Kafka Job Trends in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 196 322
Rank change year-on-year -108 +126 -148
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 529 764 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.76% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.75% 9.64% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 352 337 551
10th Percentile £56,025 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -16.20%
75th Percentile £115,313 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,203 7,923 15,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.38% 18.28% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,062 5,363 12,217
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in England

Kafka
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in England

Kafka
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
London -25 367 £95,250 -4.75% 207
North of England -131 55 £75,000 +11.11% 38
South East -66 47 £67,500 -6.25% 47
North West -89 47 £75,000 +11.11% 15
South West -67 24 £85,000 +30.77% 24
Midlands -86 18 £85,000 +25.93% 8
West Midlands -34 16 £86,250 +43.75% 5
East of England -13 15 £72,500 +1.40% 6
Yorkshire -42 4 £66,805 -23.65% 15
North East -49 4 £62,500 +31.58% 8
East Midlands -62 2 £71,500 +5.93% 3
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 118 (22.31%) Apache Spark
2 89 (16.82%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (8.13%) Apache
4 13 (2.46%) Confluence
5 5 (0.95%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.57%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 343 (64.84%) AWS
2 212 (40.08%) Azure
3 124 (23.44%) GCP
4 82 (15.50%) Serverless
5 72 (13.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (10.96%) dbt
7 50 (9.45%) Snowflake
8 46 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.75%) Power Platform
10 39 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 35 (6.62%) Datadog
13 33 (6.24%) Amazon Kinesis
14 29 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (5.29%) GitHub
16 25 (4.73%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (4.54%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
19 20 (3.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.16%) MQTT
2 7 (1.32%) BGP
3 6 (1.13%) Broadband
3 6 (1.13%) DNS
3 6 (1.13%) IPsec
3 6 (1.13%) Network Security
3 6 (1.13%) VPN
4 5 (0.95%) Internet
5 3 (0.57%) AMQP
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) 5G
7 1 (0.19%) ATM
7 1 (0.19%) CTI
7 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.50%) NoSQL
2 67 (12.67%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (11.34%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (10.59%) MongoDB
5 53 (10.02%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (9.64%) Data Lake
7 49 (9.26%) Big Data
8 48 (9.07%) Relational Database
9 39 (7.37%) Power BI
10 37 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (6.24%) Tableau
12 32 (6.05%) BigQuery
13 27 (5.10%) MySQL
14 26 (4.91%) Looker
15 25 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
15 25 (4.73%) DynamoDB
15 25 (4.73%) Snowflake Schema
16 24 (4.54%) Redis
17 23 (4.35%) SQL Server
18 22 (4.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (13.04%) GitLab
2 63 (11.91%) Git
3 43 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.05%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.91%) MLflow
6 21 (3.97%) CircleCI
7 13 (2.46%) Selenium
8 12 (2.27%) JIRA
9 7 (1.32%) JUnit
10 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.95%) Maven
11 4 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.76%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.76%) Postman
11 4 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.57%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 201 (38.00%) Finance
2 112 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.59%) Banking
5 45 (8.51%) Front Office
6 23 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.46%) Retail
8 12 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.08%) Law
10 9 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.70%) Marketing
10 9 (1.70%) Military
11 8 (1.51%) Advertising
12 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.95%) Billing
13 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.57%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Back Office
15 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (28.36%) Senior
2 136 (25.71%) Developer
3 100 (18.90%) Data Engineer
4 76 (14.37%) Java Engineer
5 72 (13.61%) Software Engineer
6 67 (12.67%) Lead
7 58 (10.96%) Architect
8 40 (7.56%) Java Developer
9 38 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.81%) Senior Developer
11 35 (6.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (6.05%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (5.67%) Lead Developer
14 28 (5.29%) Python Engineer
15 25 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (4.73%) Principal Java Engineer
15 25 (4.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 24 (4.54%) Senior Java Engineer
16 24 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (22.12%) Spring
2 114 (21.55%) Spring Boot
3 75 (14.18%) Node.js
3 75 (14.18%) REST
4 72 (13.61%) RESTful
5 71 (13.42%) RabbitMQ
6 67 (12.67%) React
7 37 (6.99%) PySpark
8 35 (6.62%) GraphQL
8 35 (6.62%) Redux
9 34 (6.43%) .NET
10 26 (4.91%) PyTorch
10 26 (4.91%) TensorFlow
11 25 (4.73%) scikit-learn
12 24 (4.54%) gRPC
13 23 (4.35%) LangChain
13 23 (4.35%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.35%) pgvector
14 19 (3.59%) Middleware
15 18 (3.40%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 159 (30.06%) Cloud Native
2 102 (19.28%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (10.40%) Public Cloud
4 39 (7.37%) Fixed Income
5 33 (6.24%) Onboarding
6 28 (5.29%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.35%) Clustering
8 22 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (3.97%) Product Ownership
10 18 (3.40%) Data Structures
11 17 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.46%) Blockchain
12 13 (2.46%) Web3
13 10 (1.89%) EPoS
13 10 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.89%) iSeries
14 9 (1.70%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (1.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.75%) Linux
2 9 (1.70%) Windows
3 8 (1.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (45.75%) CI/CD
2 215 (40.64%) Microservices
3 204 (38.56%) Agile
4 174 (32.89%) DevOps
5 173 (32.70%) Event-Driven
6 159 (30.06%) Software Engineering
7 152 (28.73%) AI
8 133 (25.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (24.01%) Containerisation
10 120 (22.68%) Analytics
11 119 (22.50%) Data Pipeline
12 110 (20.79%) Mentoring
13 108 (20.42%) Data Modelling
14 105 (19.85%) Test Automation
15 100 (18.90%) Observability
16 94 (17.77%) Data Engineering
17 88 (16.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 84 (15.88%) Machine Learning
19 83 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 83 (15.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 283 (53.50%) Python
2 243 (45.94%) Java
2 243 (45.94%) SQL
3 84 (15.88%) JavaScript
4 82 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 73 (13.80%) Go
6 44 (8.32%) C#
7 26 (4.91%) Scala
8 20 (3.78%) Rust
9 19 (3.59%) C++
10 17 (3.21%) Bash
11 11 (2.08%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.89%) RPG
13 9 (1.70%) PHP
13 9 (1.70%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.51%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.32%) C
16 6 (1.13%) Groovy
16 6 (1.13%) Ruby
17 4 (0.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 69 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.29%) Degree
3 51 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.37%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 21 (3.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.95%) PhD
10 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) GIAC
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.19%) SSCP
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.91%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.37%) GDPR
3 23 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.21%) QA
5 12 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (28.54%) Docker
2 8 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 193 (36.48%) Kubernetes
2 130 (24.57%) Terraform
3 51 (9.64%) Prometheus
4 37 (6.99%) Grafana
5 32 (6.05%) Ansible
6 10 (1.89%) Istio
7 7 (1.32%) Argo
7 7 (1.32%) Kibana
8 6 (1.13%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.13%) Puppet
9 4 (0.76%) Podman
10 2 (0.38%) Cilium
10 2 (0.38%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) Control-M
11 1 (0.19%) logstash
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 65 (12.29%) Databricks
2 51 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.54%) Dell
4 23 (4.35%) Cloudera
5 20 (3.78%) IBM
6 19 (3.59%) Oracle
7 13 (2.46%) Confluent
8 12 (2.27%) Splunk
9 11 (2.08%) Google
10 9 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.70%) Solace
11 8 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.51%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.32%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.32%) Talend
13 6 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.13%) HP
13 6 (1.13%) SAP
14 5 (0.95%) Informatica
14 5 (0.95%) Pega