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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 264 163
Rank change year-on-year -7 -101 +65
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 124 149 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 1.00% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 3.49% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 115 79 211
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 £77,500 £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 3,085 4,270 7,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 18.49% 28.61% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,844 4,475
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
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%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -2 45 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Surrey +19 29 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Berkshire +24 26 £61,750 -1.20% 4
West Sussex +55 18 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Buckinghamshire -28 16 £87,500 +45.83% 5
Hampshire -44 15 £45,000 -48.57% 7
East Sussex +18 9 £57,500 -26.98% 1
Oxfordshire +2 3 £70,000 +131.75% 1
Kent -5 2 £86,250 -
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 5 (4.03%) Apache
1 5 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.42%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) JBoss
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.35%) AWS
2 45 (36.29%) Azure
3 6 (4.84%) Serverless
4 4 (3.23%) Firebolt
4 4 (3.23%) GitHub
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.61%) SaaS
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.81%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (61.29%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (27.42%) MongoDB
3 26 (20.97%) Hadoop
4 13 (10.48%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (10.48%) MySQL
5 8 (6.45%) CouchDB
5 8 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.65%) Big Data
6 7 (5.65%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.23%) Redis
8 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.42%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.42%) Impala
8 3 (2.42%) Sqoop
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.61%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (29.84%) Git
2 10 (8.06%) Bitbucket
3 9 (7.26%) JIRA
4 8 (6.45%) Gradle
4 8 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.84%) JUnit
6 5 (4.03%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.42%) GitLab
7 3 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.42%) Subversion
8 2 (1.61%) JMeter
8 2 (1.61%) Postman
8 2 (1.61%) Selenium
8 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.61%) TestNG
9 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.81%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.81%) Mockito
9 1 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
General
1 46 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 43 (34.68%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Publishing
4 7 (5.65%) Banking
5 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Advertising
7 1 (0.81%) Automotive
7 1 (0.81%) Games
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (48.39%) Developer
2 39 (31.45%) Senior
3 33 (26.61%) Senior Developer
4 23 (18.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.71%) Java Developer
6 16 (12.90%) Lead
7 15 (12.10%) Java Engineer
8 13 (10.48%) Architect
9 10 (8.06%) Lead Java Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Support Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) IT Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) IT Support
12 5 (4.03%) IT Support Engineer
13 4 (3.23%) Junior Developer
13 4 (3.23%) Junior Java Developer
13 4 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.26%) RabbitMQ
2 37 (29.84%) REST
3 36 (29.03%) Node.js
4 31 (25.00%) Web Services
5 29 (23.39%) GraphQL
5 29 (23.39%) gRPC
6 22 (17.74%) Spring Boot
7 14 (11.29%) Spring
8 9 (7.26%) React Native
9 8 (6.45%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.45%) React
10 4 (3.23%) Django
10 4 (3.23%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.23%) RESTful
10 4 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (2.42%) .NET
11 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.61%) Akka
12 2 (1.61%) LINQ
12 2 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Client/Server
1 8 (6.45%) PropTech
2 3 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.03%) Microservices
2 62 (50.00%) Agile
3 53 (42.74%) TDD
4 42 (33.87%) DevOps
5 38 (30.65%) CI/CD
6 34 (27.42%) Continuous Integration
7 31 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 31 (25.00%) Regression Testing
8 27 (21.77%) Computer Science
9 21 (16.94%) Roadmaps
10 20 (16.13%) Software Engineering
11 19 (15.32%) SDLC
12 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.29%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (8.87%) Full Stack Development
15 11 (8.87%) Technology Roadmap
16 10 (8.06%) Machine Learning
17 9 (7.26%) Pair Programming
17 9 (7.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (62.10%) Java
2 50 (40.32%) Go
3 44 (35.48%) SQL
4 43 (34.68%) Python
5 13 (10.48%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.23%) C#
7 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.42%) Scala
9 2 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (18.55%) SC Cleared
1 23 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.13%) Degree
3 17 (13.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.61%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 76 (61.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (29.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.45%) Ansible
3 3 (2.42%) Terraform
4 2 (1.61%) Kibana
4 2 (1.61%) Podman
4 2 (1.61%) Puppet
5 1 (0.81%) Consul
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.06%) Apple
2 10 (8.06%) Google
3 3 (2.42%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (2.42%) Cloudera
3 3 (2.42%) Informatica
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle
4 2 (1.61%) Splunk
5 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.81%) Databricks
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat