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 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 252 172 98
Rank change year-on-year -80 -74 +39
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1,200 2,026 6,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 2.18% 3.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 7.50% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 687 1,284 1,938
10th Percentile £45,747 £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 £69,135 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.21% -7.82% +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 21,837 27,028 70,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.14% 29.03% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,149 17,617 29,960
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,448 £37,750
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 £106,250 £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 9 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 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
England -159 780 £77,500 -13.89% 244
UK excluding London +60 719 £60,000 -13.21% 91
London -120 446 £90,000 -7.69% 160
Scotland +77 383 £65,000 -13.33% 11
Work from Home -145 382 £72,500 -17.13% 145
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
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
1 199 (16.58%) Apache Spark
2 98 (8.17%) FileNet
3 83 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (5.67%) Apache
5 32 (2.67%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.75%) GemFire
7 18 (1.50%) Confluence
8 12 (1.00%) nginx
9 9 (0.75%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.17%) CMS
13 2 (0.17%) IIS
13 2 (0.17%) JBoss
13 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.17%) Liferay
13 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.17%) SAS
13 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 686 (57.17%) AWS
2 274 (22.83%) Azure
3 166 (13.83%) GCP
4 138 (11.50%) Amazon S3
5 78 (6.50%) GitHub
6 56 (4.67%) Serverless
7 33 (2.75%) SaaS
8 32 (2.67%) Snowflake
9 31 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
14 22 (1.83%) OpenShift
15 21 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
17 15 (1.25%) Slack
18 13 (1.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.42%) Kerberos
1 17 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.33%) Firewall
3 14 (1.17%) HTTP
3 14 (1.17%) MQTT
4 13 (1.08%) DSL
5 7 (0.58%) AMQP
5 7 (0.58%) FTP
6 6 (0.50%) Network Security
7 5 (0.42%) SSL
8 3 (0.25%) Broadband
8 3 (0.25%) DNS
8 3 (0.25%) NaaS
8 3 (0.25%) VPN
8 3 (0.25%) Wireless
9 1 (0.083%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.083%) PPP
9 1 (0.083%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.083%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (23.17%) NoSQL
2 208 (17.33%) Elasticsearch
3 190 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
4 171 (14.25%) MongoDB
5 154 (12.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 147 (12.25%) Big Data
7 124 (10.33%) Hadoop
8 89 (7.42%) Relational Database
9 86 (7.17%) Redis
10 80 (6.67%) MySQL
11 63 (5.25%) SQL Server
12 47 (3.92%) CockroachDB
12 47 (3.92%) Flink
13 45 (3.75%) BigQuery
14 41 (3.42%) Data Lake
15 34 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
16 28 (2.33%) Data Mining
17 25 (2.08%) Tableau
18 24 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
19 23 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 138 (11.50%) Jenkins
2 133 (11.08%) JUnit
3 108 (9.00%) Git
4 49 (4.08%) Mockito
5 46 (3.83%) Jasmine
6 44 (3.67%) JIRA
7 39 (3.25%) GitLab
8 37 (3.08%) Maven
9 35 (2.92%) Cucumber
10 29 (2.42%) Jaeger
11 27 (2.25%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.67%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.83%) Selenium
14 10 (0.83%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.83%) Spinnaker
15 9 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.67%) Gradle
16 8 (0.67%) Postman
17 7 (0.58%) Eclipse
General
1 587 (48.92%) Finance
2 383 (31.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 364 (30.33%) Law
4 205 (17.08%) Banking
4 205 (17.08%) Social Skills
5 130 (10.83%) Marketing
6 120 (10.00%) Legal
7 87 (7.25%) Investment Banking
8 70 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (3.67%) Retail Banking
10 42 (3.50%) Games
11 39 (3.25%) Financial Institution
12 28 (2.33%) Retail
13 23 (1.92%) Front Office
13 23 (1.92%) Prime Brokerage
14 22 (1.83%) Public Sector
15 15 (1.25%) Private Banking
16 11 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.83%) Automotive
17 10 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 463 (38.58%) Software Engineer
2 320 (26.67%) Senior
3 312 (26.00%) Developer
4 265 (22.08%) Java Engineer
5 255 (21.25%) Lead
6 231 (19.25%) Java Software Engineer
7 144 (12.00%) Full Stack Engineer
8 142 (11.83%) Lead Software Engineer
9 131 (10.92%) Senior Developer
10 130 (10.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 119 (9.92%) Data Engineer
11 119 (9.92%) Java Developer
12 99 (8.25%) Architect
13 93 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
14 90 (7.50%) Lead Java Engineer
15 69 (5.75%) Python Engineer
16 63 (5.25%) .NET Developer
17 59 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
19 49 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (34.58%) Spring
2 282 (23.50%) Spring Boot
3 243 (20.25%) React
4 215 (17.92%) AngularJS
5 188 (15.67%) GraphQL
6 168 (14.00%) Node.js
7 144 (12.00%) REST
8 136 (11.33%) J2EE
9 129 (10.75%) Hibernate
10 128 (10.67%) RabbitMQ
11 118 (9.83%) .NET
12 116 (9.67%) Web Services
13 110 (9.17%) CSS
14 108 (9.00%) Spring Integration
15 102 (8.50%) HTML
16 92 (7.67%) JMS
16 92 (7.67%) RESTful
17 80 (6.67%) JSON
18 57 (4.75%) jQuery
19 56 (4.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 225 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 140 (11.67%) Algorithms
3 59 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 50 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 42 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (3.42%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.83%) Client/Server
8 34 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.42%) Replication
10 24 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 23 (1.92%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.58%) Private Cloud
13 17 (1.42%) Sports Betting
14 16 (1.33%) Reference Data
15 15 (1.25%) Hedge funds
15 15 (1.25%) PropTech
16 12 (1.00%) IoT
17 11 (0.92%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 81 (6.75%) Linux
2 22 (1.83%) Unix
3 17 (1.42%) 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
1 638 (53.17%) Agile
2 629 (52.42%) Software Engineering
3 542 (45.17%) Microservices
4 511 (42.58%) CI/CD
5 374 (31.17%) SDLC
6 308 (25.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 287 (23.92%) Machine Learning
8 275 (22.92%) DevOps
9 272 (22.67%) Operational Stability
10 205 (17.08%) Community of Practice
11 202 (16.83%) Full Stack Development
12 201 (16.75%) TDD
13 194 (16.17%) Computer Science
14 149 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
15 145 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 140 (11.67%) Visualisation
17 137 (11.42%) Risk Management
18 126 (10.50%) Analytics
19 122 (10.17%) Decision-Making
20 106 (8.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 755 (62.92%) Java
2 509 (42.42%) SQL
3 357 (29.75%) Python
4 179 (14.92%) JavaScript
5 145 (12.08%) TypeScript
6 128 (10.67%) C#
7 116 (9.67%) Go
8 80 (6.67%) Scala
9 65 (5.42%) Kotlin
10 28 (2.33%) Groovy
11 18 (1.50%) Bash
12 16 (1.33%) C
13 15 (1.25%) Clojure
13 15 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.75%) C++
14 9 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.42%) R
15 5 (0.42%) VBA
16 4 (0.33%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (13.25%) Degree
2 77 (6.42%) Master's Degree
3 76 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 65 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 22 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.67%) PhD
7 16 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.33%) CISM
8 4 (0.33%) CISSP
9 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.25%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.92%) QA
2 13 (1.08%) SLA
3 12 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.58%) MiFID
6 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.50%) PCI DSS
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
1 341 (28.42%) Docker
2 12 (1.00%) 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
1 565 (47.08%) Kubernetes
2 104 (8.67%) Terraform
3 72 (6.00%) Grafana
4 49 (4.08%) Ansible
5 40 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.83%) Kibana
7 26 (2.17%) 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%) Podman
14 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 183 (15.25%) Oracle
2 96 (8.00%) Google
3 81 (6.75%) Splunk
4 65 (5.42%) Databricks
5 53 (4.42%) Microsoft
6 36 (3.00%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.58%) Sybase
8 17 (1.42%) Cloudera
9 16 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 14 (1.17%) Alteryx
10 14 (1.17%) Apple
10 14 (1.17%) Confluent
10 14 (1.17%) IBM
10 14 (1.17%) Teradata
11 13 (1.08%) AppDynamics
11 13 (1.08%) Cognos
11 13 (1.08%) Dell
12 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.50%) YouTube