Kafka Jobs in Kent

Apache Kafka
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 65 103 99
Rank change year-on-year +38 -4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 5 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.60% 0.066% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% 0.36% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £84,750 - -
25th Percentile £88,125 £108,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £112,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £91,875 £116,250 -
90th Percentile £95,250 - -
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
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 80 281 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 9.63% 18.58% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 51 259 132
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +18.28% +8.77%
75th Percentile £54,500 £65,000 £57,813
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,000 £62,500
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Kent

Kafka
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Kent

Kafka
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Kent 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
Chatham - 4 £90,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - -
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 4 (80.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) API Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Solace