Kafka Jobs in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 233 171
Rank change year-on-year -75 -62 +24
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 84 221 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.48% 1.30% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 4.59% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 74 104 188
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -16.13% +40.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £87,125
90th Percentile £77,715 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £81,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +11.11% +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,454 4,815 5,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.59% 28.38% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,770 2,329 3,790
10th Percentile £33,975 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% +12.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North of England.

Salary trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North West -38 64 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Yorkshire +12 18 £70,576 +12.92% 9
North East -36 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (15.48%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.90%) Apache
3 6 (7.14%) Confluence
4 5 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (1.19%) nginx
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.67%) AWS
2 27 (32.14%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) GCP
4 14 (16.67%) Serverless
5 11 (13.10%) GitHub
6 10 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (5.95%) dbt
9 5 (5.95%) Google Analytics
9 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.95%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.38%) Datadog
12 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.62%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (15.48%) Relational Database
3 12 (14.29%) MySQL
3 12 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.14%) BigQuery
5 6 (7.14%) DocumentDB
5 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.14%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.95%) Airbyte
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.95%) InfluxDB
6 5 (5.95%) Looker
6 5 (5.95%) Neo4j
6 5 (5.95%) Power BI
6 5 (5.95%) Tableau
6 5 (5.95%) TimescaleDB
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.76%) Flink
8 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) GitLab
2 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.33%) Git
3 7 (8.33%) Spinnaker
4 6 (7.14%) JIRA
5 5 (5.95%) GDB
5 5 (5.95%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.38%) Maven
7 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.19%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (29.76%) Finance
2 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Retail
5 7 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.95%) Retail Finance
7 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.38%) Games
8 2 (2.38%) Law
8 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (51.19%) Developer
2 38 (45.24%) Senior
3 20 (23.81%) Senior Developer
4 17 (20.24%) .NET Developer
4 17 (20.24%) Software Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Senior .NET Developer
6 12 (14.29%) Lead
7 10 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
8 9 (10.71%) Full Stack Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Java Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Data Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Senior Java Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.95%) Spring
2 20 (23.81%) .NET
2 20 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 18 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (17.86%) React
5 11 (13.10%) MSMQ
6 10 (11.90%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.52%) RESTful
8 7 (8.33%) AWS CDK
8 7 (8.33%) REST
9 6 (7.14%) JSON
9 6 (7.14%) Node.js
10 5 (5.95%) AWS SAM
10 5 (5.95%) Django
10 5 (5.95%) Flask
10 5 (5.95%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.95%) Jest
10 5 (5.95%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (5.95%) Serverless Framework
10 5 (5.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (11.90%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.95%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.38%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.19%) DataPower
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (65.48%) Agile
2 32 (38.10%) Microservices
3 26 (30.95%) Software Engineering
4 25 (29.76%) TDD
5 23 (27.38%) CI/CD
5 23 (27.38%) Event-Driven
6 17 (20.24%) Design Patterns
6 17 (20.24%) DevOps
7 16 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (17.86%) Clean Code
8 15 (17.86%) Scrum
9 14 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (15.48%) Kanban
11 12 (14.29%) Data Management
11 12 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (13.10%) Functional Testing
12 11 (13.10%) OOP
12 11 (13.10%) Software Testing
13 9 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) Java
2 32 (38.10%) Python
3 25 (29.76%) JavaScript
4 21 (25.00%) SQL
5 17 (20.24%) C#
6 15 (17.86%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.76%) Go
8 2 (2.38%) Bash
8 2 (2.38%) VB
8 2 (2.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.19%) Degree
3 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 28 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 27 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.86%) Terraform
3 3 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) Kibana
5 1 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Istio
5 1 (1.19%) Kiali
5 1 (1.19%) Oozie
5 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Confluent
2 5 (5.95%) Google
2 5 (5.95%) Teradata
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) IBM
5 1 (1.19%) TSYS