Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 268 220
Rank change year-on-year +4 -48 +1
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 754 750 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.08% 1.22% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.28% 4.41% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 338 342 613
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -12.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,980 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,483 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +10.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 14,282 17,011 23,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.37% 27.69% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,246 9,403 14,610
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,356 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,001 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Scotland +53 423 £70,576 +1.62% 17
South East -8 119 £57,500 -14.81% 21
North of England -76 92 £65,000 - 22
North West -24 68 £62,500 -5.66% 15
South West -53 64 £62,500 -3.85% 9
Midlands -25 31 £73,500 +18.55% 12
Yorkshire +31 22 £72,500 +20.83% 5
West Midlands +16 22 £77,500 +25.00% 8
East of England -48 17 £85,000 +61.90% 7
East Midlands -23 12 £66,750 +18.67% 4
Northern Ireland +27 7 £70,000 +5.66% 4
Wales +7 4 £72,500 +48.72% 3
North East -33 2 £57,500 -8.00% 2
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 129 (17.11%) Apache Spark
2 96 (12.73%) FileNet
3 55 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (4.11%) Cloud Foundry
5 22 (2.92%) Apache
6 21 (2.79%) GemFire
7 8 (1.06%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.93%) Confluence
9 5 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.27%) Liferay
10 2 (0.27%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 363 (48.14%) AWS
2 156 (20.69%) Azure
3 125 (16.58%) Amazon S3
4 103 (13.66%) GCP
5 72 (9.55%) GitHub
6 44 (5.84%) SaaS
7 35 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (3.05%) Google Docs
8 23 (3.05%) Lucidchart
8 23 (3.05%) Miro
8 23 (3.05%) Slack
9 22 (2.92%) Serverless
10 20 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.99%) BlazeMeter
13 12 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.59%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.33%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.39%) DSL
2 17 (2.25%) Kerberos
3 8 (1.06%) Firewall
4 6 (0.80%) HTTP
4 6 (0.80%) MQTT
4 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (27.98%) NoSQL
2 171 (22.68%) Elasticsearch
3 137 (18.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 124 (16.45%) Big Data
5 102 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
6 93 (12.33%) MongoDB
7 65 (8.62%) Relational Database
8 59 (7.82%) Hadoop
9 55 (7.29%) Redis
10 45 (5.97%) MySQL
11 38 (5.04%) CockroachDB
12 31 (4.11%) Data Lake
13 28 (3.71%) Tableau
14 23 (3.05%) RDBMS
14 23 (3.05%) Scylla
15 22 (2.92%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
16 21 (2.79%) Hazelcast
16 21 (2.79%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.65%) DB2
Development Applications
1 131 (17.37%) JUnit
2 99 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 74 (9.81%) Git
4 48 (6.37%) Mockito
5 45 (5.97%) Jasmine
6 31 (4.11%) Maven
7 28 (3.71%) JIRA
8 26 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 21 (2.79%) Jaeger
10 17 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.99%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.59%) Spinnaker
13 10 (1.33%) GitLab
14 9 (1.19%) SonarQube
15 8 (1.06%) Gradle
15 8 (1.06%) Selenium
16 7 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.80%) Eclipse
17 6 (0.80%) Postman
18 5 (0.66%) GDB
General
1 488 (64.72%) Finance
2 377 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 348 (46.15%) Law
4 168 (22.28%) Banking
5 130 (17.24%) Legal
6 128 (16.98%) Marketing
7 106 (14.06%) Social Skills
8 84 (11.14%) Investment Banking
9 39 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (3.45%) Financial Institution
11 25 (3.32%) Retail
12 22 (2.92%) Prime Brokerage
13 15 (1.99%) Private Banking
14 13 (1.72%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.33%) Publishing
16 9 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.93%) Automotive
17 7 (0.93%) Games
18 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 422 (55.97%) Software Engineer
2 247 (32.76%) Java Engineer
3 219 (29.05%) Java Software Engineer
4 176 (23.34%) Lead
5 154 (20.42%) Senior
6 152 (20.16%) Developer
7 139 (18.44%) Lead Software Engineer
8 137 (18.17%) Full Stack Engineer
9 134 (17.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 84 (11.14%) Lead Java Engineer
11 83 (11.01%) Data Engineer
12 70 (9.28%) Senior Developer
13 57 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
14 56 (7.43%) Architect
15 53 (7.03%) Python Engineer
16 50 (6.63%) Java Developer
17 47 (6.23%) Python Software Engineer
18 41 (5.44%) Big Data Engineer
19 40 (5.31%) Big Data Software Engineer
20 33 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (46.68%) Spring
2 192 (25.46%) AngularJS
3 189 (25.07%) Spring Boot
4 180 (23.87%) React
5 178 (23.61%) GraphQL
6 138 (18.30%) J2EE
7 130 (17.24%) Hibernate
8 116 (15.38%) REST
9 111 (14.72%) Web Services
10 106 (14.06%) Node.js
11 101 (13.40%) Spring Integration
12 93 (12.33%) JMS
13 85 (11.27%) HTML
14 84 (11.14%) CSS
15 80 (10.61%) JSON
16 70 (9.28%) RabbitMQ
17 60 (7.96%) .NET
18 58 (7.69%) RESTful
19 54 (7.16%) jQuery
20 53 (7.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 118 (15.65%) Algorithms
3 59 (7.82%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.31%) Data Structures
5 39 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.64%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.85%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.79%) Replication
9 20 (2.65%) Private Cloud
10 19 (2.52%) Reference Data
11 18 (2.39%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.99%) Blockchain
12 15 (1.99%) Robotics
13 12 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
14 9 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.06%) PropTech
16 7 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.05%) Linux
2 6 (0.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (75.99%) Agile
2 494 (65.52%) Software Engineering
3 392 (51.99%) CI/CD
4 370 (49.07%) Microservices
5 335 (44.43%) SDLC
6 286 (37.93%) Operational Stability
7 275 (36.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 252 (33.42%) Machine Learning
9 217 (28.78%) Community of Practice
10 174 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
11 130 (17.24%) Computer Science
12 127 (16.84%) TDD
13 124 (16.45%) DevOps
14 123 (16.31%) Decision-Making
14 123 (16.31%) Risk Management
15 114 (15.12%) Visualisation
16 111 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 100 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
18 99 (13.13%) Architectural Design
19 96 (12.73%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 532 (70.56%) Java
2 372 (49.34%) SQL
3 231 (30.64%) Python
4 133 (17.64%) JavaScript
5 114 (15.12%) TypeScript
6 86 (11.41%) Go
7 60 (7.96%) C#
8 55 (7.29%) Scala
9 25 (3.32%) Bash
10 22 (2.92%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.79%) Groovy
12 15 (1.99%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.53%) R
14 4 (0.53%) VB
15 3 (0.40%) C++
15 3 (0.40%) Rust
16 2 (0.27%) C
16 2 (0.27%) PHP
16 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (9.95%) Degree
2 58 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (5.04%) Master's Degree
4 30 (3.98%) Security Cleared
5 27 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.80%) PhD
8 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.39%) SLA
2 10 (1.33%) SEPA
3 8 (1.06%) QA
4 5 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 219 (29.05%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 392 (51.99%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.16%) Terraform
3 50 (6.63%) Grafana
4 27 (3.58%) Kibana
5 26 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (2.92%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.79%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.79%) Zipkin
8 16 (2.12%) Ansible
9 7 (0.93%) Graphite
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Puppet
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) Oozie
12 1 (0.13%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 178 (23.61%) Oracle
2 76 (10.08%) Google
3 59 (7.82%) Splunk
4 47 (6.23%) Databricks
5 36 (4.77%) Dynatrace
6 26 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 24 (3.18%) Dell
8 23 (3.05%) Sybase
9 18 (2.39%) Alteryx
9 18 (2.39%) Cognos
10 15 (1.99%) Confluent
11 13 (1.72%) Teradata
12 10 (1.33%) Apple
13 8 (1.06%) IBM
14 5 (0.66%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.66%) CA
14 5 (0.66%) Informatica
14 5 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
15 3 (0.40%) Cloudera