Kafka Jobs in the Thames Valley

Apache Kafka
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 193 215
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 48 70 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.71% 1.14% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.92% 3.97% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 42 28 35
10th Percentile - £45,625 £41,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £50,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,125 £83,125
90th Percentile £115,000 £78,250 £86,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% -15.63% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 1,226 1,763 2,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 28.75% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 975 1,054 1,357
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £81,100
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

Kafka
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the Thames Valley

Kafka
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +26 27 £60,000 - 3
Buckinghamshire -29 17 £87,500 +45.83% 4
Oxfordshire +6 4 £65,000 +115.19% 2
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 22 (45.83%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) Firebolt
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.17%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.08%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) IaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.08%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (22.92%) MySQL
2 11 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (16.67%) CouchDB
4 4 (8.33%) Redis
5 3 (6.25%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.25%) Impala
5 3 (6.25%) Sqoop
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.17%) Big Data
6 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.08%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Bitbucket
2 8 (16.67%) Gradle
3 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.17%) Git
4 2 (4.17%) JUnit
4 2 (4.17%) Postman
4 2 (4.17%) Selenium
4 2 (4.17%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.17%) TestNG
5 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.08%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.08%) JMeter
5 1 (2.08%) jMock
5 1 (2.08%) Maven
5 1 (2.08%) Mockito
5 1 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (27.08%) Lead
3 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 10 (20.83%) Java Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Senior
5 8 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 7 (14.58%) Lead Java Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Junior
8 4 (8.33%) Junior Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Junior Java Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Python Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) IT Support
9 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) Spring Boot
2 12 (25.00%) Spring
3 9 (18.75%) React Native
4 8 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 7 (14.58%) React
6 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.33%) Django
6 4 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (6.25%) REST
7 3 (6.25%) Web Services
8 2 (4.17%) .NET
8 2 (4.17%) Celery
8 2 (4.17%) Gherkin
8 2 (4.17%) Node.js
8 2 (4.17%) RESTful
8 2 (4.17%) SOAP
9 1 (2.08%) Apache Camel
9 1 (2.08%) PowerMock
9 1 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 8 (16.67%) PropTech
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Microservices
2 26 (54.17%) Agile
3 18 (37.50%) TDD
4 16 (33.33%) DevOps
4 16 (33.33%) SDLC
5 14 (29.17%) Mentoring
6 12 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
6 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 11 (22.92%) Computer Science
7 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) Machine Learning
9 9 (18.75%) Pair Programming
9 9 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (16.67%) E-Commerce
11 7 (14.58%) Architectural Design
12 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 4 (8.33%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (72.92%) Java
2 21 (43.75%) Python
3 17 (35.42%) SQL
4 13 (27.08%) Kotlin
5 9 (18.75%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.25%) Scala
7 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.17%) C#
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (62.50%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) Consul
3 1 (2.08%) Kibana
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Cloudera
1 3 (6.25%) Informatica
2 2 (4.17%) Databricks
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle