Kafka Contracts in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 75 72
Rank change year-on-year -32 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 389 827 1,388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.23% 3.18% 3.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.66% 11.80% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 627 1,017
10th Percentile £413 £463 £500
25th Percentile £463 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £829
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £70.80 £54.23
25th Percentile - - £56.81
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.91% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,493 7,006 12,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.71% 26.93% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,357 5,248 9,379
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £712
90th Percentile £838 £810 £800
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.70% -1.84% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.38 £31.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £36.89 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.80% +41.58% -4.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.80 £82.63 £76.54
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +6.10%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London -5 71 £640 +0.39% 13
West London +27 25 £475 -26.92% 3
South London +3 9 £488 -2.50%
East London -3 1 £436 -35.41% 49
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 55 (14.14%) Apache
2 50 (12.85%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.06%) Confluence
4 8 (2.06%) nginx
5 4 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.51%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.57%) Endur
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 212 (54.50%) AWS
2 101 (25.96%) Azure
3 60 (15.42%) GCP
4 55 (14.14%) Serverless
5 42 (10.80%) Amazon Kinesis
6 37 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (6.68%) Amazon S3
8 25 (6.43%) GitHub
9 20 (5.14%) Amazon EMR
9 20 (5.14%) Azure AKS
10 19 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (4.11%) Amazon MSK
12 15 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.83%) OpenShift
17 10 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (2.57%) Azure App Service
17 10 (2.57%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.74%) HTTP
2 7 (1.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.03%) VPN
4 3 (0.77%) Firewall
4 3 (0.77%) IPv4
4 3 (0.77%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.77%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) DHCP
5 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 49 (12.60%) MongoDB
3 39 (10.03%) Flink
4 37 (9.51%) NoSQL
5 32 (8.23%) SQL Server
6 24 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (5.91%) Big Data
8 22 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (4.88%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.37%) Hadoop
12 16 (4.11%) DynamoDB
13 15 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (3.08%) Parquet
15 11 (2.83%) Data Lake
16 9 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (2.31%) Couchbase
16 9 (2.31%) MySQL
17 8 (2.06%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 39 (10.03%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.46%) Git
3 19 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 19 (4.88%) Mockito
4 14 (3.60%) JIRA
5 13 (3.34%) GitLab
5 13 (3.34%) Maven
6 9 (2.31%) JMeter
7 8 (2.06%) Selenium
8 7 (1.80%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.54%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.29%) JUnit
10 5 (1.29%) Pylint
10 5 (1.29%) Subversion
11 4 (1.03%) Snyk
11 4 (1.03%) TestNG
12 3 (0.77%) Postman
12 3 (0.77%) ScalaTest
General
1 74 (19.02%) Finance
2 67 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.00%) Banking
4 34 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.31%) Investment Banking
6 9 (2.31%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.29%) Front Office
9 4 (1.03%) Marketing
9 4 (1.03%) Retail
9 4 (1.03%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Back Office
10 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Legal
10 2 (0.51%) Publishing
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Games
11 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 160 (41.13%) Developer
2 63 (16.20%) Data Engineer
2 63 (16.20%) Senior
3 60 (15.42%) Java Developer
4 44 (11.31%) Software Engineer
5 40 (10.28%) Scala Developer
6 33 (8.48%) Architect
7 28 (7.20%) Lead
8 26 (6.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.66%) Python Engineer
11 21 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.88%) Data Architect
12 19 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
13 17 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.86%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.86%) Site Engineer
16 14 (3.60%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.40%) RESTful
2 39 (10.03%) Akka
3 35 (9.00%) React
4 33 (8.48%) .NET
5 31 (7.97%) Spring
5 31 (7.97%) Spring Boot
6 25 (6.43%) REST
7 19 (4.88%) HTML
7 19 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (4.63%) .NET Core
8 18 (4.63%) JAX-RS
8 18 (4.63%) Node.js
9 17 (4.37%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (3.60%) JSON
11 13 (3.34%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (3.34%) Web Services
12 12 (3.08%) Apache Avro
13 11 (2.83%) CSS
13 11 (2.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (4.37%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.34%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.06%) Derivative
8 8 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.80%) Machine to Machine
9 7 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.54%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.03%) Solar Panel
13 3 (0.77%) Data Fabric
13 3 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 72 (18.51%) Linux
2 36 (9.25%) Unix
3 14 (3.60%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (37.28%) Agile
2 125 (32.13%) Microservices
3 122 (31.36%) DevOps
4 102 (26.22%) CI/CD
5 76 (19.54%) Software Engineering
5 76 (19.54%) TDD
6 62 (15.94%) Test Automation
7 49 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (12.08%) Pair Programming
9 42 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.77%) Machine Learning
11 34 (8.74%) Data Engineering
11 34 (8.74%) Unit Testing
12 33 (8.48%) ETL
13 32 (8.23%) Containerisation
13 32 (8.23%) Full Stack Development
14 30 (7.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (7.46%) GitOps
16 28 (7.20%) BDD
16 28 (7.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 148 (38.05%) Java
2 141 (36.25%) Python
3 102 (26.22%) SQL
4 64 (16.45%) Scala
5 39 (10.03%) C#
5 39 (10.03%) Go
6 34 (8.74%) JavaScript
7 24 (6.17%) Shell Script
8 21 (5.40%) C++
9 11 (2.83%) Perl
9 11 (2.83%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.57%) Bash
11 9 (2.31%) Groovy
11 9 (2.31%) PHP
12 6 (1.54%) Ruby
13 5 (1.29%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.29%) Rust
14 4 (1.03%) C
14 4 (1.03%) Haskell
15 3 (0.77%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 90 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 85 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.20%) Degree
4 10 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.29%) QA
3 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.51%) MiFID
4 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 102 (26.22%) Docker
2 12 (3.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (1.29%) HDFS
4 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 180 (46.27%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.62%) Terraform
3 32 (8.23%) Grafana
3 32 (8.23%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.14%) Ansible
5 15 (3.86%) Consul
6 10 (2.57%) Argo
6 10 (2.57%) Packer
7 6 (1.54%) Puppet
8 5 (1.29%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (0.77%) Istio
9 3 (0.77%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.51%) Ambari
10 2 (0.51%) Oozie
11 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.26%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) Nagios
11 1 (0.26%) Rancher
11 1 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.20%) Oracle
3 23 (5.91%) Databricks
4 20 (5.14%) Typelevel
5 12 (3.08%) SaltStack
6 10 (2.57%) Google
6 10 (2.57%) SAP
6 10 (2.57%) Splunk
7 9 (2.31%) Confluent
8 5 (1.29%) OpenLink
8 5 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.03%) Adobe
9 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.03%) IBM
9 4 (1.03%) Informatica
9 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.77%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.77%) New Relic
10 3 (0.77%) TIBCO