Kafka Jobs in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 192 98
Rank change year-on-year -134 -94 +27
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 646 1,341 5,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 1.89% 3.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.37% 6.85% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 508 1,038 1,816
10th Percentile £42,500 £58,000 £53,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,735 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% +9.68%
75th Percentile £102,500 £114,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,483 £82,500
% change year-on-year -19.98% +6.04% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,775 19,575 55,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.86% 27.54% 37.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,265 14,385 26,277
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £109,865 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in England

Kafka
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
London -99 348 £95,000 - 40
South East +53 143 £52,500 -25.00% 18
North of England -51 86 £60,000 -20.00% 12
North West -34 60 £60,000 -20.00% 10
South West -28 35 £65,000 +1.20% 5
Yorkshire +17 23 £65,000 -17.27% 2
Midlands -37 15 £66,250 +8.16% 5
West Midlands -8 13 £73,750 +28.26% 5
East of England -23 8 £85,000 +36.00% 1
North East -12 3 £49,274 -24.19%
East Midlands -39 2 £52,500 -17.65%
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 95 (14.71%) Apache Spark
2 51 (7.89%) Apache
3 29 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.86%) nginx
5 11 (1.70%) Confluence
6 6 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 414 (64.09%) AWS
2 227 (35.14%) Azure
3 109 (16.87%) GCP
4 43 (6.66%) Serverless
5 26 (4.02%) Amazon S3
5 26 (4.02%) Snowflake
6 24 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
8 20 (3.10%) GitHub
9 18 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (2.63%) OpenShift
11 13 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (2.01%) Stackdriver
12 12 (1.86%) Google Gemini
12 12 (1.86%) SaaS
13 11 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.08%) HTTP
2 6 (0.93%) AMQP
2 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.77%) FTP
4 4 (0.62%) MQTT
4 4 (0.62%) Network Security
5 2 (0.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.31%) Firewall
5 2 (0.31%) PPP
6 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.15%) SSL
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (25.23%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (16.41%) MongoDB
3 91 (14.09%) Hadoop
4 73 (11.30%) NoSQL
5 61 (9.44%) Big Data
6 57 (8.82%) Relational Database
7 52 (8.05%) SQL Server
8 42 (6.50%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (6.35%) MySQL
10 37 (5.73%) BigQuery
10 37 (5.73%) Redis
11 28 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (3.87%) Flink
13 21 (3.25%) Data Mining
14 20 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (2.01%) DynamoDB
16 11 (1.70%) Neo4j
17 10 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.55%) Data Lake
18 8 (1.24%) Azkaban
Development Applications
1 89 (13.78%) Git
2 64 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.87%) GitLab
4 20 (3.10%) JIRA
5 19 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.32%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.01%) JUnit
8 11 (1.70%) Maven
9 10 (1.55%) Selenium
10 9 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.24%) Postman
11 8 (1.24%) RStudio
12 6 (0.93%) IntelliJ
12 6 (0.93%) Mocha
12 6 (0.93%) Mockito
13 5 (0.77%) GDB
13 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.77%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.62%) JMeter
General
1 201 (31.11%) Finance
2 153 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 71 (10.99%) Banking
4 35 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (4.49%) Retail Banking
7 26 (4.02%) Retail
8 19 (2.94%) Law
9 17 (2.63%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.48%) Front Office
10 16 (2.48%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.17%) Advertising
11 14 (2.17%) Games
12 10 (1.55%) Automotive
13 8 (1.24%) Back Office
13 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.24%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.08%) Retail Finance
15 5 (0.77%) Legal
15 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 231 (35.76%) Developer
2 220 (34.06%) Senior
3 104 (16.10%) Senior Developer
4 95 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 88 (13.62%) Java Developer
6 87 (13.47%) Lead
7 64 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (9.44%) Architect
9 48 (7.43%) Data Engineer
10 47 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (6.66%) .NET Developer
11 43 (6.66%) Java Engineer
12 41 (6.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 36 (5.57%) Technical Leader
14 23 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
15 22 (3.41%) C# Developer
15 22 (3.41%) Data Architect
15 22 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
16 21 (3.25%) Full Stack Engineer
17 19 (2.94%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (19.97%) Spring Boot
2 115 (17.80%) Spring
3 111 (17.18%) RabbitMQ
4 99 (15.33%) Node.js
5 94 (14.55%) React
6 83 (12.85%) .NET
7 80 (12.38%) REST
8 64 (9.91%) AngularJS
9 52 (8.05%) GraphQL
9 52 (8.05%) Web Services
10 49 (7.59%) RESTful
11 48 (7.43%) gRPC
12 31 (4.80%) Apache Beam
13 21 (3.25%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.25%) TensorFlow
14 20 (3.10%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.94%) .NET Core
15 19 (2.94%) JSON
16 18 (2.79%) CSS
16 18 (2.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.59%) Algorithms
2 40 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.80%) Data Structures
5 26 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 23 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.94%) Hedge funds
8 16 (2.48%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.70%) Sports Betting
10 10 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.39%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.24%) Blog
12 8 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.24%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.24%) Replication
12 8 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (1.08%) Digital Currency
14 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.67%) Linux
2 19 (2.94%) Unix
3 15 (2.32%) Windows
4 13 (2.01%) Solaris
5 12 (1.86%) CentOS
5 12 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.86%) zOS
6 4 (0.62%) Debian
6 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (42.26%) Microservices
2 212 (32.82%) Agile
3 205 (31.73%) DevOps
4 183 (28.33%) Software Engineering
5 153 (23.68%) CI/CD
6 130 (20.12%) TDD
7 92 (14.24%) Computer Science
8 84 (13.00%) Fintech
9 78 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (11.30%) Machine Learning
11 72 (11.15%) SDLC
12 69 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence
12 69 (10.68%) Event-Driven
13 67 (10.37%) Analytics
14 66 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
15 65 (10.06%) Mentoring
16 61 (9.44%) ETL
17 60 (9.29%) Full Stack Development
18 56 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
19 48 (7.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 340 (52.63%) Java
2 232 (35.91%) Python
3 204 (31.58%) SQL
4 76 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 74 (11.46%) C#
6 72 (11.15%) Go
7 70 (10.84%) TypeScript
8 48 (7.43%) Kotlin
9 41 (6.35%) Scala
10 15 (2.32%) Clojure
11 12 (1.86%) Bash
11 12 (1.86%) R
12 8 (1.24%) Rust
13 7 (1.08%) C++
14 6 (0.93%) Groovy
14 6 (0.93%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
15 2 (0.31%) VBA
16 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (13.16%) Degree
2 84 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 71 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.95%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.55%) PhD
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) CISM
9 4 (0.62%) CISSP
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.01%) PCI DSS
3 11 (1.70%) MiFID
3 11 (1.70%) QA
4 10 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.93%) GDPR
6 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.62%) NIST
8 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 222 (34.37%) Docker
2 7 (1.08%) HDFS
3 2 (0.31%) IAG
4 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 248 (38.39%) Kubernetes
2 67 (10.37%) Terraform
3 32 (4.95%) Ansible
4 25 (3.87%) Grafana
5 20 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.55%) Kibana
7 4 (0.62%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 3 (0.46%) Kiali
8 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.46%) Podman
9 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 2 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (6.35%) Google
2 28 (4.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.25%) Databricks
4 19 (2.94%) Oracle
5 17 (2.63%) Splunk
6 14 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.86%) IBM
7 12 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.39%) Apple
8 9 (1.39%) Cloudera
9 7 (1.08%) Informatica
10 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.77%) Reuters
11 4 (0.62%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.62%) Facebook
11 4 (0.62%) Qualys
11 4 (0.62%) Solace
11 4 (0.62%) Teradata
11 4 (0.62%) Vertica
12 3 (0.46%) StreamSets