Kafka Jobs in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 133 100
Rank change year-on-year -166 -33 +37
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 791 2,479 4,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.93% 2.66% 3.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.57% 8.83% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 662 1,344 1,778
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,111 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £70,735 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,316 28,085 51,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.42% 30.13% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,047 17,318 26,934
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -103 451 £92,500 -7.50% 143
South East +2 119 £57,500 -14.81% 21
North of England -66 92 £65,000 - 22
North West -28 68 £62,500 -7.41% 15
South West -38 64 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Midlands -16 31 £73,500 +18.55% 12
Yorkshire +29 22 £72,500 +20.83% 5
West Midlands +16 22 £77,500 +25.00% 8
East of England -48 17 £85,000 +61.90% 7
East Midlands -25 12 £66,750 +18.67% 4
North East -31 2 £57,500 -8.00% 2
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
1 124 (15.68%) Apache Spark
2 66 (8.34%) Apache
3 37 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.64%) Confluence
5 10 (1.26%) nginx
6 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) IIS
7 2 (0.25%) Liferay
7 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.13%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 471 (59.54%) AWS
2 223 (28.19%) Azure
3 141 (17.83%) GCP
4 54 (6.83%) GitHub
5 45 (5.69%) Serverless
6 31 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.29%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.29%) Snowflake
9 23 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.53%) OpenShift
11 19 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (2.28%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.77%) SaaS
14 13 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.64%) npm
15 12 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.28%) Firewall
2 7 (0.88%) AMQP
3 5 (0.63%) FTP
3 5 (0.63%) Network Security
4 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.38%) HTTP
5 3 (0.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (20.86%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (13.78%) NoSQL
3 97 (12.26%) Hadoop
4 96 (12.14%) MongoDB
5 92 (11.63%) MySQL
6 85 (10.75%) Elasticsearch
7 83 (10.49%) Big Data
8 77 (9.73%) Relational Database
9 75 (9.48%) Redis
10 54 (6.83%) SQL Server
11 45 (5.69%) Data Lake
12 43 (5.44%) BigQuery
13 39 (4.93%) Flink
14 38 (4.80%) Data Mining
15 30 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
16 27 (3.41%) Apache Ignite
17 22 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
18 19 (2.40%) Tableau
19 18 (2.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 99 (12.52%) Jenkins
2 94 (11.88%) Git
3 37 (4.68%) JIRA
4 32 (4.05%) GitLab
5 23 (2.91%) Maven
6 19 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.90%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.77%) Spinnaker
9 12 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.39%) JUnit
11 10 (1.26%) Selenium
12 9 (1.14%) Gradle
12 9 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (1.01%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.01%) Postman
13 8 (1.01%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.88%) Mocha
14 7 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.76%) JMeter
16 5 (0.63%) GDB
General
1 233 (29.46%) Finance
2 141 (17.83%) Social Skills
3 130 (16.43%) Banking
4 74 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.18%) Games
5 41 (5.18%) Retail
6 36 (4.55%) Retail Banking
7 35 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.54%) Law
9 26 (3.29%) Front Office
10 23 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.40%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.90%) Marketing
13 10 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.26%) Publishing
14 8 (1.01%) Automotive
14 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 300 (37.93%) Developer
2 262 (33.12%) Senior
3 124 (15.68%) Senior Developer
4 118 (14.92%) Lead
5 113 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 106 (13.40%) Software Engineer
7 85 (10.75%) Architect
8 81 (10.24%) Java Engineer
9 75 (9.48%) Data Engineer
10 67 (8.47%) .NET Developer
11 44 (5.56%) Technical Leader
12 43 (5.44%) Java Software Engineer
13 38 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
14 36 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (4.42%) Senior .NET Developer
16 32 (4.05%) Cloud Architect
17 27 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
18 26 (3.29%) IT Architect
18 26 (3.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (25.54%) Spring Boot
2 157 (19.85%) Spring
3 122 (15.42%) React
4 118 (14.92%) .NET
5 104 (13.15%) RabbitMQ
6 94 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 88 (11.13%) REST
8 73 (9.23%) Node.js
9 53 (6.70%) GraphQL
10 52 (6.57%) RESTful
11 45 (5.69%) Apache Beam
12 43 (5.44%) Web Services
13 42 (5.31%) gRPC
14 32 (4.05%) CSS
15 28 (3.54%) .NET Core
16 27 (3.41%) Django
17 24 (3.03%) HTML
17 24 (3.03%) Middleware
18 23 (2.91%) Hibernate
19 19 (2.40%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.21%) Algorithms
2 55 (6.95%) Greenfield Project
3 43 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 32 (4.05%) Client/Server
6 20 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.02%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.02%) Sports Betting
9 15 (1.90%) PropTech
10 12 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 12 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.01%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.01%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.96%) Linux
2 18 (2.28%) Windows
3 16 (2.02%) Unix
4 13 (1.64%) Solaris
5 12 (1.52%) CentOS
5 12 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.52%) zOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (40.96%) Agile
2 323 (40.83%) Microservices
3 250 (31.61%) Software Engineering
4 210 (26.55%) CI/CD
5 194 (24.53%) DevOps
6 162 (20.48%) TDD
7 115 (14.54%) Computer Science
8 94 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (11.76%) SDLC
10 91 (11.50%) Mentoring
11 90 (11.38%) Analytics
12 88 (11.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 87 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
14 78 (9.86%) Machine Learning
15 77 (9.73%) Fintech
16 72 (9.10%) ETL
17 71 (8.98%) Full Stack Development
18 62 (7.84%) Scrum
19 61 (7.71%) Continuous Integration
19 61 (7.71%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 408 (51.58%) Java
2 230 (29.08%) SQL
3 224 (28.32%) Python
4 135 (17.07%) C#
5 105 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 92 (11.63%) TypeScript
7 87 (11.00%) Go
8 53 (6.70%) Kotlin
9 45 (5.69%) Scala
10 16 (2.02%) C
11 7 (0.88%) R
12 6 (0.76%) C++
12 6 (0.76%) Clojure
12 6 (0.76%) Groovy
13 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.63%) VBA
14 4 (0.51%) Bash
14 4 (0.51%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.51%) Rust
14 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 125 (15.80%) Degree
2 44 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 42 (5.31%) Master's Degree
4 41 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.26%) PhD
6 8 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.51%) CISM
9 4 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.02%) QA
2 10 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.76%) ISO 20022
4 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.51%) NIST
6 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.38%) MiFID
7 2 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 311 (39.32%) Docker
2 13 (1.64%) HDFS
3 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.25%) IAG
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 353 (44.63%) Kubernetes
2 65 (8.22%) Terraform
3 40 (5.06%) Ansible
4 15 (1.90%) Grafana
5 13 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.01%) Kibana
7 6 (0.76%) Kiali
8 4 (0.51%) Argo
8 4 (0.51%) Consul
8 4 (0.51%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.51%) logstash
9 3 (0.38%) Istio
10 2 (0.25%) Oozie
10 2 (0.25%) Puppet
11 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 77 (9.73%) Google
2 60 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.42%) Databricks
4 30 (3.79%) Oracle
5 20 (2.53%) Splunk
6 17 (2.15%) Cloudera
7 16 (2.02%) Confluent
8 15 (1.90%) Apple
9 13 (1.64%) IBM
9 13 (1.64%) Teradata
10 12 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.01%) YouTube
13 7 (0.88%) Facebook
14 6 (0.76%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.63%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.63%) Informatica
15 5 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.51%) VMware