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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 137 104
Rank change year-on-year -96 -33 +36
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1,236 2,750 5,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 2.58% 3.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.91% 8.47% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 721 1,493 1,922
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,052 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% -13.00% +25.00%

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 20,929 32,454 61,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.53% 30.47% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 15,703 19,819 30,667
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -165 792 £80,000 -11.11% 256
UK excluding London -1 743 £65,000 -0.38% 124
London -100 453 £95,000 -5.00% 160
Work from Home -125 449 £72,500 -17.14% 164
Scotland +51 412 £70,576 +2.14% 27
South East -38 110 £57,500 -14.81% 40
North of England -57 95 £65,000 - 27
North West -24 70 £62,500 -3.85% 21
South West -43 68 £62,500 -3.85% 6
Midlands -8 33 £73,000 +17.74% 12
West Midlands +25 24 £77,500 +25.00% 9
Yorkshire +35 23 £71,538 +19.23% 4
East of England -31 17 £85,000 +61.90% 6
East Midlands -27 12 £66,750 +33.50% 3
Northern Ireland +26 6 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Wales 0 5 £72,500 +48.72% 2
North East -34 2 £57,500 -8.00% 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
1 229 (18.53%) Apache Spark
2 93 (7.52%) FileNet
3 85 (6.88%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (6.15%) Apache
5 29 (2.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.70%) GemFire
7 15 (1.21%) Confluence
8 10 (0.81%) nginx
8 10 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.16%) Liferay
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.081%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.081%) Camunda
11 1 (0.081%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.081%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 687 (55.58%) AWS
2 265 (21.44%) Azure
3 204 (16.50%) GCP
4 143 (11.57%) Amazon S3
5 107 (8.66%) GitHub
6 57 (4.61%) SaaS
7 53 (4.29%) Serverless
8 38 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (2.43%) Snowflake
12 29 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (2.02%) Slack
14 23 (1.86%) Google Docs
14 23 (1.86%) Lucidchart
14 23 (1.86%) Miro
14 23 (1.86%) OpenShift
15 22 (1.78%) Power Platform
16 21 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.78%) Firewall
2 18 (1.46%) DSL
3 16 (1.29%) Kerberos
4 8 (0.65%) HTTP
4 8 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.57%) AMQP
6 6 (0.49%) VPN
7 5 (0.40%) FTP
7 5 (0.40%) MQTT
7 5 (0.40%) Network Security
7 5 (0.40%) SSL
8 3 (0.24%) Broadband
8 3 (0.24%) NaaS
8 3 (0.24%) Wireless
9 2 (0.16%) DNS
10 1 (0.081%) Multicast
10 1 (0.081%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (23.54%) NoSQL
2 229 (18.53%) Elasticsearch
3 184 (14.89%) Big Data
4 157 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
5 155 (12.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 133 (10.76%) MongoDB
7 121 (9.79%) Hadoop
8 100 (8.09%) Redis
9 97 (7.85%) Relational Database
10 96 (7.77%) MySQL
11 71 (5.74%) Data Lake
12 52 (4.21%) SQL Server
13 49 (3.96%) BigQuery
14 46 (3.72%) CockroachDB
15 44 (3.56%) Flink
16 41 (3.32%) Data Mining
16 41 (3.32%) Tableau
17 35 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
18 31 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
19 25 (2.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 166 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 131 (10.60%) JUnit
3 105 (8.50%) Git
4 48 (3.88%) JIRA
4 48 (3.88%) Mockito
5 45 (3.64%) Maven
6 44 (3.56%) Jasmine
7 33 (2.67%) GitLab
8 32 (2.59%) Cucumber
9 29 (2.35%) Jaeger
10 25 (2.02%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.70%) Bitbucket
12 17 (1.38%) Spinnaker
13 14 (1.13%) Selenium
14 12 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.81%) Postman
16 9 (0.73%) Gradle
16 9 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
16 9 (0.73%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
General
1 615 (49.76%) Finance
2 392 (31.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 361 (29.21%) Law
4 259 (20.95%) Banking
5 190 (15.37%) Social Skills
6 137 (11.08%) Marketing
7 133 (10.76%) Legal
8 102 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
9 86 (6.96%) Investment Banking
10 46 (3.72%) Games
10 46 (3.72%) Retail
11 42 (3.40%) Financial Institution
12 39 (3.16%) Retail Banking
13 26 (2.10%) Front Office
14 22 (1.78%) Prime Brokerage
15 18 (1.46%) Public Sector
16 15 (1.21%) Private Banking
17 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 460 (37.22%) Software Engineer
2 325 (26.29%) Developer
3 323 (26.13%) Senior
4 268 (21.68%) Java Engineer
5 250 (20.23%) Lead
6 227 (18.37%) Java Software Engineer
7 142 (11.49%) Full Stack Engineer
8 135 (10.92%) Lead Software Engineer
9 134 (10.84%) Data Engineer
10 131 (10.60%) Java Developer
11 130 (10.52%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 129 (10.44%) Senior Developer
13 121 (9.79%) Architect
14 84 (6.80%) Lead Java Engineer
15 79 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
16 70 (5.66%) Python Engineer
17 67 (5.42%) .NET Developer
18 50 (4.05%) Python Software Engineer
19 46 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
20 45 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (35.92%) Spring
2 322 (26.05%) Spring Boot
3 248 (20.06%) React
4 226 (18.28%) AngularJS
5 189 (15.29%) GraphQL
6 151 (12.22%) REST
7 135 (10.92%) J2EE
8 132 (10.68%) Hibernate
9 127 (10.28%) .NET
10 123 (9.95%) Node.js
11 111 (8.98%) Web Services
12 105 (8.50%) RabbitMQ
13 102 (8.25%) CSS
14 99 (8.01%) Spring Integration
15 94 (7.61%) HTML
15 94 (7.61%) JMS
16 92 (7.44%) RESTful
17 83 (6.72%) JSON
18 60 (4.85%) PySpark
19 53 (4.29%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 226 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 152 (12.30%) Algorithms
3 69 (5.58%) Public Cloud
4 59 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
5 56 (4.53%) Data Structures
6 51 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.16%) Product Ownership
9 38 (3.07%) Onboarding
10 32 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (2.51%) Client/Server
12 27 (2.18%) Replication
13 20 (1.62%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.54%) Reference Data
15 17 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.29%) Blockchain
16 16 (1.29%) Robotics
16 16 (1.29%) Sports Betting
17 15 (1.21%) PropTech
18 12 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 72 (5.83%) Linux
2 17 (1.38%) Unix
3 16 (1.29%) Windows
4 9 (0.73%) CentOS
4 9 (0.73%) Solaris
4 9 (0.73%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.73%) zOS
5 3 (0.24%) Android
5 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.081%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.081%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (58.09%) Agile
2 634 (51.29%) Software Engineering
3 546 (44.17%) Microservices
4 518 (41.91%) CI/CD
5 393 (31.80%) SDLC
6 325 (26.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 310 (25.08%) Machine Learning
8 276 (22.33%) Operational Stability
9 247 (19.98%) DevOps
10 210 (16.99%) Community of Practice
11 201 (16.26%) Full Stack Development
12 200 (16.18%) TDD
13 185 (14.97%) Computer Science
14 164 (13.27%) Visualisation
15 156 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
16 143 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (10.92%) Analytics
18 130 (10.52%) Risk Management
19 129 (10.44%) Decision-Making
20 115 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 767 (62.06%) Java
2 492 (39.81%) SQL
3 354 (28.64%) Python
4 187 (15.13%) JavaScript
5 147 (11.89%) TypeScript
6 146 (11.81%) C#
7 118 (9.55%) Go
8 89 (7.20%) Scala
9 53 (4.29%) Kotlin
10 31 (2.51%) Bash
11 27 (2.18%) Groovy
12 24 (1.94%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.29%) C
14 9 (0.73%) C++
14 9 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.65%) R
16 5 (0.40%) Clojure
16 5 (0.40%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.40%) Rust
16 5 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 172 (13.92%) Degree
2 77 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 36 (2.91%) Security Cleared
5 33 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.35%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.21%) PhD
8 8 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.24%) CISM
11 3 (0.24%) CISSP
11 3 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.78%) QA
2 18 (1.46%) SLA
3 15 (1.21%) SEPA
4 12 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 9 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.24%) GRC
9 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.24%) MiFID
9 3 (0.24%) NIST
10 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 389 (31.47%) Docker
2 13 (1.05%) HDFS
3 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.081%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.081%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.081%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 629 (50.89%) Kubernetes
2 104 (8.41%) Terraform
3 62 (5.02%) Grafana
4 46 (3.72%) Ansible
5 34 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.51%) Kibana
7 26 (2.10%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.70%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.70%) Zipkin
9 9 (0.73%) Kiali
10 7 (0.57%) Argo
10 7 (0.57%) Graphite
11 4 (0.32%) Consul
11 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.32%) logstash
11 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) Puppet
12 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) Istio
13 2 (0.16%) Oozie
Vendors
1 183 (14.81%) Oracle
2 133 (10.76%) Google
3 74 (5.99%) Databricks
3 74 (5.99%) Splunk
4 67 (5.42%) Microsoft
5 36 (2.91%) Dynatrace
6 24 (1.94%) Confluent
6 24 (1.94%) Dell
7 23 (1.86%) Sybase
8 18 (1.46%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.46%) Cognos
9 17 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 16 (1.29%) IBM
11 15 (1.21%) Apple
12 14 (1.13%) Teradata
13 13 (1.05%) AppDynamics
14 12 (0.97%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.73%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.65%) YouTube
17 7 (0.57%) Facebook