Kafka Jobs in the Thames Valley

Apache Kafka
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 193 218
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 -27
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 44 70 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.65% 1.17% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.68% 4.08% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 38 28 33
10th Percentile - £45,625 £40,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £50,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £91,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £80,000 £87,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £68,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.44% -15.00% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 1,197 1,715 2,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.80% 28.74% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 951 1,037 1,326
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +6.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,313
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £81,125
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

Kafka
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Kafka in the Thames Valley

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the Thames Valley

Kafka
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Berkshire +22 23 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Buckinghamshire -28 18 £87,500 +45.83% 3
Oxfordshire +2 3 £70,000 +131.75% 1
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) AWS
2 21 (47.73%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) Firebolt
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (25.00%) MySQL
2 11 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (18.18%) CouchDB
4 4 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 4 (9.09%) Redis
5 3 (6.82%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.82%) Big Data
5 3 (6.82%) Impala
5 3 (6.82%) Sqoop
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 8 (18.18%) Gradle
3 4 (9.09%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) Git
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (2.27%) Postman
5 1 (2.27%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Automotive
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (52.27%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Lead
3 12 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 9 (20.45%) Java Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Senior
5 7 (15.91%) Lead Java Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Software Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Junior
7 5 (11.36%) Junior Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Junior Java Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (6.82%) IT Support
9 3 (6.82%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) Spring Boot
2 10 (22.73%) React Native
3 9 (20.45%) Spring
4 8 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 5 (11.36%) React
6 4 (9.09%) Django
6 4 (9.09%) FastAPI
6 4 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.55%) .NET
8 2 (4.55%) REST
8 2 (4.55%) Web Services
9 1 (2.27%) Apache Camel
9 1 (2.27%) Gherkin
9 1 (2.27%) Java EE
9 1 (2.27%) JMS
9 1 (2.27%) JPA
9 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.27%) RESTful
9 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Client/Server
1 8 (18.18%) PropTech
2 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Agile
2 24 (54.55%) Microservices
3 19 (43.18%) TDD
4 17 (38.64%) DevOps
4 17 (38.64%) SDLC
5 14 (31.82%) Mentoring
6 12 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 12 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
6 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 10 (22.73%) Pair Programming
8 10 (22.73%) Product Roadmap
8 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
9 8 (18.18%) E-Commerce
10 5 (11.36%) Architectural Design
11 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 4 (9.09%) Line Management
11 4 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (70.45%) Java
2 21 (47.73%) Python
3 18 (40.91%) SQL
4 14 (31.82%) Kotlin
5 10 (22.73%) Go
6 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.82%) Scala
7 2 (4.55%) C#
7 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Kibana
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Cloudera
1 3 (6.82%) Informatica
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle