Kafka Jobs in the South West

Apache Kafka
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 166 187
Rank change year-on-year -59 +21 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 66 103 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 1.47% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 5.64% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 57 44 58
10th Percentile £42,800 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £69,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £94,550 £90,125 £90,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 the South West 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 1,950 1,826 2,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 21.31% 26.06% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,538 1,097 1,856
10th Percentile £32,025 £35,575 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Kafka in the South West

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the South West

Kafka
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Bristol +10 50 £70,576 +17.63% 7
Dorset -15 9 £52,500 -26.32%
Gloucestershire -54 3 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Wiltshire -10 2 £51,250 -39.71%
Somerset -1 1 £57,500 -
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 6 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) AWS
2 23 (34.85%) GCP
3 21 (31.82%) Azure
4 8 (12.12%) GitHub
5 6 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.09%) Vertex AI
6 5 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.03%) npm
8 2 (3.03%) Serverless
8 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.52%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) Relational Database
2 23 (34.85%) Big Data
3 17 (25.76%) MySQL
4 14 (21.21%) BigQuery
5 13 (19.70%) Data Lake
6 11 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 11 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
8 9 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (12.12%) Hadoop
10 7 (10.61%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (10.61%) Flink
10 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
11 6 (9.09%) Bigtable
11 6 (9.09%) Looker
11 6 (9.09%) Power BI
11 6 (9.09%) Tableau
12 3 (4.55%) RDBMS
13 1 (1.52%) Redis
13 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (15.15%) Git
3 7 (10.61%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (7.58%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.58%) Maven
5 3 (4.55%) JUnit
6 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.03%) Selenium
6 2 (3.03%) Spinnaker
General
1 30 (45.45%) Finance
2 22 (33.33%) Banking
3 11 (16.67%) Retail
4 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.58%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.06%) Social Skills
8 3 (4.55%) Tech for Good
9 2 (3.03%) Games
10 1 (1.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Java Engineer
2 18 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Java Software Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Developer
5 11 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 10 (15.15%) Data Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Architect
8 8 (12.12%) Lead
9 6 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) Senior
9 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (7.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) AWS Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) Junior
11 3 (4.55%) Technical Architect
12 2 (3.03%) Junior Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Junior Java Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 22 (33.33%) Spring
3 15 (22.73%) AngularJS
4 13 (19.70%) React
5 9 (13.64%) REST
6 7 (10.61%) Apache Beam
6 7 (10.61%) Hibernate
7 5 (7.58%) JPA
7 5 (7.58%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.58%) Swagger
8 3 (4.55%) Java SE
8 3 (4.55%) JSON
8 3 (4.55%) Playwright
9 2 (3.03%) Middleware
9 2 (3.03%) Node.js
9 2 (3.03%) RESTful
10 1 (1.52%) .NET
10 1 (1.52%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (1.52%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Structures
1 7 (10.61%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.58%) Blockchain
2 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Robotics
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (63.64%) Agile
2 36 (54.55%) Microservices
3 34 (51.52%) Software Engineering
4 18 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (19.70%) Data Engineering
6 13 (19.70%) Machine Learning
7 12 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (15.15%) Code Quality
8 10 (15.15%) Scrum
9 9 (13.64%) Analytics
9 9 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (12.12%) ETL
10 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
10 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
11 7 (10.61%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 54 (81.82%) Java
2 19 (28.79%) SQL
3 18 (27.27%) Python
4 12 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 8 (12.12%) Scala
7 7 (10.61%) Go
8 3 (4.55%) Rust
9 2 (3.03%) C++
10 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 42 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (57.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.61%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Oracle
2 8 (12.12%) Google
3 7 (10.61%) Teradata
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Informatica
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk