Apache Kafka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 149 100
Rank change year-on-year -94 -49 +39
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1,201 2,386 6,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 2.45% 3.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.63% 8.18% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 683 1,332 1,917
10th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -172 761 £77,500 -13.89% 248
UK excluding London +11 728 £60,000 -11.11% 91
London -106 438 £90,000 -8.86% 173
Scotland +69 405 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Work from Home -163 384 £72,500 -17.14% 152
South East -5 134 £55,000 -21.43% 27
North of England -73 81 £65,000 -6.40% 21
North West -37 61 £62,500 -10.71% 14
South West -68 48 £68,750 +5.77% 4
Midlands -33 26 £73,000 +21.67% 9
East of England -56 19 £85,000 +36.00% 10
Yorkshire +14 18 £70,576 +2.55% 6
West Midlands -3 17 £77,500 +29.17% 6
Northern Ireland +25 11 £70,000 -13.85% 4
East Midlands -30 9 £60,000 -26.15% 3
Wales -1 4 £72,500 +57.61% 5
North East -34 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1

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
1 208 (17.32%) Apache Spark
2 98 (8.16%) FileNet
3 82 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (5.33%) Apache
5 32 (2.66%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.75%) GemFire
7 17 (1.42%) Confluence
8 10 (0.83%) nginx
9 8 (0.67%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.17%) JBoss
12 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Liferay
12 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.083%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 682 (56.79%) AWS
2 272 (22.65%) Azure
3 172 (14.32%) GCP
4 141 (11.74%) Amazon S3
5 82 (6.83%) GitHub
6 56 (4.66%) Serverless
7 37 (3.08%) SaaS
8 31 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
9 30 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 26 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.92%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (1.58%) Slack
17 17 (1.42%) Google Docs
17 17 (1.42%) Lucidchart
17 17 (1.42%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.50%) Firewall
2 17 (1.42%) DSL
2 17 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 16 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.08%) HTTP
4 13 (1.08%) MQTT
5 7 (0.58%) AMQP
6 6 (0.50%) FTP
6 6 (0.50%) Network Security
6 6 (0.50%) VPN
7 5 (0.42%) SSL
8 3 (0.25%) Broadband
8 3 (0.25%) DNS
8 3 (0.25%) NaaS
8 3 (0.25%) Wireless
9 1 (0.083%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.083%) PPP
9 1 (0.083%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.083%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (23.40%) NoSQL
2 215 (17.90%) Elasticsearch
3 183 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
4 167 (13.91%) MongoDB
5 156 (12.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 151 (12.57%) Big Data
7 125 (10.41%) Hadoop
8 90 (7.49%) Redis
9 87 (7.24%) Relational Database
10 81 (6.74%) MySQL
11 61 (5.08%) SQL Server
12 49 (4.08%) Data Lake
13 47 (3.91%) CockroachDB
14 46 (3.83%) Flink
15 43 (3.58%) BigQuery
16 34 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (2.41%) Data Mining
17 29 (2.41%) Tableau
18 23 (1.92%) RDBMS
19 22 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 146 (12.16%) Jenkins
2 133 (11.07%) JUnit
3 113 (9.41%) Git
4 48 (4.00%) Mockito
5 46 (3.83%) Jasmine
6 45 (3.75%) JIRA
7 42 (3.50%) Maven
8 38 (3.16%) GitLab
9 34 (2.83%) Cucumber
10 29 (2.41%) Jaeger
11 27 (2.25%) Cypress.io
12 19 (1.58%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (1.00%) Spinnaker
15 10 (0.83%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
16 9 (0.75%) Selenium
17 8 (0.67%) Gradle
18 7 (0.58%) CircleCI
18 7 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 602 (50.12%) Finance
2 403 (33.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 379 (31.56%) Law
4 215 (17.90%) Banking
5 204 (16.99%) Social Skills
6 140 (11.66%) Marketing
7 125 (10.41%) Legal
8 91 (7.58%) Investment Banking
9 76 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (3.75%) Retail Banking
11 44 (3.66%) Financial Institution
12 42 (3.50%) Games
13 27 (2.25%) Retail
14 23 (1.92%) Prime Brokerage
15 22 (1.83%) Front Office
16 19 (1.58%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.25%) Private Banking
18 10 (0.83%) Automotive
18 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 476 (39.63%) Software Engineer
2 310 (25.81%) Senior
3 303 (25.23%) Developer
4 273 (22.73%) Java Engineer
5 258 (21.48%) Lead
6 239 (19.90%) Java Software Engineer
7 151 (12.57%) Full Stack Engineer
8 146 (12.16%) Lead Software Engineer
9 137 (11.41%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 125 (10.41%) Data Engineer
10 125 (10.41%) Senior Developer
11 113 (9.41%) Java Developer
12 99 (8.24%) Architect
13 90 (7.49%) Lead Java Engineer
14 88 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 69 (5.75%) Python Engineer
16 62 (5.16%) .NET Developer
17 51 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
18 50 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
19 49 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (34.97%) Spring
2 283 (23.56%) Spring Boot
3 242 (20.15%) React
4 216 (17.99%) AngularJS
5 192 (15.99%) GraphQL
6 161 (13.41%) Node.js
7 148 (12.32%) REST
8 140 (11.66%) J2EE
9 131 (10.91%) Hibernate
10 124 (10.32%) RabbitMQ
11 122 (10.16%) Web Services
12 117 (9.74%) .NET
13 109 (9.08%) CSS
14 107 (8.91%) Spring Integration
15 101 (8.41%) HTML
16 97 (8.08%) JMS
17 91 (7.58%) RESTful
18 83 (6.91%) JSON
19 57 (4.75%) jQuery
19 57 (4.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 236 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 151 (12.57%) Algorithms
3 69 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 53 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
6 45 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 43 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (3.25%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.83%) Client/Server
10 30 (2.50%) Product Ownership
11 29 (2.41%) Replication
12 24 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.75%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.50%) Reference Data
15 17 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.42%) Sports Betting
16 15 (1.25%) PropTech
17 13 (1.08%) Hedge funds
18 11 (0.92%) Cyberattack
18 11 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.33%) Linux
2 21 (1.75%) Unix
3 17 (1.42%) Windows
4 13 (1.08%) Solaris
5 12 (1.00%) CentOS
5 12 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.00%) zOS
6 5 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.25%) Debian
8 2 (0.17%) Android
8 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (55.45%) Agile
2 646 (53.79%) Software Engineering
3 531 (44.21%) Microservices
4 525 (43.71%) CI/CD
5 385 (32.06%) SDLC
6 319 (26.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 301 (25.06%) Machine Learning
8 287 (23.90%) Operational Stability
9 264 (21.98%) DevOps
10 218 (18.15%) Community of Practice
11 207 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
12 203 (16.90%) TDD
13 190 (15.82%) Computer Science
14 155 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 149 (12.41%) Visualisation
16 147 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
17 140 (11.66%) Risk Management
18 127 (10.57%) Analytics
18 127 (10.57%) Decision-Making
19 112 (9.33%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 759 (63.20%) Java
2 510 (42.46%) SQL
3 361 (30.06%) Python
4 178 (14.82%) JavaScript
5 142 (11.82%) TypeScript
6 128 (10.66%) C#
7 120 (9.99%) Go
8 86 (7.16%) Scala
9 61 (5.08%) Kotlin
10 27 (2.25%) Groovy
11 22 (1.83%) Bash
12 19 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.33%) C
14 12 (1.00%) Clojure
15 10 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.75%) C++
17 5 (0.42%) R
17 5 (0.42%) VBA
18 4 (0.33%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 158 (13.16%) Degree
2 76 (6.33%) Master's Degree
3 74 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 57 (4.75%) SC Cleared
6 25 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.58%) PhD
8 13 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.33%) CISM
9 4 (0.33%) CISSP
10 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.75%) QA
2 17 (1.42%) SLA
3 12 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.42%) MiFID
7 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.33%) NIST
8 3 (0.25%) GRC
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.17%) SEPA
10 1 (0.083%) GDPR
10 1 (0.083%) WCAG
System Software
1 345 (28.73%) Docker
2 13 (1.08%) HDFS
3 4 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.17%) IAG
5 1 (0.083%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 575 (47.88%) Kubernetes
2 101 (8.41%) Terraform
3 70 (5.83%) Grafana
4 47 (3.91%) Ansible
5 38 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.83%) Kibana
7 26 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.75%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.75%) Zipkin
9 9 (0.75%) Kiali
10 7 (0.58%) Graphite
11 5 (0.42%) Argo
11 5 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.42%) Puppet
12 4 (0.33%) Istio
12 4 (0.33%) logstash
13 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.17%) Oozie
14 2 (0.17%) Podman
14 2 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 189 (15.74%) Oracle
2 105 (8.74%) Google
3 81 (6.74%) Splunk
4 69 (5.75%) Databricks
5 56 (4.66%) Microsoft
6 36 (3.00%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.92%) Sybase
8 18 (1.50%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.50%) Cloudera
9 17 (1.42%) Cognos
9 17 (1.42%) Dell
10 16 (1.33%) Confluent
11 14 (1.17%) Apple
11 14 (1.17%) IBM
11 14 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.17%) Teradata
12 13 (1.08%) AppDynamics
13 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.50%) YouTube