Kafka Jobs in the South East

Apache Kafka
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 260 162
Rank change year-on-year -8 -98 +66
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 119 152 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 1.01% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 3.55% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 111 79 215
10th Percentile - £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £84,375 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,056 4,277 7,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 18.39% 28.52% 35.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,432 2,838 4,490
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,813
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.61% +8.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 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 28 April 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
Thames Valley -1 48 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Berkshire +34 27 £60,000 - 3
Surrey +19 26 £63,750 -1.92% 6
West Sussex +48 18 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Buckinghamshire -31 17 £87,500 +45.83% 4
Hampshire -51 12 £45,000 -50.00% 6
East Sussex +15 8 £57,500 -26.98% 2
Oxfordshire +5 4 £65,000 +115.19% 3
Kent +2 3 £77,500 -
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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 5 (4.20%) Apache
1 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) JBoss
3 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (43.70%) AWS
2 42 (35.29%) Azure
3 5 (4.20%) Serverless
4 4 (3.36%) Firebolt
4 4 (3.36%) GitHub
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.68%) SaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.84%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.84%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.84%) IaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.84%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (25.21%) MongoDB
3 21 (17.65%) Hadoop
4 13 (10.92%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (10.92%) MySQL
5 8 (6.72%) CouchDB
6 7 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.04%) Big Data
8 4 (3.36%) Redis
9 3 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.52%) Impala
9 3 (2.52%) Sqoop
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.68%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (28.57%) Git
2 10 (8.40%) Bitbucket
3 9 (7.56%) JIRA
4 8 (6.72%) Gradle
4 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.20%) JUnit
6 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.52%) Subversion
8 2 (1.68%) GitLab
8 2 (1.68%) JMeter
8 2 (1.68%) Postman
8 2 (1.68%) Selenium
8 2 (1.68%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.68%) TestNG
9 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.84%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.84%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.84%) Mockito
9 1 (0.84%) Serenity BDD
General
1 43 (36.13%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.61%) Finance
3 10 (8.40%) Publishing
4 7 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Advertising
7 1 (0.84%) Automotive
7 1 (0.84%) Games
7 1 (0.84%) Marketing
7 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (47.90%) Developer
2 37 (31.09%) Senior
3 31 (26.05%) Senior Developer
4 18 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 16 (13.45%) Lead
7 15 (12.61%) Architect
7 15 (12.61%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Lead Java Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) IT Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) IT Support
11 5 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Junior Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.09%) RabbitMQ
2 34 (28.57%) REST
3 32 (26.89%) Node.js
4 28 (23.53%) Web Services
5 26 (21.85%) GraphQL
5 26 (21.85%) gRPC
6 24 (20.17%) Spring Boot
7 16 (13.45%) Spring
8 9 (7.56%) React
8 9 (7.56%) React Native
9 8 (6.72%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.36%) Django
10 4 (3.36%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.36%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (2.52%) RESTful
12 2 (1.68%) .NET
12 2 (1.68%) Gherkin
12 2 (1.68%) LINQ
12 2 (1.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Client/Server
1 8 (6.72%) PropTech
2 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.62%) Microservices
2 60 (50.42%) Agile
3 51 (42.86%) TDD
4 37 (31.09%) DevOps
5 34 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 30 (25.21%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (23.53%) Continuous Deployment
7 28 (23.53%) Regression Testing
8 27 (22.69%) Computer Science
9 22 (18.49%) Roadmaps
10 21 (17.65%) Software Engineering
11 19 (15.97%) SDLC
12 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 12 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
14 12 (10.08%) Full Stack Development
15 11 (9.24%) Technology Roadmap
16 10 (8.40%) Machine Learning
17 9 (7.56%) Pair Programming
17 9 (7.56%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 74 (62.18%) Java
2 47 (39.50%) Go
3 39 (32.77%) Python
3 39 (32.77%) SQL
4 13 (10.92%) Kotlin
5 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.36%) C#
8 3 (2.52%) Scala
9 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.68%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Degree
1 19 (15.97%) SC Cleared
1 19 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 73 (61.34%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (31.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.88%) Ansible
3 2 (1.68%) Kibana
3 2 (1.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.84%) Consul
4 1 (0.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.84%) Podman
4 1 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) Apple
2 10 (8.40%) Google
3 3 (2.52%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (2.52%) Cloudera
3 3 (2.52%) Informatica
4 2 (1.68%) Databricks
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle
4 2 (1.68%) Splunk
5 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat