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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 332 221
Rank change year-on-year +69 -111 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 614 431 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.90% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.28% 3.56% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 267 302 626
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,550 £45,000
25th Percentile £44,738 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -9.68% +29.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,483 £82,500
% change year-on-year -19.98% +6.04% +10.00%

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 11,631 12,099 24,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.82% 25.13% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,091 7,940 14,523
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £35,000
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +88 310 £65,000 -3.89% 6
South East +53 143 £52,500 -25.00% 18
North of England -51 86 £60,000 -20.00% 12
North West -34 60 £60,000 -20.00% 10
South West -28 35 £65,000 +1.20% 5
Yorkshire +17 23 £65,000 -17.27% 2
Midlands -37 15 £66,250 +8.16% 5
Northern Ireland +31 13 £61,250 -31.94% 12
West Midlands -8 13 £73,750 +28.26% 5
East of England -23 8 £85,000 +36.00% 1
Wales +30 4 £67,500 +85.87%
North East -12 3 £49,274 -24.19%
East Midlands -39 2 £52,500 -17.65%
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 98 (15.96%) FileNet
2 68 (11.07%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (5.21%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (3.42%) GemFire
6 12 (1.95%) Apache
7 6 (0.98%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.81%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.65%) Confluence
10 3 (0.49%) nginx
11 2 (0.33%) JBoss
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.16%) SAS
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 319 (51.95%) AWS
2 172 (28.01%) Azure
3 114 (18.57%) Amazon S3
4 61 (9.93%) GCP
5 60 (9.77%) GitHub
6 25 (4.07%) Serverless
7 17 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.95%) SaaS
12 11 (1.79%) Amazon MSK
12 11 (1.79%) Datadog
13 10 (1.63%) OpenShift
14 9 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.14%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.98%) BlazeMeter
17 5 (0.81%) Kong
18 4 (0.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.77%) Kerberos
2 15 (2.44%) MQTT
3 11 (1.79%) HTTP
3 11 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (32.74%) NoSQL
2 143 (23.29%) Elasticsearch
3 133 (21.66%) PostgreSQL
4 129 (21.01%) Apache Cassandra
5 94 (15.31%) MongoDB
6 73 (11.89%) Hadoop
7 59 (9.61%) Big Data
8 54 (8.79%) Relational Database
9 38 (6.19%) CockroachDB
10 29 (4.72%) MySQL
11 22 (3.58%) Redis
12 21 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (3.42%) Hazelcast
13 17 (2.77%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.79%) SQL Server
16 9 (1.47%) DynamoDB
17 8 (1.30%) Azkaban
17 8 (1.30%) DocumentDB
17 8 (1.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 120 (19.54%) JUnit
2 65 (10.59%) Git
3 63 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 46 (7.49%) Mockito
5 45 (7.33%) Jasmine
6 26 (4.23%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.42%) Jaeger
7 21 (3.42%) Maven
8 18 (2.93%) JIRA
9 17 (2.77%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.61%) GitLab
11 15 (2.44%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.95%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.30%) RStudio
14 6 (0.98%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.81%) GDB
16 3 (0.49%) Postman
16 3 (0.49%) Selenium
17 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
17 2 (0.33%) JMeter
General
1 371 (60.42%) Finance
2 287 (46.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 281 (45.77%) Law
4 97 (15.80%) Legal
5 89 (14.50%) Banking
5 89 (14.50%) Marketing
6 86 (14.01%) Social Skills
7 68 (11.07%) Investment Banking
8 23 (3.75%) Prime Brokerage
9 13 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (1.47%) Public Sector
10 9 (1.47%) Retail
11 7 (1.14%) Automotive
11 7 (1.14%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.98%) Private Banking
13 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.81%) Retail Finance
13 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 326 (53.09%) Software Engineer
2 202 (32.90%) Java Engineer
3 187 (30.46%) Java Software Engineer
4 142 (23.13%) Lead
5 137 (22.31%) Developer
6 131 (21.34%) Senior
7 127 (20.68%) Full Stack Engineer
8 124 (20.20%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 119 (19.38%) Lead Software Engineer
10 79 (12.87%) Lead Java Engineer
11 61 (9.93%) DevOps Engineer
11 61 (9.93%) Senior Developer
12 49 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 47 (7.65%) Data Engineer
13 47 (7.65%) Java Developer
14 41 (6.68%) Architect
15 36 (5.86%) Python Engineer
16 34 (5.54%) Python Software Engineer
17 29 (4.72%) Senior Java Engineer
18 28 (4.56%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (50.33%) Spring
2 170 (27.69%) React
3 167 (27.20%) AngularJS
4 155 (25.24%) GraphQL
5 146 (23.78%) Node.js
6 138 (22.48%) Spring Boot
7 132 (21.50%) J2EE
8 119 (19.38%) Hibernate
9 105 (17.10%) Web Services
10 104 (16.94%) REST
10 104 (16.94%) Spring Integration
11 85 (13.84%) JMS
12 81 (13.19%) HTML
13 80 (13.03%) CSS
14 74 (12.05%) JSON
15 73 (11.89%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (8.96%) RESTful
17 54 (8.79%) jQuery
18 53 (8.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 45 (7.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 182 (29.64%) Cloud Native
2 84 (13.68%) Algorithms
3 30 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (3.42%) Replication
5 20 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.77%) Private Cloud
7 16 (2.61%) Reference Data
8 14 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.95%) IoT
10 9 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (0.98%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.49%) Sports Betting
14 2 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.33%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.44%) Linux
2 6 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (68.89%) Agile
2 366 (59.61%) Software Engineering
3 323 (52.61%) CI/CD
4 312 (50.81%) Microservices
5 273 (44.46%) SDLC
6 220 (35.83%) Operational Stability
7 212 (34.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 195 (31.76%) Machine Learning
9 157 (25.57%) Full Stack Development
10 151 (24.59%) Community of Practice
11 149 (24.27%) DevOps
12 126 (20.52%) Computer Science
13 115 (18.73%) TDD
14 103 (16.78%) Decision-Making
15 100 (16.29%) Risk Management
16 98 (15.96%) AOP
16 98 (15.96%) Document Management
17 91 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (14.82%) Visualisation
18 69 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 433 (70.52%) Java
2 361 (58.79%) SQL
3 198 (32.25%) Python
4 129 (21.01%) JavaScript
5 95 (15.47%) TypeScript
6 56 (9.12%) Go
7 28 (4.56%) C#
8 21 (3.42%) Groovy
9 17 (2.77%) Bash
10 12 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.79%) Scala
12 9 (1.47%) R
13 7 (1.14%) Rust
14 6 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.65%) C++
16 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 72 (11.73%) Degree
3 70 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 55 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (7.33%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.79%) PhD
7 8 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.61%) QA
2 15 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.65%) GDPR
3 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (25.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) HDFS
3 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 271 (44.14%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.98%) Terraform
3 47 (7.65%) Grafana
4 27 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.23%) ITRS Geneos
5 26 (4.23%) Kibana
6 21 (3.42%) HAProxy
6 21 (3.42%) Zipkin
7 16 (2.61%) Ansible
8 7 (1.14%) Graphite
9 4 (0.65%) Puppet
10 3 (0.49%) Podman
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) Istio
12 1 (0.16%) Kiali
12 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 156 (25.41%) Oracle
2 50 (8.14%) Splunk
3 44 (7.17%) Google
4 27 (4.40%) Dynatrace
5 21 (3.42%) Databricks
6 12 (1.95%) Microsoft
7 6 (0.98%) Sybase
8 5 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.81%) CA
8 5 (0.81%) Informatica
8 5 (0.81%) Teradata
9 4 (0.65%) Dell
9 4 (0.65%) IBM
10 3 (0.49%) Apple
10 3 (0.49%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.49%) Foundry
10 3 (0.49%) Palantir
10 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.33%) Confluent
11 2 (0.33%) TSYS