Kafka Jobs in the South West

Apache Kafka
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 248 183
Rank change year-on-year +97 -65 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 27 48 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.78% 0.50% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 2.54% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 19 46 37
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,625 £46,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £78,563 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,204 £100,942
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 477 1,893 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.74% 19.59% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 356 1,512 1,008
10th Percentile £35,625 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,037 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.73% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South West

Kafka
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Kafka in the South West

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the South West

Kafka
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bristol +35 11 £67,500 -4.36% 13
Dorset +43 10 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Gloucestershire +67 2 £78,750 +31.25% 8
Somerset - 2 £95,000 - 1
Devon - 1 £52,500 - 2
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) Datadog
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.70%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 8 (29.63%) MongoDB
2 8 (29.63%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.70%) CockroachDB
5 1 (3.70%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Mockito
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 8 (29.63%) Banking
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Law
4 4 (14.81%) Aerospace
4 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 2 (7.41%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Games
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Lead
2 9 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Architect
6 4 (14.81%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Project Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Project Leader
6 4 (14.81%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
9 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared Java Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
9 1 (3.70%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Spring Boot
2 9 (33.33%) Spring
3 7 (25.93%) React
4 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) .NET
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
6 2 (7.41%) gRPC
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) HTML5
6 2 (7.41%) REST
6 2 (7.41%) Vue
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (3.70%) Flask
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
2 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Reference Data
4 2 (7.41%) IoT
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Replication
5 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Microservices
2 14 (51.85%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 8 (29.63%) Analytics
5 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) Scrum
5 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 6 (22.22%) API Integration
6 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (22.22%) Data Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) DevOps
6 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
8 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
8 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.81%) Systems Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) TDD
9 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) C#
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) CISSP
5 2 (7.41%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Def Stans
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) VMware
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce