Kafka Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 88 64
Rank change year-on-year +27 -24 +75
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 4 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.59% 0.17% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.48% 0.97% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £57,000 £56,625 £54,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -18.97% +7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £59,688 £78,125
90th Percentile £83,000 £59,875 £79,250
East of England median annual salary £75,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.25% -4.00% -8.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 115 207 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 17.06% 17.47% 25.58%
Number of salaries quoted 93 107 108
10th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,950 £90,000 £87,375
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Cambridgeshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Cambridgeshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Cambridge +8 2 £70,000 +19.15% 2
St Neots - 1 - -
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) Redux
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
3 1 (25.00%) Micronaut
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Solace