Kafka Jobs in the South East

Apache Kafka
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 291 165
Rank change year-on-year +27 -126 +32
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 137 102 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.77% 0.74% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.29% 2.62% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 125 73 199
10th Percentile - £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 3,191 3,897 7,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.92% 28.34% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,522 2,698 4,388
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Kafka in the South East

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +5 41 £67,500 +12.50% 3
Surrey +10 36 £45,000 -33.33% 5
Hampshire -45 26 £45,000 -46.27% 7
Berkshire +28 21 £59,250 -1.25% 2
Buckinghamshire -25 17 £87,500 +45.83% 1
West Sussex +42 16 £57,500 +15.00% 4
East Sussex +14 9 £57,500 -26.98% 5
Oxfordshire +6 3 £70,000 +40.00%
Kent -7 1 £112,500 -
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England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.46%) JBoss
3 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.09%) AWS
2 59 (43.07%) Azure
3 5 (3.65%) Serverless
4 4 (2.92%) Firebolt
4 4 (2.92%) GitHub
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.46%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.73%) SaaS
7 1 (0.73%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (67.15%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (36.50%) MongoDB
3 43 (31.39%) Hadoop
4 13 (9.49%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (9.49%) MySQL
5 10 (7.30%) Big Data
6 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.57%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.84%) CouchDB
8 4 (2.92%) Redis
9 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.19%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.19%) Impala
9 3 (2.19%) Sqoop
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.46%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.73%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (25.55%) Git
2 11 (8.03%) Bitbucket
3 8 (5.84%) Gradle
4 7 (5.11%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.11%) JUnit
5 6 (4.38%) JIRA
6 5 (3.65%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.19%) JMeter
8 2 (1.46%) GitLab
8 2 (1.46%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.46%) Selenium
8 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.73%) Postman
9 1 (0.73%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.73%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.73%) TestNG
General
1 48 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 47 (34.31%) Finance
3 10 (7.30%) Publishing
4 7 (5.11%) Banking
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.73%) Advertising
6 1 (0.73%) Automotive
6 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (43.80%) Developer
2 39 (28.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (25.55%) Senior
4 29 (21.17%) Senior Developer
5 18 (13.14%) Java Developer
6 16 (11.68%) Lead
7 14 (10.22%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Architect
9 10 (7.30%) Lead Java Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (6.57%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) IT Support
12 5 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Junior
12 5 (3.65%) Junior Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Junior Java Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (35.77%) Node.js
2 37 (27.01%) RabbitMQ
3 35 (25.55%) REST
4 32 (23.36%) Web Services
5 30 (21.90%) GraphQL
5 30 (21.90%) gRPC
6 20 (14.60%) Spring Boot
7 14 (10.22%) Spring
8 10 (7.30%) React Native
9 8 (5.84%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.92%) Django
10 4 (2.92%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.92%) React
10 4 (2.92%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.19%) RESTful
12 2 (1.46%) .NET
12 2 (1.46%) Akka
12 2 (1.46%) Keycloak
12 2 (1.46%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.84%) Client/Server
1 8 (5.84%) PropTech
2 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (47.45%) Microservices
2 60 (43.80%) DevOps
3 59 (43.07%) Agile
4 53 (38.69%) TDD
5 38 (27.74%) CI/CD
6 32 (23.36%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (21.90%) Continuous Deployment
7 30 (21.90%) Regression Testing
8 27 (19.71%) Computer Science
9 20 (14.60%) Roadmaps
10 19 (13.87%) SDLC
11 18 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.41%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.22%) Mentoring
14 11 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (8.03%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (8.03%) Machine Learning
15 10 (7.30%) Pair Programming
15 10 (7.30%) Product Roadmap
15 10 (7.30%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 93 (67.88%) Java
2 61 (44.53%) SQL
3 60 (43.80%) Python
4 53 (38.69%) Go
5 14 (10.22%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.19%) Scala
7 2 (1.46%) C#
7 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (28.47%) SC Cleared
1 39 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.87%) Degree
3 17 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 72 (52.55%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (24.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.38%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Kibana
3 3 (2.19%) Terraform
4 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 2 (1.46%) Podman
4 2 (1.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.30%) Apple
2 10 (7.30%) Google
3 3 (2.19%) Cloudera
3 3 (2.19%) Informatica
3 3 (2.19%) Oracle
3 3 (2.19%) Splunk
4 2 (1.46%) Red Hat