Apache Kafka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 204 127 136
Rank change year-on-year -77 +9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 900 3,328 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 2.71% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.45% 8.35% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 731 1,633 1,884
10th Percentile £50,686 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £96,563
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% +5.77% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 13,950 39,876 49,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.46% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,888 24,229 32,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -83 780 £82,500 -2.94% 300
London -46 471 £90,000 -5.26% 204
Work from Home -57 440 £79,816 -6.10% 213
UK excluding London -21 395 £70,576 +2.66% 170
North of England +29 104 £77,500 +24.00% 17
Scotland +23 99 £70,576 +4.35% 24
South West +47 97 £62,500 -7.41% 26
North West +57 65 £69,447 +2.88% 11
South East -38 58 £65,000 -13.33% 66
Yorkshire +55 38 £79,632 +27.41% 4
Midlands +54 27 £70,576 -5.90% 14
East Midlands +20 16 £73,500 +5.00% 5
West Midlands +85 14 £70,576 -6.52% 9
East of England +17 12 £80,000 +6.67% 8
Wales +3 4 £65,000 +11.11% 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 8
North East +5 1 £94,000 +34.29% 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
1 163 (18.11%) Apache Spark
2 88 (9.78%) Apache
3 33 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.67%) Confluence
4 12 (1.33%) nginx
4 12 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.56%) JBoss
7 4 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) IIS
8 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.22%) Jetty
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.22%) MS Exchange
9 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) LibreOffice
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Endur
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Salerio
Cloud Services
1 470 (52.22%) AWS
2 266 (29.56%) Azure
3 228 (25.33%) GCP
4 110 (12.22%) SaaS
5 88 (9.78%) GitHub
6 75 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 62 (6.89%) PaaS
8 59 (6.56%) IaaS
9 57 (6.33%) Serverless
10 55 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (5.33%) Power Platform
12 47 (5.22%) Vertex AI
13 41 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (3.33%) Amazon S3
14 30 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 22 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
19 19 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.78%) SSL
2 15 (1.67%) HTTP
3 14 (1.56%) DNS
3 14 (1.56%) Firewall
4 12 (1.33%) AMQP
5 11 (1.22%) WAN
6 10 (1.11%) VPN
7 7 (0.78%) Internet
7 7 (0.78%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.67%) Network Security
9 4 (0.44%) 5G
9 4 (0.44%) DSL
9 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.44%) SMTP
10 2 (0.22%) DHCP
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 1 (0.11%) ATM
11 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.11%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (21.44%) NoSQL
2 163 (18.11%) Big Data
3 145 (16.11%) Data Lake
4 101 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
4 101 (11.22%) Relational Database
5 91 (10.11%) Hadoop
6 85 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (9.11%) MySQL
8 79 (8.78%) BigQuery
9 70 (7.78%) MongoDB
10 54 (6.00%) Redis
10 54 (6.00%) Tableau
11 51 (5.67%) Bigtable
11 51 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
11 51 (5.67%) Looker
12 48 (5.33%) Power BI
13 45 (5.00%) SQL Server
14 35 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
15 26 (2.89%) Flink
16 23 (2.56%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 146 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 70 (7.78%) Git
3 52 (5.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 47 (5.22%) Artifactory
5 44 (4.89%) Bitbucket
6 36 (4.00%) JIRA
6 36 (4.00%) Maven
7 27 (3.00%) JUnit
7 27 (3.00%) Selenium
8 21 (2.33%) Spinnaker
9 20 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.11%) Liquibase
11 16 (1.78%) GitLab
12 11 (1.22%) Gradle
13 10 (1.11%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.11%) Postman
13 10 (1.11%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.11%) webpack
14 9 (1.00%) JMeter
14 9 (1.00%) Mocha
General
1 370 (41.11%) Finance
2 234 (26.00%) Banking
3 126 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 88 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (7.22%) Retail
7 45 (5.00%) Legal
8 38 (4.22%) Front Office
9 23 (2.56%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.11%) Law
11 14 (1.56%) Marketing
11 14 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.33%) Games
12 12 (1.33%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.89%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 299 (33.22%) Developer
2 199 (22.11%) Senior
3 184 (20.44%) Java Developer
4 174 (19.33%) Architect
5 114 (12.67%) Software Engineer
6 105 (11.67%) Lead
7 98 (10.89%) Senior Developer
8 82 (9.11%) Java Engineer
9 77 (8.56%) Data Engineer
10 68 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
11 54 (6.00%) Enterprise Architect
12 52 (5.78%) Data Architect
13 48 (5.33%) Java Software Engineer
14 45 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.89%) Senior Java Developer
16 41 (4.56%) .NET Developer
16 41 (4.56%) Commercial Architect
17 37 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
18 32 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
19 28 (3.11%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (26.44%) Spring
2 233 (25.89%) Spring Boot
3 173 (19.22%) REST
4 131 (14.56%) React
5 87 (9.67%) RabbitMQ
6 85 (9.44%) .NET
7 81 (9.00%) AngularJS
8 72 (8.00%) Web Services
9 55 (6.11%) OpenID
10 52 (5.78%) GraphQL
11 46 (5.11%) RESTful
12 45 (5.00%) JWT
13 38 (4.22%) Node.js
14 36 (4.00%) .NET Core
15 32 (3.56%) JSON
15 32 (3.56%) Middleware
16 30 (3.33%) Hibernate
17 27 (3.00%) LINQ
18 26 (2.89%) ASP.NET
19 25 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 118 (13.11%) Public Cloud
2 77 (8.56%) Blockchain
3 54 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 50 (5.56%) Mainframe
5 49 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (5.22%) Cloud Native
7 39 (4.33%) Algorithms
8 37 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (3.67%) Derivative
10 23 (2.56%) Private Cloud
11 22 (2.44%) Data Structures
11 22 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (2.44%) Robotics
12 15 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.56%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 12 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.22%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.11%) Hedge funds
17 8 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 112 (12.44%) Linux
2 94 (10.44%) Unix
3 27 (3.00%) Windows
4 23 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.11%) Solaris
6 11 (1.22%) AIX
6 11 (1.22%) Fedora
6 11 (1.22%) HPUX
7 6 (0.67%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.44%) Android
9 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) Debian
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (53.22%) Agile
2 407 (45.22%) Microservices
3 282 (31.33%) CI/CD
4 238 (26.44%) DevOps
5 234 (26.00%) Software Engineering
6 169 (18.78%) Machine Learning
7 155 (17.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 150 (16.67%) TDD
9 124 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
10 116 (12.89%) Fintech
11 113 (12.56%) SDLC
12 104 (11.56%) Containerisation
12 104 (11.56%) ETL
13 103 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 101 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
15 95 (10.56%) Analytics
16 93 (10.33%) Test Automation
17 84 (9.33%) Mentoring
18 83 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
19 82 (9.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 528 (58.67%) Java
2 208 (23.11%) Python
3 177 (19.67%) SQL
4 104 (11.56%) C#
5 89 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 85 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 68 (7.56%) Bash
8 55 (6.11%) Scala
9 50 (5.56%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.22%) Go
11 31 (3.44%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.22%) C++
13 12 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.22%) Groovy
15 9 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.67%) PHP
16 6 (0.67%) Ruby
17 4 (0.44%) C
17 4 (0.44%) F#
17 4 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (9.67%) Degree
2 57 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 37 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.67%) CCNA
10 6 (0.67%) CCNP
10 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.67%) MCP
10 6 (0.67%) MCSE
11 2 (0.22%) MCSA
11 2 (0.22%) OCP
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.00%) QA
2 28 (3.11%) SEPA
3 18 (2.00%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.56%) SLA
7 2 (0.22%) WCAG
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 348 (38.67%) Docker
2 15 (1.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 14 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.11%) HDFS
5 8 (0.89%) vSphere
6 4 (0.44%) Ceph
7 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 461 (51.22%) Kubernetes
2 150 (16.67%) Terraform
3 98 (10.89%) Ansible
4 20 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.00%) Grafana
6 9 (1.00%) Consul
6 9 (1.00%) Puppet
7 7 (0.78%) Oozie
8 5 (0.56%) Kibana
9 4 (0.44%) Istio
9 4 (0.44%) Rancher
10 3 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.33%) Argo
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
11 2 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.22%) Nagios
11 2 (0.22%) SCCM
11 2 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 97 (10.78%) Google
2 48 (5.33%) Splunk
3 45 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 44 (4.89%) Confluent
5 27 (3.00%) Red Hat
6 25 (2.78%) Databricks
7 24 (2.67%) IBM
7 24 (2.67%) Oracle
8 23 (2.56%) VMware
9 20 (2.22%) TOWER Software
10 19 (2.11%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.67%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.33%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.33%) Dell
13 9 (1.00%) Cisco
14 7 (0.78%) HP
14 7 (0.78%) Juniper
14 7 (0.78%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.78%) TIBCO
15 6 (0.67%) Teradata