Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 July 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 20 July 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Apache Kafka
England > London
6 months to
20 Jul 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 298 503 689
Rank change year-on-year +205 +186 +200
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 790 420 218
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in London 1.09% 0.51% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 1.26% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 632 389 189
London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
10th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £103,750 £90,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +3.70% +1.89% +20.45%

Kafka is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Software Library & Framework Skills
London
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills 28884 33295 33325
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London 39.76% 40.42% 37.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23894 29266 28484
London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £33,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Kafka as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Salary Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Kafka in London.

Salary trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 20 July 2017.

Salary histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the London region over the 6 months to 20 July 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
City of London +68 73 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Croydon - 4 £61,250 -
Docklands, London - 2 £50,000 -
Uxbridge - 2 - -
Heathrow - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 £50,000 -
Kafka
England

For the 6 months to 20 July 2017, IT jobs citing Kafka also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the London region with a requirement for Kafka.

1 479 (60.63%) Java
2 409 (51.77%) Agile Software Development
3 372 (47.09%) Apache Spark
4 348 (44.05%) Big Data
5 318 (40.25%) Python
6 308 (38.99%) Hadoop
7 286 (36.20%) NoSQL
8 279 (35.32%) Scala
9 266 (33.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 256 (32.41%) Amazon AWS
11 226 (28.61%) DevOps
12 216 (27.34%) Linux
13 214 (27.09%) Docker
14 201 (25.44%) TDD
15 178 (22.53%) Software Engineering
16 173 (21.90%) Finance
17 170 (21.52%) Apache
18 169 (21.39%) Microservices
19 164 (20.76%) Open Source
20 162 (20.51%) SQL
21 161 (20.38%) JavaScript
22 158 (20.00%) Analytics
23 155 (19.62%) Apache Hive
24 150 (18.99%) Node.js
25 147 (18.61%) MongoDB
26 141 (17.85%) Continuous Integration
27 133 (16.84%) Elasticsearch
28 128 (16.20%) Kubernetes
29 124 (15.70%) C#
30 115 (14.56%) Scrum

Kafka
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 372 (47.09%) Apache Spark
2 170 (21.52%) Apache
3 133 (16.84%) Elasticsearch
4 50 (6.33%) Apache Pig
5 43 (5.44%) Tomcat
6 26 (3.29%) Apache Solr
7 21 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
8 17 (2.15%) Confluence
9 15 (1.90%) CMS
9 15 (1.90%) WebSphere
10 13 (1.65%) SAS
10 13 (1.65%) Traefik
11 11 (1.39%) Liferay
11 11 (1.39%) WebLogic
11 11 (1.39%) WebLogic Portal
12 9 (1.14%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.51%) Jetty
13 4 (0.51%) MQSeries
14 3 (0.38%) Lightstreamer
14 3 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.51%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 256 (32.41%) Amazon AWS
2 68 (8.61%) GitHub
3 45 (5.70%) Amazon Kinesis
4 43 (5.44%) Google Cloud Platform
5 42 (5.32%) Microsoft Azure
6 40 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (3.92%) Amazon S3
8 16 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (1.01%) Office 365
13 7 (0.89%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (0.89%) OpenShift
13 7 (0.89%) SaaS
14 6 (0.76%) IaaS
15 5 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 4 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 3 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 3 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.78%) DNS
2 14 (1.77%) Internet
3 13 (1.65%) Kerberos
4 11 (1.39%) HTTP
5 8 (1.01%) LAN
5 8 (1.01%) WAN
6 6 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (0.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.63%) DHCP
7 5 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.63%) LDAP
7 5 (0.63%) SAN
7 5 (0.63%) SSH
7 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.38%) AMQP
8 3 (0.38%) Firewall
8 3 (0.38%) NAS
9 2 (0.25%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (44.05%) Big Data
2 308 (38.99%) Hadoop
3 286 (36.20%) NoSQL
4 266 (33.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 155 (19.62%) Apache Hive
6 147 (18.61%) MongoDB
7 114 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
8 96 (12.15%) Relational Database
9 93 (11.77%) SQL Server
10 86 (10.89%) HBase
11 68 (8.61%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 67 (8.48%) MySQL
13 51 (6.46%) Blockchain
14 48 (6.08%) Neo4j
15 46 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
15 46 (5.82%) RDBMS
16 42 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 37 (4.68%) Redis
18 35 (4.43%) Sqoop
19 32 (4.05%) Impala
Development Applications
1 113 (14.30%) Jenkins
2 72 (9.11%) Git (software)
3 57 (7.22%) Maven
4 44 (5.57%) webpack
5 43 (5.44%) TeamCity
6 41 (5.19%) Babel
7 38 (4.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 36 (4.56%) JIRA
9 29 (3.67%) Octopus Deploy
10 25 (3.16%) Cucumber
11 23 (2.91%) Bitbucket
11 23 (2.91%) Eclipse
12 22 (2.78%) Mockito
13 15 (1.90%) JBehave
13 15 (1.90%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.90%) Travis CI
14 14 (1.77%) Gradle
14 14 (1.77%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.65%) GCC
16 11 (1.39%) NUnit
General
1 173 (21.90%) Finance
2 65 (8.23%) Banking
3 56 (7.09%) Marketing
4 49 (6.20%) Retail
5 48 (6.08%) Games
6 37 (4.68%) Front Office
7 33 (4.18%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.66%) Retail Banking
9 20 (2.53%) Advertising
10 15 (1.90%) Online Betting
11 12 (1.52%) Legal
12 11 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.89%) Electronics
16 1 (0.13%) Automotive
16 1 (0.13%) Billing
16 1 (0.13%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 336 (42.53%) Developer
2 142 (17.97%) Java Developer
3 98 (12.41%) Software Engineer
4 94 (11.90%) Architect
5 89 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 82 (10.38%) Senior Developer
7 62 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 59 (7.47%) Scala Developer
9 57 (7.22%) Linux Engineer
10 55 (6.96%) Big Data Engineer
11 47 (5.95%) Data Architect
12 45 (5.70%) Big Data Developer
12 45 (5.70%) C# Developer
13 39 (4.94%) Hadoop Engineer
14 35 (4.43%) Java Engineer
14 35 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
15 33 (4.18%) Big Data Architect
15 33 (4.18%) Python Software Engineer
16 31 (3.92%) JavaScript Developer
17 30 (3.80%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (18.99%) Node.js
2 112 (14.18%) React
3 99 (12.53%) .NET
3 99 (12.53%) Spring
4 83 (10.51%) RabbitMQ
5 81 (10.25%) AngularJS
6 70 (8.86%) REST
7 64 (8.10%) ActiveMQ
8 63 (7.97%) RESTful
9 46 (5.82%) HTML
9 46 (5.82%) Redux
10 41 (5.19%) LAPP Stack
11 40 (5.06%) Flask
12 39 (4.94%) Hibernate
13 38 (4.81%) Akka
14 37 (4.68%) WebSockets
15 36 (4.56%) JSON
16 35 (4.43%) Web Services
17 34 (4.30%) CSS
18 33 (4.18%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.10%) Computer Science
1 64 (8.10%) Fintech
2 61 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (6.71%) Greenfield Project
4 40 (5.06%) Algorithms
5 33 (4.18%) Derivative
6 24 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (2.91%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.53%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.65%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.52%) Clustering
11 11 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.27%) Bitcoin
12 10 (1.27%) Digital Currency
12 10 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (1.01%) Internet of Things
14 6 (0.76%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.63%) PKI
15 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 216 (27.34%) Linux
2 47 (5.95%) CentOS
2 47 (5.95%) Ubuntu
3 40 (5.06%) Unix
4 35 (4.43%) Windows
5 18 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.51%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Android
8 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.25%) Debian
8 2 (0.25%) Mesosphere
8 2 (0.25%) openSUSE
8 2 (0.25%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (51.77%) Agile Software Development
2 226 (28.61%) DevOps
3 201 (25.44%) TDD
4 178 (22.53%) Software Engineering
5 169 (21.39%) Microservices
6 164 (20.76%) Open Source
7 158 (20.00%) Analytics
8 141 (17.85%) Continuous Integration
9 115 (14.56%) Scrum
10 89 (11.27%) Test Automation
11 88 (11.14%) Kanban
12 81 (10.25%) BDD
13 79 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
14 75 (9.49%) ETL
15 74 (9.37%) Machine Learning
15 74 (9.37%) Technical Architecture
16 69 (8.73%) E-Commerce
16 69 (8.73%) Pair Programming
17 54 (6.84%) Data Engineering
18 48 (6.08%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 479 (60.63%) Java
2 318 (40.25%) Python
3 279 (35.32%) Scala
4 162 (20.51%) SQL
5 161 (20.38%) JavaScript
6 124 (15.70%) C#
7 93 (11.77%) Go
8 66 (8.35%) C++
9 56 (7.09%) Ruby
10 55 (6.96%) R
11 54 (6.84%) PHP
12 50 (6.33%) ES6
13 45 (5.70%) Perl
14 39 (4.94%) F#
15 22 (2.78%) Bash Shell
16 21 (2.66%) Clojure
17 17 (2.15%) GraphQL
18 12 (1.52%) C
19 10 (1.27%) Elixir
19 10 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (8.99%) Degree
2 32 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.65%) PhD
4 6 (0.76%) Postgraduate
5 5 (0.63%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.63%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.13%) CCA
7 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.43%) QA
2 33 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (0.89%) MiFID
5 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.25%) EMIR
6 2 (0.25%) GCP
7 1 (0.13%) GDPR
7 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 214 (27.09%) Docker
2 83 (10.51%) HDFS
3 55 (6.96%) Apache Flume
4 26 (3.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 18 (2.28%) etcd
6 13 (1.65%) Ceph
6 13 (1.65%) iptables
7 10 (1.27%) Shibboleth
8 9 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.76%) Varnish
10 5 (0.63%) LXC
11 4 (0.51%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 3 (0.38%) KVM
12 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
13 2 (0.25%) Cronacle
14 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
14 1 (0.13%) GPFS
14 1 (0.13%) NFS
14 1 (0.13%) PowerDNS
14 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 128 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 107 (13.54%) Ansible
3 87 (11.01%) Opscode Chef
4 77 (9.75%) Puppet
5 65 (8.23%) Terraform
6 53 (6.71%) Nagios
7 36 (4.56%) Kibana
8 34 (4.30%) Oozie
9 30 (3.80%) Mesos
10 15 (1.90%) Grafana
11 14 (1.77%) Hadoop YARN
11 14 (1.77%) Marathon
12 13 (1.65%) Prometheus
13 10 (1.27%) Ambari
14 9 (1.14%) Consul
15 8 (1.01%) Cobbler
15 8 (1.01%) SCCM
16 7 (0.89%) Graphite
16 7 (0.89%) logstash
17 6 (0.76%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 71 (8.99%) Google
2 45 (5.70%) Red Hat
3 44 (5.57%) Microsoft
4 37 (4.68%) Oracle
5 33 (4.18%) Hortonworks
6 26 (3.29%) Cloudera
7 20 (2.53%) IBM
8 19 (2.41%) Teradata
9 15 (1.90%) SaltStack
9 15 (1.90%) Splunk
10 14 (1.77%) Apigee
10 14 (1.77%) Informatica
10 14 (1.77%) MapR
10 14 (1.77%) Tableau
10 14 (1.77%) TIBCO
11 13 (1.65%) SolarWinds
12 11 (1.39%) BEA
13 10 (1.27%) Talend
14 9 (1.14%) SAP
15 8 (1.01%) Facebook
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