Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 276 338
Rank change year-on-year +68 +62 -114
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 564 719 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.41% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.33% 4.83% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 160 313 308
10th Percentile £49,800 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £50,686 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £69,135
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.21% -7.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,125 £91,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,462 14,898 14,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.67% 18.86% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,289 10,664 8,648
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

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 10 June 2025.

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 10 June 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
North of England +155 201 £70,000 +12.00% 81
North West +94 177 £67,500 +12.50% 60
Scotland +1 138 £67,500 +3.85% 61
South East +28 83 £72,500 +31.82% 195
Midlands +128 74 £70,000 +16.67% 46
East Midlands +87 42 £67,500 +12.50% 8
South West +96 34 £67,500 +1.89% 42
West Midlands +82 32 £77,500 - 36
East of England +43 21 £71,500 -15.88% 11
Yorkshire +61 17 £80,000 +13.35% 15
Northern Ireland +47 14 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North East +55 7 £55,000 -4.35% 6
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
1 163 (28.90%) Confluence
2 50 (8.87%) Apache Spark
3 26 (4.61%) Apache
4 23 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.89%) Appian
5 5 (0.89%) nginx
5 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.71%) GemFire
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 418 (74.11%) AWS
2 334 (59.22%) Azure
3 207 (36.70%) GCP
4 31 (5.50%) Amazon S3
5 27 (4.79%) Snowflake
6 26 (4.61%) Serverless
7 23 (4.08%) GitHub
8 19 (3.37%) SaaS
9 18 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (2.30%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.13%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.42%) dbt
15 7 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.24%) Datadog
16 5 (0.89%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.42%) HTTP
2 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.53%) Internet
4 2 (0.35%) Broadband
4 2 (0.35%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (50.71%) SQL Server
2 95 (16.84%) MongoDB
3 65 (11.52%) NoSQL
4 51 (9.04%) Big Data
5 49 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (7.27%) Relational Database
7 27 (4.79%) Hadoop
8 26 (4.61%) MySQL
9 23 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (3.01%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.66%) Apache Iceberg
13 14 (2.48%) Apache Hive
13 14 (2.48%) Data Lake
14 12 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.95%) Apache Hudi
15 11 (1.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 269 (47.70%) GitLab
2 266 (47.16%) Selenium
3 261 (46.28%) JIRA
4 260 (46.10%) Maven
5 259 (45.92%) Bitbucket
6 257 (45.57%) Cucumber
7 251 (44.50%) SonarQube
8 246 (43.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 48 (8.51%) Jenkins
10 37 (6.56%) Git
11 31 (5.50%) JUnit
12 14 (2.48%) Mockito
13 6 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (1.06%) Postman
14 5 (0.89%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.89%) Snyk
14 5 (0.89%) Subversion
14 5 (0.89%) TestNG
15 4 (0.71%) Gradle
16 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 385 (68.26%) Finance
2 337 (59.75%) Banking
3 323 (57.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (20.21%) Investment Banking
5 99 (17.55%) Retail
6 94 (16.67%) Law
7 90 (15.96%) Corporate Banking
8 60 (10.64%) Social Skills
9 25 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (3.72%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.55%) Marketing
12 14 (2.48%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.77%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.24%) Games
15 6 (1.06%) Legal
16 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.71%) Advertising
17 4 (0.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 369 (65.43%) Software Engineer
2 88 (15.60%) Lead
3 73 (12.94%) Java Engineer
4 70 (12.41%) Developer
5 59 (10.46%) Java Software Engineer
6 50 (8.87%) Senior
7 46 (8.16%) Java Developer
8 39 (6.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 23 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 22 (3.90%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.37%) Architect
14 17 (3.01%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 17 (3.01%) Lead Java Engineer
15 16 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
16 15 (2.66%) Technical Leader
17 14 (2.48%) Python Software Engineer
18 11 (1.95%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (65.43%) Spring
2 345 (61.17%) Spring Boot
3 336 (59.57%) React
4 258 (45.74%) CSS
5 257 (45.57%) HTML
6 249 (44.15%) Redux
7 248 (43.97%) JPA
8 175 (31.03%) Hibernate
9 137 (24.29%) REST
10 135 (23.94%) RESTful
11 93 (16.49%) HTML5
12 92 (16.31%) Jest
13 90 (15.96%) CSS3
13 90 (15.96%) Sass
14 43 (7.62%) AngularJS
15 35 (6.21%) .NET
16 31 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (4.43%) Node.js
18 16 (2.84%) gRPC
19 13 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 275 (48.76%) Product Ownership
2 251 (44.50%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (12.94%) Cloud Native
4 40 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.61%) Algorithms
6 23 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 18 (3.19%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.77%) Replication
10 8 (1.42%) Derivative
11 7 (1.24%) Equities
11 7 (1.24%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.06%) Wiki
13 5 (0.89%) Life Science
13 5 (0.89%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.71%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.19%) Linux
2 14 (2.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (78.55%) Agile
2 420 (74.47%) Software Engineering
3 393 (69.68%) CI/CD
4 373 (66.13%) Microservices
5 332 (58.87%) SDLC
6 328 (58.16%) DevOps
7 303 (53.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 294 (52.13%) Test Automation
9 283 (50.18%) Containerisation
10 254 (45.04%) Performance Optimisation
11 253 (44.86%) Front End Development
12 208 (36.88%) TDD
13 197 (34.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 168 (29.79%) Clean Code
15 153 (27.13%) Mentoring
16 111 (19.68%) User Experience
17 93 (16.49%) Migration
18 91 (16.13%) Responsive Web Design
18 91 (16.13%) Strategic Thinking
19 66 (11.70%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 452 (80.14%) Java
2 346 (61.35%) SQL
3 303 (53.72%) JavaScript
4 132 (23.40%) TypeScript
5 92 (16.31%) Python
6 63 (11.17%) C#
7 7 (1.24%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.06%) Bash
9 5 (0.89%) C++
9 5 (0.89%) Go
9 5 (0.89%) R
9 5 (0.89%) Scala
10 3 (0.53%) Groovy
11 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.35%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) Rust
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (5.85%) Degree
1 33 (5.85%) Security Cleared
2 28 (4.96%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.43%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.24%) CISSP
8 6 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) OCP
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (45.39%) QA
2 101 (17.91%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.01%) GDPR
4 16 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.30%) Def Stans
6 11 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.35%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) RMADS
System Software
1 348 (61.70%) Docker
2 11 (1.95%) HDFS
3 6 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 377 (66.84%) Kubernetes
2 55 (9.75%) Terraform
3 18 (3.19%) Grafana
4 17 (3.01%) Ansible
5 13 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.89%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.89%) Packer
7 3 (0.53%) Kibana
8 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.35%) logstash
8 2 (0.35%) Oozie
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 250 (44.33%) Solace
2 47 (8.33%) Oracle
3 39 (6.91%) Databricks
4 21 (3.72%) VMware
5 17 (3.01%) Google
6 12 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.13%) Splunk
7 7 (1.24%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.06%) Sybase
9 5 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (0.89%) Black Duck
9 5 (0.89%) UiPath
10 4 (0.71%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.71%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.53%) Confluent
11 3 (0.53%) SAP
12 2 (0.35%) IBM
12 2 (0.35%) Informatica
12 2 (0.35%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.35%) Okta