Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 281 275
Rank change year-on-year -73 -6 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 235 538 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.95% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.90% 4.41% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 133 321 367
10th Percentile £44,300 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,576 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +8.58% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,548 £83,903
90th Percentile £110,000 £91,934 £98,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +9.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,030 12,193 18,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.30% 21.62% 29.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,778 9,113 10,135
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £36,356
25th Percentile £45,383 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,100 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.17% -11.11% +8.00%

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 6 March 2025.

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 6 March 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
South East +53 67 £60,000 -20.00% 30
North of England +13 60 £72,500 +4.40% 42
Scotland -57 42 £68,750 -2.59% 4
North West -13 36 £75,000 +15.38% 33
South West +9 29 £55,000 -15.38% 11
Yorkshire +56 20 £72,500 +2.73% 6
Midlands +13 18 £65,000 -7.90% 7
East of England +19 15 £77,500 -8.82% 6
West Midlands +13 12 £65,000 -16.13% 7
East Midlands +32 6 £65,000 +8.33%
North East +34 4 £67,500 +17.39% 3
Wales +39 3 £44,344 -38.84%
Northern Ireland +27 1 £55,000 -21.43% 5
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 37 (15.74%) Apache Spark
2 19 (8.09%) Confluence
3 18 (7.66%) Apache
3 18 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.55%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.70%) GemFire
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 147 (62.55%) AWS
2 69 (29.36%) Azure
3 45 (19.15%) GCP
4 36 (15.32%) SaaS
5 23 (9.79%) GitHub
5 23 (9.79%) Serverless
5 23 (9.79%) Snowflake
6 22 (9.36%) OpenShift
7 21 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (8.94%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.81%) Amazon Kinesis
8 16 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (5.96%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.83%) Amazon EMR
11 9 (3.83%) Datadog
11 9 (3.83%) dbt
11 9 (3.83%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.70%) Internet
2 3 (1.28%) MQTT
3 2 (0.85%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (22.13%) NoSQL
2 44 (18.72%) Relational Database
3 41 (17.45%) MongoDB
3 41 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (14.04%) MySQL
6 28 (11.91%) Big Data
7 23 (9.79%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (8.09%) Hadoop
9 13 (5.53%) Apache Hudi
9 13 (5.53%) Apache Iceberg
9 13 (5.53%) Delta Lake
10 12 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (4.68%) BigQuery
11 11 (4.68%) Data Lake
11 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
12 9 (3.83%) DynamoDB
12 9 (3.83%) Power BI
12 9 (3.83%) Redis
13 8 (3.40%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 42 (17.87%) Jenkins
2 36 (15.32%) Git
3 32 (13.62%) GitLab
4 22 (9.36%) JIRA
5 14 (5.96%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.83%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.83%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.40%) git-flow
7 8 (3.40%) Gradle
7 8 (3.40%) JUnit
8 7 (2.98%) Selenium
9 6 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.70%) Gatling
10 4 (1.70%) Mockito
11 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.28%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.43%) TestNG
12 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (28.51%) Finance
2 49 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 48 (20.43%) Banking
4 26 (11.06%) Law
5 21 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.83%) Games
6 9 (3.83%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.40%) Retail
8 7 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.98%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.98%) Marketing
9 6 (2.55%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Electronics
12 3 (1.28%) Front Office
12 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (24.68%) Lead
2 51 (21.70%) Software Engineer
3 48 (20.43%) Senior
4 47 (20.00%) Developer
5 32 (13.62%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.36%) Java Developer
7 18 (7.66%) Python Engineer
8 16 (6.81%) Java Engineer
8 16 (6.81%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Applications Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Architect
10 12 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Python Data Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Team Leader
13 8 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (2.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (22.55%) Spring Boot
2 48 (20.43%) Spring
3 47 (20.00%) React
4 32 (13.62%) .NET
4 32 (13.62%) Node.js
4 32 (13.62%) RESTful
5 31 (13.19%) AngularJS
6 26 (11.06%) REST
7 25 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
8 20 (8.51%) PySpark
9 19 (8.09%) CSS
9 19 (8.09%) HTML
10 15 (6.38%) .NET Core
11 13 (5.53%) PyArrow
12 10 (4.26%) gRPC
13 8 (3.40%) Drools
13 8 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (2.98%) AWS CDK
14 7 (2.98%) Web Services
15 6 (2.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (10.21%) Cloud Native
3 19 (8.09%) Data Structures
4 18 (7.66%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.96%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.53%) Algorithms
7 11 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (4.68%) Management Information System
8 10 (4.26%) Reference Data
8 10 (4.26%) Replication
9 6 (2.55%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.70%) Derivative
10 4 (1.70%) IoT
10 4 (1.70%) Online Games
10 4 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.28%) Equities
11 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.23%) Unix
2 9 (3.83%) Linux
3 4 (1.70%) Android
3 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Debian
5 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (52.34%) Agile
2 117 (49.79%) Microservices
3 98 (41.70%) Software Engineering
4 82 (34.89%) CI/CD
5 70 (29.79%) TDD
6 62 (26.38%) DevOps
7 61 (25.96%) Mentoring
8 51 (21.70%) Test Automation
9 43 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (16.17%) ETL
11 36 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (14.89%) Unit Testing
13 34 (14.47%) Code Quality
13 34 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (14.47%) Data Science
13 34 (14.47%) Design Patterns
14 33 (14.04%) Data Engineering
15 32 (13.62%) Scrum
16 31 (13.19%) Analytics
16 31 (13.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 119 (50.64%) Java
2 83 (35.32%) Python
3 73 (31.06%) SQL
4 49 (20.85%) JavaScript
5 48 (20.43%) C#
6 36 (15.32%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.83%) Go
8 8 (3.40%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.98%) Bash
9 7 (2.98%) Scala
10 6 (2.55%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.70%) PHP
11 4 (1.70%) Ruby
12 3 (1.28%) R
13 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (9.79%) Degree
2 16 (6.81%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.26%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.26%) OCP
3 10 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (3.83%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.55%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.85%) CISSP
9 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.06%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.66%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.68%) QA
4 9 (3.83%) GDPR
5 6 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.28%) WCAG
8 2 (0.85%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.85%) SEPA
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (33.62%) Docker
2 13 (5.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 114 (48.51%) Kubernetes
2 57 (24.26%) Terraform
3 14 (5.96%) Ansible
4 13 (5.53%) Grafana
5 10 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Consul
6 1 (0.43%) Control-M
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (14.04%) Databricks
2 14 (5.96%) Oracle
3 13 (5.53%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.26%) Google
5 5 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.70%) Confluent
6 4 (1.70%) SAP
6 4 (1.70%) Solace
6 4 (1.70%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.28%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.28%) Splunk
8 2 (0.85%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.85%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.85%) VMware
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) BMC
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco
9 1 (0.43%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.43%) Juniper
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce