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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 252 277
Rank change year-on-year -65 +25 -53
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 237 731 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.11% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 5.27% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 144 335 350
10th Percentile £45,375 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,856 £52,500 £52,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,750 £91,934 £102,500
UK median annual salary £84,115 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +8.54% -13.89% +12.50%

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 4,945 13,860 17,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.08% 20.99% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 10,025 9,809
10th Percentile £34,113 £33,750 £36,527
25th Percentile £45,350 £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 £85,776 £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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +94 76 £72,500 +3.57% 83
North of England +71 74 £70,996 +7.16% 80
North West +16 49 £67,500 +3.85% 64
Scotland -70 35 £66,250 -6.13% 35
South West +45 22 £52,500 -17.65% 29
Yorkshire +79 21 £73,750 +4.50% 13
East of England +53 12 £77,500 -8.82% 15
Midlands +48 11 £65,000 -9.14% 14
West Midlands +24 9 £70,000 -8.20% 10
Northern Ireland +40 6 £55,000 -21.43% 10
North East +46 4 £67,500 +17.39% 3
East Midlands +42 2 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Wales +37 1 £44,344 -38.84% 2
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 42 (17.72%) Apache Spark
2 23 (9.70%) Apache
3 16 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (5.06%) Confluence
5 7 (2.95%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.69%) GemFire
7 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 138 (58.23%) AWS
2 71 (29.96%) Azure
3 41 (17.30%) GCP
4 26 (10.97%) SaaS
5 25 (10.55%) Snowflake
6 23 (9.70%) Serverless
7 22 (9.28%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (8.86%) GitHub
8 21 (8.86%) OpenShift
9 20 (8.44%) Amazon S3
10 16 (6.75%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (5.91%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.80%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.38%) dbt
15 7 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) HTTP
2 3 (1.27%) Internet
2 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.84%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.84%) VPN
4 1 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (21.94%) NoSQL
2 48 (20.25%) MongoDB
3 41 (17.30%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (16.46%) Relational Database
5 33 (13.92%) MySQL
6 29 (12.24%) Big Data
6 29 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (10.13%) Hadoop
8 14 (5.91%) SQL Server
9 13 (5.49%) Apache Hudi
9 13 (5.49%) Apache Iceberg
9 13 (5.49%) Delta Lake
9 13 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (4.64%) BigQuery
11 10 (4.22%) Apache Hive
11 10 (4.22%) Data Lake
11 10 (4.22%) DynamoDB
12 9 (3.80%) Power BI
13 7 (2.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 43 (18.14%) Git
3 24 (10.13%) GitLab
4 20 (8.44%) JIRA
5 16 (6.75%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.91%) JUnit
7 10 (4.22%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.80%) Artifactory
8 9 (3.80%) Gradle
9 8 (3.38%) git-flow
9 8 (3.38%) Selenium
10 6 (2.53%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (2.11%) Mockito
12 4 (1.69%) Gatling
13 3 (1.27%) CircleCI
13 3 (1.27%) Spinnaker
14 2 (0.84%) MLflow
14 2 (0.84%) NeoLoad
14 2 (0.84%) Postman
14 2 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 68 (28.69%) Finance
2 53 (22.36%) Banking
3 44 (18.57%) Social Skills
4 25 (10.55%) Law
5 22 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.64%) Games
7 10 (4.22%) Retail
7 10 (4.22%) Retail Banking
8 7 (2.95%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.95%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Marketing
11 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.27%) Front Office
13 2 (0.84%) Automotive
13 2 (0.84%) Legal
13 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (24.89%) Lead
2 55 (23.21%) Developer
3 51 (21.52%) Senior
4 49 (20.68%) Software Engineer
5 31 (13.08%) Data Engineer
6 27 (11.39%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.17%) Java Engineer
7 17 (7.17%) Python Engineer
8 15 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (5.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 14 (5.91%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.49%) Applications Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (5.49%) Technical Leader
11 12 (5.06%) Architect
11 12 (5.06%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (3.38%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.38%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (23.63%) Spring Boot
2 50 (21.10%) React
3 49 (20.68%) Spring
4 33 (13.92%) REST
5 30 (12.66%) Node.js
6 29 (12.24%) .NET
6 29 (12.24%) RabbitMQ
6 29 (12.24%) RESTful
7 28 (11.81%) AngularJS
8 20 (8.44%) PySpark
9 15 (6.33%) CSS
9 15 (6.33%) HTML
10 14 (5.91%) gRPC
11 13 (5.49%) PyArrow
12 12 (5.06%) .NET Core
13 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (3.38%) Drools
14 8 (3.38%) GraphQL
15 7 (2.95%) JSON
15 7 (2.95%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (11.39%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.28%) Product Ownership
4 20 (8.44%) Data Structures
5 13 (5.49%) Public Cloud
6 11 (4.64%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.22%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.22%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.22%) Replication
8 8 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.69%) Derivative
9 4 (1.69%) Online Games
9 4 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (1.27%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.27%) Equities
10 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.27%) IoT
10 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.59%) Unix
2 15 (6.33%) Linux
3 4 (1.69%) Android
3 4 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Debian
5 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (49.37%) Agile
2 109 (45.99%) Microservices
3 94 (39.66%) Software Engineering
4 85 (35.86%) CI/CD
5 61 (25.74%) DevOps
6 57 (24.05%) Mentoring
7 54 (22.78%) TDD
8 46 (19.41%) Test Automation
9 42 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (14.77%) Data Engineering
11 35 (14.77%) ETL
12 34 (14.35%) Scrum
13 33 (13.92%) Analytics
13 33 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (13.50%) Data Modelling
14 32 (13.50%) High Availability
14 32 (13.50%) Roadmaps
15 31 (13.08%) Unit Testing
16 30 (12.66%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 129 (54.43%) Java
2 86 (36.29%) Python
3 69 (29.11%) SQL
4 52 (21.94%) JavaScript
5 47 (19.83%) C#
6 37 (15.61%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.38%) Go
7 8 (3.38%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.95%) Scala
9 5 (2.11%) Bash
9 5 (2.11%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.69%) PHP
11 3 (1.27%) C++
11 3 (1.27%) Ruby
12 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.84%) R
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (9.70%) Degree
2 16 (6.75%) AWS Certification
3 12 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.22%) OCP
4 10 (4.22%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (4.22%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.95%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) CISSP
7 4 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.28%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.17%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.64%) QA
4 8 (3.38%) GDPR
5 6 (2.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (2.53%) Def Stans
6 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.84%) SEPA
8 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.42%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) RMADS
8 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (33.76%) Docker
2 16 (6.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 113 (47.68%) Kubernetes
2 54 (22.78%) Terraform
3 16 (6.75%) Ansible
4 13 (5.49%) Grafana
5 10 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.84%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.42%) Consul
7 1 (0.42%) Control-M
7 1 (0.42%) Istio
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (13.50%) Databricks
2 18 (7.59%) Oracle
3 15 (6.33%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.22%) Google
5 6 (2.53%) VMware
6 5 (2.11%) Splunk
7 4 (1.69%) Solace
7 4 (1.69%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.27%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.27%) Confluent
8 3 (1.27%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.84%) Okta
9 2 (0.84%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.84%) Sybase
9 2 (0.84%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.42%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.42%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow