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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 276 221
Rank change year-on-year +5 -55 0
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 751 741 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.06% 1.21% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 4.40% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 330 336 612
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,438 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,728 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -12.36% +25.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,827 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,318 £97,414 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.41% +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 14,351 16,823 23,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.34% 27.44% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,319 9,322 14,599
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,351
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 £63,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%

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 6 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 6 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 +50 425 £70,576 +1.62% 20
South East +3 129 £57,500 -14.81% 28
North of England -61 88 £65,000 - 20
North West -20 65 £62,500 -8.72% 11
South West -74 55 £66,250 +1.92% 8
Midlands -12 29 £73,500 +18.55% 11
Yorkshire +34 21 £72,500 +18.37% 8
West Midlands +13 20 £77,500 +25.00% 6
East of England -44 17 £85,000 +61.90% 7
East Midlands -24 12 £66,750 +11.25% 5
Northern Ireland +24 7 £70,000 +5.66% 4
Wales +7 4 £72,500 +48.72% 4
North East -36 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
1 124 (16.51%) Apache Spark
2 98 (13.05%) FileNet
3 55 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.26%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.80%) GemFire
6 18 (2.40%) Apache
7 8 (1.07%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.93%) 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
1 371 (49.40%) AWS
2 155 (20.64%) Azure
3 127 (16.91%) Amazon S3
4 96 (12.78%) GCP
5 65 (8.66%) GitHub
6 42 (5.59%) SaaS
7 36 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
8 26 (3.46%) Serverless
9 23 (3.06%) Google Docs
9 23 (3.06%) Lucidchart
9 23 (3.06%) Miro
9 23 (3.06%) Slack
10 19 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
14 13 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.60%) Snowflake
16 11 (1.46%) Amazon MSK
17 9 (1.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.40%) DSL
2 17 (2.26%) Kerberos
3 8 (1.07%) MQTT
4 7 (0.93%) Firewall
5 6 (0.80%) HTTP
5 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.40%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (28.36%) NoSQL
2 177 (23.57%) Elasticsearch
3 139 (18.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 118 (15.71%) Big Data
5 114 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (13.45%) MongoDB
7 67 (8.92%) Hadoop
8 65 (8.66%) Relational Database
9 54 (7.19%) Redis
10 42 (5.59%) MySQL
11 38 (5.06%) CockroachDB
12 27 (3.60%) Data Lake
13 24 (3.20%) Tableau
14 23 (3.06%) RDBMS
14 23 (3.06%) Scylla
15 22 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
15 22 (2.93%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.80%) Hazelcast
17 20 (2.66%) DB2
18 17 (2.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 134 (17.84%) JUnit
2 92 (12.25%) Jenkins
3 77 (10.25%) Git
4 49 (6.52%) Mockito
5 46 (6.13%) Jasmine
6 33 (4.39%) Maven
7 28 (3.73%) Cucumber
7 28 (3.73%) JIRA
8 21 (2.80%) Jaeger
9 18 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.00%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.73%) GitLab
12 10 (1.33%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.07%) Gradle
13 8 (1.07%) Selenium
13 8 (1.07%) Spinnaker
14 7 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.80%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.80%) Postman
16 5 (0.67%) GDB
General
1 483 (64.31%) Finance
2 383 (51.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 354 (47.14%) Law
4 154 (20.51%) Banking
5 130 (17.31%) Marketing
6 126 (16.78%) Legal
7 114 (15.18%) Social Skills
8 86 (11.45%) Investment Banking
9 37 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (3.46%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.93%) Prime Brokerage
12 20 (2.66%) Retail
13 15 (2.00%) Private Banking
14 13 (1.73%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.33%) Publishing
16 9 (1.20%) 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
1 425 (56.59%) Software Engineer
2 251 (33.42%) Java Engineer
3 223 (29.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 176 (23.44%) Lead
5 157 (20.91%) Senior
6 154 (20.51%) Developer
7 142 (18.91%) Lead Software Engineer
8 140 (18.64%) Full Stack Engineer
9 137 (18.24%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 87 (11.58%) Lead Java Engineer
11 81 (10.79%) Data Engineer
12 73 (9.72%) Senior Developer
13 57 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 53 (7.06%) Python Engineer
15 49 (6.52%) Architect
16 47 (6.26%) Java Developer
16 47 (6.26%) Python Software Engineer
17 41 (5.46%) Big Data Engineer
18 40 (5.33%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 33 (4.39%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (46.07%) Spring
2 187 (24.90%) AngularJS
3 185 (24.63%) GraphQL
4 182 (24.23%) Spring Boot
5 180 (23.97%) React
6 140 (18.64%) J2EE
7 129 (17.18%) Hibernate
8 120 (15.98%) REST
9 116 (15.45%) Node.js
10 115 (15.31%) Web Services
11 104 (13.85%) Spring Integration
12 94 (12.52%) JMS
13 88 (11.72%) HTML
14 87 (11.58%) CSS
15 80 (10.65%) JSON
16 73 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
17 62 (8.26%) .NET
18 58 (7.72%) RESTful
19 55 (7.32%) jQuery
20 54 (7.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (29.29%) Cloud Native
2 120 (15.98%) Algorithms
3 59 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.33%) Data Structures
5 39 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.66%) Management Information System
7 26 (3.46%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.80%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.80%) Replication
10 19 (2.53%) Reference Data
11 18 (2.40%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.60%) Blockchain
12 12 (1.60%) Robotics
13 11 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
14 9 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.07%) PropTech
16 7 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
17 6 (0.80%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.06%) Linux
2 5 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (75.77%) Agile
2 493 (65.65%) Software Engineering
3 398 (53.00%) CI/CD
4 365 (48.60%) Microservices
5 333 (44.34%) SDLC
6 290 (38.62%) Operational Stability
7 273 (36.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 249 (33.16%) Machine Learning
9 219 (29.16%) Community of Practice
10 172 (22.90%) Full Stack Development
11 134 (17.84%) TDD
12 133 (17.71%) DevOps
13 132 (17.58%) Computer Science
14 125 (16.64%) Risk Management
15 124 (16.51%) Decision-Making
16 115 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (14.91%) Visualisation
18 101 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
19 99 (13.18%) Architectural Design
20 98 (13.05%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 531 (70.71%) Java
2 383 (51.00%) SQL
3 235 (31.29%) Python
4 131 (17.44%) JavaScript
5 110 (14.65%) TypeScript
6 91 (12.12%) Go
7 59 (7.86%) C#
8 55 (7.32%) Scala
9 27 (3.60%) Bash
10 22 (2.93%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.80%) Groovy
12 15 (2.00%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.53%) VB
15 3 (0.40%) C++
15 3 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.40%) Rust
16 2 (0.27%) C
16 2 (0.27%) PHP
16 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (10.25%) Degree
2 59 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (5.06%) Master's Degree
3 38 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 35 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.80%) 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 (2.40%) SLA
2 9 (1.20%) QA
3 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 212 (28.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 384 (51.13%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.06%) Terraform
3 50 (6.66%) Grafana
4 27 (3.60%) Kibana
5 26 (3.46%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (2.93%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.80%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.80%) Zipkin
8 17 (2.26%) Ansible
9 7 (0.93%) Graphite
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) Oozie
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 182 (24.23%) Oracle
2 71 (9.45%) Google
3 59 (7.86%) Splunk
4 45 (5.99%) Databricks
5 36 (4.79%) Dynatrace
6 26 (3.46%) Microsoft
7 24 (3.20%) Dell
8 23 (3.06%) Sybase
9 18 (2.40%) Alteryx
9 18 (2.40%) Cognos
10 13 (1.73%) Confluent
10 13 (1.73%) Teradata
11 10 (1.33%) Apple
12 8 (1.07%) IBM
13 5 (0.67%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.67%) CA
13 5 (0.67%) Informatica
13 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.40%) Cloudera