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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 205 324
Rank change year-on-year -129 +119 -133
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 562 685 549
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.58% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.27% 9.19% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 335 274 373
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +18.88% -15.88%
75th Percentile £97,480 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -15.15%

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 10,674 7,457 14,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.26% 17.19% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,733 4,922 9,018
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -3.70%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -46 338 £85,000 -19.05% 739
North of England -117 92 £67,500 -3.57% 168
North West -72 67 £75,000 +7.14% 102
South East -55 50 £69,000 -1.43% 84
South West -68 37 £85,000 +17.24% 57
Midlands -81 32 £85,000 +25.93% 40
West Midlands -35 31 £85,000 +51.11% 27
North East -44 22 £61,250 +28.95% 25
East of England -35 21 £72,500 +1.40% 32
Yorkshire -45 9 £66,805 -10.93% 42
East Midlands -86 1 £71,500 +5.93% 13
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 88 (15.66%) Apache Spark
2 43 (7.65%) Apache
3 39 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.02%) Confluence
5 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
6 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.71%) Camunda
7 4 (0.71%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Luigi
9 2 (0.36%) Tornado
10 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (58.36%) AWS
2 218 (38.79%) Azure
3 79 (14.06%) GCP
4 77 (13.70%) Serverless
5 69 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 51 (9.07%) Amazon S3
7 49 (8.72%) GitHub
8 45 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (7.30%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (5.16%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.80%) Amazon Kinesis
14 26 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (4.45%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (3.91%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (3.38%) Azure Databricks
18 19 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.52%) MQTT
2 9 (1.60%) DNS
2 9 (1.60%) Internet
3 6 (1.07%) BGP
3 6 (1.07%) IPsec
3 6 (1.07%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) VPN
4 4 (0.71%) 4G
4 4 (0.71%) 5G
4 4 (0.71%) HTTP
5 3 (0.53%) SSH
5 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.36%) AMQP
6 2 (0.36%) WAN
7 1 (0.18%) ATM
7 1 (0.18%) Broadband
7 1 (0.18%) LAN
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (24.02%) NoSQL
2 95 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (14.77%) MongoDB
4 59 (10.50%) Relational Database
5 44 (7.83%) Big Data
6 35 (6.23%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (6.05%) Data Lake
7 34 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (5.69%) Redis
9 29 (5.16%) MySQL
10 27 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (4.80%) Power BI
11 25 (4.45%) Hadoop
11 25 (4.45%) SQL Server
12 20 (3.56%) DynamoDB
12 20 (3.56%) Flink
13 17 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.02%) Metadata
14 15 (2.67%) Tableau
15 14 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 90 (16.01%) Git
2 88 (15.66%) GitLab
3 57 (10.14%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.61%) Cucumber
5 16 (2.85%) JIRA
6 15 (2.67%) Selenium
7 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.42%) JUnit
7 8 (1.42%) Maven
8 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.89%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) Gatling
10 4 (0.71%) Mockito
10 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.36%) git-flow
11 2 (0.36%) XCTest
11 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 181 (32.21%) Finance
2 122 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.21%) Banking
4 48 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.45%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.02%) Retail
9 16 (2.85%) Front Office
10 15 (2.67%) Marketing
10 15 (2.67%) Publishing
11 12 (2.14%) Law
12 10 (1.78%) Military
13 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.07%) Advertising
14 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.89%) Aviation
15 5 (0.89%) Games
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 180 (32.03%) Senior
2 118 (21.00%) Developer
3 95 (16.90%) Data Engineer
4 91 (16.19%) Java Engineer
5 89 (15.84%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.68%) Architect
7 58 (10.32%) Lead
8 50 (8.90%) Principal Engineer
9 48 (8.54%) Senior Developer
10 41 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (6.94%) Senior Java Engineer
12 38 (6.76%) Java Developer
13 33 (5.87%) Principal Java Engineer
13 33 (5.87%) Python Engineer
13 33 (5.87%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Backend Developer
15 22 (3.91%) Kafka Engineer
15 22 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (32.92%) Spring
2 166 (29.54%) Spring Boot
3 111 (19.75%) Terraform
4 100 (17.79%) RESTful
5 97 (17.26%) REST
6 87 (15.48%) RabbitMQ
7 59 (10.50%) Node.js
8 49 (8.72%) React
9 39 (6.94%) .NET
10 37 (6.58%) PySpark
11 31 (5.52%) Swagger
12 30 (5.34%) OpenAPI
13 29 (5.16%) FastAPI
14 27 (4.80%) Keycloak
15 20 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (3.56%) Middleware
16 19 (3.38%) gRPC
17 17 (3.02%) Hibernate
18 16 (2.85%) AngularJS
18 16 (2.85%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 178 (31.67%) Cloud Native
2 153 (27.22%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (8.90%) Public Cloud
4 44 (7.83%) e-Learning
5 37 (6.58%) Onboarding
6 35 (6.23%) Product Ownership
7 34 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.49%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (2.49%) Replication
12 13 (2.31%) Data Structures
13 12 (2.14%) Media Streaming
13 12 (2.14%) Podcast
14 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.78%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Unix
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (53.91%) CI/CD
2 267 (47.51%) Microservices
3 259 (46.09%) Agile
3 259 (46.09%) Event-Driven
4 210 (37.37%) DevOps
5 173 (30.78%) Software Engineering
6 166 (29.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 159 (28.29%) AI
8 152 (27.05%) Mentoring
9 139 (24.73%) Test Automation
10 136 (24.20%) Containerisation
11 127 (22.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 123 (21.89%) Observability
13 109 (19.40%) Data Pipeline
14 103 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
16 94 (16.73%) Analytics
17 92 (16.37%) Roadmaps
18 84 (14.95%) Data Modelling
19 70 (12.46%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 284 (50.53%) Java
2 220 (39.15%) Python
3 194 (34.52%) SQL
4 71 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 63 (11.21%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.30%) C#
7 36 (6.41%) Go
8 28 (4.98%) Scala
9 21 (3.74%) Bash
10 19 (3.38%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.67%) Groovy
12 13 (2.31%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.96%) PHP
14 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 10 (1.78%) Rust
15 7 (1.25%) C
15 7 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.07%) C++
16 6 (1.07%) Ruby
16 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 100 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.39%) Degree
4 61 (10.85%) AWS Certification
5 44 (7.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.41%) Azure Certification
7 34 (6.05%) DV Cleared
8 32 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.89%) PhD
10 5 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.36%) OCP
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.27%) QA
3 12 (2.14%) GDPR
4 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.53%) NIST
5 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.53%) PSD2
5 3 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.36%) Basel III
6 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 184 (32.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 228 (40.57%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.12%) Prometheus
3 35 (6.23%) Grafana
4 19 (3.38%) Ansible
5 11 (1.96%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Rancher
7 7 (1.25%) Kibana
8 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
9 5 (0.89%) Puppet
10 3 (0.53%) Cilium
11 2 (0.36%) Control-M
11 2 (0.36%) Istio
11 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.96%) Databricks
3 29 (5.16%) Oracle
4 25 (4.45%) IBM
5 22 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.67%) Google
7 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.96%) Splunk
8 10 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.42%) Confluent
11 6 (1.07%) HP
11 6 (1.07%) SAP
12 5 (0.89%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.89%) Informatica
12 5 (0.89%) Solace
13 4 (0.71%) Adobe
13 4 (0.71%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.71%) Talend