Kafka Jobs in Hertfordshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 106 111
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 3 16 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.37% 0.80% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 5.02% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 4
10th Percentile £63,950 £78,750 -
25th Percentile £66,125 £81,563 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.88% +36.00% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £115,000 £66,250
90th Percentile - £120,625 -
East of England median annual salary £71,500 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.88% +36.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 142 319 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.32% 15.99% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 70 291 169
10th Percentile £38,125 £35,000 £44,900
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Hertfordshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Hertfordshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Stevenage - 3 £71,500 - 26
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (66.67%) Appian
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) MinIO
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Snyk
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Applications Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (33.33%) Akka
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (33.33%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) ArchiMate
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Robotic Process Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (66.67%) Black Duck
1 2 (66.67%) UiPath
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft