Kafka Jobs in the East of England

Apache Kafka
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 205 147
Rank change year-on-year +41 -58 +35
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 23 19 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.68% 0.31% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 1.82% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 13
10th Percentile £65,400 £59,500 -
25th Percentile £69,750 £78,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +36.00% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 582 1,043 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.16% 16.89% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 382 928 576
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,356
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,296 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East of England

Kafka
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East of England.

Salary trend for Kafka in the East of England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the East of England

Kafka
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bedfordshire - 12 £90,000 - 6
Hertfordshire +22 4 £74,500 -12.35% 11
Norfolk - 3 - - 3
Cambridgeshire +41 2 - - 11
Essex - 2 - - 10
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (56.52%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Azure
3 13 (56.52%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) MinIO
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) Big Data
3 3 (13.04%) OLTP
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
4 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Selenium
2 15 (65.22%) Bitbucket
2 15 (65.22%) Cucumber
2 15 (65.22%) GitLab
2 15 (65.22%) JIRA
2 15 (65.22%) Maven
2 15 (65.22%) SonarQube
2 15 (65.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.35%) Snyk
General
1 17 (73.91%) Banking
2 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 15 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (17.39%) Retail
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Games
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) PHP Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) React
2 15 (65.22%) CSS
2 15 (65.22%) HTML
2 15 (65.22%) JPA
2 15 (65.22%) Redux
2 15 (65.22%) Spring
2 15 (65.22%) Spring Boot
3 13 (56.52%) Hibernate
4 3 (13.04%) RESTful
5 2 (8.70%) CSS3
5 2 (8.70%) gRPC
5 2 (8.70%) HTML5
5 2 (8.70%) Jest
5 2 (8.70%) Node.js
5 2 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) Sass
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (4.35%) JWT
6 1 (4.35%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (65.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Reference Data
3 2 (8.70%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.35%) Online Games
4 1 (4.35%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Microservices
2 19 (82.61%) Agile
2 19 (82.61%) Software Engineering
2 19 (82.61%) Test Automation
3 18 (78.26%) DevOps
4 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
5 16 (69.57%) Containerisation
6 15 (65.22%) Front End Development
6 15 (65.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (65.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 15 (65.22%) SDLC
6 15 (65.22%) TDD
7 14 (60.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (56.52%) Clean Code
9 4 (17.39%) High Availability
9 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
9 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
11 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
11 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) JavaScript
2 16 (69.57%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Solace
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.35%) Black Duck
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) UiPath
3 1 (4.35%) VMware