Kafka Job Trends in Southampton

Apache Kafka
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.16% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 - -
75th Percentile £71,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £90,000 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +28.57% -41.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 55 69 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 8.55% 21.70% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 53 64 101
10th Percentile £40,300 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Southampton

Kafka
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL