Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 26 November 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 November 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
26 Nov 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 140 117 149
Rank change year-on-year -23 +32 +94
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 705 216 156
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.40% 2.64% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.42% 5.22% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 500 209 108
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £92,500 £107,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -

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 WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13,018 4,140 3,686
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 44.39% 50.56% 47.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,292 3,752 3,334
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,525 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

Kafka
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 26 November 2021.

Kafka salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 26 November 2021, Kafka job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Kafka.

1 384 (54.47%) Java
2 375 (53.19%) AWS
3 329 (46.67%) Docker
4 310 (43.97%) Kubernetes
5 298 (42.27%) Microservices
6 269 (38.16%) Agile Software Development
7 221 (31.35%) Software Engineering
8 211 (29.93%) Finance
9 197 (27.94%) Spring
9 197 (27.94%) DevOps
10 194 (27.52%) React
11 193 (27.38%) Jenkins
12 187 (26.52%) Git (software)
13 185 (26.24%) Social Skills
14 172 (24.40%) PostgreSQL
15 171 (24.26%) Azure
16 169 (23.97%) SQL
17 167 (23.69%) Python
18 158 (22.41%) Node.js
19 154 (21.84%) Terraform
20 153 (21.70%) JavaScript
21 150 (21.28%) MongoDB
22 145 (20.57%) MySQL
23 144 (20.43%) Spring Boot
24 143 (20.28%) GCP
25 134 (19.01%) NoSQL
26 128 (18.16%) TDD
27 123 (17.45%) Full Stack Development
28 121 (17.16%) Apache Spark
29 119 (16.88%) Linux

Kafka
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 121 (17.16%) Apache Spark
2 52 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
3 37 (5.25%) Apache
4 33 (4.68%) Apache Solr
5 28 (3.97%) Confluence
6 20 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (1.70%) SharePoint
8 11 (1.56%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.43%) Luigi
9 3 (0.43%) nginx
10 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.28%) Camunda
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) IIS
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.99%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) InDesign
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 375 (53.19%) AWS
2 171 (24.26%) Azure
3 143 (20.28%) GCP
4 59 (8.37%) SaaS
5 38 (5.39%) Serverless
6 34 (4.82%) GitHub
7 28 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.69%) IaaS
9 24 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
10 21 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (2.27%) PaaS
14 15 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (1.99%) Heroku
15 14 (1.99%) Power Platform
16 12 (1.70%) Snowflake
17 11 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.56%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.84%) HTTP
2 14 (1.99%) Firewall
3 6 (0.85%) DNS
3 6 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.85%) MQTT
4 3 (0.43%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) Internet
5 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.14%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (24.40%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (21.28%) MongoDB
3 145 (20.57%) MySQL
4 134 (19.01%) NoSQL
5 111 (15.74%) Redis
6 110 (15.60%) Big Data
7 103 (14.61%) SQL Server
8 88 (12.48%) Relational Database
9 83 (11.77%) Hadoop
10 58 (8.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 53 (7.52%) RDBMS
12 40 (5.67%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 40 (5.67%) Apache Hive
13 35 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (3.26%) HBase
17 21 (2.98%) BigQuery
18 20 (2.84%) Data Lake
19 16 (2.27%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 193 (27.38%) Jenkins
2 187 (26.52%) Git (software)
3 42 (5.96%) Cypress.io
4 40 (5.67%) JIRA
5 38 (5.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 37 (5.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 36 (5.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 36 (5.11%) GitLab
8 32 (4.54%) Maven
9 30 (4.26%) Babel
10 29 (4.11%) Postman
11 25 (3.55%) Moq
11 25 (3.55%) NUnit
12 22 (3.12%) Bitbucket
12 22 (3.12%) JUnit
13 18 (2.55%) Mockito
13 18 (2.55%) webpack
14 16 (2.27%) CircleCI
15 12 (1.70%) Gradle
15 12 (1.70%) PHPUnit
General
1 211 (29.93%) Finance
2 185 (26.24%) Social Skills
3 60 (8.51%) Retail
4 49 (6.95%) Banking
5 34 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.68%) Games
7 24 (3.40%) Retail Finance
8 22 (3.12%) Billing
9 17 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.99%) Back Office
11 11 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.42%) Marketing
12 10 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.28%) Advertising
13 9 (1.28%) Legal
14 8 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.13%) Private Banking
15 5 (0.71%) Front Office
16 4 (0.57%) Law
17 3 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 285 (40.43%) Developer
2 148 (20.99%) Java Developer
3 125 (17.73%) Software Engineer
4 95 (13.48%) Senior Developer
5 69 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 64 (9.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 63 (8.94%) Architect
9 50 (7.09%) Java Engineer
10 47 (6.67%) PHP Developer
11 45 (6.38%) Data Engineer
12 44 (6.24%) JavaScript Developer
13 42 (5.96%) React Developer
14 39 (5.53%) Software Developer
15 33 (4.68%) Senior Java Engineer
16 31 (4.40%) Full Stack Developer
17 30 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
18 28 (3.97%) Data Architect
18 28 (3.97%) Java Software Engineer
18 28 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (27.94%) Spring
2 194 (27.52%) React
3 158 (22.41%) Node.js
4 144 (20.43%) Spring Boot
5 103 (14.61%) RabbitMQ
6 96 (13.62%) REST
7 73 (10.35%) .NET
8 67 (9.50%) AngularJS
9 61 (8.65%) GraphQL
10 52 (7.38%) Web Services
11 47 (6.67%) RESTful
11 47 (6.67%) Symfony
12 42 (5.96%) CSS
13 39 (5.53%) HTML
13 39 (5.53%) jQuery
14 32 (4.54%) JSON
15 29 (4.11%) Samza
16 28 (3.97%) Jest
16 28 (3.97%) Middleware
17 25 (3.55%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.39%) User Experience
2 31 (4.40%) Virtual Team
3 30 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.97%) Social Media
5 26 (3.69%) Cloud Native
6 22 (3.12%) Mobile App
6 22 (3.12%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.70%) Credit Risk
9 18 (2.55%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 15 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.84%) Online Games
13 9 (1.28%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.28%) Reference Data
13 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.13%) CMDB
15 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 119 (16.88%) Linux
2 35 (4.96%) Unix
3 20 (2.84%) Windows
4 9 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.13%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.57%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mesosphere
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (42.27%) Microservices
2 269 (38.16%) Agile Software Development
3 221 (31.35%) Software Engineering
4 197 (27.94%) DevOps
5 128 (18.16%) TDD
6 123 (17.45%) Full Stack Development
7 110 (15.60%) Fintech
8 89 (12.62%) Test Automation
9 87 (12.34%) Event-Driven
10 84 (11.91%) Scrum
11 77 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
12 73 (10.35%) Unit Testing
13 71 (10.07%) Analytics
14 70 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
15 68 (9.65%) BDD
15 68 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (9.50%) MVC
17 64 (9.08%) Continuous Integration
17 64 (9.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 61 (8.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 384 (54.47%) Java
2 169 (23.97%) SQL
3 167 (23.69%) Python
4 153 (21.70%) JavaScript
5 84 (11.91%) C#
6 83 (11.77%) Go
7 82 (11.63%) TypeScript
8 61 (8.65%) Scala
9 51 (7.23%) PHP
10 49 (6.95%) Kotlin
11 43 (6.10%) Java 8
12 38 (5.39%) Ruby
13 32 (4.54%) Clojure
14 23 (3.26%) Bash Shell
15 14 (1.99%) C++
15 14 (1.99%) Elm
16 11 (1.56%) R
17 9 (1.28%) Haskell
17 9 (1.28%) Perl
18 8 (1.13%) Java 11
Qualifications
1 48 (6.81%) Degree
2 21 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 12 (1.70%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (0.85%) GIAC
5 6 (0.85%) OSCP
6 5 (0.71%) CISSP
6 5 (0.71%) SANS
7 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.28%) ISEB
7 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.14%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.14%) OCP
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.14%) PhD
8 1 (0.14%) PMP
8 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.40%) QA
2 23 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 329 (46.67%) Docker
2 12 (1.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (1.56%) ISA Server
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.43%) Ceph
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 310 (43.97%) Kubernetes
2 154 (21.84%) Terraform
3 118 (16.74%) Ansible
4 55 (7.80%) Grafana
5 21 (2.98%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.98%) Puppet
6 16 (2.27%) Opscode Chef
7 11 (1.56%) Hadoop YARN
7 11 (1.56%) Oozie
8 8 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (1.13%) Nagios
9 7 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.99%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.99%) Opsgenie
10 6 (0.85%) Nessus
11 5 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.57%) Mesos
13 3 (0.43%) Consul
13 3 (0.43%) Graphite
13 3 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 76 (10.78%) Google
2 68 (9.65%) Oracle
3 44 (6.24%) Microsoft
4 35 (4.96%) Zend
5 28 (3.97%) Twitter
6 21 (2.98%) Cloudera
7 19 (2.70%) Hortonworks
8 17 (2.41%) StreamSets
9 14 (1.99%) Informatica
10 13 (1.84%) Splunk
11 11 (1.56%) IBM
12 9 (1.28%) Apple
12 9 (1.28%) Databricks
12 9 (1.28%) MKS
13 8 (1.13%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.99%) New Relic
14 7 (0.99%) Okta
15 6 (0.85%) SaltStack
16 5 (0.71%) Virgin Media
17 4 (0.57%) Confluent