Kafka Jobs in Hampshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 171 126
Rank change year-on-year +59 -45 -74
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 15 20 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.73% 0.49% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.84% 2.71% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 37
10th Percentile - - £55,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £42,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -50.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,500 £54,688 £115,000
90th Percentile - £61,200 -
South East median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -15.44% -15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 257 738 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.56% 18.25% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 197 543 724
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Andover - 10 £67,500 - 2
Farnborough +11 4 - - 5
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) git-flow
2 2 (13.33%) Gradle
3 1 (6.67%) Gatling
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 9 (60.00%) Aerospace
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Military
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Lead
2 7 (46.67%) Project Leader
3 5 (33.33%) Project Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Security Assurance Coordinator
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Drools
1 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (60.00%) Systems Engineering
3 8 (53.33%) API Integration
3 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
4 7 (46.67%) Analytics
5 6 (40.00%) Data Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Digital Banking
6 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 5 (33.33%) SABSA
6 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
7 4 (26.67%) Agile
7 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (20.00%) Business Case
8 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
8 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (20.00%) OCP
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks