Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 272 219
Rank change year-on-year +2 -53 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 739 718 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 1.22% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.15% 4.42% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 319 324 606
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.34% +28.33%
75th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,750 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £89,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.43% +12.19% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14,343 16,262 23,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.99% 27.62% 32.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,315 8,948 14,460
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Scotland +59 417 £65,000 -7.14% 19
South East -19 132 £57,500 -15.44% 22
North of England -76 83 £65,000 -3.70% 24
North West -35 63 £62,500 -10.71% 16
South West -55 49 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Midlands -29 26 £73,000 +19.67% 14
East of England -55 19 £85,000 +36.00% 6
Yorkshire +8 18 £70,576 +12.92% 7
West Midlands -5 17 £77,500 +29.17% 8
Northern Ireland +30 9 £70,000 +5.66% 5
East Midlands -26 9 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Wales +6 4 £72,500 +45.00% 8
North East -36 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 123 (16.64%) Apache Spark
2 98 (13.26%) FileNet
3 55 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.84%) GemFire
6 17 (2.30%) Apache
7 7 (0.95%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.81%) Confluence
9 5 (0.68%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.27%) JBoss
10 2 (0.27%) Liferay
10 2 (0.27%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 375 (50.74%) AWS
2 160 (21.65%) Azure
3 126 (17.05%) Amazon S3
4 90 (12.18%) GCP
5 64 (8.66%) GitHub
6 38 (5.14%) SaaS
7 33 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (3.38%) Serverless
9 22 (2.98%) Google Docs
9 22 (2.98%) Lucidchart
9 22 (2.98%) Miro
9 22 (2.98%) Slack
10 19 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.03%) BlazeMeter
14 12 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (1.49%) Amazon MSK
15 11 (1.49%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.44%) DSL
2 17 (2.30%) Kerberos
3 10 (1.35%) MQTT
4 8 (1.08%) HTTP
4 8 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.95%) Firewall
6 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (28.96%) NoSQL
2 171 (23.14%) Elasticsearch
3 138 (18.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 118 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
5 112 (15.16%) Big Data
6 109 (14.75%) MongoDB
7 73 (9.88%) Hadoop
8 62 (8.39%) Relational Database
9 53 (7.17%) Redis
10 39 (5.28%) MySQL
11 38 (5.14%) CockroachDB
12 27 (3.65%) Data Lake
13 24 (3.25%) Tableau
14 23 (3.11%) RDBMS
15 22 (2.98%) Scylla
16 21 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
16 21 (2.84%) Hazelcast
16 21 (2.84%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.71%) DB2
18 17 (2.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 131 (17.73%) JUnit
2 87 (11.77%) Jenkins
3 74 (10.01%) Git
4 47 (6.36%) Mockito
5 46 (6.22%) Jasmine
6 32 (4.33%) Maven
7 27 (3.65%) Cucumber
7 27 (3.65%) JIRA
8 21 (2.84%) Jaeger
9 18 (2.44%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.17%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.62%) GitLab
12 9 (1.22%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.08%) Gradle
14 7 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.95%) Selenium
14 7 (0.95%) Spinnaker
15 6 (0.81%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.68%) GDB
17 4 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 475 (64.28%) Finance
2 381 (51.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 354 (47.90%) Law
4 147 (19.89%) Banking
5 129 (17.46%) Marketing
6 123 (16.64%) Legal
7 112 (15.16%) Social Skills
8 86 (11.64%) Investment Banking
9 33 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (3.52%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.98%) Prime Brokerage
12 18 (2.44%) Retail
13 15 (2.03%) Private Banking
14 11 (1.49%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.35%) Publishing
16 7 (0.95%) Automotive
16 7 (0.95%) Games
16 7 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 422 (57.10%) Software Engineer
2 249 (33.69%) Java Engineer
3 223 (30.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 173 (23.41%) Lead
5 151 (20.43%) Senior
6 149 (20.16%) Developer
7 142 (19.22%) Lead Software Engineer
8 141 (19.08%) Full Stack Engineer
9 138 (18.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 87 (11.77%) Lead Java Engineer
11 81 (10.96%) Data Engineer
12 69 (9.34%) Senior Developer
13 55 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 53 (7.17%) Python Engineer
15 47 (6.36%) Java Developer
15 47 (6.36%) Python Software Engineer
16 46 (6.22%) Architect
17 41 (5.55%) Big Data Engineer
18 40 (5.41%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 37 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (46.68%) Spring
2 186 (25.17%) AngularJS
3 180 (24.36%) GraphQL
4 179 (24.22%) React
5 173 (23.41%) Spring Boot
6 140 (18.94%) J2EE
7 129 (17.46%) Hibernate
8 128 (17.32%) Node.js
9 118 (15.97%) REST
10 114 (15.43%) Web Services
11 105 (14.21%) Spring Integration
12 94 (12.72%) JMS
13 89 (12.04%) HTML
14 88 (11.91%) CSS
15 80 (10.83%) JSON
16 69 (9.34%) RabbitMQ
17 58 (7.85%) RESTful
18 56 (7.58%) .NET
19 55 (7.44%) jQuery
20 54 (7.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (29.77%) Cloud Native
2 119 (16.10%) Algorithms
3 57 (7.71%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.28%) Data Structures
4 39 (5.28%) Onboarding
5 35 (4.74%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (2.84%) Private Cloud
7 21 (2.84%) Replication
8 19 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.57%) Reference Data
9 18 (2.44%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.08%) IoT
12 8 (1.08%) PropTech
13 7 (0.95%) Blockchain
13 7 (0.95%) Robotics
14 6 (0.81%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.98%) Linux
2 5 (0.68%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (74.42%) Agile
2 488 (66.04%) Software Engineering
3 395 (53.45%) CI/CD
4 358 (48.44%) Microservices
5 324 (43.84%) SDLC
6 290 (39.24%) Operational Stability
7 270 (36.54%) Artificial Intelligence
8 246 (33.29%) Machine Learning
9 219 (29.63%) Community of Practice
10 174 (23.55%) Full Stack Development
11 136 (18.40%) DevOps
12 134 (18.13%) Computer Science
13 131 (17.73%) TDD
14 126 (17.05%) Risk Management
15 124 (16.78%) Decision-Making
16 113 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (15.29%) Visualisation
17 98 (13.26%) AOP
17 98 (13.26%) Architectural Design
17 98 (13.26%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 529 (71.58%) Java
2 387 (52.37%) SQL
3 240 (32.48%) Python
4 132 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 108 (14.61%) TypeScript
6 90 (12.18%) Go
7 52 (7.04%) C#
7 52 (7.04%) Scala
8 25 (3.38%) Bash
9 21 (2.84%) Groovy
10 20 (2.71%) PL/SQL
11 16 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.54%) VB
14 3 (0.41%) C++
14 3 (0.41%) Rust
15 2 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (10.55%) Degree
2 59 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (6.22%) Security Cleared
4 43 (5.82%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.08%) PhD
8 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.44%) SLA
2 11 (1.49%) QA
3 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 197 (26.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 369 (49.93%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.17%) Terraform
3 51 (6.90%) Grafana
4 28 (3.79%) Kibana
5 26 (3.52%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (2.98%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.84%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.84%) Zipkin
8 15 (2.03%) Ansible
9 7 (0.95%) Graphite
10 3 (0.41%) Puppet
11 2 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
12 1 (0.14%) Istio
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) Oozie
12 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 182 (24.63%) Oracle
2 68 (9.20%) Google
3 59 (7.98%) Splunk
4 43 (5.82%) Databricks
5 36 (4.87%) Dynatrace
6 25 (3.38%) Microsoft
7 23 (3.11%) Sybase
8 22 (2.98%) Dell
9 18 (2.44%) Alteryx
9 18 (2.44%) Cognos
10 13 (1.76%) Teradata
11 11 (1.49%) Confluent
12 10 (1.35%) Apple
13 7 (0.95%) IBM
14 5 (0.68%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.68%) CA
14 5 (0.68%) Informatica
14 5 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.41%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.41%) Salesforce