Kafka Job Trends in the East of England

Apache Kafka
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 171 132
Rank change year-on-year +18 -39 +21
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 6 13 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 1.80% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 13
10th Percentile £55,500 £60,885 £69,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -27.91% +43.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £111,250
90th Percentile - £109,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -5.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 721 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.98% 20.44% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 222 323 428
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,651
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,650 £90,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in the East of England

Kafka
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the East of England

Kafka
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cambridgeshire +20 3 £62,500 +6.20% 8
Hertfordshire +6 2 £100,000 +29.03% 8
Essex - 1 - - 7
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) Nuxt
3 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (33.33%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Beam
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Material-UI
4 1 (16.67%) Micronaut
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks