Kafka Job Trends in Essex

Apache Kafka
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.13% - 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% - 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.61%
75th Percentile - - £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 53 78 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 7.07% 16.88% 19.81%
Number of salaries quoted 49 21 64
10th Percentile £25,000 £39,000 £32,150
25th Percentile £27,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £66,000 £72,500 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Essex

Kafka
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Essex region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Basildon - 1 - - 11
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks