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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 171 99
Rank change year-on-year -77 -72 +37
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1,203 2,056 6,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 2.20% 3.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 7.58% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 683 1,290 1,917
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 21,703 27,126 70,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.39% 29.04% 41.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16,050 17,651 29,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £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 5 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 5 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 -160 773 £77,500 -13.89% 229
UK excluding London +73 724 £60,000 -11.11% 82
London -116 444 £90,000 -7.69% 156
Scotland +74 393 £65,000 -13.33% 9
Work from Home -149 385 £72,500 -17.14% 135
South East +36 143 £55,000 -21.43% 20
North of England -62 82 £62,500 -10.71% 22
North West -29 62 £61,250 -12.50% 14
South West -52 47 £67,500 +2.34% 7
Midlands -29 23 £60,000 - 9
East of England -29 19 £85,000 +36.00% 11
Yorkshire +12 18 £70,576 +2.55% 7
West Midlands -27 17 £77,500 +29.17% 6
Northern Ireland +28 12 £70,000 -13.85% 5
East Midlands -26 6 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Wales +4 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
1 204 (16.96%) Apache Spark
2 98 (8.15%) FileNet
3 83 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
4 65 (5.40%) Apache
5 32 (2.66%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.75%) GemFire
7 18 (1.50%) Confluence
8 11 (0.91%) 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
1 685 (56.94%) AWS
2 274 (22.78%) Azure
3 169 (14.05%) GCP
4 139 (11.55%) Amazon S3
5 79 (6.57%) GitHub
6 56 (4.66%) Serverless
7 34 (2.83%) SaaS
8 32 (2.66%) Snowflake
9 31 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
13 23 (1.91%) OpenShift
14 21 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (1.33%) Slack
16 15 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
17 14 (1.16%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.41%) Firewall
1 17 (1.41%) Kerberos
1 17 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.25%) 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
6 5 (0.42%) SSL
7 3 (0.25%) Broadband
7 3 (0.25%) DNS
7 3 (0.25%) NaaS
7 3 (0.25%) VPN
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
1 281 (23.36%) NoSQL
2 212 (17.62%) Elasticsearch
3 186 (15.46%) PostgreSQL
4 168 (13.97%) MongoDB
5 155 (12.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 149 (12.39%) Big Data
7 125 (10.39%) Hadoop
8 87 (7.23%) Redis
8 87 (7.23%) Relational Database
9 80 (6.65%) MySQL
10 61 (5.07%) SQL Server
11 47 (3.91%) CockroachDB
12 45 (3.74%) BigQuery
12 45 (3.74%) Data Lake
12 45 (3.74%) Flink
13 34 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (2.58%) Data Mining
15 27 (2.24%) Tableau
16 24 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 142 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 133 (11.06%) JUnit
3 109 (9.06%) Git
4 49 (4.07%) Mockito
5 46 (3.82%) Jasmine
6 45 (3.74%) JIRA
7 39 (3.24%) GitLab
7 39 (3.24%) Maven
8 35 (2.91%) Cucumber
9 29 (2.41%) Jaeger
10 27 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 20 (1.66%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.91%) Spinnaker
14 10 (0.83%) Selenium
15 9 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.67%) Gradle
16 8 (0.67%) Postman
17 7 (0.58%) Mocha
General
1 594 (49.38%) Finance
2 391 (32.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 371 (30.84%) Law
4 210 (17.46%) Banking
5 204 (16.96%) Social Skills
6 134 (11.14%) Marketing
7 123 (10.22%) Legal
8 89 (7.40%) Investment Banking
9 74 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (3.74%) Retail Banking
11 42 (3.49%) Games
12 41 (3.41%) Financial Institution
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
1 468 (38.90%) Software Engineer
2 316 (26.27%) Senior
3 306 (25.44%) Developer
4 268 (22.28%) Java Engineer
5 257 (21.36%) Lead
6 234 (19.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 147 (12.22%) Full Stack Engineer
8 144 (11.97%) Lead Software Engineer
9 133 (11.06%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 127 (10.56%) Senior Developer
11 121 (10.06%) Data Engineer
12 116 (9.64%) Java Developer
13 103 (8.56%) Architect
14 91 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
15 90 (7.48%) Lead Java Engineer
16 69 (5.74%) Python Engineer
17 62 (5.15%) .NET Developer
18 56 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
19 51 (4.24%) Python Software Engineer
20 49 (4.07%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (34.50%) Spring
2 280 (23.28%) Spring Boot
3 240 (19.95%) React
4 213 (17.71%) AngularJS
5 189 (15.71%) GraphQL
6 165 (13.72%) Node.js
7 144 (11.97%) REST
8 139 (11.55%) J2EE
9 127 (10.56%) Hibernate
10 125 (10.39%) RabbitMQ
11 119 (9.89%) Web Services
12 117 (9.73%) .NET
13 109 (9.06%) CSS
14 108 (8.98%) Spring Integration
15 101 (8.40%) HTML
16 95 (7.90%) JMS
17 90 (7.48%) RESTful
18 82 (6.82%) JSON
19 57 (4.74%) jQuery
20 56 (4.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 229 (19.04%) Cloud Native
2 144 (11.97%) Algorithms
3 64 (5.32%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (4.24%) Data Structures
6 43 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 42 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.83%) Client/Server
10 29 (2.41%) Replication
11 25 (2.08%) Product Ownership
12 24 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (1.66%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.41%) Sports Betting
16 16 (1.33%) Reference Data
17 15 (1.25%) PropTech
18 13 (1.08%) Hedge funds
19 12 (1.00%) IoT
20 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
1 650 (54.03%) Agile
2 637 (52.95%) Software Engineering
3 538 (44.72%) Microservices
4 519 (43.14%) CI/CD
5 379 (31.50%) SDLC
6 315 (26.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 294 (24.44%) Machine Learning
8 279 (23.19%) Operational Stability
9 272 (22.61%) DevOps
10 212 (17.62%) Community of Practice
11 203 (16.87%) Full Stack Development
12 200 (16.63%) TDD
13 192 (15.96%) Computer Science
14 149 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 147 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
16 146 (12.14%) Visualisation
17 139 (11.55%) Risk Management
18 126 (10.47%) Analytics
19 125 (10.39%) Decision-Making
20 109 (9.06%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 757 (62.93%) Java
2 508 (42.23%) SQL
3 358 (29.76%) Python
4 178 (14.80%) JavaScript
5 144 (11.97%) TypeScript
6 127 (10.56%) C#
7 118 (9.81%) Go
8 81 (6.73%) Scala
9 63 (5.24%) Kotlin
10 27 (2.24%) Groovy
11 19 (1.58%) Bash
12 17 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.33%) C
14 13 (1.08%) 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 75 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (5.99%) Security Cleared
5 62 (5.15%) 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 15 (1.25%) 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
1 342 (28.43%) 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
1 568 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 105 (8.73%) 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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 185 (15.38%) Oracle
2 101 (8.40%) Google
3 81 (6.73%) Splunk
4 67 (5.57%) Databricks
5 56 (4.66%) Microsoft
6 36 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 21 (1.75%) Sybase
8 17 (1.41%) Cloudera
9 16 (1.33%) Alteryx
9 16 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.25%) Cognos
10 15 (1.25%) Confluent
11 14 (1.16%) Apple
11 14 (1.16%) Dell
11 14 (1.16%) IBM
11 14 (1.16%) Teradata
12 13 (1.08%) AppDynamics
13 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.50%) YouTube