Kafka Contracts in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 61 67 55
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 79 126 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.27% 3.43% 4.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.86% 12.77% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 73 148
10th Percentile £463 £513 £511
25th Percentile £500 £550 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £778
90th Percentile £815 £873 £850
London median daily rate £600 £661 £663
% change year-on-year -9.19% -0.26% +15.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 570 987 1,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.56% 26.90% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 639 1,061
10th Percentile £411 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +4.17% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - £53.00 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - -14.86% +211.25%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £42.50 £67.25 £44.88
% change year-on-year -36.80% +49.86% -9.94%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +1 72 £665 -1.48% 14
City of Westminster +4 5 £650 -22.39% 2
West End of London - 2 - - 4
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.06%) Apache
3 3 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.53%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.53%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Endur
2 1 (1.27%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 40 (50.63%) AWS
2 24 (30.38%) Azure
3 15 (18.99%) Serverless
4 9 (11.39%) Amazon S3
4 9 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (11.39%) GCP
4 9 (11.39%) GitHub
5 8 (10.13%) Azure AKS
5 8 (10.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.59%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.80%) Azure App Service
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Kerberos
1 2 (2.53%) SSL
2 1 (1.27%) AMQP
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) MongoDB
2 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.59%) Parquet
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
6 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.80%) MySQL
8 3 (3.80%) Tableau
9 2 (2.53%) Big Data
9 2 (2.53%) Data Mart
10 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.27%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.59%) Mockito
3 5 (6.33%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.33%) JMeter
4 4 (5.06%) Maven
5 3 (3.80%) Git
5 3 (3.80%) GitLab
5 3 (3.80%) Gradle
5 3 (3.80%) JUnit
5 3 (3.80%) Selenium
5 3 (3.80%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.53%) HP UFT
6 2 (2.53%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (2.53%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.53%) TestNG
7 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.27%) EasyMock
7 1 (1.27%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Finance
3 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.53%) Front Office
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (36.71%) Developer
2 14 (17.72%) Data Engineer
3 11 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Site Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Python Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Python Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Senior
6 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Architect
9 3 (3.80%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Development Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) RESTful
2 12 (15.19%) RabbitMQ
2 12 (15.19%) React
3 9 (11.39%) HTML
4 8 (10.13%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.59%) .NET
5 6 (7.59%) .NET Core
5 6 (7.59%) Apache Avro
5 6 (7.59%) CSS
5 6 (7.59%) JSON
5 6 (7.59%) Node.js
5 6 (7.59%) Spring
5 6 (7.59%) Spring Boot
6 5 (6.33%) PySpark
7 4 (5.06%) JAX-RS
7 4 (5.06%) REST
8 3 (3.80%) CSS3
8 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.80%) pytest
8 3 (3.80%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (13.92%) Algorithms
2 11 (13.92%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.33%) Hedge funds
4 4 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.80%) Machine to Machine
6 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.71%) Linux
2 7 (8.86%) Unix
3 3 (3.80%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.77%) CI/CD
2 28 (35.44%) DevOps
3 27 (34.18%) Microservices
4 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.99%) Agile
6 13 (16.46%) SDLC
7 12 (15.19%) ETL
7 12 (15.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (13.92%) Analytical Thinking
8 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
8 11 (13.92%) Task Automation
9 10 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (11.39%) Architectural Design
11 8 (10.13%) Data Engineering
12 7 (8.86%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (7.59%) Analytics
13 6 (7.59%) Code Quality
13 6 (7.59%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 53 (67.09%) Python
2 28 (35.44%) Java
3 27 (34.18%) SQL
4 13 (16.46%) Shell Script
5 11 (13.92%) Go
6 9 (11.39%) C#
6 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
7 8 (10.13%) C++
8 5 (6.33%) Scala
9 2 (2.53%) Perl
9 2 (2.53%) PHP
9 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.27%) C
10 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.53%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 11 (13.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (53.16%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.25%) Terraform
3 15 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 14 (17.72%) Grafana
5 11 (13.92%) Consul
6 5 (6.33%) Argo
7 4 (5.06%) Ansible
8 3 (3.80%) Packer
9 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.27%) Nagios
9 1 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) SaltStack
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) Confluent
5 3 (3.80%) OpenLink
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) Micro Focus
6 2 (2.53%) Murex
6 2 (2.53%) New Relic
6 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) Unisys