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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 172 317
Rank change year-on-year -154 +145 -162
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 469 783 798
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.97% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 10.03% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 319 360 653
10th Percentile £56,200 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.45% -13.89%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -15.24%

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 8,782 7,804 18,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 19.61% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,697 5,253 14,834
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,838 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -44 338 £100,000 - 74
North of England -143 48 £77,500 +12.73% 18
South East -60 43 £67,500 -6.90% 23
North West -91 39 £77,500 +14.81% 12
East of England -19 12 £72,500 +1.40% 4
South West -81 12 £85,000 +25.93% 11
Midlands -86 11 £87,500 +29.63% 5
West Midlands -40 9 £87,500 +34.62% 3
Yorkshire -49 5 £90,000 +12.50% 3
North East -52 4 £62,500 +31.58% 3
East Midlands -73 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
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
1 100 (21.32%) Apache Spark
2 95 (20.26%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (10.45%) Apache
4 8 (1.71%) Confluence
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.64%) Camunda
6 3 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (65.03%) AWS
2 181 (38.59%) Azure
3 117 (24.95%) GCP
4 74 (15.78%) Serverless
5 66 (14.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (12.58%) dbt
7 53 (11.30%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.02%) Snowflake
9 41 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.10%) Power Platform
11 37 (7.89%) Datadog
12 34 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.33%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
16 23 (4.90%) GitHub
17 20 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.41%) MQTT
2 7 (1.49%) Broadband
3 6 (1.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) BGP
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) AMQP
5 1 (0.21%) CTI
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.21%) IPsec
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (21.75%) NoSQL
2 61 (13.01%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (10.87%) Data Lake
3 51 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (10.02%) MongoDB
5 44 (9.38%) Relational Database
6 43 (9.17%) Elasticsearch
7 41 (8.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.89%) Tableau
9 36 (7.68%) Power BI
10 35 (7.46%) Big Data
11 34 (7.25%) BigQuery
12 28 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (5.76%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (5.54%) DynamoDB
14 26 (5.54%) Looker
15 23 (4.90%) MySQL
16 22 (4.69%) Metadata
17 21 (4.48%) SQL Server
18 20 (4.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (13.01%) Git
1 61 (13.01%) GitLab
2 44 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.54%) Cucumber
3 26 (5.54%) MLflow
4 24 (5.12%) CircleCI
5 12 (2.56%) JIRA
6 8 (1.71%) JUnit
6 8 (1.71%) Selenium
7 5 (1.07%) Maven
8 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.85%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.85%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.64%) JMeter
9 3 (0.64%) Postman
9 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.64%) WinDbg
General
1 181 (38.59%) Finance
2 102 (21.75%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (10.87%) Banking
4 43 (9.17%) Front Office
5 15 (3.20%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.35%) Law
7 9 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.92%) Retail
8 8 (1.71%) Advertising
9 7 (1.49%) Billing
9 7 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Games
11 2 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.21%) Legal
12 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 135 (28.78%) Senior
2 128 (27.29%) Developer
3 93 (19.83%) Data Engineer
4 67 (14.29%) Lead
5 64 (13.65%) Software Engineer
6 61 (13.01%) Java Engineer
7 53 (11.30%) Architect
8 36 (7.68%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.68%) Senior Developer
9 34 (7.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.40%) Lead Developer
12 29 (6.18%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (5.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.12%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (4.90%) Python Engineer
15 23 (4.90%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (4.48%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (21.75%) Spring
2 96 (20.47%) Spring Boot
3 70 (14.93%) REST
4 67 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (13.43%) Node.js
6 60 (12.79%) React
6 60 (12.79%) RESTful
7 35 (7.46%) GraphQL
8 33 (7.04%) .NET
8 33 (7.04%) PySpark
8 33 (7.04%) Redux
9 27 (5.76%) gRPC
10 25 (5.33%) PyTorch
10 25 (5.33%) scikit-learn
10 25 (5.33%) TensorFlow
11 23 (4.90%) LangChain
11 23 (4.90%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (4.90%) pgvector
12 19 (4.05%) AngularJS
13 17 (3.62%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 142 (30.28%) Cloud Native
2 84 (17.91%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.81%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.89%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.90%) Clustering
6 21 (4.48%) e-Learning
7 20 (4.26%) Product Ownership
8 19 (4.05%) Onboarding
9 17 (3.62%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.62%) Web3
10 14 (2.99%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.28%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.28%) EPoS
15 6 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.04%) Linux
2 7 (1.49%) Unix
2 7 (1.49%) Windows
3 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (45.84%) CI/CD
2 192 (40.94%) Microservices
3 180 (38.38%) Agile
4 155 (33.05%) Event-Driven
5 150 (31.98%) DevOps
6 143 (30.49%) Software Engineering
7 122 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 121 (25.80%) Containerisation
9 119 (25.37%) AI
10 112 (23.88%) Analytics
11 108 (23.03%) Data Pipeline
12 103 (21.96%) Data Modelling
13 99 (21.11%) Observability
14 91 (19.40%) Data Engineering
15 90 (19.19%) Test Automation
16 85 (18.12%) Mentoring
17 78 (16.63%) ETL
17 78 (16.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (15.14%) Data Governance
19 69 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 262 (55.86%) Python
2 214 (45.63%) SQL
3 205 (43.71%) Java
4 79 (16.84%) JavaScript
5 75 (15.99%) TypeScript
6 73 (15.57%) Go
7 38 (8.10%) C#
8 22 (4.69%) Scala
9 21 (4.48%) Rust
10 20 (4.26%) Bash
11 18 (3.84%) C++
12 9 (1.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.71%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.28%) Groovy
14 6 (1.28%) RPG
15 5 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.85%) Bicep
16 4 (0.85%) PHP
17 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (11.09%) Security Cleared
2 46 (9.81%) Degree
3 37 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) MBA
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) GIAC
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) SSCP
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.25%) GDPR
3 23 (4.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.62%) QA
5 10 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.92%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (31.77%) Docker
2 8 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 180 (38.38%) Kubernetes
2 127 (27.08%) Terraform
3 49 (10.45%) Prometheus
4 34 (7.25%) Grafana
5 29 (6.18%) Ansible
6 10 (2.13%) Istio
7 7 (1.49%) Kibana
8 6 (1.28%) Argo
8 6 (1.28%) Puppet
9 4 (0.85%) Podman
10 2 (0.43%) Cilium
10 2 (0.43%) Salt
11 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.58%) Databricks
2 41 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.90%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.90%) Dell
4 13 (2.77%) Confluent
5 12 (2.56%) Oracle
6 11 (2.35%) Splunk
7 9 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.71%) IBM
8 8 (1.71%) Solace
9 7 (1.49%) Google
9 7 (1.49%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.28%) Talend
11 5 (1.07%) Pega
11 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.85%) WSO2