Kafka Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Kafka Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Kafka Engineer salary in Gloucester is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 0.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £85,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Gloucester with a recognized job title 364 79 440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.81% 95.18% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 196 47 293
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,150 £30,075
25th Percentile £38,633 £39,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 23 June 2026, Kafka Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared