Kafka Jobs in the Thames Valley

Apache Kafka
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 200 193
Rank change year-on-year +45 -7 +18
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 22 45 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.71% 0.67% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.70% 3.70% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10 39 28
10th Percentile £47,325 - £45,625
25th Percentile £48,813 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £91,250 £73,125
90th Percentile £106,500 £115,000 £78,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% -15.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 468 1,217 1,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.15% 18.12% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 338 969 1,052
10th Percentile £37,125 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
Berkshire +35 14 £80,000 +29.55% 15
Buckinghamshire +28 7 £52,500 -40.00% 15
Oxfordshire +41 1 - - 11
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 (27.27%) OpenStack
2 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
3 2 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (31.82%) Serverless
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (27.27%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
3 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.09%) Big Data
6 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (9.09%) MySQL
6 2 (9.09%) Pinecone
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.09%) Weaviate
7 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) Git
3 5 (22.73%) JUnit
4 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 3 (13.64%) Mockito
5 2 (9.09%) MLflow
6 1 (4.55%) JIRA
6 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analytics Director
5 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Project Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Project Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) React
1 12 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 10 (45.45%) Spring
3 9 (40.91%) REST
4 7 (31.82%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (27.27%) Mustache
5 6 (27.27%) Node.js
5 6 (27.27%) Web Services
6 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (18.18%) RESTful
8 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
8 3 (13.64%) Hibernate
8 3 (13.64%) OAuth
8 3 (13.64%) OAuth2
8 3 (13.64%) Vue
9 2 (9.09%) NumPy
9 2 (9.09%) Pandas
9 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
9 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
9 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Agile
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Microservices
3 8 (36.36%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) Scrum
6 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 4 (18.18%) API Development
7 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Generative AI
8 3 (13.64%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) C++
5 2 (9.09%) R
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) Degree
3 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.09%) CISSP
4 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (9.09%) Def Stans
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) VMware
1 2 (9.09%) WSO2