Kafka Job Trends in Ipswich

Apache Kafka
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Ipswich 0.37% - 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% - 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.13%
75th Percentile £47,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median annual salary £45,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10 20 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ipswich 3.75% 16.39% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 27
10th Percentile £47,375 £47,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £50,000 £43,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £67,950 £69,000
Suffolk median annual salary £62,500 £66,225 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.62% +32.45% -16.67%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Kafka
Salary Trend in Ipswich

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes