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 14 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 226 121
Rank change year-on-year -113 -105 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 592 956 4,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.59% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.07% 5.93% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 368 800 1,709
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £68,718 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,875 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% -3.68% +13.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,576 £72,039
% change year-on-year -22.07% -2.03% +20.07%

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 14,552 16,112 51,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.86% 26.88% 35.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,810 12,420 26,075
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -132 527 £72,500 -12.12% 286
London -68 326 £92,500 +2.78% 162
UK excluding London -86 262 £55,000 -22.07% 171
Work from Home -121 206 £70,000 -12.50% 475
South East +14 104 £45,000 -33.33% 34
North of England -63 51 £55,000 -29.03% 23
Scotland -26 45 £67,500 -4.36% 30
North West -49 36 £55,000 -26.67% 10
South West -52 30 £67,500 -3.57% 25
Yorkshire -7 13 £55,000 -30.93% 11
Midlands -66 13 £60,000 - 20
Northern Ireland +31 8 £52,500 -41.67% 18
West Midlands -32 8 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Wales +38 6 £44,344 -38.84% 2
East of England -39 5 £58,750 -22.95% 21
East Midlands -42 5 £45,250 -27.60% 16
North East -30 2 £49,274 -47.58% 2

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
1 106 (17.91%) Apache Spark
2 42 (7.09%) Apache
3 31 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.55%) Confluence
5 8 (1.35%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.84%) FileNet
7 4 (0.68%) nginx
7 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) Camunda
8 3 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.17%) Luigi
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 372 (62.84%) AWS
2 217 (36.66%) Azure
3 121 (20.44%) GCP
4 57 (9.63%) Serverless
5 36 (6.08%) Amazon S3
5 36 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (5.41%) SaaS
7 27 (4.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 27 (4.56%) Azure Functions
7 27 (4.56%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (3.72%) GitHub
10 18 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (2.20%) Kong
12 12 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (1.86%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.86%) Stackdriver
14 10 (1.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.22%) HTTP
2 15 (2.53%) MQTT
3 11 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.35%) Broadband
5 5 (0.84%) PPP
6 4 (0.68%) Internet
7 3 (0.51%) FTP
8 2 (0.34%) Network Security
9 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.17%) DNS
9 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.17%) VPN
9 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (23.31%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 111 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 88 (14.86%) Hadoop
4 54 (9.12%) Big Data
5 48 (8.11%) SQL Server
6 45 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (7.60%) Relational Database
7 43 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (4.73%) BigQuery
8 28 (4.73%) MySQL
9 23 (3.89%) Data Mining
10 21 (3.55%) Redis
11 19 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (2.70%) Flink
13 15 (2.53%) Data Lake
14 12 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.03%) Metadata
15 11 (1.86%) Power BI
16 10 (1.69%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 85 (14.36%) Jenkins
2 76 (12.84%) Git
3 42 (7.09%) GitLab
4 34 (5.74%) Maven
5 33 (5.57%) Mockito
6 27 (4.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 25 (4.22%) Gradle
8 22 (3.72%) JIRA
9 18 (3.04%) JUnit
10 16 (2.70%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.69%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.35%) RStudio
13 7 (1.18%) Selenium
14 6 (1.01%) IntelliJ
15 5 (0.84%) Spinnaker
16 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.68%) Jasmine
17 3 (0.51%) JMeter
17 3 (0.51%) Terragrunt
17 3 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 192 (32.43%) Finance
2 153 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 55 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (7.09%) Banking
5 39 (6.59%) Law
6 27 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.56%) Retail
7 26 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.72%) Advertising
8 22 (3.72%) Games
9 16 (2.70%) Retail Banking
10 14 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.20%) Front Office
11 13 (2.20%) Legal
11 13 (2.20%) Marketing
12 12 (2.03%) Back Office
13 9 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.35%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (29.73%) Senior
2 175 (29.56%) Developer
3 116 (19.59%) Software Engineer
4 87 (14.70%) Lead
5 83 (14.02%) Java Developer
6 68 (11.49%) Architect
7 67 (11.32%) Senior Developer
8 60 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 52 (8.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 47 (7.94%) Data Engineer
11 33 (5.57%) Java Engineer
12 32 (5.41%) .NET Developer
13 29 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
14 26 (4.39%) Data Architect
15 25 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
16 23 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 21 (3.55%) C# Developer
17 21 (3.55%) Lead Software Engineer
18 19 (3.21%) AWS Developer
19 18 (3.04%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (20.95%) Spring
2 118 (19.93%) Spring Boot
3 113 (19.09%) RabbitMQ
4 103 (17.40%) Node.js
5 88 (14.86%) React
6 84 (14.19%) RESTful
7 70 (11.82%) .NET
8 60 (10.14%) AngularJS
9 47 (7.94%) REST
10 40 (6.76%) Web Services
11 31 (5.24%) GraphQL
12 29 (4.90%) OAuth
13 28 (4.73%) .NET Core
13 28 (4.73%) CSS
13 28 (4.73%) HTML
14 26 (4.39%) OAuth2
15 25 (4.22%) SAML
16 19 (3.21%) gRPC
17 17 (2.87%) MSMQ
18 14 (2.36%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
2 38 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.05%) Algorithms
5 21 (3.55%) Hedge funds
6 17 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.36%) Data Fabric
8 13 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.69%) IoT
10 10 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.35%) Over-the-Top Content
13 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Client/Server
14 6 (1.01%) Derivative
15 5 (0.84%) Blog
15 5 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.42%) Linux
2 15 (2.53%) Unix
3 7 (1.18%) CentOS
3 7 (1.18%) Solaris
3 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.18%) Windows
4 6 (1.01%) zOS
5 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.68%) Android
6 4 (0.68%) Debian
7 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (43.24%) Microservices
2 193 (32.60%) Software Engineering
3 189 (31.93%) Agile
4 165 (27.87%) DevOps
5 161 (27.20%) CI/CD
6 133 (22.47%) TDD
7 99 (16.72%) Computer Science
8 78 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (13.01%) Machine Learning
10 76 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 76 (12.84%) Mentoring
11 75 (12.67%) Analytics
11 75 (12.67%) Continuous Integration
12 73 (12.33%) Unit Testing
13 72 (12.16%) Event-Driven
14 65 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
14 65 (10.98%) Design Patterns
15 63 (10.64%) ETL
15 63 (10.64%) Fintech
15 63 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 302 (51.01%) Java
2 219 (36.99%) Python
3 194 (32.77%) SQL
4 74 (12.50%) C#
5 65 (10.98%) JavaScript
6 60 (10.14%) Go
6 60 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 52 (8.78%) Scala
8 31 (5.24%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.53%) Bash
10 13 (2.20%) Clojure
11 12 (2.03%) C++
12 11 (1.86%) R
13 5 (0.84%) Rust
13 5 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.68%) Groovy
15 3 (0.51%) C
15 3 (0.51%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.34%) Delphi
16 2 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (17.91%) Degree
2 82 (13.85%) Security Cleared
3 71 (11.99%) SC Cleared
4 54 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (5.57%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.35%) PhD
8 6 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CISM
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.38%) QA
3 14 (2.36%) MiFID
4 11 (1.86%) GDPR
5 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.51%) NCSC
9 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 197 (33.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) HDFS
3 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 217 (36.66%) Kubernetes
2 96 (16.22%) Terraform
3 23 (3.89%) Ansible
4 19 (3.21%) Grafana
5 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.01%) Kibana
7 4 (0.68%) Podman
7 4 (0.68%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) Consul
9 2 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.34%) Istio
9 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.17%) logstash
10 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (9.46%) Google
2 31 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.22%) Databricks
4 24 (4.05%) Oracle
5 17 (2.87%) Apple
6 11 (1.86%) Splunk
7 9 (1.52%) IBM
8 8 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.18%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.01%) Solace
11 4 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.68%) Confluent
11 4 (0.68%) Foundry
11 4 (0.68%) Palantir
12 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.51%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.51%) Informatica
12 3 (0.51%) Reuters
12 3 (0.51%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.51%) SAP