Kafka Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 153 135
Rank change year-on-year +63 -18 -52
Contract jobs citing Kafka 282 208 436
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.89% 1.42% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.80% 5.61% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 164 336
10th Percentile £393 £402 £463
25th Percentile £460 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 £683 £775
90th Percentile £838 £750 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.20 -
25th Percentile - £28.88 £64.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -47.76% +0.19%
75th Percentile - £51.88 £69.50
90th Percentile - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £28.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +181.07% -64.10% +26.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,610 3,705 5,963
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.78% 25.26% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 2,593 4,469
10th Percentile £358 £350 £383
25th Percentile £419 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 92 76
10th Percentile £50.70 £24.23 £25.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £49.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £51.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.38% +23.81%

Kafka
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka.

Kafka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kafka over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Kafka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka.

Kafka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 34 (12.06%) Apache
2 33 (11.70%) Apache Spark
3 23 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (4.61%) Confluence
5 7 (2.48%) Camunda
6 4 (1.42%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.71%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.35%) CICS
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.35%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.71%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 132 (46.81%) AWS
2 65 (23.05%) Azure
3 42 (14.89%) Serverless
4 35 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (9.57%) OpenShift
6 25 (8.87%) dbt
7 24 (8.51%) GCP
8 23 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (7.80%) Amazon S3
9 22 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (7.09%) GitHub
11 14 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.61%) Snowflake
13 11 (3.90%) Entra ID
13 11 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (3.55%) Azure AKS
15 9 (3.19%) Power Platform
16 8 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (0.71%) Firewall
1 2 (0.71%) MQTT
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
2 1 (0.35%) SSH
2 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (26.60%) MongoDB
2 72 (25.53%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (22.70%) Relational Database
4 42 (14.89%) DB2
5 33 (11.70%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.99%) Redis
7 21 (7.45%) MySQL
8 19 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (6.38%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (6.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 18 (6.38%) Apache Ignite
9 18 (6.38%) Dremio
10 16 (5.67%) Big Data
10 16 (5.67%) SQL Server
11 14 (4.96%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (3.19%) Hadoop
13 9 (3.19%) RDBMS
14 7 (2.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 71 (25.18%) JUnit
2 44 (15.60%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.80%) JIRA
4 21 (7.45%) Artifactory
4 21 (7.45%) Mockito
5 20 (7.09%) Gradle
6 16 (5.67%) Git
7 14 (4.96%) Maven
8 13 (4.61%) Liquibase
9 9 (3.19%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.84%) GitLab
11 7 (2.48%) IntelliJ
11 7 (2.48%) Postman
11 7 (2.48%) Subversion
12 6 (2.13%) Selenium
13 5 (1.77%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.77%) Visual Studio
14 4 (1.42%) HP UFT
14 4 (1.42%) SoapUI
15 3 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 111 (39.36%) Finance
2 94 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 77 (27.30%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (26.95%) Banking
5 54 (19.15%) Investment Banking
6 42 (14.89%) Front Office
7 16 (5.67%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Retail
10 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Games
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 139 (49.29%) Developer
2 99 (35.11%) Java Developer
3 56 (19.86%) Senior
4 43 (15.25%) Senior Developer
5 40 (14.18%) Architect
6 39 (13.83%) Senior Java Developer
7 36 (12.77%) Data Engineer
8 33 (11.70%) Lead
9 28 (9.93%) SQL Developer
10 27 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 27 (9.57%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 23 (8.16%) Lead Developer
11 23 (8.16%) Lead Java Developer
11 23 (8.16%) Python Engineer
12 21 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (7.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (6.38%) C# Developer
15 17 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (5.67%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (29.43%) Spring
2 47 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 35 (12.41%) JMS
4 30 (10.64%) REST
5 28 (9.93%) J2EE
6 23 (8.16%) React
6 23 (8.16%) Swagger
7 22 (7.80%) ActiveMQ
7 22 (7.80%) AngularJS
7 22 (7.80%) PySpark
8 20 (7.09%) Web Services
9 18 (6.38%) .NET
9 18 (6.38%) OpenAPI
10 16 (5.67%) .NET Core
10 16 (5.67%) RESTful
11 14 (4.96%) Hibernate
11 14 (4.96%) OAuth
11 14 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.61%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.61%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.25%) Data Structures
2 37 (13.12%) Equities
3 22 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.61%) Derivative
4 13 (4.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
5 12 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.55%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.19%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.84%) Market Risk
9 6 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.77%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (1.77%) PKI
11 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.42%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.42%) NHS
11 4 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.86%) Linux
2 10 (3.55%) Unix
3 6 (2.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (57.09%) Agile
2 102 (36.17%) DevOps
3 86 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (29.08%) CI/CD
5 77 (27.30%) Microservices
6 70 (24.82%) Open Source
7 55 (19.50%) Software Engineering
8 49 (17.38%) TDD
9 47 (16.67%) SDLC
10 43 (15.25%) Multithreading
11 42 (14.89%) Containerisation
12 40 (14.18%) Event-Driven
13 39 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
14 36 (12.77%) Analytics
14 36 (12.77%) Database Tuning
15 30 (10.64%) Data Engineering
16 29 (10.28%) Mentoring
17 27 (9.57%) Scrum
17 27 (9.57%) Test Automation
18 25 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 178 (63.12%) Java
2 107 (37.94%) Python
3 106 (37.59%) SQL
4 40 (14.18%) Shell Script
5 28 (9.93%) C#
6 24 (8.51%) Go
7 23 (8.16%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.67%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.61%) C++
10 9 (3.19%) Scala
11 6 (2.13%) Bash
11 6 (2.13%) Perl
12 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.06%) Groovy
14 2 (0.71%) Clojure
14 2 (0.71%) COBOL
14 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.35%) Bicep
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.87%) Degree
4 12 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
5 10 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.55%) GDPR
3 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.06%) QA
5 3 (1.06%) WCAG
6 2 (0.71%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) HL7
6 2 (0.71%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) Section 508
7 1 (0.35%) EMIR
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 71 (25.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.71%) HDFS
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 54 (19.15%) Terraform
3 21 (7.45%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.67%) Grafana
5 11 (3.90%) Ansible
6 6 (2.13%) Istio
6 6 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.13%) Puppet
7 3 (1.06%) Control-M
7 3 (1.06%) Packer
7 3 (1.06%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.71%) logstash
8 2 (0.71%) QRadar
8 2 (0.71%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (14.54%) Sybase
2 36 (12.77%) Oracle
3 17 (6.03%) Google
4 10 (3.55%) Splunk
5 9 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.84%) Informatica
7 7 (2.48%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.48%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.13%) IBM
8 6 (2.13%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.77%) Databricks
9 5 (1.77%) SAP
9 5 (1.77%) VMware
10 4 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.42%) Confluent
10 4 (1.42%) Sparx
11 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.06%) Talend
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