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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 237 269
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 -101
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 81 159 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.92% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.99% 5.14% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 42 141 70
10th Percentile £50,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £57,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £91,875 £70,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £91,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £76,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +18.03% -15.28% +5.88%

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 1,352 3,095 3,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.34% 17.87% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 871 2,419 2,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £91,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +35 35 £52,500 -25.00% 9
Berkshire +20 20 £93,750 +33.93% 7
Hampshire +45 17 £69,500 +54.44% 16
Buckinghamshire +16 12 £52,500 -40.00% 1
Surrey +15 11 £72,500 +61.11% 1
Middlesex - 9 - -
West Sussex +18 6 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Kent +31 4 £90,000 -20.00% 2
Oxfordshire +51 3 - - 1
East Sussex +15 1 - -
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 19 (23.46%) Apache Spark
2 9 (11.11%) Apache
2 9 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (9.88%) Confluence
4 5 (6.17%) Appian
4 5 (6.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.23%) GemFire
5 1 (1.23%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.85%) AWS
2 40 (49.38%) Azure
3 25 (30.86%) GCP
4 12 (14.81%) Serverless
5 11 (13.58%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.17%) MinIO
9 4 (4.94%) GitHub
9 4 (4.94%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.47%) Datadog
11 2 (2.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.40%) MongoDB
2 21 (25.93%) NoSQL
3 15 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (18.52%) Hadoop
3 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 14 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (14.81%) Big Data
6 9 (11.11%) Data Lake
7 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.94%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (4.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (4.94%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.70%) Couchbase
10 2 (2.47%) Airbyte
10 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.47%) MySQL
10 2 (2.47%) Pinecone
10 2 (2.47%) Weaviate
11 1 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
11 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.05%) Selenium
3 12 (14.81%) Bitbucket
4 11 (13.58%) GitLab
5 10 (12.35%) JIRA
6 9 (11.11%) Git
7 8 (9.88%) Cucumber
7 8 (9.88%) Maven
7 8 (9.88%) SonarQube
7 8 (9.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (7.41%) JUnit
9 5 (6.17%) Robot Framework
9 5 (6.17%) Snyk
10 3 (3.70%) Mockito
11 2 (2.47%) MLflow
11 2 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.47%) Spock
11 2 (2.47%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.23%) Subversion
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Law
3 15 (18.52%) Banking
3 15 (18.52%) Finance
4 11 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (11.11%) Aerospace
6 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.94%) Retail Banking
8 4 (4.94%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.70%) Advertising
9 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Front Office
10 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Military
10 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Software Engineer
2 17 (20.99%) Developer
3 15 (18.52%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.52%) Lead
4 13 (16.05%) Senior
5 9 (11.11%) Data Analytics Director
6 8 (9.88%) Architect
7 7 (8.64%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Project Leader
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Applications Architect
9 5 (6.17%) Project Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.04%) Spring Boot
2 25 (30.86%) React
3 24 (29.63%) Spring
4 17 (20.99%) REST
5 14 (17.28%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (16.05%) Hibernate
7 10 (12.35%) Redux
8 8 (9.88%) CSS
8 8 (9.88%) HTML
8 8 (9.88%) JPA
9 7 (8.64%) Node.js
9 7 (8.64%) RESTful
10 6 (7.41%) .NET
10 6 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.17%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (6.17%) Mustache
11 5 (6.17%) PySpark
11 5 (6.17%) Web Services
12 4 (4.94%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.35%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.35%) Product Ownership
3 9 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (9.88%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (6.17%) Low-Code
5 5 (6.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.23%) Derivative
7 1 (1.23%) Equities
7 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Unix
2 4 (4.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (55.56%) Agile
2 44 (54.32%) CI/CD
3 42 (51.85%) Microservices
4 35 (43.21%) DevOps
5 28 (34.57%) Software Engineering
6 25 (30.86%) Analytics
7 22 (27.16%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (24.69%) Data Modelling
9 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (23.46%) TDD
10 18 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 18 (22.22%) Test Automation
11 17 (20.99%) Computer Science
11 17 (20.99%) Data Science
12 16 (19.75%) Data Analytics
13 15 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (18.52%) SDLC
14 14 (17.28%) Containerisation
14 14 (17.28%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 46 (56.79%) Java
2 31 (38.27%) SQL
3 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
3 20 (24.69%) Python
4 10 (12.35%) C#
5 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.70%) C++
6 3 (3.70%) Go
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
7 2 (2.47%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.47%) R
7 2 (2.47%) Scala
8 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (29.63%) Degree
2 22 (27.16%) Security Cleared
3 18 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 15 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (13.58%) AWS Certification
5 11 (13.58%) Master's Degree
6 9 (11.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (6.17%) CISSP
8 4 (4.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) GDPR
2 9 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (11.11%) Def Stans
2 9 (11.11%) QA
3 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
4 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) RMADS
5 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (38.27%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) HDFS
3 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.11%) Ansible
3 6 (7.41%) Grafana
3 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
3 6 (7.41%) Terraform
4 2 (2.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) VMware
2 10 (12.35%) Google
3 9 (11.11%) Solace
4 5 (6.17%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (6.17%) Black Duck
4 5 (6.17%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.17%) UiPath
5 4 (4.94%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.47%) Confluent
6 2 (2.47%) Coverity
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.47%) WSO2
7 1 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.23%) TIBCO