Kafka Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 108 80
Rank change year-on-year +27 -28 +49
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 10 18 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.98% 0.92% 2.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.63% 7.59% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 15 17
10th Percentile £48,000 - -
25th Percentile £48,813 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £87,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +45.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £54,000 £91,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £62,000 - £81,000
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
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 86 237 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.41% 12.06% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 62 197 164
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,691 £40,150
25th Percentile £48,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -10.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £62,375 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,250 £82,125
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Buckinghamshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Buckinghamshire

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Buckinghamshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 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
Milton Keynes +42 5 £51,750 -40.86% 4
Bletchley - 3 £52,500 - 1
Buckingham - 1 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 4 (40.00%) Maven
3 4 (40.00%) Selenium
3 4 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (30.00%) JUnit
4 3 (30.00%) Mockito
General
1 7 (70.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (90.00%) React
3 8 (80.00%) Spring
4 7 (70.00%) Hibernate
5 4 (40.00%) CSS
5 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 4 (40.00%) JPA
5 4 (40.00%) Redux
5 4 (40.00%) RESTful
6 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (30.00%) OAuth
6 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (30.00%) Vue
7 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (70.00%) SDLC
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) TDD
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) API Development
5 3 (30.00%) Community of Practice
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) SOLID
5 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Solace
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) WSO2