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Skill radar: Kafka in Europe

Built from every job JobSnout has sniffed — active and closed — so the picture sharpens as weeks accumulate. Pay figures take the midpoint of published ranges and convert non-EUR salaries to a EUR equivalent.

FX reference: ECB, 28 August 2026 · €1 = GBP 0.85720 · USD 1.1643 · PLN 4.3365 · RON 5.2584. Foreign amounts are divided by the applicable units-per-euro rate. ECB source

Most wanted skills

Active jobs mentioning each skill

Python2782
AWS2001
Java1660
Kubernetes1635
Distributed systems1290
TypeScript1190
REST1171
GCP1157
SQL1039
Docker1028
Azure1021
PostgreSQL841
Terraform815
C++703
Kafka671
JavaScript634
Microservices629
Node.js516
Kotlin491
Spring457

What skills pay

Median advertised salary (EUR equivalent) for jobs mentioning each skill · n = postings with salary · greyed rows have fewer than 10 and are low confidence

Rust158k n=84
GraphQL125k n=50
gRPC124k n=30
Distributed systems113k n=218
C++106k n=162
Redis103k n=69
Terraform102k n=127
PostgreSQL102k n=175
GCP102k n=190
AWS94k n=398
Node.js92k n=148
Python92k n=645
Kubernetes88k n=315
MongoDB87k n=63
Elasticsearch87k n=67

Pay over time

Weekly median advertised salary (EUR equivalent) per skill, shared scale · thin weeks may reflect a single posting (n shown on hover) · columns accumulate as weeks pass

Java n=645
64k
Python n=645
81k
TypeScript n=469
75k
AWS n=398
82k
REST n=340
74k
Kubernetes n=315
80k
Azure n=309
79k
SQL n=258
79k

Where the work is

Active jobs by country for Kafka — darker means more · zone-only (EU-wide) postings have no country and are not on the map

Top cities · 671 matching jobs

London (GB)96
Lisbon (PT)32
Berlin (DE)28
Paris (FR)24
Dublin (IE)23
Madrid (ES)21
Barcelona (ES)20
Sofia (BG)16
Warsaw (PL)16
Manchester (GB)15

What it pays where

Median advertised salary (EUR equivalent) for Kafka by country and by town · n = active postings with a stated salary · places with fewer than 3 are left out, fewer than 10 are greyed as low confidence · 82 active salaried postings in total

New jobs per day

Canonical postings by day first sniffed (last 30 days) — the market's pulse