Kafka Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 159 133 83
Rank change year-on-year -26 -50 +34
Contract jobs citing Kafka 209 438 1,311
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.42% 1.83% 2.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.61% 7.33% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 341 957
10th Percentile £409 £463 £475
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £755 £738
90th Percentile £750 £810 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +12.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £25.20 - £55.13
25th Percentile £28.88 £64.50 £59.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £66.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +0.19% -
75th Percentile £51.88 £69.50 £73.44
90th Percentile £62.00 - £76.63
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Kafka
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Kafka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Kafka hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (13.88%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.61%) Apache
3 9 (4.31%) Confluence
4 8 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.96%) Mule
7 2 (0.96%) nginx
7 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.96%) Endur
3 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (52.15%) AWS
2 50 (23.92%) Azure
3 26 (12.44%) GCP
4 19 (9.09%) Serverless
5 15 (7.18%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.87%) GitHub
9 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.39%) Apigee
9 5 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.39%) Kong
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.31%) HTTP
2 6 (2.87%) SSL
3 3 (1.44%) DNS
3 3 (1.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.48%) AMQP
5 1 (0.48%) IPv4
5 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 38 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 29 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.57%) Relational Database
5 17 (8.13%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.22%) SQL Server
7 12 (5.74%) Big Data
7 12 (5.74%) Flink
8 11 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (4.78%) Hadoop
10 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.31%) OLAP
11 8 (3.83%) OLTP
11 8 (3.83%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.35%) MySQL
12 7 (3.35%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.39%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.39%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Git
1 17 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.26%) JIRA
3 10 (4.78%) GitLab
4 5 (2.39%) Selenium
5 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.91%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.91%) JUnit
5 4 (1.91%) Mockito
6 3 (1.44%) HP UFT
6 3 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.44%) Snyk
6 3 (1.44%) Subversion
7 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.96%) Pylint
7 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.96%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.48%) EasyMock
8 1 (0.48%) Mercurial
General
1 57 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.14%) Finance
3 26 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.96%) Banking
5 9 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.35%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.44%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Automotive
9 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.96%) Front Office
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Games
10 1 (0.48%) German Language
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (33.49%) Developer
2 40 (19.14%) Senior
2 40 (19.14%) Software Engineer
3 32 (15.31%) Java Developer
4 25 (11.96%) Data Engineer
5 18 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Architect
7 16 (7.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (7.18%) Lead
8 15 (7.18%) Site Engineer
9 14 (6.70%) Full Stack Developer
10 13 (6.22%) Java Engineer
10 13 (6.22%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Scala Developer
14 7 (3.35%) DBA
14 7 (3.35%) Development Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.35%) Spring Boot
2 26 (12.44%) RESTful
3 25 (11.96%) Spring
4 21 (10.05%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 19 (9.09%) REST
6 17 (8.13%) React
7 15 (7.18%) JSON
8 13 (6.22%) Web Services
9 10 (4.78%) Node.js
10 9 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (4.31%) HTML
10 9 (4.31%) SOAP
10 9 (4.31%) XML
11 8 (3.83%) CSS
11 8 (3.83%) PySpark
12 7 (3.35%) .NET
12 7 (3.35%) Symfony
13 6 (2.87%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.87%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.66%) Data Structures
3 13 (6.22%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.39%) DataPower
6 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.91%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) IoT
8 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Replication
8 3 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.14%) Linux
2 10 (4.78%) Unix
3 5 (2.39%) Windows
4 3 (1.44%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.23%) Agile
2 75 (35.89%) DevOps
3 63 (30.14%) Microservices
4 61 (29.19%) Software Engineering
5 51 (24.40%) CI/CD
6 33 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (14.83%) Test Automation
8 30 (14.35%) Fintech
9 28 (13.40%) User Experience
10 26 (12.44%) Full Stack Development
10 26 (12.44%) User Research
10 26 (12.44%) UX Design
10 26 (12.44%) UX Research
11 23 (11.00%) TDD
12 22 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (9.09%) Containerisation
14 17 (8.13%) Event-Driven
15 15 (7.18%) Analytics
15 15 (7.18%) Data Engineering
15 15 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 101 (48.33%) Java
2 62 (29.67%) Python
3 45 (21.53%) Go
4 31 (14.83%) SQL
5 24 (11.48%) Scala
6 20 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.18%) C++
8 14 (6.70%) Shell Script
9 13 (6.22%) PHP
10 9 (4.31%) Bash
10 9 (4.31%) C#
11 6 (2.87%) Groovy
12 5 (2.39%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.39%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.44%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.96%) Bicep
14 2 (0.96%) C
14 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.48%) Perl
15 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.74%) Degree
4 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.48%) MiFID
3 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 73 (34.93%) Docker
2 11 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (48.80%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.92%) Prometheus
3 25 (11.96%) Grafana
4 18 (8.61%) Terraform
5 13 (6.22%) Ansible
6 12 (5.74%) Consul
7 7 (3.35%) Argo
8 5 (2.39%) Puppet
9 4 (1.91%) Istio
9 4 (1.91%) Kibana
9 4 (1.91%) Packer
9 4 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.44%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.48%) Nagios
11 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.48%) Rancher
11 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (13.88%) Oracle
2 18 (8.61%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.13%) IBM
4 11 (5.26%) Confluent
4 11 (5.26%) SaltStack
5 10 (4.78%) Databricks
6 9 (4.31%) Google
7 5 (2.39%) TSYS
8 3 (1.44%) Informatica
8 3 (1.44%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.44%) SAP
8 3 (1.44%) Splunk
8 3 (1.44%) Typelevel
9 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.96%) F5
9 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.96%) Solace
9 2 (0.96%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.48%) Foundry