Kafka Contracts

Apache Kafka
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 148 141 101
Rank change year-on-year -7 -40 +16
Contract jobs citing Kafka 701 1,039 2,248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.87% 2.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 8.16% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 749 1,582
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +12.83%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £788 £821 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -16.09% +2.17% +21.05%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -64.10% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK 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
England -8 620 £550 -15.38% 264
London -23 426 £600 -9.19% 182
Work from Home -26 209 £550 -15.38% 169
UK excluding London +58 199 £493 -16.09% 91
North of England +48 76 £507 -22.00% 22
South East +41 59 £475 -14.03% 23
Yorkshire +29 39 £507 -23.47% 5
Scotland +60 37 £475 -9.52% 11
North West +33 37 £504 -8.41% 16
South West -13 11 £585 -2.50% 10
Midlands +12 8 £398 -26.90% 9
West Midlands +10 5 £363 -33.33% 6
Wales +21 4 £550 +10.00% 2
East of England -5 4 £600 +13.21% 12
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 3

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 101 (14.41%) Apache Spark
2 68 (9.70%) Apache
3 26 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.00%) Confluence
5 10 (1.43%) nginx
6 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.71%) Mule
7 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.71%) Endur
2 7 (1.00%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.29%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 366 (52.21%) AWS
2 198 (28.25%) Azure
3 125 (17.83%) GCP
4 82 (11.70%) Serverless
5 55 (7.85%) Amazon S3
6 44 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (6.28%) OpenShift
7 41 (5.85%) GitHub
8 40 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
9 27 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 26 (3.71%) Azure AKS
11 24 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.00%) Amazon MSK
14 18 (2.57%) Azure App Service
14 18 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (2.43%) Azure Event Grid
16 16 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (8.13%) HTTP
2 19 (2.71%) SSL
3 9 (1.28%) Firewall
4 7 (1.00%) DNS
4 7 (1.00%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.86%) AMQP
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
7 3 (0.43%) IPv4
8 1 (0.14%) FTP
8 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (13.98%) Apache Cassandra
2 90 (12.84%) MongoDB
3 75 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (9.99%) NoSQL
5 54 (7.70%) Big Data
6 48 (6.85%) SQL Server
7 44 (6.28%) Flink
7 44 (6.28%) Hadoop
8 38 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
8 38 (5.42%) Relational Database
9 34 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (3.71%) Data Lake
11 21 (3.00%) Couchbase
12 20 (2.85%) DynamoDB
13 19 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (2.57%) BigQuery
15 17 (2.43%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 79 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 75 (10.70%) Git
3 44 (6.28%) JIRA
4 25 (3.57%) GitLab
5 24 (3.42%) Mockito
6 20 (2.85%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.43%) JMeter
8 16 (2.28%) Maven
9 13 (1.85%) Selenium
10 11 (1.57%) Subversion
11 10 (1.43%) JUnit
11 10 (1.43%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.28%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.14%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.00%) Mocha
15 6 (0.86%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.71%) Liquibase
16 5 (0.71%) Pylint
16 5 (0.71%) Travis CI
16 5 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 127 (18.12%) Finance
2 122 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 84 (11.98%) Banking
4 66 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.57%) Retail
8 10 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.14%) Front Office
10 7 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.57%) Automotive
12 4 (0.57%) German Language
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
12 4 (0.57%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 270 (38.52%) Developer
2 119 (16.98%) Java Developer
3 108 (15.41%) Senior
4 94 (13.41%) Data Engineer
5 82 (11.70%) Software Engineer
6 62 (8.84%) Architect
7 52 (7.42%) Scala Developer
8 47 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (5.99%) Lead
10 36 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (4.56%) Senior Developer
12 29 (4.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 28 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
14 27 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 27 (3.85%) Site Engineer
15 26 (3.71%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
17 22 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
17 22 (3.14%) Java Engineer
18 21 (3.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (12.98%) RESTful
2 90 (12.84%) Spring
3 82 (11.70%) Spring Boot
4 56 (7.99%) React
5 52 (7.42%) REST
6 49 (6.99%) .NET
6 49 (6.99%) Akka
7 46 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
8 36 (5.14%) Web Services
9 34 (4.85%) ActiveMQ
10 33 (4.71%) AngularJS
11 30 (4.28%) Node.js
12 29 (4.14%) .NET Core
12 29 (4.14%) HTML
13 26 (3.71%) JSON
14 25 (3.57%) CSS
14 25 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (2.85%) GraphQL
15 20 (2.85%) JAX-RS
16 17 (2.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (4.99%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 30 (4.28%) Algorithms
5 27 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.14%) Hedge funds
7 13 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.28%) Derivative
9 9 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.00%) DataPower
10 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.00%) Machine to Machine
11 6 (0.86%) Market Risk
11 6 (0.86%) Replication
12 4 (0.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.57%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 123 (17.55%) Linux
2 63 (8.99%) Unix
3 22 (3.14%) Mac OS X
4 20 (2.85%) Windows
5 9 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.86%) zOS
7 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (37.38%) Agile
2 240 (34.24%) DevOps
3 233 (33.24%) Microservices
4 168 (23.97%) CI/CD
5 151 (21.54%) Software Engineering
6 117 (16.69%) TDD
7 94 (13.41%) Test Automation
8 81 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (11.13%) Containerisation
10 64 (9.13%) Data Pipeline
11 63 (8.99%) Pair Programming
12 61 (8.70%) ETL
13 58 (8.27%) Machine Learning
14 57 (8.13%) Event-Driven
15 55 (7.85%) GitOps
16 54 (7.70%) Data Engineering
17 52 (7.42%) Analytics
17 52 (7.42%) Design Patterns
17 52 (7.42%) Full Stack Development
18 51 (7.28%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 286 (40.80%) Java
2 212 (30.24%) Python
3 162 (23.11%) SQL
4 120 (17.12%) Scala
5 86 (12.27%) Go
6 63 (8.99%) JavaScript
7 55 (7.85%) C#
8 38 (5.42%) Shell Script
9 28 (3.99%) C++
10 23 (3.28%) Groovy
11 20 (2.85%) Bash
12 18 (2.57%) TypeScript
13 17 (2.43%) PHP
14 15 (2.14%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.85%) Perl
16 8 (1.14%) Ruby
17 7 (1.00%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.86%) Haskell
18 6 (0.86%) Rust
19 5 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 114 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.13%) Degree
4 26 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.29%) OCP
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.28%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.00%) PCI DSS
2 7 (1.00%) QA
3 4 (0.57%) GDPR
3 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.57%) NIST
4 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 204 (29.10%) Docker
2 16 (2.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.43%) HDFS
4 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 327 (46.65%) Kubernetes
2 84 (11.98%) Terraform
3 67 (9.56%) Prometheus
4 61 (8.70%) Grafana
5 40 (5.71%) Ansible
6 27 (3.85%) Argo
7 18 (2.57%) Istio
8 16 (2.28%) Kibana
9 15 (2.14%) Consul
10 12 (1.71%) Packer
11 9 (1.28%) Puppet
12 8 (1.14%) Zipkin
13 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.71%) Hadoop YARN
15 4 (0.57%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.29%) Control-M
16 2 (0.29%) Kiali
17 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
17 1 (0.14%) Nagios
17 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 61 (8.70%) Oracle
2 57 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.28%) IBM
4 25 (3.57%) Google
5 23 (3.28%) Confluent
5 23 (3.28%) Splunk
5 23 (3.28%) Typelevel
6 21 (3.00%) Databricks
7 18 (2.57%) SAP
8 12 (1.71%) SaltStack
9 10 (1.43%) Informatica
9 10 (1.43%) Solace
10 8 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.00%) OpenLink
11 7 (1.00%) TSYS
12 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.86%) F5
13 5 (0.71%) Qualys
14 4 (0.57%) Trayport