Apache Kafka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 136 100
Rank change year-on-year -18 -36 +20
Contract jobs citing Kafka 660 1,105 2,306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.94% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.41% 8.34% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 791 1,603
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £461 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £732
90th Percentile £755 £810 £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -10.91% -2.22% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £22.24 £72.90 £54.23
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%
75th Percentile £38.94 £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -59.62% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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
England -34 566 £550 -15.38% 242
London -27 389 £570 -12.31% 166
Work from Home -19 206 £550 -15.38% 175
UK excluding London +48 190 £490 -10.91% 103
North of England +25 70 £507 -11.83% 21
Scotland +71 49 £475 -9.52% 20
South East +33 48 £475 -14.03% 26
North West +23 40 £524 +5.81% 10
Yorkshire +23 30 £475 -26.92% 10
South West +1 9 £533 -11.17% 10
Midlands +27 8 £398 -24.29% 12
West Midlands +11 5 £400 -23.81% 6
East of England +2 4 £600 +13.21% 5
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 6
Wales +21 2 £1,000 +100.00% 6

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 85 (12.88%) Apache Spark
2 74 (11.21%) Apache
3 29 (4.39%) Confluence
4 23 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.67%) nginx
6 6 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.76%) Tornado
8 4 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.61%) Mule
8 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.36%) Endur
2 7 (1.06%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.61%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 337 (51.06%) AWS
2 170 (25.76%) Azure
3 98 (14.85%) GCP
4 85 (12.88%) Serverless
5 44 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
5 44 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 42 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (5.45%) GitHub
8 34 (5.15%) OpenShift
9 24 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
10 21 (3.18%) Azure AKS
11 20 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.58%) Amazon MSK
14 14 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.27%) HTTP
2 12 (1.82%) SSL
3 7 (1.06%) DNS
4 5 (0.76%) Firewall
5 4 (0.61%) VPN
6 3 (0.45%) 5G
6 3 (0.45%) IPv4
7 2 (0.30%) AMQP
7 2 (0.30%) DHCP
7 2 (0.30%) Internet
7 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.15%) FTP
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (14.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 89 (13.48%) MongoDB
3 69 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (9.70%) NoSQL
5 49 (7.42%) Big Data
6 47 (7.12%) Flink
6 47 (7.12%) SQL Server
7 43 (6.52%) Relational Database
8 40 (6.06%) Hadoop
9 35 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 34 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
11 31 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (3.64%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (2.88%) DynamoDB
14 18 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (2.73%) Couchbase
15 16 (2.42%) Apache Hive
16 15 (2.27%) MySQL
17 14 (2.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 77 (11.67%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.52%) Git
3 53 (8.03%) JIRA
4 24 (3.64%) Cucumber
5 23 (3.48%) GitLab
5 23 (3.48%) JUnit
5 23 (3.48%) Mockito
6 19 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.42%) JMeter
8 15 (2.27%) Postman
9 14 (2.12%) Maven
9 14 (2.12%) Selenium
10 11 (1.67%) Subversion
11 9 (1.36%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.36%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.06%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.91%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.91%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.91%) Mocha
14 5 (0.76%) Pylint
General
1 125 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 105 (15.91%) Finance
3 71 (10.76%) Banking
4 57 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.21%) Retail
9 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.76%) Marketing
11 4 (0.61%) Automotive
11 4 (0.61%) Front Office
11 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Games
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.30%) German Language
Job Titles
1 252 (38.18%) Developer
2 124 (18.79%) Java Developer
3 116 (17.58%) Senior
4 87 (13.18%) Data Engineer
5 84 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 63 (9.55%) Architect
7 44 (6.67%) Scala Developer
8 41 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (5.91%) Senior Developer
10 38 (5.76%) Lead
11 28 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
12 27 (4.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 25 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.79%) Python Engineer
13 25 (3.79%) Site Engineer
14 24 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
14 24 (3.64%) Full Stack Developer
15 21 (3.18%) Data Architect
16 20 (3.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (14.55%) Spring
2 91 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 78 (11.82%) RESTful
4 71 (10.76%) REST
5 56 (8.48%) React
6 44 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
7 42 (6.36%) Akka
8 39 (5.91%) .NET
9 37 (5.61%) Web Services
10 33 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
10 33 (5.00%) Node.js
11 31 (4.70%) AngularJS
12 29 (4.39%) JSON
13 25 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
14 24 (3.64%) HTML
15 23 (3.48%) .NET Core
16 22 (3.33%) GraphQL
17 21 (3.18%) CSS
17 21 (3.18%) J2EE
17 21 (3.18%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.64%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.97%) Hedge funds
9 10 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.21%) Derivative
10 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.06%) DataPower
11 7 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.06%) Machine to Machine
12 6 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.76%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.76%) Solar Panel
14 4 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 109 (16.52%) Linux
2 46 (6.97%) Unix
3 21 (3.18%) Mac OS X
4 18 (2.73%) Windows
5 5 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.76%) zOS
6 2 (0.30%) VMS
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (40.61%) Agile
2 211 (31.97%) DevOps
3 202 (30.61%) Microservices
4 152 (23.03%) CI/CD
5 139 (21.06%) Software Engineering
6 115 (17.42%) TDD
7 88 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 80 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (10.15%) Containerisation
10 61 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
10 61 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (8.33%) Pair Programming
12 54 (8.18%) Data Engineering
13 51 (7.73%) ETL
13 51 (7.73%) Fintech
13 51 (7.73%) User Experience
14 49 (7.42%) Scrum
15 47 (7.12%) Full Stack Development
16 46 (6.97%) Design Patterns
16 46 (6.97%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 282 (42.73%) Java
2 193 (29.24%) Python
3 159 (24.09%) SQL
4 102 (15.45%) Scala
5 80 (12.12%) Go
6 62 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 49 (7.42%) C#
8 29 (4.39%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.33%) C++
10 20 (3.03%) Groovy
11 18 (2.73%) TypeScript
12 17 (2.58%) PHP
13 15 (2.27%) Bash
14 14 (2.12%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.97%) Perl
16 9 (1.36%) Ruby
17 8 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 7 (1.06%) SPARQL
19 5 (0.76%) C
19 5 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 121 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 111 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.36%) Degree
4 21 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (0.76%) QA
3 4 (0.61%) GDPR
4 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (0.45%) NIST
5 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.30%) MiFID
6 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.15%) GRC
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 201 (30.45%) Docker
2 17 (2.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (1.67%) HDFS
4 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 291 (44.09%) Kubernetes
2 78 (11.82%) Terraform
3 53 (8.03%) Prometheus
4 51 (7.73%) Grafana
5 34 (5.15%) Ansible
6 20 (3.03%) Argo
7 16 (2.42%) Kibana
8 15 (2.27%) Consul
9 14 (2.12%) Istio
10 9 (1.36%) Packer
11 8 (1.21%) Zipkin
12 7 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
12 7 (1.06%) Puppet
13 6 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.61%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.45%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.45%) Oozie
16 2 (0.30%) Ambari
16 2 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
17 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 71 (10.76%) Oracle
2 50 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.24%) IBM
4 27 (4.09%) Databricks
5 21 (3.18%) Splunk
6 20 (3.03%) Typelevel
7 18 (2.73%) Google
8 17 (2.58%) Confluent
8 17 (2.58%) SAP
9 12 (1.82%) SaltStack
10 9 (1.36%) Solace
11 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.06%) Informatica
12 7 (1.06%) TSYS
13 6 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.76%) Adobe
14 5 (0.76%) F5
15 4 (0.61%) OpenLink
15 4 (0.61%) Qualys
15 4 (0.61%) Salesforce