Kafka Contracts in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 142 134 110
Rank change year-on-year -8 -24 +12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 620 928 1,770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.65% 1.97% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.91% 8.71% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 693 1,272
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £540 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £685 £775 £743
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +12.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 3
10th Percentile £22.44 - £53.65
25th Percentile £25.94 £75.00 £55.38
Median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.10% +26.83% +12.78%
75th Percentile £36.31 £90.00 £71.75
90th Percentile £48.80 - £75.95
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
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,836 10,653 18,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.65% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 7,931 14,067
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 204
10th Percentile £22.73 £32.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.89
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in England.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the England 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
London -23 426 £600 -9.19% 181
North of England +48 76 £507 -22.00% 21
South East +41 59 £475 -14.03% 24
Yorkshire +29 39 £507 -23.47% 5
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
East of England -5 4 £600 +13.21% 12
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 3
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 88 (14.19%) Apache Spark
2 64 (10.32%) Apache
3 20 (3.23%) Confluence
4 19 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.61%) nginx
6 6 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.65%) Mule
7 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.48%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.45%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.94%) Endur
2 7 (1.13%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.32%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 320 (51.61%) AWS
2 161 (25.97%) Azure
3 103 (16.61%) GCP
4 78 (12.58%) Serverless
5 48 (7.74%) Amazon S3
6 42 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 40 (6.45%) GitHub
8 37 (5.97%) OpenShift
9 26 (4.19%) Azure AKS
9 26 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
10 24 (3.87%) Amazon EMR
11 21 (3.39%) Amazon MSK
12 19 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (2.90%) Azure App Service
13 18 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (2.74%) Azure Event Grid
15 16 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 55 (8.87%) HTTP
2 15 (2.42%) SSL
3 9 (1.45%) Firewall
4 7 (1.13%) DNS
4 7 (1.13%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.97%) AMQP
6 4 (0.65%) VPN
7 3 (0.48%) IPv4
8 1 (0.16%) FTP
8 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (15.16%) Apache Cassandra
2 84 (13.55%) MongoDB
3 68 (10.97%) NoSQL
4 66 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (8.06%) Big Data
6 44 (7.10%) SQL Server
7 42 (6.77%) Hadoop
8 38 (6.13%) Flink
9 34 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (4.68%) Relational Database
12 25 (4.03%) Data Lake
13 21 (3.39%) Couchbase
14 20 (3.23%) DynamoDB
15 19 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (2.74%) BigQuery
18 16 (2.58%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 76 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 65 (10.48%) Git
3 36 (5.81%) JIRA
4 24 (3.87%) GitLab
5 23 (3.71%) Mockito
6 20 (3.23%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.74%) JMeter
8 16 (2.58%) Maven
9 12 (1.94%) Selenium
10 10 (1.61%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.45%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.29%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.29%) JUnit
12 8 (1.29%) Subversion
13 7 (1.13%) Mocha
14 6 (0.97%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.81%) Liquibase
15 5 (0.81%) Pylint
15 5 (0.81%) Travis CI
15 5 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 118 (19.03%) Finance
2 102 (16.45%) Social Skills
3 62 (10.00%) Banking
4 58 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.10%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.77%) Retail
8 8 (1.29%) Front Office
9 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.65%) Automotive
11 4 (0.65%) German Language
11 4 (0.65%) Publishing
11 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.48%) Games
12 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 2 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 228 (36.77%) Developer
2 96 (15.48%) Senior
3 94 (15.16%) Java Developer
4 78 (12.58%) Software Engineer
5 77 (12.42%) Data Engineer
6 59 (9.52%) Architect
7 49 (7.90%) Scala Developer
8 40 (6.45%) Lead
9 38 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 33 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.84%) Senior Developer
12 29 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (4.35%) Site Engineer
14 25 (4.03%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
16 22 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.55%) Senior Java Developer
17 21 (3.39%) Data Architect
18 19 (3.06%) AWS Architect
19 18 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (12.90%) RESTful
2 63 (10.16%) Spring
3 60 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 49 (7.90%) React
5 47 (7.58%) .NET
5 47 (7.58%) Akka
6 43 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
7 42 (6.77%) REST
8 34 (5.48%) Web Services
9 32 (5.16%) ActiveMQ
10 29 (4.68%) .NET Core
10 29 (4.68%) HTML
11 27 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 25 (4.03%) Node.js
13 23 (3.71%) JSON
14 20 (3.23%) CSS
14 20 (3.23%) GraphQL
14 20 (3.23%) JAX-RS
15 15 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (2.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.90%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.52%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.42%) Hedge funds
7 11 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.45%) Derivative
9 9 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.13%) DataPower
10 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.13%) Machine to Machine
11 6 (0.97%) Market Risk
12 4 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.65%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 114 (18.39%) Linux
2 60 (9.68%) Unix
3 22 (3.55%) Mac OS X
4 15 (2.42%) Windows
5 9 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.65%) zOS
7 3 (0.48%) VMS
8 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (39.03%) Agile
2 220 (35.48%) DevOps
3 200 (32.26%) Microservices
4 153 (24.68%) CI/CD
5 140 (22.58%) Software Engineering
6 108 (17.42%) TDD
7 81 (13.06%) Test Automation
8 77 (12.42%) Containerisation
9 68 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
11 59 (9.52%) ETL
12 58 (9.35%) Pair Programming
13 53 (8.55%) GitOps
13 53 (8.55%) Machine Learning
14 52 (8.39%) Analytics
15 51 (8.23%) Event-Driven
16 48 (7.74%) Design Patterns
17 47 (7.58%) Data Engineering
17 47 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 46 (7.42%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 238 (38.39%) Java
2 194 (31.29%) Python
3 146 (23.55%) SQL
4 103 (16.61%) Scala
5 85 (13.71%) Go
6 60 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 53 (8.55%) C#
8 37 (5.97%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.52%) C++
10 22 (3.55%) Groovy
11 18 (2.90%) Bash
12 17 (2.74%) TypeScript
13 15 (2.42%) PHP
14 13 (2.10%) Perl
15 7 (1.13%) Ruby
15 7 (1.13%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.97%) Haskell
16 6 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.97%) Rust
17 5 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 110 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 102 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.42%) Degree
4 25 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.32%) OCP
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.13%) PCI DSS
2 7 (1.13%) QA
3 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.65%) GDPR
5 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.32%) MiFID
6 2 (0.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 175 (28.23%) Docker
2 16 (2.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.61%) HDFS
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 289 (46.61%) Kubernetes
2 79 (12.74%) Terraform
3 56 (9.03%) Prometheus
4 55 (8.87%) Grafana
5 36 (5.81%) Ansible
6 26 (4.19%) Argo
7 18 (2.90%) Istio
8 16 (2.58%) Kibana
9 15 (2.42%) Consul
10 12 (1.94%) Packer
11 9 (1.45%) Puppet
12 6 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.81%) Hadoop YARN
14 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.32%) Control-M
15 2 (0.32%) Kiali
16 1 (0.16%) logstash
16 1 (0.16%) Rancher
16 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
16 1 (0.16%) Salt
Vendors
1 52 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.23%) Oracle
3 24 (3.87%) IBM
4 23 (3.71%) Google
4 23 (3.71%) Typelevel
5 21 (3.39%) Confluent
6 20 (3.23%) Databricks
7 18 (2.90%) SAP
8 17 (2.74%) Splunk
9 12 (1.94%) SaltStack
10 9 (1.45%) Informatica
11 8 (1.29%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.13%) OpenLink
12 7 (1.13%) Solace
12 7 (1.13%) TSYS
13 6 (0.97%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.97%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.65%) F5
14 4 (0.65%) TIBCO
14 4 (0.65%) Trayport