Kafka Job Trends in West Sussex

Apache Kafka
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +49
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 6 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 1.41% 1.56% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 6.76% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £58,250 £45,125 £64,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,938 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -10.91% +121.77%
75th Percentile £69,375 £70,938 £70,938
90th Percentile £69,750 £76,375 £71,125
South East median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 36 74 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 8.45% 23.13% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 29 43 69
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,140 - £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Kafka job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Kafka
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in West Sussex over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in West Sussex

Kafka
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Burgess Hill -1 6 £67,500 +10.20% 2
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
4 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) mountebank
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Vert.x
3 1 (16.67%) Memcached
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) API Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Programming
6 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (16.67%) SDET
6 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Go
2 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle