Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 337 224
Rank change year-on-year +60 -113 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 719 490 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.88% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 3.35% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 313 308 616
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £50,686 £56,052 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,135 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% -7.82% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14,898 14,627 24,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.86% 26.28% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,664 8,648 14,463
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%

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 9 June 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 9 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
Scotland +77 383 £65,000 -13.33% 11
South East +35 147 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North of England -59 82 £62,500 -10.71% 24
North West -35 62 £60,000 -14.29% 17
South West -41 48 £66,250 +3.15% 9
Midlands -44 23 £60,000 - 9
East of England -26 19 £85,000 +36.00% 12
Yorkshire +15 18 £70,576 -5.90% 6
West Midlands -18 17 £77,500 +31.91% 6
Northern Ireland +25 12 £70,000 -13.85% 5
East Midlands -38 6 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Wales +13 5 £72,500 +57.61% 2
North East -23 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
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
1 104 (14.46%) Apache Spark
2 98 (13.63%) FileNet
3 54 (7.51%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.92%) GemFire
6 18 (2.50%) Apache
7 7 (0.97%) Confluence
7 7 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.70%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) JBoss
9 2 (0.28%) Liferay
9 2 (0.28%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 369 (51.32%) AWS
2 167 (23.23%) Azure
3 117 (16.27%) Amazon S3
4 77 (10.71%) GCP
5 57 (7.93%) GitHub
6 25 (3.48%) Serverless
7 24 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (3.34%) SaaS
8 23 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.09%) BlazeMeter
12 13 (1.81%) Google Docs
12 13 (1.81%) Lucidchart
12 13 (1.81%) Miro
12 13 (1.81%) Slack
13 12 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.53%) Amazon MSK
14 11 (1.53%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.36%) Kerberos
2 14 (1.95%) MQTT
3 13 (1.81%) DSL
4 11 (1.53%) HTTP
4 11 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.42%) Firewall
6 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (30.04%) NoSQL
2 162 (22.53%) Elasticsearch
3 138 (19.19%) Apache Cassandra
4 128 (17.80%) PostgreSQL
5 116 (16.13%) MongoDB
6 98 (13.63%) Big Data
7 75 (10.43%) Hadoop
8 63 (8.76%) Relational Database
9 44 (6.12%) Redis
10 39 (5.42%) MySQL
11 38 (5.29%) CockroachDB
12 21 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.92%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.92%) Hazelcast
12 21 (2.92%) SQL Server
13 19 (2.64%) RDBMS
13 19 (2.64%) Tableau
14 17 (2.36%) BigQuery
15 15 (2.09%) DB2
16 14 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 131 (18.22%) JUnit
2 74 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.32%) Git
4 47 (6.54%) Mockito
5 46 (6.40%) Jasmine
6 28 (3.89%) Cucumber
7 26 (3.62%) Maven
8 25 (3.48%) JIRA
9 21 (2.92%) Jaeger
10 18 (2.50%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.23%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.81%) GitLab
13 8 (1.11%) Gradle
13 8 (1.11%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.83%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.70%) GDB
16 5 (0.70%) Selenium
17 4 (0.56%) Postman
18 3 (0.42%) Spinnaker
General
1 448 (62.31%) Finance
2 353 (49.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (46.59%) Law
4 131 (18.22%) Banking
5 116 (16.13%) Marketing
6 115 (15.99%) Legal
7 105 (14.60%) Social Skills
8 81 (11.27%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (3.06%) Prime Brokerage
11 20 (2.78%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.36%) Retail
13 15 (2.09%) Private Banking
14 14 (1.95%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.39%) Publishing
16 7 (0.97%) Automotive
16 7 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 393 (54.66%) Software Engineer
2 235 (32.68%) Java Engineer
3 212 (29.49%) Java Software Engineer
4 170 (23.64%) Lead
5 151 (21.00%) Senior
6 150 (20.86%) Developer
7 137 (19.05%) Lead Software Engineer
8 133 (18.50%) Full Stack Engineer
9 130 (18.08%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 87 (12.10%) Lead Java Engineer
11 74 (10.29%) Data Engineer
12 69 (9.60%) Senior Developer
13 55 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 52 (7.23%) Python Engineer
15 50 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
16 49 (6.82%) Java Developer
17 48 (6.68%) Architect
18 46 (6.40%) Python Software Engineer
19 40 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
20 39 (5.42%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (46.45%) Spring
2 185 (25.73%) AngularJS
3 175 (24.34%) React
4 171 (23.78%) GraphQL
5 163 (22.67%) Spring Boot
6 141 (19.61%) Node.js
7 136 (18.92%) J2EE
8 125 (17.39%) Hibernate
9 110 (15.30%) REST
10 107 (14.88%) Web Services
11 106 (14.74%) Spring Integration
12 89 (12.38%) HTML
12 89 (12.38%) JMS
13 88 (12.24%) CSS
14 75 (10.43%) JSON
15 73 (10.15%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (7.65%) .NET
16 55 (7.65%) jQuery
17 54 (7.51%) RESTful
18 53 (7.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 207 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 102 (14.19%) Algorithms
3 47 (6.54%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 30 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (2.92%) Replication
8 19 (2.64%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.50%) Client/Server
10 16 (2.23%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.23%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.53%) IoT
12 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
13 8 (1.11%) PropTech
14 6 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.83%) Sports Betting
15 5 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.78%) Linux
2 5 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (71.77%) Agile
2 456 (63.42%) Software Engineering
3 376 (52.29%) CI/CD
4 357 (49.65%) Microservices
5 307 (42.70%) SDLC
6 271 (37.69%) Operational Stability
7 258 (35.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 231 (32.13%) Machine Learning
9 203 (28.23%) Community of Practice
10 166 (23.09%) Full Stack Development
11 148 (20.58%) DevOps
12 138 (19.19%) Computer Science
13 127 (17.66%) TDD
14 121 (16.83%) Risk Management
15 119 (16.55%) Decision-Making
16 104 (14.46%) Visualisation
17 103 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 98 (13.63%) AOP
18 98 (13.63%) Document Management
19 88 (12.24%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 510 (70.93%) Java
2 383 (53.27%) SQL
3 233 (32.41%) Python
4 132 (18.36%) JavaScript
5 107 (14.88%) TypeScript
6 81 (11.27%) Go
7 50 (6.95%) C#
8 38 (5.29%) Scala
9 21 (2.92%) Groovy
10 17 (2.36%) Bash
11 16 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 15 (2.09%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.56%) VB
15 3 (0.42%) C++
15 3 (0.42%) Rust
16 2 (0.28%) C
16 2 (0.28%) PHP
16 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (10.99%) Degree
2 61 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 60 (8.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 43 (5.98%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.53%) PhD
8 6 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.09%) QA
2 13 (1.81%) SLA
3 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 188 (26.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 343 (47.71%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.51%) Grafana
3 53 (7.37%) Terraform
4 28 (3.89%) Kibana
5 26 (3.62%) ITRS Geneos
6 25 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.92%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.92%) Zipkin
8 17 (2.36%) Ansible
9 7 (0.97%) Graphite
10 3 (0.42%) Puppet
11 2 (0.28%) Podman
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Istio
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) Oozie
12 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 176 (24.48%) Oracle
2 59 (8.21%) Google
2 59 (8.21%) Splunk
3 37 (5.15%) Databricks
4 36 (5.01%) Dynatrace
5 25 (3.48%) Microsoft
6 18 (2.50%) Sybase
7 13 (1.81%) Alteryx
7 13 (1.81%) Cognos
7 13 (1.81%) Dell
7 13 (1.81%) Teradata
8 10 (1.39%) Apple
9 7 (0.97%) Confluent
10 5 (0.70%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.70%) CA
10 5 (0.70%) IBM
10 5 (0.70%) Informatica
11 3 (0.42%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.28%) OpenText