Kafka Engineer Job Trends in England

Kafka Engineer
UK > England

The median Kafka Engineer salary in England is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 736 731
Rank change year-on-year +107 -5 +377
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 15 5 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.007% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.008% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile - £105,000 £73,500
25th Percentile £78,750 £108,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £112,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £107,500 £116,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £97,500 £112,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% +14.29%

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 39,210 65,598 53,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 95.19% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,564 40,686 40,931
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 £73,886 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Engineer in England

Kafka Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in England

Kafka Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka Engineer in England

Kafka Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +92 11 £105,000 -6.67%
East Midlands - 1 £67,500 -
Midlands - 1 £67,500 -
Kafka Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Kafka Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Kafka
2 13 (86.67%) Docker
2 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 13 (86.67%) AWS
3 12 (80.00%) Fintech
3 12 (80.00%) Microservices
4 11 (73.33%) RxJava
4 11 (73.33%) Spring Boot
4 11 (73.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 11 (73.33%) Spring WebFlux
4 11 (73.33%) BDD
4 11 (73.33%) Spring
4 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
4 11 (73.33%) Multithreading
4 11 (73.33%) TDD
4 11 (73.33%) Pair Programming
4 11 (73.33%) Financial Institution
4 11 (73.33%) Finance
4 11 (73.33%) Java
4 11 (73.33%) Akka
5 9 (60.00%) High Availability
6 8 (53.33%) MongoDB
7 7 (46.67%) JMS
7 7 (46.67%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (46.67%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (26.67%) SQL
8 4 (26.67%) Python
9 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Kafka Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
1 11 (73.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Kafka
2 11 (73.33%) Akka
2 11 (73.33%) RxJava
2 11 (73.33%) Spring
2 11 (73.33%) Spring Boot
2 11 (73.33%) Spring WebFlux
3 7 (46.67%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (46.67%) JMS
3 7 (46.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) Great Expectations
5 1 (6.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 12 (80.00%) Fintech
2 12 (80.00%) Microservices
3 11 (73.33%) BDD
3 11 (73.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 11 (73.33%) Multithreading
3 11 (73.33%) Pair Programming
3 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
3 11 (73.33%) TDD
4 9 (60.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Data Security
6 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Databricks