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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 275 266
Rank change year-on-year +65 -9 -100
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 78 122 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.92% 0.73% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.11% 3.96% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 36 114 79
10th Percentile £49,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £57,813 £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% -15.63%
75th Percentile £88,125 £82,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +12.50%

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 1,277 3,084 4,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.09% 18.48% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 921 2,460 2,837
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -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 1 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 1 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 +50 23 £56,250 -19.64% 31
Hampshire +76 21 £67,500 +50.00% 15
Berkshire +43 15 £60,000 - 12
Middlesex - 12 - - 2
Surrey +50 9 £72,500 +31.82% 13
West Sussex +28 9 £70,000 +21.74% 10
Buckinghamshire +36 7 £52,500 -40.00% 12
Kent +40 4 £90,000 +4.35% 11
Oxfordshire +39 1 - - 9
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 15 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 12 (15.38%) Apache
3 9 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (7.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.56%) Confluence
6 1 (1.28%) GemFire
6 1 (1.28%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.15%) AWS
2 24 (30.77%) Azure
3 14 (17.95%) OpenShift
4 12 (15.38%) GitHub
5 11 (14.10%) Serverless
6 10 (12.82%) GCP
7 9 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (10.26%) Amazon S3
8 8 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (8.97%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.41%) Snowflake
12 4 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (5.13%) SaaS
13 3 (3.85%) Datadog
14 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.05%) NoSQL
2 17 (21.79%) MongoDB
3 16 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (19.23%) Relational Database
5 14 (17.95%) Hadoop
6 12 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (11.54%) Apache Hudi
7 9 (11.54%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (11.54%) Delta Lake
8 6 (7.69%) Big Data
8 6 (7.69%) MySQL
9 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (3.85%) Couchbase
11 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.56%) Pinecone
11 2 (2.56%) Weaviate
12 1 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (29.49%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.64%) Git
3 9 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.54%) JUnit
4 7 (8.97%) Artifactory
4 7 (8.97%) Cucumber
4 7 (8.97%) git-flow
4 7 (8.97%) Gradle
5 6 (7.69%) JIRA
5 6 (7.69%) Mockito
6 5 (6.41%) GitLab
7 3 (3.85%) Gatling
8 2 (2.56%) MLflow
8 2 (2.56%) Selenium
9 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 20 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.08%) Banking
2 18 (23.08%) Finance
3 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.95%) Law
5 9 (11.54%) Aerospace
6 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.41%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.85%) Advertising
8 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Legal
9 2 (2.56%) Retail
10 1 (1.28%) Front Office
10 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Lead
2 17 (21.79%) Senior
3 15 (19.23%) Java Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Applications Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Python Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Project Leader
7 7 (8.97%) Python Data Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Project Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 21 (26.92%) RabbitMQ
3 18 (23.08%) React
4 17 (21.79%) REST
5 13 (16.67%) Spring
6 10 (12.82%) PySpark
6 10 (12.82%) RESTful
7 9 (11.54%) PyArrow
8 7 (8.97%) Drools
8 7 (8.97%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (7.69%) .NET
9 6 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 6 (7.69%) Mustache
9 6 (7.69%) Node.js
9 6 (7.69%) Web Services
10 5 (6.41%) Hibernate
11 4 (5.13%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.85%) Java SE
12 3 (3.85%) OAuth
12 3 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.85%) NHS
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.28%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.28%) Derivative
5 1 (1.28%) Equities
5 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Unix
2 3 (3.85%) Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Android
3 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.15%) Agile
2 33 (42.31%) Microservices
3 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
4 22 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (25.64%) Analytics
5 20 (25.64%) TDD
6 19 (24.36%) Computer Science
6 19 (24.36%) Software Engineering
7 18 (23.08%) Data Modelling
8 16 (20.51%) Data Engineering
9 15 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
9 15 (19.23%) Data Science
9 15 (19.23%) DevOps
9 15 (19.23%) Scrum
10 14 (17.95%) Digital Banking
10 14 (17.95%) Risk Management
11 12 (15.38%) Test Automation
12 11 (14.10%) BDD
12 11 (14.10%) Data Architecture
12 11 (14.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.13%) Java
2 28 (35.90%) Python
3 25 (32.05%) SQL
4 13 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.10%) C#
6 7 (8.97%) Go
7 3 (3.85%) C++
7 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.56%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.56%) R
8 2 (2.56%) Ruby
9 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (21.79%) Degree
2 14 (17.95%) SC Cleared
2 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.82%) AWS Certification
4 8 (10.26%) OCP
4 8 (10.26%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.13%) CISSP
6 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.82%) Data Quality
3 9 (11.54%) Def Stans
4 6 (7.69%) QA
5 2 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.56%) GDPR
6 1 (1.28%) NIST
6 1 (1.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 20 (25.64%) Docker
2 11 (14.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (56.41%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.82%) Ansible
3 8 (10.26%) Terraform
4 4 (5.13%) Grafana
4 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Red Hat
2 9 (11.54%) VMware
3 5 (6.41%) Databricks
4 3 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.56%) Confluent
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.28%) Solace
6 1 (1.28%) Splunk
6 1 (1.28%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.28%) WSO2