The first table below looks at the demand for Kafka skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Kafka over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Kafka
Rank 865 898 -
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 6 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.005% 0.002% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.014% 0.006% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 0
Average salary £75,000 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+57.89% -
UK excluding London average salary - £47,500 -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44340 50052 51642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.19% 41.65% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 38570 44379 45779
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%

Kafka
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Kafka Jobs Demand Trend

Kafka
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK.

Kafka Salary Trend

Kafka
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Kafka over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

Kafka Salary Histogram

Kafka
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +54 6 £75,000 +42.85% 3
England +35 6 £75,000 +57.89% 3
City of London 0 4 £73,750 +40.47% 3

Kafka
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Kafka also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Kafka.

1 16 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 16 (100.00%) Big Data
2 15 (93.75%) HBase
3 11 (68.75%) NoSQL
3 11 (68.75%) Data Mining
4 9 (56.25%) MapReduce
4 9 (56.25%) Apache Hive
4 9 (56.25%) Apache Pig
5 8 (50.00%) OpenStack
5 8 (50.00%) Java
5 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 8 (50.00%) MySQL
5 8 (50.00%) Windows
5 8 (50.00%) Linux
5 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (50.00%) Windows Azure
5 8 (50.00%) Complex Event Processing
5 8 (50.00%) Statistics
6 7 (43.75%) Scala
7 6 (37.50%) Degree
7 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
8 5 (31.25%) UNIX
8 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
8 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
8 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
8 5 (31.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (25.00%) HTTP
10 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
10 3 (18.75%) Shell Script

Kafka
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Kafka also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Kafka. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (56.25%) MapReduce
2 1 (6.250%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) Apache Pig
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 8 (50.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) HTTP
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 16 (100.00%) Big Data
2 15 (93.75%) HBase
3 11 (68.75%) Data Mining
3 11 (68.75%) NoSQL
4 9 (56.25%) Apache Hive
5 8 (50.00%) MySQL
6 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
7 2 (12.50%) Text Mining
8 1 (6.250%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (6.250%) Redis
General
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) Big Data Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Scala Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Statistics
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (6.250%) Mathematics
4 1 (6.250%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Complex Event Processing
2 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (18.75%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (6.250%) TDD
6 1 (6.250%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Scala
3 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
City, London
SQL. MySql NoSQL OpenStack, Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Kafka, Hbase linux . Windows Azure, Amazon EC2) to be able to design and build robust solutions for big data problems...
IT Talent Solutions
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum + bonus company shares
Posted: 12 June 2013
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