Apache Kafka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 144 98
Rank change year-on-year -96 -46 +41
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1,221 2,483 5,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 2.50% 3.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.79% 8.28% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,380 1,894
10th Percentile £48,375 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £69,125 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £88,480 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +10.60% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.45% -13.55% +29.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 21,098 29,970 65,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.14% 30.20% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,750 18,475 29,852
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,653 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England -171 767 £77,500 -13.89% 240
UK excluding London 0 742 £60,000 -10.45% 104
London -102 443 £90,000 -10.00% 165
Scotland +58 420 £65,000 -6.40% 20
Work from Home -162 402 £72,500 -17.14% 176
South East -14 130 £57,500 -15.44% 26
North of England -69 84 £65,000 -3.70% 21
North West -43 64 £62,500 -10.71% 11
South West -61 50 £68,750 +5.77% 7
Midlands -35 26 £73,000 +17.74% 14
East of England -48 19 £85,000 +36.00% 5
Yorkshire +8 18 £70,576 +12.92% 9
West Midlands 0 17 £77,500 +25.00% 7
Northern Ireland +24 9 £70,000 +5.66% 5
East Midlands -24 9 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Wales +10 4 £72,500 +45.00% 7
North East -32 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 221 (18.10%) Apache Spark
2 98 (8.03%) FileNet
3 86 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (5.08%) Apache
5 32 (2.62%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.72%) GemFire
7 18 (1.47%) Confluence
8 10 (0.82%) nginx
9 9 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.16%) CMS
12 2 (0.16%) IIS
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.16%) Liferay
12 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.082%) JBoss
13 1 (0.082%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.082%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 691 (56.59%) AWS
2 276 (22.60%) Azure
3 186 (15.23%) GCP
4 145 (11.88%) Amazon S3
5 89 (7.29%) GitHub
6 54 (4.42%) Serverless
7 50 (4.10%) SaaS
8 37 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 29 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (2.38%) Snowflake
10 26 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (2.05%) Slack
12 23 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (1.88%) Google Docs
12 23 (1.88%) Lucidchart
12 23 (1.88%) Miro
13 22 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.80%) OpenShift
14 20 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.64%) Firewall
2 18 (1.47%) DSL
3 17 (1.39%) Kerberos
4 14 (1.15%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.90%) HTTP
6 10 (0.82%) MQTT
7 7 (0.57%) AMQP
8 6 (0.49%) FTP
8 6 (0.49%) Network Security
8 6 (0.49%) VPN
9 5 (0.41%) SSL
10 3 (0.25%) Broadband
10 3 (0.25%) DNS
10 3 (0.25%) NaaS
10 3 (0.25%) Wireless
11 1 (0.082%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.082%) PPP
11 1 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.082%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (23.01%) NoSQL
2 227 (18.59%) Elasticsearch
3 175 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
4 161 (13.19%) Big Data
4 161 (13.19%) MongoDB
5 154 (12.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 133 (10.89%) Hadoop
7 96 (7.86%) Redis
8 88 (7.21%) Relational Database
9 83 (6.80%) MySQL
10 60 (4.91%) SQL Server
11 55 (4.50%) Data Lake
12 47 (3.85%) CockroachDB
13 44 (3.60%) Flink
14 40 (3.28%) BigQuery
15 35 (2.87%) Data Mining
16 32 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (2.38%) Tableau
18 24 (1.97%) Apache Ignite
18 24 (1.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 150 (12.29%) Jenkins
2 133 (10.89%) JUnit
3 116 (9.50%) Git
4 49 (4.01%) JIRA
5 48 (3.93%) Mockito
6 46 (3.77%) Jasmine
6 46 (3.77%) Maven
7 36 (2.95%) GitLab
8 34 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 29 (2.38%) Jaeger
10 27 (2.21%) Cypress.io
11 20 (1.64%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.98%) Selenium
14 11 (0.90%) Spinnaker
15 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.74%) Gradle
16 9 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.66%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 612 (50.12%) Finance
2 413 (33.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 383 (31.37%) Law
4 225 (18.43%) Banking
5 207 (16.95%) Social Skills
6 144 (11.79%) Marketing
7 127 (10.40%) Legal
8 92 (7.53%) Investment Banking
9 86 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (3.93%) Games
11 45 (3.69%) Financial Institution
12 44 (3.60%) Retail Banking
13 29 (2.38%) Retail
14 23 (1.88%) Prime Brokerage
15 22 (1.80%) Front Office
16 18 (1.47%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.23%) Private Banking
18 10 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.82%) Publishing
19 8 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 484 (39.64%) Software Engineer
2 315 (25.80%) Senior
3 307 (25.14%) Developer
4 279 (22.85%) Java Engineer
5 254 (20.80%) Lead
6 240 (19.66%) Java Software Engineer
7 152 (12.45%) Full Stack Engineer
8 146 (11.96%) Lead Software Engineer
9 138 (11.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 131 (10.73%) Data Engineer
11 126 (10.32%) Senior Developer
12 113 (9.25%) Java Developer
13 103 (8.44%) Architect
14 90 (7.37%) Lead Java Engineer
15 86 (7.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 71 (5.81%) Python Engineer
17 64 (5.24%) .NET Developer
18 52 (4.26%) Python Software Engineer
19 47 (3.85%) Technical Leader
20 45 (3.69%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (35.14%) Spring
2 293 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 246 (20.15%) React
4 217 (17.77%) AngularJS
5 199 (16.30%) GraphQL
6 154 (12.61%) Node.js
7 153 (12.53%) REST
8 142 (11.63%) J2EE
9 131 (10.73%) Hibernate
10 123 (10.07%) .NET
10 123 (10.07%) Web Services
11 122 (9.99%) RabbitMQ
12 110 (9.01%) CSS
13 107 (8.76%) Spring Integration
14 102 (8.35%) HTML
15 97 (7.94%) JMS
16 91 (7.45%) RESTful
17 84 (6.88%) JSON
18 60 (4.91%) PySpark
19 56 (4.59%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 238 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 157 (12.86%) Algorithms
3 70 (5.73%) Public Cloud
4 59 (4.83%) Data Structures
5 56 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.78%) Client/Server
10 32 (2.62%) Product Ownership
11 29 (2.38%) Replication
12 25 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.72%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.56%) Reference Data
15 17 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.39%) Sports Betting
16 15 (1.23%) PropTech
17 13 (1.06%) Hedge funds
18 11 (0.90%) Cyberattack
18 11 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.39%) Linux
2 20 (1.64%) Unix
3 17 (1.39%) Windows
4 13 (1.06%) Solaris
5 12 (0.98%) CentOS
5 12 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 12 (0.98%) zOS
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.25%) Android
7 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.082%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (56.84%) Agile
2 654 (53.56%) Software Engineering
3 533 (43.65%) Microservices
4 528 (43.24%) CI/CD
5 391 (32.02%) SDLC
6 319 (26.13%) Artificial Intelligence
7 301 (24.65%) Machine Learning
8 291 (23.83%) Operational Stability
9 257 (21.05%) DevOps
10 221 (18.10%) Community of Practice
11 210 (17.20%) TDD
12 208 (17.04%) Full Stack Development
13 190 (15.56%) Computer Science
14 156 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 152 (12.45%) Visualisation
16 151 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
17 139 (11.38%) Risk Management
18 127 (10.40%) Decision-Making
19 126 (10.32%) Analytics
20 112 (9.17%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 768 (62.90%) Java
2 512 (41.93%) SQL
3 363 (29.73%) Python
4 182 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 143 (11.71%) TypeScript
6 136 (11.14%) C#
7 126 (10.32%) Go
8 92 (7.53%) Scala
9 61 (5.00%) Kotlin
10 28 (2.29%) Bash
11 27 (2.21%) Groovy
12 22 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.31%) C
14 11 (0.90%) Clojure
15 10 (0.82%) C++
16 9 (0.74%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.41%) R
17 5 (0.41%) VBA
18 4 (0.33%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 168 (13.76%) Degree
2 76 (6.22%) Master's Degree
3 74 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 59 (4.83%) Security Cleared
5 53 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 27 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.47%) PhD
8 11 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.33%) CISM
9 4 (0.33%) CISSP
10 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.64%) QA
2 18 (1.47%) SLA
3 10 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.33%) MiFID
5 4 (0.33%) NIST
5 4 (0.33%) SEPA
6 3 (0.25%) GRC
6 3 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.082%) GDPR
7 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 350 (28.67%) Docker
2 13 (1.06%) HDFS
3 4 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.16%) IAG
5 1 (0.082%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 590 (48.32%) Kubernetes
2 100 (8.19%) Terraform
3 68 (5.57%) Grafana
4 44 (3.60%) Ansible
5 37 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.70%) Kibana
7 26 (2.13%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.72%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.72%) Zipkin
9 9 (0.74%) Kiali
10 7 (0.57%) Graphite
11 6 (0.49%) Argo
12 5 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.41%) Puppet
13 4 (0.33%) Istio
13 4 (0.33%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.33%) logstash
14 2 (0.16%) Consul
14 2 (0.16%) Podman
14 2 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 192 (15.72%) Oracle
2 115 (9.42%) Google
3 80 (6.55%) Splunk
4 73 (5.98%) Databricks
5 61 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 36 (2.95%) Dynatrace
7 24 (1.97%) Sybase
8 23 (1.88%) Dell
9 18 (1.47%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.47%) Cognos
9 18 (1.47%) Confluent
10 17 (1.39%) Cloudera
10 17 (1.39%) IBM
11 15 (1.23%) Apple
12 14 (1.15%) Teradata
13 13 (1.06%) AppDynamics
14 12 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.66%) YouTube
16 7 (0.57%) Facebook