Kafka Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Kafka Engineer
England > South East

As of 13 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kafka Engineer salary in the South East.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.022% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £105,000 £103,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% +21.76% +11.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,016 11,656 7,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 96.43% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,478 6,474 5,501
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Kafka Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Kafka Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Hampshire - 2 - -
Kafka Engineer
England

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Kafka Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware