Kafka Jobs in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 139 95
Rank change year-on-year -170 -44 +39
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 769 2,338 4,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.90% 2.60% 3.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.41% 8.67% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 645 1,291 1,775
10th Percentile £48,000 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £70,735 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £76,250 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.82% +10.60% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England 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 17,425 26,952 52,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.29% 29.96% 39.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14,150 16,729 26,526
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,563
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.89% +13.75%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in England

Kafka
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -102 444 £90,000 -10.00% 144
South East -4 128 £57,500 -15.44% 25
North of England -68 84 £65,000 - 23
North West -38 63 £62,500 -10.00% 13
South West -60 54 £67,500 +3.85% 9
Midlands -43 27 £73,500 +18.55% 13
Yorkshire +26 19 £71,538 +14.46% 9
West Midlands -14 18 £77,500 +25.00% 7
East of England -44 17 £85,000 +47.83% 7
East Midlands -28 10 £60,000 - 6
North East -35 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 121 (15.73%) Apache Spark
2 58 (7.54%) Apache
3 36 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.69%) Confluence
5 10 (1.30%) nginx
6 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) CMS
8 2 (0.26%) IIS
8 2 (0.26%) Liferay
8 2 (0.26%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 462 (60.08%) AWS
2 224 (29.13%) Azure
3 127 (16.51%) GCP
4 47 (6.11%) Serverless
5 41 (5.33%) GitHub
6 26 (3.38%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 22 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.60%) OpenShift
11 19 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (1.69%) npm
13 13 (1.69%) SaaS
14 11 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.30%) Power Platform
16 9 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.21%) Firewall
2 7 (0.91%) AMQP
3 6 (0.78%) FTP
3 6 (0.78%) Network Security
3 6 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.39%) HTTP
4 3 (0.39%) VPN
5 2 (0.26%) DNS
5 2 (0.26%) MQTT
5 2 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (22.24%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (13.91%) MongoDB
3 104 (13.52%) Hadoop
4 98 (12.74%) NoSQL
5 85 (11.05%) MySQL
6 81 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
7 74 (9.62%) Big Data
7 74 (9.62%) Redis
8 69 (8.97%) Relational Database
9 58 (7.54%) SQL Server
10 42 (5.46%) Flink
11 38 (4.94%) BigQuery
12 35 (4.55%) Data Lake
12 35 (4.55%) Data Mining
13 30 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (3.12%) Apache Ignite
15 22 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
17 15 (1.95%) CouchDB
18 13 (1.69%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 96 (12.48%) Git
2 86 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.94%) JIRA
4 35 (4.55%) GitLab
5 22 (2.86%) Maven
6 19 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 16 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.56%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.43%) JUnit
10 9 (1.17%) Gradle
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (1.17%) Selenium
10 9 (1.17%) Spinnaker
11 8 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.04%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.91%) Mocha
12 7 (0.91%) Postman
12 7 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.78%) JMeter
14 5 (0.65%) GDB
General
1 225 (29.26%) Finance
2 147 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 109 (14.17%) Banking
4 64 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.46%) Games
6 38 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.94%) Retail Banking
7 31 (4.03%) Law
8 30 (3.90%) Retail
9 23 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 23 (2.99%) Front Office
10 19 (2.47%) Public Sector
11 15 (1.95%) Marketing
12 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.30%) Publishing
13 8 (1.04%) Automotive
13 8 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.78%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.65%) Advertising
15 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 291 (37.84%) Developer
2 251 (32.64%) Senior
3 121 (15.73%) Senior Developer
4 112 (14.56%) Lead
5 107 (13.91%) Software Engineer
6 105 (13.65%) Java Developer
7 78 (10.14%) Architect
8 76 (9.88%) Java Engineer
9 72 (9.36%) Data Engineer
10 66 (8.58%) .NET Developer
11 42 (5.46%) Technical Leader
12 39 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
13 36 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (4.68%) Senior Java Developer
13 36 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (4.16%) Senior .NET Developer
15 29 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
16 27 (3.51%) Full Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.38%) Senior Java Engineer
18 25 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (24.19%) Spring Boot
2 142 (18.47%) Spring
3 116 (15.08%) .NET
4 113 (14.69%) React
5 110 (14.30%) RabbitMQ
6 86 (11.18%) REST
7 84 (10.92%) AngularJS
8 82 (10.66%) Node.js
9 53 (6.89%) GraphQL
10 51 (6.63%) RESTful
11 48 (6.24%) Web Services
12 46 (5.98%) gRPC
13 42 (5.46%) Apache Beam
14 33 (4.29%) CSS
15 27 (3.51%) Django
16 25 (3.25%) .NET Core
16 25 (3.25%) HTML
17 22 (2.86%) Middleware
18 19 (2.47%) Hibernate
19 18 (2.34%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.54%) Algorithms
2 56 (7.28%) Greenfield Project
3 41 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (4.68%) Data Structures
5 34 (4.42%) Client/Server
6 21 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.21%) Sports Betting
8 15 (1.95%) PropTech
9 13 (1.69%) Hedge funds
9 13 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.04%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.04%) Replication
13 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.58%) Linux
2 17 (2.21%) Windows
3 15 (1.95%) Unix
4 13 (1.69%) Solaris
5 12 (1.56%) CentOS
5 12 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.56%) zOS
6 3 (0.39%) Android
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (40.57%) Microservices
2 305 (39.66%) Agile
3 248 (32.25%) Software Engineering
4 206 (26.79%) CI/CD
5 197 (25.62%) DevOps
6 162 (21.07%) TDD
7 113 (14.69%) Computer Science
8 89 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
9 88 (11.44%) SDLC
10 84 (10.92%) Mentoring
11 82 (10.66%) Analytics
12 81 (10.53%) Fintech
13 76 (9.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 73 (9.49%) Data Pipeline
15 68 (8.84%) Machine Learning
16 67 (8.71%) Continuous Integration
16 67 (8.71%) Full Stack Development
17 60 (7.80%) Data Modelling
18 59 (7.67%) Mathematics
19 57 (7.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 402 (52.28%) Java
2 232 (30.17%) SQL
3 229 (29.78%) Python
4 130 (16.91%) C#
5 94 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 92 (11.96%) Go
7 83 (10.79%) TypeScript
8 60 (7.80%) Kotlin
9 50 (6.50%) Scala
10 16 (2.08%) C
11 10 (1.30%) Clojure
12 7 (0.91%) C++
13 6 (0.78%) Groovy
14 5 (0.65%) R
14 5 (0.65%) VBA
15 4 (0.52%) Bash
15 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.52%) Rust
15 4 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 119 (15.47%) Degree
2 53 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 49 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.07%) Master's Degree
5 37 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.30%) PhD
7 9 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.52%) CISM
10 4 (0.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.82%) QA
2 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.52%) MiFID
5 4 (0.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 294 (38.23%) Docker
2 13 (1.69%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.26%) IAG
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 331 (43.04%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.93%) Terraform
3 40 (5.20%) Ansible
4 20 (2.60%) Grafana
5 16 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.30%) Kibana
7 6 (0.78%) Kiali
8 4 (0.52%) Argo
8 4 (0.52%) Istio
8 4 (0.52%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.52%) logstash
8 4 (0.52%) Puppet
9 3 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.26%) Oozie
10 2 (0.26%) Podman
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 63 (8.19%) Google
2 57 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.55%) Databricks
4 30 (3.90%) Oracle
5 22 (2.86%) Splunk
6 17 (2.21%) Cloudera
7 15 (1.95%) Apple
8 13 (1.69%) Teradata
9 12 (1.56%) Confluent
9 12 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.30%) IBM
10 10 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.04%) YouTube
12 7 (0.91%) Facebook
13 5 (0.65%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.65%) Informatica
13 5 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.52%) Reuters
14 4 (0.52%) Vertica