Kafka Developer Job Trends in England

Kafka Developer
UK > England

The median Kafka Developer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 - 720
Rank change year-on-year - - +404
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 9 0 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% - 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% - 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 20
10th Percentile - - £75,000
25th Percentile - - £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile - - £107,500
90th Percentile - - £200,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 - £95,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 39,301 65,678 52,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 95.19% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,649 40,776 40,618
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Kafka Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in England

Kafka Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in England

Kafka Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 September 2025. 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
London - 9 £100,000 - 1
Kafka Developer
UK

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, Kafka Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
2 7 (77.78%) Java
3 6 (66.67%) AWS
4 5 (55.56%) Front Office
4 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
4 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
5 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Hedge funds
5 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
5 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
5 4 (44.44%) Reference Data
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Spring
5 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
7 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
7 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Front Office
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
2 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Hedge funds
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (44.44%) Reference Data
1 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes