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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 271 159
Rank change year-on-year +53 -112 -19
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 143 90 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.95% 0.78% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 2.81% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 122 66 204
10th Percentile - £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £61,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £112,500 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% +9.68%

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 2,723 3,206 7,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 18.04% 27.67% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,095 2,394 4,281
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,956 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Hampshire -12 41 £45,000 -40.00% 1
Thames Valley +17 36 £63,500 -9.29% 4
Surrey 0 32 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Berkshire +26 24 £70,000 -
West Sussex +37 16 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Buckinghamshire -7 11 £45,000 -25.00% 1
East Sussex +20 9 £57,500 -26.98% 1
Kent -12 1 £112,500 - 2
Oxfordshire -12 1 £65,000 -40.91% 3
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 9 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 95 (66.43%) AWS
2 81 (56.64%) Azure
3 7 (4.90%) Serverless
4 6 (4.20%) GCP
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.80%) Firebolt
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.10%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.10%) GitHub
6 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (71.33%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (43.36%) Hadoop
3 59 (41.26%) MongoDB
4 17 (11.89%) Big Data
5 14 (9.79%) Relational Database
6 13 (9.09%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.50%) MySQL
9 4 (2.80%) Redis
10 3 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.10%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.10%) Impala
10 3 (2.10%) Sqoop
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.40%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.40%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.70%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (26.57%) Git
2 10 (6.99%) Bitbucket
3 8 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.90%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.90%) JUnit
5 6 (4.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.10%) GitLab
6 3 (2.10%) JIRA
7 2 (1.40%) Gradle
7 2 (1.40%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 48 (33.57%) Finance
2 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.59%) Banking
4 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.10%) Publishing
6 2 (1.40%) Advertising
6 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (44.76%) Developer
2 55 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (23.08%) Senior
4 31 (21.68%) Senior Developer
5 22 (15.38%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.69%) Architect
7 6 (4.20%) Java Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Junior
8 5 (3.50%) Junior Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Junior Java Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Lead
9 4 (2.80%) AWS Architect
9 4 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (2.80%) Python Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.10%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (41.26%) Node.js
2 39 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
3 35 (24.48%) REST
3 35 (24.48%) Web Services
4 30 (20.98%) GraphQL
4 30 (20.98%) gRPC
5 16 (11.19%) Spring
6 13 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 10 (6.99%) React Native
8 6 (4.20%) RESTful
9 4 (2.80%) Django
9 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.80%) SQLAlchemy
10 3 (2.10%) Keycloak
10 3 (2.10%) React
11 2 (1.40%) .NET
11 2 (1.40%) Akka
11 2 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.40%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.40%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.40%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.40%) PropTech
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (51.75%) DevOps
2 68 (47.55%) Microservices
3 50 (34.97%) Agile
4 48 (33.57%) TDD
5 39 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 33 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (20.98%) Continuous Deployment
7 30 (20.98%) Regression Testing
8 25 (17.48%) Computer Science
9 17 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.19%) Roadmaps
10 16 (11.19%) SDLC
11 13 (9.09%) Fintech
11 13 (9.09%) Machine Learning
12 11 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.69%) DevSecOps
12 11 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (7.69%) High Availability
12 11 (7.69%) Software Engineering
13 10 (6.99%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 100 (69.93%) Java
2 80 (55.94%) Python
3 70 (48.95%) SQL
4 46 (32.17%) Go
5 12 (8.39%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.10%) Scala
7 2 (1.40%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (39.16%) SC Cleared
1 56 (39.16%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.59%) Degree
3 15 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.10%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (43.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.50%) Ansible
3 4 (2.80%) Terraform
4 3 (2.10%) Kibana
4 3 (2.10%) Podman
4 3 (2.10%) Puppet
5 2 (1.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.10%) Apple
2 3 (2.10%) Cloudera
2 3 (2.10%) Foundry
2 3 (2.10%) Google
2 3 (2.10%) Informatica
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle
2 3 (2.10%) Palantir
2 3 (2.10%) Splunk
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat