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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 139 197
Rank change year-on-year -34 +58 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 9 10 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% 1.98% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 18
10th Percentile - £60,078 £73,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -8.82% +61.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £82,188 £115,000
90th Percentile - £96,250 £119,875
England median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -11.11%

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 373 504 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.03% 19.46% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 249 397 928
10th Percentile £28,100 £37,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,350 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

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
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 19 April 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
Hertfordshire -20 8 £62,500 -19.35% 3
Essex -27 1 - - 1
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 8 (88.89%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (88.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
3 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (77.78%) dbt
3 7 (77.78%) Snowflake
4 6 (66.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (11.11%) Dagster
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) AMQP
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) BigQuery
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (66.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (66.67%) Looker
3 6 (66.67%) Power BI
3 6 (66.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (66.67%) Tableau
4 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (11.11%) Big Data
5 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
5 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MLflow
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) LangChain
1 6 (66.67%) LlamaIndex
1 6 (66.67%) pgvector
1 6 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 6 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 6 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Beam
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (66.67%) Clustering
2 6 (66.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Anti-Piracy
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
1 8 (88.89%) Data Modelling
1 8 (88.89%) ETL
2 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
2 7 (77.78%) Data Management
2 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (77.78%) Data Science
3 6 (66.67%) AI
3 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 6 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
3 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
3 6 (66.67%) Presales
3 6 (66.67%) Semantic Search
3 6 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (66.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Databricks
2 6 (66.67%) Cloudera
2 6 (66.67%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle