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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 179 310
Rank change year-on-year -140 +131 -157
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 460 787 777
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 2.00% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.41% 10.05% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 315 363 637
10th Percentile £56,750 £56,250 £42,800
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8,505 7,828 17,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 19.92% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,261 14,443
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -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 9 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 9 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 -39 333 £100,000 - 88
North of England -154 47 £77,500 +10.71% 30
South East -59 41 £67,500 -6.90% 26
North West -90 36 £80,000 +18.52% 19
South West -64 12 £75,000 +11.11% 10
East of England -16 11 £72,500 +1.40% 5
Midlands -83 11 £87,500 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -43 9 £87,500 +12.90% 1
Yorkshire -53 7 £80,000 - 6
North East -45 4 £62,500 - 5
East Midlands -64 2 £71,500 +5.93% 1
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 97 (21.09%) Apache Spark
2 94 (20.43%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (10.87%) Apache
4 6 (1.30%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.09%) Confluence
6 4 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.65%) Camunda
8 2 (0.43%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.43%) CICS
8 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 297 (64.57%) AWS
2 171 (37.17%) Azure
3 112 (24.35%) GCP
4 74 (16.09%) Serverless
5 65 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (12.39%) dbt
7 55 (11.96%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.22%) Snowflake
9 40 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.26%) Power Platform
11 37 (8.04%) Datadog
12 33 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (5.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 22 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (4.78%) GitHub
16 20 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.04%) MQTT
2 7 (1.52%) Broadband
3 6 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (10.87%) Data Lake
4 48 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (9.57%) MongoDB
5 44 (9.57%) Relational Database
6 42 (9.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 42 (9.13%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (8.26%) Tableau
8 36 (7.83%) Power BI
9 34 (7.39%) BigQuery
10 33 (7.17%) Big Data
11 28 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (5.87%) DynamoDB
12 27 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (5.65%) Looker
14 23 (5.00%) MySQL
15 22 (4.78%) Metadata
15 22 (4.78%) SQL Server
16 19 (4.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (13.04%) Git
2 57 (12.39%) GitLab
3 47 (10.22%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.65%) MLflow
5 25 (5.43%) Cucumber
6 24 (5.22%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.17%) JIRA
8 8 (1.74%) JUnit
9 7 (1.52%) Selenium
10 5 (1.09%) Maven
11 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.65%) JMeter
12 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 176 (38.26%) Finance
2 100 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.09%) Banking
4 49 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.22%) Front Office
6 13 (2.83%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.39%) Law
8 10 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.17%) Retail
8 10 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.74%) Advertising
11 7 (1.52%) Billing
11 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Back Office
12 2 (0.43%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (29.13%) Senior
2 128 (27.83%) Developer
3 91 (19.78%) Data Engineer
4 69 (15.00%) Lead
5 64 (13.91%) Software Engineer
6 61 (13.26%) Java Engineer
7 47 (10.22%) Architect
8 37 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 35 (7.61%) Senior Developer
10 33 (7.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 31 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (6.52%) Lead Developer
13 28 (6.09%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (5.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 23 (5.00%) Python Engineer
15 23 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (4.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.65%) Spring
2 88 (19.13%) Spring Boot
3 70 (15.22%) REST
4 64 (13.91%) RabbitMQ
4 64 (13.91%) React
5 61 (13.26%) Node.js
6 60 (13.04%) RESTful
7 35 (7.61%) GraphQL
8 33 (7.17%) PySpark
8 33 (7.17%) Redux
9 30 (6.52%) .NET
10 29 (6.30%) gRPC
11 25 (5.43%) scikit-learn
11 25 (5.43%) TensorFlow
12 24 (5.22%) PyTorch
13 23 (5.00%) LangChain
13 23 (5.00%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (5.00%) pgvector
14 18 (3.91%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.70%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 137 (29.78%) Cloud Native
2 88 (19.13%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (9.57%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.04%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.00%) Clustering
6 20 (4.35%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.70%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.70%) Web3
9 16 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (3.26%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.30%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.30%) Linux
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
3 6 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (46.52%) CI/CD
2 187 (40.65%) Microservices
3 174 (37.83%) Agile
4 149 (32.39%) DevOps
4 149 (32.39%) Event-Driven
5 139 (30.22%) Software Engineering
6 119 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 116 (25.22%) Containerisation
8 112 (24.35%) AI
9 110 (23.91%) Analytics
10 109 (23.70%) Data Pipeline
11 102 (22.17%) Data Modelling
12 97 (21.09%) Observability
13 93 (20.22%) Data Engineering
14 88 (19.13%) Test Automation
15 83 (18.04%) Mentoring
16 77 (16.74%) ETL
17 73 (15.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (15.43%) Machine Learning
19 70 (15.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 259 (56.30%) Python
2 209 (45.43%) SQL
3 197 (42.83%) Java
4 79 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 78 (16.96%) Go
6 74 (16.09%) TypeScript
7 36 (7.83%) C#
8 22 (4.78%) Scala
9 20 (4.35%) Bash
9 20 (4.35%) Rust
10 19 (4.13%) C++
11 9 (1.96%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.52%) Groovy
13 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.87%) Bicep
15 4 (0.87%) RPG
16 3 (0.65%) PHP
16 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 49 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 45 (9.78%) Degree
3 35 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 24 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) GIAC
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) SSCP
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.35%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.39%) GDPR
3 23 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.26%) QA
5 10 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (32.83%) Docker
2 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 179 (38.91%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.39%) Terraform
3 48 (10.43%) Prometheus
4 33 (7.17%) Grafana
5 27 (5.87%) Ansible
6 10 (2.17%) Istio
7 7 (1.52%) Argo
7 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 6 (1.30%) Puppet
9 4 (0.87%) Podman
10 2 (0.43%) Cilium
10 2 (0.43%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.83%) Databricks
2 38 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.00%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.00%) Dell
4 13 (2.83%) Confluent
5 10 (2.17%) Oracle
6 9 (1.96%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.74%) Solace
8 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) Google
9 6 (1.30%) Pega
10 5 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.09%) Talend
11 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.87%) IBM
11 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) WSO2