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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 138 97
Rank change year-on-year -174 -41 +34
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 775 2,397 4,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.91% 2.60% 3.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 8.69% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 649 1,302 1,796
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £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 £120,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.41% +10.60% +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 17,378 27,572 52,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.39% 29.92% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,107 17,068 26,913
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,715
25th Percentile £45,625 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -107 444 £92,500 -7.50% 185
South East +4 124 £57,500 -14.81% 30
North of England -70 88 £65,000 - 21
North West -26 65 £62,500 -8.72% 13
South West -65 58 £65,000 - 8
Midlands -10 29 £73,500 +18.55% 11
Yorkshire +24 21 £72,500 +18.37% 7
West Midlands +7 20 £77,500 +25.00% 6
East of England -44 17 £85,000 +61.90% 6
East Midlands -22 12 £66,750 +11.25% 5
North East -36 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
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
1 122 (15.74%) Apache Spark
2 61 (7.87%) Apache
3 36 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.81%) Confluence
5 10 (1.29%) nginx
6 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) CMS
8 2 (0.26%) IIS
8 2 (0.26%) Liferay
8 2 (0.26%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 465 (60.00%) AWS
2 218 (28.13%) Azure
3 131 (16.90%) GCP
4 48 (6.19%) GitHub
4 48 (6.19%) Serverless
5 28 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.35%) Snowflake
8 24 (3.10%) Amazon S3
9 23 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (2.58%) OpenShift
11 18 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (1.81%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.81%) SaaS
13 13 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (1.68%) npm
14 11 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.19%) Firewall
2 7 (0.90%) AMQP
3 5 (0.65%) FTP
3 5 (0.65%) Network Security
3 5 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.39%) HTTP
4 3 (0.39%) VPN
5 2 (0.26%) DNS
5 2 (0.26%) MQTT
5 2 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (13.55%) NoSQL
3 102 (13.16%) MongoDB
4 98 (12.65%) Hadoop
5 89 (11.48%) MySQL
6 83 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
7 77 (9.94%) Big Data
8 74 (9.55%) Relational Database
9 73 (9.42%) Redis
10 56 (7.23%) SQL Server
11 41 (5.29%) BigQuery
11 41 (5.29%) Flink
12 39 (5.03%) Data Lake
13 35 (4.52%) Data Mining
14 30 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
16 22 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
18 15 (1.94%) CouchDB
18 15 (1.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (12.52%) Git
2 94 (12.13%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.90%) JIRA
4 35 (4.52%) GitLab
5 23 (2.97%) Maven
6 20 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.94%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.55%) JUnit
9 11 (1.42%) Spinnaker
10 10 (1.29%) Selenium
11 9 (1.16%) Gradle
11 9 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.03%) Postman
13 7 (0.90%) Mocha
13 7 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.77%) JMeter
15 5 (0.65%) GDB
General
1 227 (29.29%) Finance
2 145 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.23%) Banking
4 68 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.29%) Games
6 38 (4.90%) Retail Banking
7 37 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.65%) Retail
9 30 (3.87%) Law
10 23 (2.97%) Financial Institution
10 23 (2.97%) Front Office
11 20 (2.58%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.94%) Marketing
13 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.29%) Publishing
14 8 (1.03%) Automotive
14 8 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 295 (38.06%) Developer
2 259 (33.42%) Senior
3 126 (16.26%) Senior Developer
4 116 (14.97%) Lead
5 110 (14.19%) Java Developer
6 106 (13.68%) Software Engineer
7 78 (10.06%) Architect
8 77 (9.94%) Java Engineer
9 72 (9.29%) Data Engineer
10 66 (8.52%) .NET Developer
11 42 (5.42%) Technical Leader
12 39 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
13 38 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
14 37 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
16 31 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
18 27 (3.48%) Full Stack Engineer
19 26 (3.35%) Senior Java Engineer
20 25 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (25.03%) Spring Boot
2 147 (18.97%) Spring
3 116 (14.97%) .NET
4 114 (14.71%) React
5 108 (13.94%) RabbitMQ
6 86 (11.10%) REST
7 84 (10.84%) AngularJS
8 77 (9.94%) Node.js
9 54 (6.97%) GraphQL
10 53 (6.84%) RESTful
11 46 (5.94%) Web Services
12 45 (5.81%) gRPC
13 43 (5.55%) Apache Beam
14 32 (4.13%) CSS
15 27 (3.48%) Django
16 26 (3.35%) .NET Core
17 24 (3.10%) HTML
18 23 (2.97%) Middleware
19 22 (2.84%) Hibernate
20 18 (2.32%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.35%) Algorithms
2 55 (7.10%) Greenfield Project
3 42 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (4.52%) Data Structures
5 33 (4.26%) Client/Server
6 22 (2.84%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.06%) Sports Betting
9 15 (1.94%) PropTech
9 15 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.81%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.55%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
13 8 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.03%) Cyberattack
13 8 (1.03%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
13 8 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.03%) Replication
14 7 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.13%) Linux
2 17 (2.19%) Windows
3 15 (1.94%) Unix
4 13 (1.68%) Solaris
5 12 (1.55%) CentOS
5 12 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.39%) Android
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) 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
1 315 (40.65%) Microservices
2 313 (40.39%) Agile
3 248 (32.00%) Software Engineering
4 210 (27.10%) CI/CD
5 198 (25.55%) DevOps
6 166 (21.42%) TDD
7 112 (14.45%) Computer Science
8 92 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (11.61%) SDLC
10 88 (11.35%) Mentoring
11 84 (10.84%) Analytics
12 83 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
13 79 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
13 79 (10.19%) Fintech
14 73 (9.42%) Machine Learning
15 66 (8.52%) Continuous Integration
16 65 (8.39%) Full Stack Development
17 64 (8.26%) ETL
18 60 (7.74%) Data Modelling
19 59 (7.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 404 (52.13%) Java
2 230 (29.68%) SQL
3 222 (28.65%) Python
4 130 (16.77%) C#
5 95 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 90 (11.61%) Go
7 85 (10.97%) TypeScript
8 58 (7.48%) Kotlin
9 49 (6.32%) Scala
10 16 (2.06%) C
11 9 (1.16%) Clojure
12 6 (0.77%) C++
12 6 (0.77%) Groovy
12 6 (0.77%) R
13 5 (0.65%) Bash
13 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.65%) VBA
14 4 (0.52%) Rust
14 4 (0.52%) VB
15 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 120 (15.48%) Degree
2 48 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.16%) Master's Degree
5 38 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.29%) PhD
7 8 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.52%) CISM
11 4 (0.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.06%) QA
2 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 303 (39.10%) Docker
2 13 (1.68%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.26%) IAG
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 341 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 64 (8.26%) Terraform
3 41 (5.29%) Ansible
4 17 (2.19%) Grafana
5 14 (1.81%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.16%) Kibana
7 6 (0.77%) Kiali
8 4 (0.52%) Argo
8 4 (0.52%) Consul
8 4 (0.52%) Istio
8 4 (0.52%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.52%) logstash
9 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 2 (0.26%) Oozie
10 2 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 69 (8.90%) Google
2 57 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.52%) Databricks
4 30 (3.87%) Oracle
5 21 (2.71%) Splunk
6 17 (2.19%) Cloudera
7 15 (1.94%) Apple
8 14 (1.81%) Confluent
9 13 (1.68%) Teradata
10 12 (1.55%) IBM
10 12 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.03%) YouTube
13 7 (0.90%) Facebook
14 6 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.65%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.65%) Informatica
15 5 (0.65%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.52%) Qualys