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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 270 217
Rank change year-on-year +3 -53 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 743 725 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 1.22% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 4.44% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 321 330 613
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,063 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -12.42% +27.50%
75th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,750 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.24% +10.60% +6.67%

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 14,288 16,337 23,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.16% 27.40% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,293 9,031 14,468
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +56 422 £65,000 -6.40% 19
South East -6 130 £57,500 -15.13% 24
North of England -82 83 £65,000 - 19
North West -37 62 £62,500 -10.00% 9
South West -64 53 £66,250 +1.92% 9
Midlands -22 27 £73,500 +18.55% 13
Yorkshire +23 19 £71,538 +14.46% 9
West Midlands -8 18 £77,500 +25.00% 7
East of England -58 17 £85,000 +47.83% 6
East Midlands -29 10 £60,000 -2.04% 6
Northern Ireland +30 8 £70,000 +5.66% 4
Wales +9 4 £72,500 +45.00% 6
North East -35 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
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
1 125 (16.82%) Apache Spark
2 98 (13.19%) FileNet
3 55 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.31%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.83%) GemFire
6 18 (2.42%) Apache
7 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.81%) Confluence
9 5 (0.67%) 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
1 372 (50.07%) AWS
2 158 (21.27%) Azure
3 127 (17.09%) Amazon S3
4 94 (12.65%) GCP
5 63 (8.48%) GitHub
6 41 (5.52%) SaaS
7 34 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (3.36%) Serverless
9 23 (3.10%) Google Docs
9 23 (3.10%) Lucidchart
9 23 (3.10%) Miro
9 23 (3.10%) Slack
10 18 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.02%) BlazeMeter
13 12 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.48%) Amazon MSK
14 11 (1.48%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.21%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.42%) DSL
2 17 (2.29%) Kerberos
3 9 (1.21%) MQTT
4 7 (0.94%) Firewall
4 7 (0.94%) HTTP
4 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (28.67%) NoSQL
2 174 (23.42%) Elasticsearch
3 138 (18.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 116 (15.61%) Big Data
5 115 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (14.00%) MongoDB
7 71 (9.56%) Hadoop
8 63 (8.48%) Relational Database
9 54 (7.27%) Redis
10 40 (5.38%) MySQL
11 38 (5.11%) CockroachDB
12 27 (3.63%) Data Lake
13 24 (3.23%) Tableau
14 23 (3.10%) RDBMS
14 23 (3.10%) Scylla
15 21 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
15 21 (2.83%) Hazelcast
15 21 (2.83%) SQL Server
16 20 (2.69%) DB2
17 17 (2.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 132 (17.77%) JUnit
2 88 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 74 (9.96%) Git
4 47 (6.33%) Mockito
5 46 (6.19%) Jasmine
6 32 (4.31%) Maven
7 27 (3.63%) Cucumber
7 27 (3.63%) JIRA
8 21 (2.83%) Jaeger
9 18 (2.42%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.15%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.62%) GitLab
12 9 (1.21%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.08%) Gradle
14 7 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.94%) Selenium
14 7 (0.94%) Spinnaker
15 6 (0.81%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.67%) GDB
16 5 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 476 (64.06%) Finance
2 383 (51.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 354 (47.64%) Law
4 148 (19.92%) Banking
5 130 (17.50%) Marketing
6 124 (16.69%) Legal
7 114 (15.34%) Social Skills
8 86 (11.57%) Investment Banking
9 35 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (3.50%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.96%) Prime Brokerage
12 19 (2.56%) Retail
13 15 (2.02%) Private Banking
14 12 (1.62%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.35%) Publishing
16 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.94%) Automotive
17 7 (0.94%) Games
18 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 424 (57.07%) Software Engineer
2 250 (33.65%) Java Engineer
3 223 (30.01%) Java Software Engineer
4 174 (23.42%) Lead
5 152 (20.46%) Senior
6 151 (20.32%) Developer
7 142 (19.11%) Lead Software Engineer
8 140 (18.84%) Full Stack Engineer
9 137 (18.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 87 (11.71%) Lead Java Engineer
11 82 (11.04%) Data Engineer
12 69 (9.29%) Senior Developer
13 56 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 53 (7.13%) Python Engineer
15 48 (6.46%) Java Developer
16 47 (6.33%) Python Software Engineer
17 46 (6.19%) Architect
18 41 (5.52%) Big Data Engineer
19 40 (5.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
20 33 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (46.30%) Spring
2 187 (25.17%) AngularJS
3 182 (24.50%) GraphQL
4 179 (24.09%) React
5 176 (23.69%) Spring Boot
6 140 (18.84%) J2EE
7 129 (17.36%) Hibernate
8 121 (16.29%) Node.js
9 119 (16.02%) REST
10 114 (15.34%) Web Services
11 104 (14.00%) Spring Integration
12 94 (12.65%) JMS
13 88 (11.84%) HTML
14 87 (11.71%) CSS
15 80 (10.77%) JSON
16 69 (9.29%) RabbitMQ
17 59 (7.94%) .NET
18 58 (7.81%) RESTful
19 55 (7.40%) jQuery
20 54 (7.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (29.48%) Cloud Native
2 120 (16.15%) Algorithms
3 57 (7.67%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.38%) Data Structures
5 39 (5.25%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.71%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.83%) Private Cloud
8 21 (2.83%) Replication
9 19 (2.56%) Reference Data
10 18 (2.42%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (1.21%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.21%) Robotics
13 8 (1.08%) PropTech
14 7 (0.94%) IoT
15 6 (0.81%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.10%) Linux
2 5 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (75.10%) Agile
2 491 (66.08%) Software Engineering
3 394 (53.03%) CI/CD
4 360 (48.45%) Microservices
5 327 (44.01%) SDLC
6 290 (39.03%) Operational Stability
7 271 (36.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 247 (33.24%) Machine Learning
9 219 (29.48%) Community of Practice
10 173 (23.28%) Full Stack Development
11 133 (17.90%) Computer Science
11 133 (17.90%) DevOps
12 130 (17.50%) TDD
13 125 (16.82%) Risk Management
14 124 (16.69%) Decision-Making
15 114 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (15.21%) Visualisation
17 98 (13.19%) AOP
17 98 (13.19%) Architectural Design
17 98 (13.19%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 529 (71.20%) Java
2 385 (51.82%) SQL
3 239 (32.17%) Python
4 131 (17.63%) JavaScript
5 108 (14.54%) TypeScript
6 91 (12.25%) Go
7 55 (7.40%) C#
8 54 (7.27%) Scala
9 27 (3.63%) Bash
10 21 (2.83%) Groovy
10 21 (2.83%) PL/SQL
11 16 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.54%) VB
14 3 (0.40%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Rust
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.27%) XAML
Qualifications
1 77 (10.36%) Degree
2 58 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (5.65%) Security Cleared
4 39 (5.25%) Master's Degree
4 39 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.83%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.94%) PhD
7 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.42%) SLA
2 9 (1.21%) QA
3 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 201 (27.05%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 375 (50.47%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.13%) Terraform
3 50 (6.73%) Grafana
4 27 (3.63%) Kibana
5 26 (3.50%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.83%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.83%) Zipkin
8 16 (2.15%) Ansible
9 7 (0.94%) Graphite
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) Oozie
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (24.36%) Oracle
2 70 (9.42%) Google
3 58 (7.81%) Splunk
4 44 (5.92%) Databricks
5 36 (4.85%) Dynatrace
6 26 (3.50%) Microsoft
7 24 (3.23%) Dell
8 23 (3.10%) Sybase
9 18 (2.42%) Alteryx
9 18 (2.42%) Cognos
10 13 (1.75%) Teradata
11 11 (1.48%) Confluent
12 10 (1.35%) Apple
13 6 (0.81%) IBM
14 5 (0.67%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.67%) CA
14 5 (0.67%) Informatica
14 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.40%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.40%) Salesforce