Kafka Jobs in Berkshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 133 169
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 -15
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 15 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.93% 0.75% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 3.47% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 8
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £53,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,500 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -12.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £105,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £114,000 £115,000 £73,250
South East median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -15.44% -15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 244 663 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.10% 21.64% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 165 481 636
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Reading +44 12 £93,750 +33.93% 11
Slough -27 3 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (13.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Serverless
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (33.33%) Azure
6 4 (26.67%) GCP
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
3 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) Pinecone
4 2 (13.33%) Weaviate
5 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 2 (13.33%) MLflow
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics Director
5 2 (13.33%) Project Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Project Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) React
2 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (40.00%) Mustache
2 6 (40.00%) Node.js
2 6 (40.00%) REST
2 6 (40.00%) Spring
2 6 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) NumPy
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 2 (13.33%) scikit-learn
3 2 (13.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Material-UI
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) Microservices
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) TDD
5 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 5 (33.33%) SDLC
6 4 (26.67%) Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) High Availability
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) R
5 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (13.33%) Def Stans
3 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Kubeflow
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) VMware