Apache Kafka
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 246 206 96
Rank change year-on-year -40 -110 +34
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 992 1,457 6,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.81% 3.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 6.53% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 542 1,117 1,948
10th Percentile £42,500 £58,450 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £87,483 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.98% +6.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £136,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% -9.68% +29.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK 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
England -134 646 £72,500 -17.14% 72
UK excluding London +69 614 £57,500 -17.86% 58
London -99 348 £95,000 - 40
Scotland +88 310 £65,000 -3.89% 6
Work from Home -136 287 £70,000 -17.65% 57
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 142 (14.31%) Apache Spark
2 98 (9.88%) FileNet
3 67 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (5.44%) Apache
5 32 (3.23%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (2.12%) GemFire
7 14 (1.41%) Confluence
8 12 (1.21%) nginx
9 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.20%) JBoss
13 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.20%) SAS
14 1 (0.10%) Camunda
14 1 (0.10%) DataSynapse
14 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 559 (56.35%) AWS
2 269 (27.12%) Azure
3 141 (14.21%) GCP
4 130 (13.10%) Amazon S3
5 65 (6.55%) GitHub
6 46 (4.64%) Serverless
7 28 (2.82%) Snowflake
8 25 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
10 22 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (2.02%) SaaS
13 19 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (1.92%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (1.31%) Datadog
15 13 (1.31%) Kong
15 13 (1.31%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.81%) HTTP
2 17 (1.71%) Kerberos
2 17 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.51%) MQTT
4 6 (0.60%) AMQP
5 5 (0.50%) Firewall
5 5 (0.50%) FTP
6 4 (0.40%) Network Security
6 4 (0.40%) SSL
6 4 (0.40%) VPN
7 3 (0.30%) Broadband
7 3 (0.30%) NaaS
7 3 (0.30%) Wireless
8 2 (0.20%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) PPP
9 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.10%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.10%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (24.70%) NoSQL
2 167 (16.83%) Elasticsearch
2 167 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
3 138 (13.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 128 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 98 (9.88%) Hadoop
6 96 (9.68%) Big Data
7 75 (7.56%) Relational Database
8 55 (5.54%) SQL Server
9 43 (4.33%) CockroachDB
10 42 (4.23%) Redis
11 41 (4.13%) MySQL
12 38 (3.83%) BigQuery
13 30 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
14 28 (2.82%) Flink
15 24 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
15 24 (2.42%) Hazelcast
16 21 (2.12%) Data Mining
17 20 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (1.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 125 (12.60%) JUnit
2 115 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 101 (10.18%) Git
4 52 (5.24%) Mockito
5 47 (4.74%) Jasmine
6 34 (3.43%) Cucumber
7 28 (2.82%) JIRA
8 26 (2.62%) GitLab
8 26 (2.62%) Jaeger
8 26 (2.62%) Maven
9 24 (2.42%) Cypress.io
10 18 (1.81%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.51%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.01%) Selenium
13 8 (0.81%) Postman
13 8 (0.81%) RStudio
13 8 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.71%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.60%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.60%) Spinnaker
General
1 500 (50.40%) Finance
2 315 (31.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 300 (30.24%) Law
4 181 (18.25%) Social Skills
5 146 (14.72%) Banking
6 102 (10.28%) Legal
7 93 (9.38%) Marketing
8 70 (7.06%) Investment Banking
9 40 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
10 36 (3.63%) Retail Banking
11 26 (2.62%) Retail
12 25 (2.52%) Prime Brokerage
13 21 (2.12%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.92%) Games
15 16 (1.61%) Front Office
15 16 (1.61%) Public Sector
16 14 (1.41%) Advertising
17 10 (1.01%) Automotive
18 8 (0.81%) Back Office
18 8 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 390 (39.31%) Software Engineer
2 279 (28.13%) Senior
3 245 (24.70%) Developer
4 221 (22.28%) Java Engineer
5 212 (21.37%) Lead
6 199 (20.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 132 (13.31%) Full Stack Engineer
8 124 (12.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 124 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
9 110 (11.09%) Senior Developer
10 93 (9.38%) Java Developer
11 91 (9.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 85 (8.57%) Architect
13 81 (8.17%) Lead Java Engineer
14 77 (7.76%) Data Engineer
15 66 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
16 45 (4.54%) Senior Java Developer
17 43 (4.33%) .NET Developer
17 43 (4.33%) Python Engineer
18 41 (4.13%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (36.59%) Spring
2 222 (22.38%) React
3 221 (22.28%) Spring Boot
4 196 (19.76%) AngularJS
5 177 (17.84%) GraphQL
6 166 (16.73%) Node.js
7 134 (13.51%) REST
8 132 (13.31%) J2EE
9 125 (12.60%) RabbitMQ
10 123 (12.40%) Hibernate
11 115 (11.59%) Web Services
12 105 (10.58%) Spring Integration
13 91 (9.17%) CSS
13 91 (9.17%) HTML
14 88 (8.87%) .NET
14 88 (8.87%) JMS
15 84 (8.47%) RESTful
16 80 (8.06%) JSON
17 56 (5.65%) jQuery
18 53 (5.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 201 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 117 (11.79%) Algorithms
3 41 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 30 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.92%) Replication
7 25 (2.52%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 19 (1.92%) Hedge funds
11 18 (1.81%) Private Cloud
12 17 (1.71%) Reference Data
13 16 (1.61%) Client/Server
14 13 (1.31%) IoT
15 12 (1.21%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.11%) Cyberattack
16 11 (1.11%) Sports Betting
17 9 (0.91%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.65%) Linux
2 25 (2.52%) Unix
3 15 (1.51%) Windows
4 13 (1.31%) Solaris
5 12 (1.21%) CentOS
5 12 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.21%) zOS
6 4 (0.40%) Debian
6 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (51.81%) Agile
2 492 (49.60%) Software Engineering
3 462 (46.57%) Microservices
4 408 (41.13%) CI/CD
5 327 (32.96%) SDLC
6 260 (26.21%) Artificial Intelligence
7 253 (25.50%) Machine Learning
8 250 (25.20%) DevOps
9 220 (22.18%) Operational Stability
10 187 (18.85%) Full Stack Development
11 174 (17.54%) Computer Science
12 168 (16.94%) TDD
13 153 (15.42%) Community of Practice
14 133 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 121 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
16 118 (11.90%) Risk Management
17 117 (11.79%) Visualisation
18 108 (10.89%) Decision-Making
19 98 (9.88%) AOP
19 98 (9.88%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 617 (62.20%) Java
2 448 (45.16%) SQL
3 298 (30.04%) Python
4 163 (16.43%) JavaScript
5 130 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 88 (8.87%) Go
7 79 (7.96%) C#
8 48 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 47 (4.74%) Scala
10 27 (2.72%) Groovy
11 17 (1.71%) Bash
12 15 (1.51%) Clojure
13 13 (1.31%) R
14 12 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.01%) C++
16 8 (0.81%) Rust
17 2 (0.20%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.20%) Ruby
17 2 (0.20%) VBA
18 1 (0.10%) JCL
Qualifications
1 135 (13.61%) Degree
2 86 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 78 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (7.36%) SC Cleared
5 72 (7.26%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.12%) PhD
7 14 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.40%) CISM
9 4 (0.40%) CISSP
10 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 22 (2.22%) QA
2 13 (1.31%) PCI DSS
3 11 (1.11%) MiFID
4 10 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.60%) GDPR
6 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GRC
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.10%) NCSC
9 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 269 (27.12%) Docker
2 7 (0.71%) HDFS
3 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.20%) IAG
4 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 448 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.38%) Terraform
3 64 (6.45%) Grafana
4 41 (4.13%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.63%) Ansible
6 31 (3.13%) Kibana
7 26 (2.62%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (2.12%) HAProxy
8 21 (2.12%) Zipkin
9 7 (0.71%) Graphite
10 6 (0.60%) Kiali
11 5 (0.50%) Puppet
12 4 (0.40%) Argo
12 4 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.30%) Istio
13 3 (0.30%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.30%) Podman
14 2 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.20%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 159 (16.03%) Oracle
2 74 (7.46%) Google
3 67 (6.75%) Splunk
4 42 (4.23%) Databricks
5 30 (3.02%) Microsoft
6 27 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.51%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.41%) IBM
9 12 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.01%) AppDynamics
11 9 (0.91%) Apple
11 9 (0.91%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.81%) Sybase
13 7 (0.71%) Informatica
14 6 (0.60%) Confluent
14 6 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.50%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.50%) Reuters
15 5 (0.50%) Solace
15 5 (0.50%) Teradata