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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 289 237
Rank change year-on-year -119 -52 -49
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 231 372 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 1.09% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 4.36% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 144 299 508
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £44,738 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,576 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% +0.82% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,294 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% -5.54% +13.33%

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 8,759 8,538 20,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 25.08% 29.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,968 6,186 12,387
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,270 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,379 £57,500 £56,524
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +1.73% +13.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,056 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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
South East -1 86 £45,000 -35.71% 18
North of England -85 47 £55,000 -28.18% 26
South West -49 36 £60,000 -13.60% 19
North West -74 31 £55,000 -26.67% 17
Scotland -44 30 £66,250 -6.13% 14
Yorkshire -7 14 £55,000 -30.93% 7
Midlands -51 12 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East of England -59 9 £62,500 -20.63% 16
West Midlands -36 7 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Northern Ireland +20 6 £52,500 - 7
Wales +36 5 £44,344 -31.78% 4
East Midlands -49 5 £45,250 -30.38% 3
North East -35 2 £49,274 -47.58% 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 26 (11.26%) Apache Spark
2 16 (6.93%) Confluence
3 9 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.03%) Apache
5 4 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.87%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 170 (73.59%) AWS
2 87 (37.66%) Azure
3 38 (16.45%) GCP
4 27 (11.69%) SaaS
5 19 (8.23%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.79%) GitHub
7 15 (6.49%) Serverless
8 11 (4.76%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.60%) Datadog
12 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.16%) Kong
12 5 (2.16%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.30%) dbt
13 3 (1.30%) OCI
13 3 (1.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.19%) MQTT
2 5 (2.16%) HTTP
2 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.73%) Internet
4 2 (0.87%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (30.74%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (25.11%) MongoDB
3 44 (19.05%) Hadoop
4 41 (17.75%) NoSQL
5 35 (15.15%) Relational Database
6 27 (11.69%) MySQL
7 25 (10.82%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (9.96%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (9.52%) Big Data
10 10 (4.33%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.46%) Azkaban
11 8 (3.46%) Spark SQL
12 7 (3.03%) Apache Hive
13 6 (2.60%) DocumentDB
13 6 (2.60%) Redis
14 5 (2.16%) Impala
15 4 (1.73%) Delta Lake
16 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (1.30%) Couchbase
16 3 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (12.99%) GitLab
2 24 (10.39%) Git
3 23 (9.96%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.79%) JIRA
5 8 (3.46%) RStudio
6 7 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.16%) JUnit
7 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.30%) Maven
8 3 (1.30%) Selenium
9 2 (0.87%) git-flow
9 2 (0.87%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) Gatling
10 1 (0.43%) Mockito
10 1 (0.43%) Postman
10 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 57 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.94%) Finance
3 17 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.19%) Banking
5 9 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.90%) Law
6 6 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.60%) Marketing
7 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.73%) Games
9 3 (1.30%) Billing
9 3 (1.30%) Electronics
9 3 (1.30%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.30%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (26.84%) Developer
2 49 (21.21%) Senior
3 40 (17.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 31 (13.42%) Software Engineer
6 27 (11.69%) Data Engineer
7 25 (10.82%) Lead
8 22 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 21 (9.09%) Architect
10 11 (4.76%) Java Engineer
10 11 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.90%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.46%) Software Architect
13 7 (3.03%) AWS Architect
13 7 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.03%) ETL Developer
13 7 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.03%) Senior Software Developer
14 6 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (26.84%) Node.js
2 50 (21.65%) Spring Boot
3 47 (20.35%) Spring
4 37 (16.02%) RabbitMQ
5 35 (15.15%) React
6 31 (13.42%) RESTful
7 29 (12.55%) AngularJS
8 28 (12.12%) REST
9 27 (11.69%) .NET
10 21 (9.09%) Web Services
11 18 (7.79%) CSS
11 18 (7.79%) HTML
12 13 (5.63%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.63%) PySpark
13 10 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (4.33%) XML
14 9 (3.90%) JSON
15 8 (3.46%) ASP.NET Web API
16 7 (3.03%) AWS CDK
17 5 (2.16%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.63%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.90%) IoT
6 7 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.87%) DataPower
9 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.87%) Online Games
10 1 (0.43%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.43%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.03%) Linux
2 5 (2.16%) Unix
3 4 (1.73%) Android
4 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Windows
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (45.89%) Microservices
2 103 (44.59%) Agile
3 85 (36.80%) DevOps
4 69 (29.87%) Software Engineering
5 66 (28.57%) TDD
6 65 (28.14%) CI/CD
7 39 (16.88%) Mentoring
8 35 (15.15%) ETL
9 32 (13.85%) Computer Science
10 30 (12.99%) Design Patterns
11 29 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (12.12%) Coaching
12 28 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (12.12%) Test Automation
13 27 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (11.69%) Scrum
14 26 (11.26%) Data Engineering
14 26 (11.26%) Data Science
15 25 (10.82%) Unit Testing
16 22 (9.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 132 (57.14%) Java
2 102 (44.16%) SQL
3 96 (41.56%) Python
4 40 (17.32%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 26 (11.26%) C#
7 14 (6.06%) Bash
8 11 (4.76%) Go
8 11 (4.76%) R
9 7 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.73%) Rust
11 3 (1.30%) Ruby
12 2 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 45 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.72%) Degree
4 17 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.16%) PhD
8 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.30%) OCP
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.19%) QA
3 7 (3.03%) GDPR
4 4 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.30%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (33.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) HDFS
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (32.03%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.55%) Terraform
3 12 (5.19%) Ansible
4 9 (3.90%) Grafana
5 6 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.30%) Consul
7 2 (0.87%) Podman
7 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) Kibana
8 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (6.49%) Google
2 11 (4.76%) Oracle
3 9 (3.90%) Databricks
4 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.30%) Confluent
5 3 (1.30%) Foundry
5 3 (1.30%) Palantir
5 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.30%) SAP
6 2 (0.87%) IBM
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.87%) TOWER Software
6 2 (0.87%) TSYS
7 1 (0.43%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.43%) Solace
7 1 (0.43%) Splunk
7 1 (0.43%) Sybase
7 1 (0.43%) Talend
7 1 (0.43%) VMware