Kafka Jobs in Bedfordshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 12 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.13% - 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.29% - 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87,500 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £71,500 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.88% +36.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bedfordshire

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 35 69 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.22% 15.33% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16 63 94
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £36,474
25th Percentile £49,375 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £59,438 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £76,375
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Bedfordshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Bedfordshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Dunstable - 3 £90,000 -
Henlow - 1 - -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Bedford - 1 - - 25
Biggleswade - 1 - -
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 10 (83.33%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
1 10 (83.33%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Hive
2 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) OLTP
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Bitbucket
1 10 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 10 (83.33%) GitLab
1 10 (83.33%) JIRA
1 10 (83.33%) Maven
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
1 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
1 10 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
1 10 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
1 10 (83.33%) JPA
1 10 (83.33%) React
1 10 (83.33%) Redux
1 10 (83.33%) Spring
1 10 (83.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (83.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Clean Code
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Front End Development
2 10 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 10 (83.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 10 (83.33%) SDLC
2 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Conceptual Models
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (16.67%) Data Science
3 2 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Solace
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
50 Kafka jobs in Bedfordshire