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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 269 273
Rank change year-on-year +43 +4 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 505 739 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.03% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.70% 5.15% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 157 319 324
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -12.34%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £91,250 £101,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £89,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.43% +12.19%

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 5,208 14,343 16,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.38% 19.99% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,215 10,315 8,948
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.35% -11.11% +5.88%

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 22 May 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 22 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
North of England +138 192 £72,246 +11.15% 158
North West +78 169 £70,000 +12.00% 89
Scotland -21 95 £68,750 +5.77% 75
South East +42 83 £72,500 +26.09% 229
Midlands +103 74 £70,000 -4.11% 118
East Midlands +62 42 £67,500 +12.50% 38
West Midlands +83 32 £77,500 - 70
South West +80 27 £67,500 - 72
East of England +43 22 £71,500 -15.88% 57
Yorkshire +66 17 £80,000 +13.35% 48
Northern Ireland +45 13 £55,000 -21.43% 28
North East +48 6 £62,500 +8.70% 21
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
1 164 (32.48%) Confluence
2 41 (8.12%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.55%) Apache
4 19 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.39%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.99%) Appian
6 5 (0.99%) nginx
6 5 (0.99%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.79%) GemFire
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 388 (76.83%) AWS
2 331 (65.54%) Azure
3 202 (40.00%) GCP
4 27 (5.35%) Serverless
5 26 (5.15%) Amazon S3
5 26 (5.15%) Snowflake
6 22 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (3.96%) SaaS
8 17 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.37%) GitHub
9 14 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (2.57%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.38%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.58%) dbt
13 7 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.39%) Datadog
14 6 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) HTTP
2 3 (0.59%) Internet
2 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) MQTT
4 1 (0.20%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (55.25%) SQL Server
2 77 (15.25%) MongoDB
3 50 (9.90%) NoSQL
4 42 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (7.33%) Big Data
6 30 (5.94%) Relational Database
7 25 (4.95%) MySQL
8 22 (4.36%) Hadoop
9 19 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.98%) Apache Hive
11 10 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.78%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (1.78%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.58%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 269 (53.27%) GitLab
2 262 (51.88%) Selenium
3 261 (51.68%) JIRA
4 259 (51.29%) Bitbucket
5 256 (50.69%) Cucumber
6 255 (50.50%) Maven
7 251 (49.70%) SonarQube
8 246 (48.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 45 (8.91%) Jenkins
10 37 (7.33%) Git
11 24 (4.75%) JUnit
12 12 (2.38%) Mockito
13 6 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (1.19%) Postman
14 5 (0.99%) Gradle
14 5 (0.99%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.99%) Snyk
14 5 (0.99%) TestNG
15 3 (0.59%) Spinnaker
16 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
General
1 325 (64.36%) Finance
2 301 (59.60%) Banking
3 269 (53.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 101 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 99 (19.60%) Retail
6 90 (17.82%) Corporate Banking
7 50 (9.90%) Social Skills
8 38 (7.52%) Law
9 23 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (4.16%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.77%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.98%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.58%) Games
14 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Advertising
15 4 (0.79%) Front Office
15 4 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 316 (62.57%) Software Engineer
2 70 (13.86%) Lead
3 65 (12.87%) Developer
4 45 (8.91%) Senior
5 40 (7.92%) Java Developer
6 37 (7.33%) Java Engineer
7 25 (4.95%) Data Engineer
8 23 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (4.16%) Architect
10 20 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (3.56%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.97%) Technical Leader
14 13 (2.57%) Python Engineer
15 12 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
16 11 (2.18%) Project Leader
17 10 (1.98%) Full-Stack Developer
18 9 (1.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 9 (1.78%) Project Engineer
19 8 (1.58%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (62.97%) Spring
2 317 (62.77%) Spring Boot
3 311 (61.58%) React
4 255 (50.50%) CSS
4 255 (50.50%) HTML
5 249 (49.31%) Redux
6 248 (49.11%) JPA
7 169 (33.47%) Hibernate
8 131 (25.94%) REST
9 122 (24.16%) RESTful
10 92 (18.22%) HTML5
10 92 (18.22%) Jest
11 90 (17.82%) CSS3
11 90 (17.82%) Sass
12 34 (6.73%) AngularJS
13 32 (6.34%) .NET
14 27 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (4.95%) Node.js
16 15 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (2.97%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 269 (53.27%) Product Ownership
2 246 (48.71%) Enterprise Software
3 43 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 38 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.38%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.98%) Replication
9 9 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.99%) Derivative
10 5 (0.99%) Life Science
10 5 (0.99%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.79%) Equities
11 4 (0.79%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.59%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.17%) Linux
2 13 (2.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (75.64%) Agile
2 364 (72.08%) Microservices
3 361 (71.49%) Software Engineering
4 352 (69.70%) CI/CD
5 317 (62.77%) DevOps
6 287 (56.83%) Test Automation
7 286 (56.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (56.63%) SDLC
8 277 (54.85%) Containerisation
9 252 (49.90%) Performance Optimisation
10 251 (49.70%) Front End Development
11 202 (40.00%) TDD
12 180 (35.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 165 (32.67%) Clean Code
14 144 (28.51%) Mentoring
15 104 (20.59%) User Experience
16 93 (18.42%) Migration
17 91 (18.02%) Strategic Thinking
18 90 (17.82%) Responsive Web Design
19 46 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 401 (79.41%) Java
2 317 (62.77%) SQL
3 295 (58.42%) JavaScript
4 128 (25.35%) TypeScript
5 86 (17.03%) Python
6 52 (10.30%) C#
7 7 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.19%) Go
9 5 (0.99%) Bash
9 5 (0.99%) C++
9 5 (0.99%) Scala
10 4 (0.79%) R
11 2 (0.40%) Groovy
11 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.20%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (6.53%) Security Cleared
2 28 (5.54%) Degree
2 28 (5.54%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.96%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.39%) CISSP
8 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.59%) OCP
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (50.50%) QA
2 101 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.17%) GDPR
4 13 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.57%) Def Stans
5 10 (1.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.40%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 341 (67.52%) Docker
2 10 (1.98%) HDFS
3 6 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 361 (71.49%) Kubernetes
2 51 (10.10%) Terraform
3 19 (3.76%) Ansible
4 17 (3.37%) Grafana
5 13 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.99%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.99%) Packer
7 2 (0.40%) Kibana
7 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.20%) Control-M
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) Oozie
Vendors
1 250 (49.50%) Solace
2 34 (6.73%) Databricks
3 29 (5.74%) Oracle
4 21 (4.16%) VMware
5 12 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.18%) Google
7 9 (1.78%) Splunk
8 8 (1.58%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.19%) Sybase
10 5 (0.99%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (0.99%) Black Duck
10 5 (0.99%) UiPath
11 4 (0.79%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.79%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.59%) Confluent
12 3 (0.59%) SAP
13 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.40%) Okta
13 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.40%) WSO2