Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 271 216
Rank change year-on-year +1 -55 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 745 729 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 1.21% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 4.40% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 323 331 610
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,956 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -12.06% +25.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,903 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,328 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.41% +10.60% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 14,341 16,554 23,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.21% 27.47% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 9,129 14,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +58 423 £67,788 -2.39% 21
South East +4 128 £57,500 -14.81% 22
North of England -76 84 £65,000 - 22
North West -36 63 £62,500 -8.72% 13
South West -67 55 £66,250 +1.92% 6
Midlands -24 27 £73,500 +18.55% 14
Yorkshire +17 19 £71,538 +16.80% 8
West Midlands -3 18 £77,500 +25.00% 8
East of England -49 17 £85,000 +61.90% 7
East Midlands -25 10 £60,000 - 6
Northern Ireland +28 8 £70,000 +5.66% 4
Wales +3 4 £72,500 +52.63% 4
North East -31 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 125 (16.78%) Apache Spark
2 98 (13.15%) FileNet
3 55 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.82%) GemFire
6 18 (2.42%) Apache
7 8 (1.07%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.81%) Confluence
9 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.27%) Liferay
10 2 (0.27%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 371 (49.80%) AWS
2 154 (20.67%) Azure
3 127 (17.05%) Amazon S3
4 94 (12.62%) GCP
5 63 (8.46%) GitHub
6 41 (5.50%) SaaS
7 35 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (3.36%) Serverless
9 23 (3.09%) Google Docs
9 23 (3.09%) Lucidchart
9 23 (3.09%) Miro
9 23 (3.09%) Slack
10 18 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.01%) BlazeMeter
13 12 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.61%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.48%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (1.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.42%) DSL
2 17 (2.28%) Kerberos
3 9 (1.21%) MQTT
4 7 (0.94%) Firewall
4 7 (0.94%) HTTP
4 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (28.59%) NoSQL
2 175 (23.49%) Elasticsearch
3 138 (18.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 117 (15.70%) Big Data
5 111 (14.90%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (13.56%) MongoDB
7 68 (9.13%) Hadoop
8 64 (8.59%) Relational Database
9 54 (7.25%) Redis
10 42 (5.64%) MySQL
11 38 (5.10%) CockroachDB
12 27 (3.62%) Data Lake
13 24 (3.22%) Tableau
14 23 (3.09%) RDBMS
14 23 (3.09%) Scylla
15 22 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
15 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.82%) Hazelcast
17 20 (2.68%) DB2
18 17 (2.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 134 (17.99%) JUnit
2 90 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 75 (10.07%) Git
4 49 (6.58%) Mockito
5 46 (6.17%) Jasmine
6 33 (4.43%) Maven
7 28 (3.76%) Cucumber
8 27 (3.62%) JIRA
9 21 (2.82%) Jaeger
10 18 (2.42%) Cypress.io
11 15 (2.01%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.61%) GitLab
13 10 (1.34%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.07%) Gradle
14 8 (1.07%) Selenium
15 7 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
15 7 (0.94%) Spinnaker
16 6 (0.81%) Eclipse
16 6 (0.81%) Postman
17 5 (0.67%) GDB
General
1 478 (64.16%) Finance
2 383 (51.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 354 (47.52%) Law
4 149 (20.00%) Banking
5 130 (17.45%) Marketing
6 124 (16.64%) Legal
7 115 (15.44%) Social Skills
8 86 (11.54%) Investment Banking
9 35 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (3.49%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.95%) Prime Brokerage
12 20 (2.68%) Retail
13 15 (2.01%) Private Banking
14 13 (1.74%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.34%) Publishing
16 9 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.94%) Automotive
17 7 (0.94%) Games
18 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 424 (56.91%) Software Engineer
2 251 (33.69%) Java Engineer
3 223 (29.93%) Java Software Engineer
4 174 (23.36%) Lead
5 154 (20.67%) Senior
6 152 (20.40%) Developer
7 142 (19.06%) Lead Software Engineer
8 140 (18.79%) Full Stack Engineer
9 137 (18.39%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 87 (11.68%) Lead Java Engineer
11 82 (11.01%) Data Engineer
12 71 (9.53%) Senior Developer
13 56 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 53 (7.11%) Python Engineer
15 48 (6.44%) Architect
15 48 (6.44%) Java Developer
16 47 (6.31%) Python Software Engineer
17 41 (5.50%) Big Data Engineer
18 40 (5.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 33 (4.43%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (46.31%) Spring
2 188 (25.23%) AngularJS
3 182 (24.43%) GraphQL
4 180 (24.16%) React
4 180 (24.16%) Spring Boot
5 140 (18.79%) J2EE
6 129 (17.32%) Hibernate
7 120 (16.11%) REST
8 117 (15.70%) Node.js
9 116 (15.57%) Web Services
10 104 (13.96%) Spring Integration
11 94 (12.62%) JMS
12 88 (11.81%) HTML
13 87 (11.68%) CSS
14 80 (10.74%) JSON
15 70 (9.40%) RabbitMQ
16 60 (8.05%) .NET
17 59 (7.92%) RESTful
18 55 (7.38%) jQuery
19 54 (7.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (29.53%) Cloud Native
2 120 (16.11%) Algorithms
3 57 (7.65%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.37%) Data Structures
5 39 (5.23%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.70%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.82%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.82%) Replication
10 19 (2.55%) Reference Data
11 18 (2.42%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
13 10 (1.34%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.34%) Robotics
14 9 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.07%) PropTech
16 7 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.09%) Linux
2 5 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (75.30%) Agile
2 492 (66.04%) Software Engineering
3 394 (52.89%) CI/CD
4 363 (48.72%) Microservices
5 328 (44.03%) SDLC
6 290 (38.93%) Operational Stability
7 272 (36.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 247 (33.15%) Machine Learning
9 219 (29.40%) Community of Practice
10 172 (23.09%) Full Stack Development
11 132 (17.72%) Computer Science
12 131 (17.58%) TDD
13 129 (17.32%) DevOps
14 125 (16.78%) Risk Management
15 124 (16.64%) Decision-Making
16 115 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 113 (15.17%) Visualisation
18 99 (13.29%) Architectural Design
19 98 (13.15%) AOP
19 98 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 529 (71.01%) Java
2 383 (51.41%) SQL
3 236 (31.68%) Python
4 131 (17.58%) JavaScript
5 108 (14.50%) TypeScript
6 90 (12.08%) Go
7 56 (7.52%) C#
8 55 (7.38%) Scala
9 27 (3.62%) Bash
10 22 (2.95%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.82%) Groovy
12 15 (2.01%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.54%) VB
15 3 (0.40%) C++
15 3 (0.40%) Rust
16 2 (0.27%) C
16 2 (0.27%) PHP
16 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 77 (10.34%) Degree
2 58 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (5.23%) Master's Degree
4 38 (5.10%) Security Cleared
5 35 (4.70%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.94%) PhD
8 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.42%) SLA
2 10 (1.34%) QA
3 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 206 (27.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 378 (50.74%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.11%) Terraform
3 50 (6.71%) Grafana
4 27 (3.62%) Kibana
5 26 (3.49%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (2.95%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.82%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.82%) Zipkin
8 17 (2.28%) Ansible
9 7 (0.94%) Graphite
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) Oozie
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 182 (24.43%) Oracle
2 70 (9.40%) Google
3 59 (7.92%) Splunk
4 45 (6.04%) Databricks
5 36 (4.83%) Dynatrace
6 26 (3.49%) Microsoft
7 24 (3.22%) Dell
8 23 (3.09%) Sybase
9 18 (2.42%) Alteryx
9 18 (2.42%) Cognos
10 13 (1.74%) Teradata
11 11 (1.48%) Confluent
12 10 (1.34%) Apple
13 6 (0.81%) IBM
14 5 (0.67%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.67%) CA
14 5 (0.67%) Informatica
14 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.40%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.40%) Salesforce