Kafka Jobs in Reading

Apache Kafka
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 100 117
Rank change year-on-year +43 +17 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 12 22 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 2.30% 1.29% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.60% 6.15% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 8
10th Percentile £53,250 £42,500 £53,375
25th Percentile £71,250 £49,063 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +12.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £108,750 £86,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £115,500 £115,000 £73,250
Berkshire median annual salary £87,500 £61,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +41.70% -1.20% -19.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 125 358 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 23.95% 21.02% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 74 193 313
10th Percentile £32,725 £39,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.08% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,250 £83,750 £105,000
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Reading over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Pinecone
2 2 (16.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) MLflow
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (50.00%) Mustache
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
1 6 (50.00%) React
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
1 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) NumPy
2 2 (16.67%) Pandas
2 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Scrum
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) SABSA
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) R
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Def Stans
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Kubeflow
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware