Kafka Jobs in the South East

Apache Kafka
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 264 263
Rank change year-on-year +39 -1 -103
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 88 137 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.91% 0.78% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.55% 4.32% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 42 125 75
10th Percentile £50,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £42,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £91,875 £72,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £91,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +10.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,343 3,173 4,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.94% 18.09% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 871 2,511 2,710
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South East

Kafka
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the South East.

Salary trend for Kafka in the South East

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the South East

Kafka
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley +68 35 £52,500 -22.22% 250
Berkshire +39 21 £93,750 +58.23% 168
Hampshire +66 17 £69,500 +54.44% 80
Buckinghamshire +24 11 £52,500 -40.00% 50
Surrey +19 11 £72,500 +61.11% 57
Middlesex - 11 - -
West Sussex +31 9 £70,000 +21.74% 26
Kent +39 5 £90,000 -20.00% 48
Oxfordshire +38 3 - - 32
East Sussex +19 1 - - 24
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (23.86%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.36%) Apache
2 10 (11.36%) Confluence
3 9 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (6.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (3.41%) Appian
6 1 (1.14%) GemFire
6 1 (1.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (51.14%) AWS
2 41 (46.59%) Azure
3 25 (28.41%) GCP
4 13 (14.77%) Serverless
5 10 (11.36%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.23%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.68%) GitHub
8 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.41%) Datadog
9 3 (3.41%) MinIO
9 3 (3.41%) SaaS
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.55%) NoSQL
2 22 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 18 (20.45%) Hadoop
4 17 (19.32%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (17.05%) SQL Server
6 13 (14.77%) Big Data
7 9 (10.23%) Data Lake
8 8 (9.09%) Relational Database
9 6 (6.82%) Apache Hudi
9 6 (6.82%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (6.82%) Delta Lake
10 5 (5.68%) Couchbase
11 4 (4.55%) MySQL
12 3 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (2.27%) Pinecone
13 2 (2.27%) Weaviate
14 1 (1.14%) Airbyte
14 1 (1.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.91%) Bitbucket
2 14 (15.91%) Git
3 13 (14.77%) GitLab
4 12 (13.64%) JIRA
5 11 (12.50%) Selenium
6 8 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 8 (9.09%) Maven
6 8 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 8 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (7.95%) JUnit
8 4 (4.55%) Mockito
9 3 (3.41%) Robot Framework
9 3 (3.41%) Snyk
10 2 (2.27%) MLflow
10 2 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (2.27%) Spock
10 2 (2.27%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.14%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.45%) Banking
2 18 (20.45%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Law
3 11 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
5 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.68%) Retail Banking
8 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.41%) Advertising
9 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.27%) Retail
11 1 (1.14%) Front Office
11 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (22.73%) Developer
1 20 (22.73%) Software Engineer
2 18 (20.45%) Lead
3 16 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 15 (17.05%) Senior
5 9 (10.23%) Data Analytics Director
6 7 (7.95%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Java Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Project Leader
7 6 (6.82%) Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Project Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.09%) Spring Boot
2 27 (30.68%) React
3 24 (27.27%) Spring
4 20 (22.73%) REST
5 14 (15.91%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (14.77%) Hibernate
7 10 (11.36%) Redux
8 9 (10.23%) CSS
8 9 (10.23%) HTML
9 8 (9.09%) JPA
9 8 (9.09%) Node.js
9 8 (9.09%) RESTful
10 7 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (7.95%) PySpark
11 6 (6.82%) .NET
11 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.82%) Mustache
11 6 (6.82%) PyArrow
11 6 (6.82%) Web Services
12 4 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 10 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.36%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.41%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Equities
7 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Unix
2 4 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) Agile
2 44 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 44 (50.00%) Microservices
3 33 (37.50%) DevOps
4 28 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 27 (30.68%) Analytics
6 22 (25.00%) TDD
7 21 (23.86%) Data Engineering
7 21 (23.86%) Data Modelling
8 20 (22.73%) Data Science
8 20 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (21.59%) SDLC
10 18 (20.45%) Computer Science
11 17 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (19.32%) Scrum
11 17 (19.32%) Test Automation
12 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
12 16 (18.18%) Data Governance
12 16 (18.18%) ETL
12 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (56.82%) Java
2 37 (42.05%) SQL
3 22 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 22 (25.00%) Python
4 11 (12.50%) C#
5 5 (5.68%) Go
6 4 (4.55%) C++
6 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.27%) Groovy
7 2 (2.27%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.27%) R
7 2 (2.27%) Scala
8 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (28.41%) Degree
2 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 17 (19.32%) SC Cleared
4 15 (17.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (13.64%) AWS Certification
6 11 (12.50%) Master's Degree
7 9 (10.23%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.68%) CISSP
9 4 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
12 1 (1.14%) OCP
12 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) GDPR
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 9 (10.23%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (10.23%) Def Stans
3 8 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) RMADS
4 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (38.64%) Docker
2 8 (9.09%) HDFS
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (48.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.95%) Ansible
2 7 (7.95%) Grafana
2 7 (7.95%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.55%) Terraform
4 2 (2.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) VMware
2 11 (12.50%) Google
3 9 (10.23%) Solace
4 7 (7.95%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.68%) Databricks
6 4 (4.55%) Oracle
7 3 (3.41%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (3.41%) Black Duck
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.41%) UiPath
8 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.27%) Confluent
8 2 (2.27%) WSO2
9 1 (1.14%) Blue Prism
9 1 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.14%) Coverity
9 1 (1.14%) SAP
9 1 (1.14%) Splunk
9 1 (1.14%) TIBCO