118 160
Rank change year-on-year +7 +42 -38
Contract jobs citing Kafka 5 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 3.63% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile - £490 £402
25th Percentile £275 £494 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +5.53% +24.38%
75th Percentile £516 £606 £560
90th Percentile £656 £639 £716
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands 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 279 358 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.34% 15.92% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 248 446
10th Percentile £313 £352 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £14.23 - £56.51
25th Percentile £39.92 - £56.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £58.14
75th Percentile £56.25 - £59.82
90th Percentile £60.00 - £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham +12 3 £588 -8.20% 4
Coventry +13 2 £300 -40.00%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Flink
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Travis CI
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) logstash
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Confluent
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk