Kafka Job Trends in East Sussex

Apache Kafka
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East Sussex 0.54% 0.28% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 0.74% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £92,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £95,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £97,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 114 136 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Sussex 20.47% 37.57% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 100 114 164
10th Percentile £45,000 £27,500 £37,613
25th Percentile £53,250 £36,563 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £76,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Kafka job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Kafka
Salary Trend in East Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
Brighton -7 3 £60,000 -36.84% 2
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) Flink
1 3 (100.00%) Looker
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Confluent
1 3 (100.00%) Google