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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 167 99
Rank change year-on-year -81 -68 +40
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1,203 2,086 6,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 2.20% 3.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 7.55% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 685 1,311 1,916
10th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,735 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +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 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +25.00%

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 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -148 769 £77,500 -13.89% 262
UK excluding London +65 726 £60,000 -11.11% 90
London -106 442 £90,000 -8.86% 184
Scotland +70 397 £65,000 -13.33% 10
Work from Home -146 383 £72,500 -17.14% 149
South East +22 137 £55,000 -21.43% 26
North of England -53 81 £62,500 -10.71% 23
North West -42 61 £61,250 -12.50% 17
South West -43 49 £67,500 +3.09% 4
Midlands -22 26 £73,000 +21.67% 11
East of England -19 19 £85,000 +36.00% 9
Yorkshire +8 18 £70,576 +2.55% 5
West Midlands -19 17 £77,500 +29.17% 8
Northern Ireland +27 12 £70,000 -13.85% 5
East Midlands -17 9 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Wales +5 5 £72,500 +57.61% 4
North East -20 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
1 203 (16.87%) Apache Spark
2 98 (8.15%) FileNet
3 82 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (5.32%) Apache
5 32 (2.66%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.75%) GemFire
7 17 (1.41%) Confluence
8 11 (0.91%) nginx
9 9 (0.75%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.17%) JBoss
12 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Liferay
12 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.083%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 684 (56.86%) AWS
2 272 (22.61%) Azure
3 168 (13.97%) GCP
4 138 (11.47%) Amazon S3
5 81 (6.73%) GitHub
6 56 (4.66%) Serverless
7 35 (2.91%) SaaS
8 31 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (2.49%) Snowflake
10 29 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (1.83%) OpenShift
15 21 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (1.33%) Slack
17 15 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
18 14 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.16%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.41%) Firewall
1 17 (1.41%) Kerberos
1 17 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.33%) DSL
3 14 (1.16%) HTTP
3 14 (1.16%) MQTT
4 7 (0.58%) AMQP
5 6 (0.50%) FTP
5 6 (0.50%) Network Security
5 6 (0.50%) VPN
6 5 (0.42%) SSL
7 3 (0.25%) Broadband
7 3 (0.25%) DNS
7 3 (0.25%) NaaS
7 3 (0.25%) Wireless
8 1 (0.083%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.083%) PPP
8 1 (0.083%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.083%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (23.44%) NoSQL
2 213 (17.71%) Elasticsearch
3 183 (15.21%) PostgreSQL
4 167 (13.88%) MongoDB
5 155 (12.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 148 (12.30%) Big Data
7 123 (10.22%) Hadoop
8 88 (7.32%) Relational Database
9 87 (7.23%) Redis
10 81 (6.73%) MySQL
11 61 (5.07%) SQL Server
12 47 (3.91%) CockroachDB
12 47 (3.91%) Data Lake
13 46 (3.82%) Flink
14 43 (3.57%) BigQuery
15 35 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
16 29 (2.41%) Data Mining
17 28 (2.33%) Tableau
18 23 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
19 22 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 143 (11.89%) Jenkins
2 134 (11.14%) JUnit
3 112 (9.31%) Git
4 49 (4.07%) Mockito
5 46 (3.82%) Jasmine
6 44 (3.66%) JIRA
7 41 (3.41%) Maven
8 38 (3.16%) GitLab
9 36 (2.99%) Cucumber
10 29 (2.41%) Jaeger
11 27 (2.24%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.66%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.91%) Selenium
14 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.91%) Spinnaker
15 9 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.67%) Gradle
16 8 (0.67%) Postman
17 7 (0.58%) Mocha
General
1 599 (49.79%) Finance
2 396 (32.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 375 (31.17%) Law
4 212 (17.62%) Banking
5 203 (16.87%) Social Skills
6 137 (11.39%) Marketing
7 124 (10.31%) Legal
8 90 (7.48%) Investment Banking
9 75 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (3.74%) Retail Banking
11 43 (3.57%) Financial Institution
12 42 (3.49%) Games
13 28 (2.33%) Retail
14 23 (1.91%) Prime Brokerage
15 22 (1.83%) Front Office
16 21 (1.75%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.25%) Private Banking
18 11 (0.91%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.83%) Automotive
19 10 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 470 (39.07%) Software Engineer
2 312 (25.94%) Senior
3 307 (25.52%) Developer
4 271 (22.53%) Java Engineer
5 256 (21.28%) Lead
6 237 (19.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 149 (12.39%) Full Stack Engineer
8 145 (12.05%) Lead Software Engineer
9 135 (11.22%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 126 (10.47%) Senior Developer
11 123 (10.22%) Data Engineer
12 116 (9.64%) Java Developer
13 100 (8.31%) Architect
14 90 (7.48%) Lead Java Engineer
15 89 (7.40%) Senior Software Engineer
16 69 (5.74%) Python Engineer
17 62 (5.15%) .NET Developer
18 53 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
19 51 (4.24%) Python Software Engineer
20 49 (4.07%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (34.66%) Spring
2 283 (23.52%) Spring Boot
3 241 (20.03%) React
4 216 (17.96%) AngularJS
5 189 (15.71%) GraphQL
6 163 (13.55%) Node.js
7 147 (12.22%) REST
8 139 (11.55%) J2EE
9 130 (10.81%) Hibernate
10 124 (10.31%) RabbitMQ
11 121 (10.06%) Web Services
12 117 (9.73%) .NET
13 109 (9.06%) CSS
14 107 (8.89%) Spring Integration
15 101 (8.40%) HTML
16 96 (7.98%) JMS
17 92 (7.65%) RESTful
18 83 (6.90%) JSON
19 57 (4.74%) jQuery
19 57 (4.74%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 233 (19.37%) Cloud Native
2 146 (12.14%) Algorithms
3 66 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (4.24%) Data Structures
6 44 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 43 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (3.16%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.83%) Client/Server
10 29 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 29 (2.41%) Replication
11 24 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (1.66%) Private Cloud
13 17 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.41%) Reference Data
13 17 (1.41%) Sports Betting
14 15 (1.25%) PropTech
15 13 (1.08%) Hedge funds
16 12 (1.00%) IoT
17 11 (0.91%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.48%) Linux
2 21 (1.75%) Unix
3 17 (1.41%) Windows
4 13 (1.08%) Solaris
5 12 (1.00%) CentOS
5 12 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.00%) zOS
6 6 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.33%) Debian
8 2 (0.17%) Android
8 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (54.78%) Agile
2 640 (53.20%) Software Engineering
3 534 (44.39%) Microservices
4 521 (43.31%) CI/CD
5 382 (31.75%) SDLC
6 318 (26.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 298 (24.77%) Machine Learning
8 283 (23.52%) Operational Stability
9 268 (22.28%) DevOps
10 215 (17.87%) Community of Practice
11 205 (17.04%) Full Stack Development
12 201 (16.71%) TDD
13 191 (15.88%) Computer Science
14 152 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 146 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
15 146 (12.14%) Visualisation
16 139 (11.55%) Risk Management
17 127 (10.56%) Analytics
18 126 (10.47%) Decision-Making
19 112 (9.31%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 756 (62.84%) Java
2 510 (42.39%) SQL
3 358 (29.76%) Python
4 178 (14.80%) JavaScript
5 143 (11.89%) TypeScript
6 127 (10.56%) C#
7 118 (9.81%) Go
8 82 (6.82%) Scala
9 61 (5.07%) Kotlin
10 27 (2.24%) Groovy
11 19 (1.58%) Bash
12 18 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.33%) C
14 12 (1.00%) Clojure
15 10 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.75%) C++
17 5 (0.42%) R
17 5 (0.42%) VBA
18 4 (0.33%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 159 (13.22%) Degree
2 77 (6.40%) Master's Degree
3 74 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (5.74%) Security Cleared
5 59 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 24 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.66%) PhD
8 15 (1.25%) 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 23 (1.91%) QA
2 16 (1.33%) SLA
3 12 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.42%) MiFID
7 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.33%) NIST
8 3 (0.25%) GRC
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.17%) SEPA
10 1 (0.083%) GDPR
10 1 (0.083%) WCAG
System Software
1 344 (28.60%) Docker
2 13 (1.08%) HDFS
3 4 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.17%) IAG
5 1 (0.083%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 572 (47.55%) Kubernetes
2 103 (8.56%) Terraform
3 71 (5.90%) Grafana
4 49 (4.07%) Ansible
5 39 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.83%) Kibana
7 26 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.75%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.75%) Zipkin
9 9 (0.75%) Kiali
10 7 (0.58%) Graphite
11 5 (0.42%) Argo
11 5 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.42%) Puppet
12 4 (0.33%) Istio
12 4 (0.33%) logstash
13 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 186 (15.46%) Oracle
2 102 (8.48%) Google
3 81 (6.73%) Splunk
4 67 (5.57%) Databricks
5 56 (4.66%) Microsoft
6 36 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 22 (1.83%) Sybase
8 18 (1.50%) Cloudera
9 17 (1.41%) Alteryx
10 16 (1.33%) Cognos
10 16 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.25%) Confluent
12 14 (1.16%) Apple
12 14 (1.16%) Dell
12 14 (1.16%) IBM
12 14 (1.16%) Teradata
13 13 (1.08%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.50%) YouTube