Kafka Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 83 67
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +18
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 3 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.35% 0.11% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 0.45% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £55,250 - £54,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £54,425 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,850 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -18.83% -14.71%
75th Percentile £76,875 £63,275 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,750 - £80,250
East of England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -27.91% +43.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 108 221 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.53% 25.26% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 75 112 108
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £81,125 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Cambridgeshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Cambridge +9 3 £62,500 +6.20% 4
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Java Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 1 (33.33%) Micronaut
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform