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 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 273 351 219
Rank change year-on-year +78 -132 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 726 502 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.89% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.94% 3.36% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 315 314 613
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,013 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,732 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,750 -
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 14,689 14,937 24,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.33% 26.42% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,566 8,725 14,408
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
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 £64,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%

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 1 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 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
Scotland +71 397 £65,000 -13.33% 10
South East +27 137 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North of England -54 81 £62,500 -10.71% 23
North West -32 61 £61,250 -12.50% 16
South West -41 49 £67,500 +3.09% 4
Midlands -24 26 £73,000 +21.67% 9
East of England -15 19 £85,000 +36.00% 7
Yorkshire +10 18 £70,576 +2.55% 6
West Midlands -23 17 £77,500 +29.17% 6
Northern Ireland +28 12 £70,000 -13.85% 5
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Wales +9 5 £72,500 +57.61% 4
North East -19 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
1 109 (15.01%) Apache Spark
2 98 (13.50%) FileNet
3 54 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.89%) GemFire
6 17 (2.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.83%) Confluence
9 5 (0.69%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) JBoss
10 2 (0.28%) Liferay
10 2 (0.28%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 370 (50.96%) AWS
2 162 (22.31%) Azure
3 118 (16.25%) Amazon S3
4 77 (10.61%) GCP
5 59 (8.13%) GitHub
6 26 (3.58%) SaaS
7 25 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (3.44%) Serverless
8 23 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.07%) BlazeMeter
12 14 (1.93%) Google Docs
12 14 (1.93%) Lucidchart
12 14 (1.93%) Miro
12 14 (1.93%) Slack
13 12 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.52%) Amazon MSK
14 11 (1.52%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.34%) Kerberos
2 16 (2.20%) DSL
3 14 (1.93%) MQTT
4 11 (1.52%) HTTP
4 11 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.55%) Firewall
6 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (30.17%) NoSQL
2 164 (22.59%) Elasticsearch
3 138 (19.01%) Apache Cassandra
4 121 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 112 (15.43%) MongoDB
6 100 (13.77%) Big Data
7 70 (9.64%) Hadoop
8 62 (8.54%) Relational Database
9 45 (6.20%) Redis
10 39 (5.37%) MySQL
11 38 (5.23%) CockroachDB
12 24 (3.31%) Data Lake
13 22 (3.03%) Tableau
14 21 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
14 21 (2.89%) Hazelcast
14 21 (2.89%) RDBMS
14 21 (2.89%) SQL Server
15 18 (2.48%) DB2
16 17 (2.34%) BigQuery
17 14 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 132 (18.18%) JUnit
2 79 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 70 (9.64%) Git
4 47 (6.47%) Mockito
5 46 (6.34%) Jasmine
6 29 (3.99%) Cucumber
6 29 (3.99%) Maven
7 25 (3.44%) JIRA
8 21 (2.89%) Jaeger
9 18 (2.48%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.20%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.79%) GitLab
12 9 (1.24%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.10%) Gradle
14 7 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.83%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.83%) Selenium
16 5 (0.69%) GDB
17 4 (0.55%) Postman
17 4 (0.55%) Spinnaker
General
1 461 (63.50%) Finance
2 365 (50.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 346 (47.66%) Law
4 137 (18.87%) Banking
5 123 (16.94%) Marketing
6 119 (16.39%) Legal
7 106 (14.60%) Social Skills
8 84 (11.57%) Investment Banking
9 30 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (3.31%) Financial Institution
11 22 (3.03%) Prime Brokerage
12 17 (2.34%) Retail
13 15 (2.07%) Private Banking
14 13 (1.79%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.38%) Publishing
16 7 (0.96%) Automotive
16 7 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.96%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 404 (55.65%) Software Engineer
2 241 (33.20%) Java Engineer
3 218 (30.03%) Java Software Engineer
4 172 (23.69%) Lead
5 148 (20.39%) Developer
5 148 (20.39%) Senior
6 140 (19.28%) Lead Software Engineer
7 138 (19.01%) Full Stack Engineer
8 135 (18.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 87 (11.98%) Lead Java Engineer
10 77 (10.61%) Data Engineer
11 66 (9.09%) Senior Developer
12 55 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 52 (7.16%) Python Engineer
14 48 (6.61%) Architect
15 47 (6.47%) Java Developer
16 46 (6.34%) Python Software Engineer
17 44 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
18 40 (5.51%) Big Data Engineer
19 39 (5.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (46.56%) Spring
2 187 (25.76%) AngularJS
3 175 (24.10%) React
4 172 (23.69%) GraphQL
5 166 (22.87%) Spring Boot
6 139 (19.15%) J2EE
7 135 (18.60%) Node.js
8 127 (17.49%) Hibernate
9 113 (15.56%) REST
10 112 (15.43%) Web Services
11 105 (14.46%) Spring Integration
12 93 (12.81%) JMS
13 89 (12.26%) HTML
14 88 (12.12%) CSS
15 78 (10.74%) JSON
16 69 (9.50%) RabbitMQ
17 57 (7.85%) RESTful
18 55 (7.58%) .NET
18 55 (7.58%) jQuery
19 53 (7.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (29.61%) Cloud Native
2 108 (14.88%) Algorithms
3 53 (7.30%) Public Cloud
4 38 (5.23%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 31 (4.27%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.89%) Replication
9 20 (2.75%) Private Cloud
10 18 (2.48%) Client/Server
11 17 (2.34%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.52%) IoT
13 9 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (1.10%) PropTech
15 6 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.83%) Sports Betting
16 5 (0.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.62%) Linux
2 5 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (73.42%) Agile
2 470 (64.74%) Software Engineering
3 386 (53.17%) CI/CD
4 355 (48.90%) Microservices
5 315 (43.39%) SDLC
6 282 (38.84%) Operational Stability
7 268 (36.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 241 (33.20%) Machine Learning
9 213 (29.34%) Community of Practice
10 171 (23.55%) Full Stack Development
11 144 (19.83%) DevOps
12 136 (18.73%) Computer Science
13 127 (17.49%) TDD
14 124 (17.08%) Risk Management
15 122 (16.80%) Decision-Making
16 109 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 109 (15.01%) Visualisation
17 98 (13.50%) AOP
17 98 (13.50%) Document Management
18 95 (13.09%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 514 (70.80%) Java
2 387 (53.31%) SQL
3 235 (32.37%) Python
4 131 (18.04%) JavaScript
5 107 (14.74%) TypeScript
6 82 (11.29%) Go
7 50 (6.89%) C#
8 42 (5.79%) Scala
9 21 (2.89%) Groovy
10 18 (2.48%) Bash
10 18 (2.48%) PL/SQL
11 16 (2.20%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.55%) VB
14 3 (0.41%) C++
14 3 (0.41%) Rust
15 2 (0.28%) C
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (10.74%) Degree
2 58 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (7.44%) Security Cleared
4 49 (6.75%) SC Cleared
5 43 (5.92%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.52%) PhD
8 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.20%) SLA
2 15 (2.07%) QA
3 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (26.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 351 (48.35%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.44%) Terraform
3 53 (7.30%) Grafana
4 28 (3.86%) Kibana
5 26 (3.58%) ITRS Geneos
6 24 (3.31%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.89%) HAProxy
7 21 (2.89%) Zipkin
8 17 (2.34%) Ansible
9 7 (0.96%) Graphite
10 3 (0.41%) Puppet
11 2 (0.28%) Podman
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 178 (24.52%) Oracle
2 61 (8.40%) Google
3 59 (8.13%) Splunk
4 40 (5.51%) Databricks
5 36 (4.96%) Dynatrace
6 25 (3.44%) Microsoft
7 21 (2.89%) Sybase
8 16 (2.20%) Alteryx
8 16 (2.20%) Cognos
9 14 (1.93%) Dell
10 13 (1.79%) Teradata
11 10 (1.38%) Apple
12 8 (1.10%) Confluent
13 5 (0.69%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.69%) CA
13 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 5 (0.69%) Informatica
13 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.41%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.41%) Salesforce