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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 199 187
Rank change year-on-year +47 -12 +36
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 32 43 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.64% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.74% 3.64% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11 37 27
10th Percentile £48,000 - £49,000
25th Percentile £49,625 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £81,875 £91,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -15.44% -15.00%

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 475 1,181 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.87% 17.57% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 319 936 1,029
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +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 17 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 17 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 +29 19 £87,500 +59.09% 18
Buckinghamshire +28 10 £52,500 -40.00% 9
Oxfordshire +40 3 - - 8
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 8 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 6 (18.75%) OpenStack
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (87.50%) AWS
2 19 (59.38%) Azure
3 17 (53.13%) GCP
4 8 (25.00%) Serverless
5 7 (21.88%) Amazon S3
5 7 (21.88%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 8 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
3 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
4 6 (18.75%) Big Data
4 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.25%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) Pinecone
5 2 (6.25%) Weaviate
6 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) GitLab
3 7 (21.88%) JIRA
3 7 (21.88%) Selenium
4 6 (18.75%) Bitbucket
4 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
4 6 (18.75%) Maven
4 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 6 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (15.63%) JUnit
6 3 (9.38%) Mockito
7 2 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Law
5 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Data Analytics Director
3 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Project Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Project Leader
7 1 (3.13%) Architect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) React
1 18 (56.25%) Spring Boot
2 16 (50.00%) Spring
3 9 (28.13%) Hibernate
3 9 (28.13%) REST
4 7 (21.88%) CSS
4 7 (21.88%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (21.88%) HTML
5 6 (18.75%) JPA
5 6 (18.75%) Mustache
5 6 (18.75%) Node.js
5 6 (18.75%) Redux
5 6 (18.75%) Web Services
6 5 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (12.50%) RESTful
8 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 3 (9.38%) OAuth
8 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
8 3 (9.38%) Vue
9 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
2 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (71.88%) Agile
3 19 (59.38%) Microservices
4 17 (53.13%) DevOps
5 14 (43.75%) SDLC
6 13 (40.63%) TDD
7 11 (34.38%) Containerisation
8 10 (31.25%) Computer Science
8 10 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (28.13%) Analytics
9 9 (28.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
10 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
10 8 (25.00%) High Availability
10 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (25.00%) Machine Learning
10 8 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Java
2 16 (50.00%) SQL
3 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) R
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Degree
2 10 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
4 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (21.88%) AWS Certification
6 6 (18.75%) Azure Certification
6 6 (18.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.25%) CISSP
7 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) GDPR
1 7 (21.88%) QA
2 6 (18.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (6.25%) Def Stans
4 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (68.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Kubeflow
2 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Google
1 6 (18.75%) Solace
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
2 2 (6.25%) WSO2