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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 205 314
Rank change year-on-year -115 +109 -123
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 562 688 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.59% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 9.01% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 331 272 409
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -17.65%

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 10,676 7,639 14,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.61% 17.70% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,826 5,045 9,616
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -32 361 £87,500 -16.67% 843
North of England -134 75 £75,000 +7.14% 159
North West -83 58 £75,000 +9.09% 102
South East -69 44 £67,500 -5.59% 71
South West -72 35 £85,000 +25.93% 51
Midlands -69 30 £85,000 +25.93% 43
West Midlands -39 28 £85,000 +51.11% 31
East of England -31 22 £72,500 -4.29% 29
North East -57 12 £67,500 +42.11% 16
Yorkshire -38 5 £78,500 +4.67% 41
East Midlands -71 2 £71,500 +5.93% 12
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
1 105 (18.68%) Apache Spark
2 61 (10.85%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (8.01%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Camunda
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 330 (58.72%) AWS
2 228 (40.57%) Azure
3 96 (17.08%) GCP
4 77 (13.70%) Serverless
5 71 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (7.65%) Amazon S3
6 43 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (7.12%) Power Platform
8 39 (6.94%) GitHub
9 33 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
9 33 (5.87%) Snowflake
10 31 (5.52%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 28 (4.98%) dbt
12 27 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
14 24 (4.27%) Datadog
15 23 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.98%) MQTT
2 9 (1.60%) DNS
3 7 (1.25%) BGP
3 7 (1.25%) Internet
4 6 (1.07%) IPsec
4 6 (1.07%) Network Security
4 6 (1.07%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) 4G
5 4 (0.71%) 5G
5 4 (0.71%) HTTP
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
7 2 (0.36%) AMQP
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) ATM
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (24.56%) NoSQL
2 88 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (13.70%) MongoDB
4 57 (10.14%) Relational Database
5 49 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (8.72%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (8.54%) Big Data
7 44 (7.83%) Data Lake
8 38 (6.76%) Power BI
9 32 (5.69%) MySQL
10 30 (5.34%) Redis
11 29 (5.16%) Tableau
12 27 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (4.80%) SQL Server
13 26 (4.63%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.45%) Flink
15 24 (4.27%) DynamoDB
16 23 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (3.02%) BigQuery
17 17 (3.02%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 81 (14.41%) Git
2 75 (13.35%) GitLab
3 51 (9.07%) Jenkins
4 47 (8.36%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.02%) Selenium
6 15 (2.67%) JIRA
6 15 (2.67%) MLflow
7 9 (1.60%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.42%) Maven
9 6 (1.07%) JUnit
10 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.36%) Gradle
12 2 (0.36%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.36%) Mockito
12 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (33.45%) Finance
2 123 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.68%) Banking
4 56 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.91%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.02%) Front Office
8 17 (3.02%) Retail
9 15 (2.67%) Marketing
10 12 (2.14%) Law
11 10 (1.78%) Military
12 9 (1.60%) Publishing
13 8 (1.42%) 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
1 186 (33.10%) Senior
2 116 (20.64%) Developer
3 99 (17.62%) Data Engineer
4 90 (16.01%) Java Engineer
5 79 (14.06%) Software Engineer
6 58 (10.32%) Architect
6 58 (10.32%) Lead
7 50 (8.90%) Senior Developer
8 46 (8.19%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.58%) Senior Java Engineer
9 37 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (6.05%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.87%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.52%) Principal Java Engineer
12 31 (5.52%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.27%) Backend Developer
13 24 (4.27%) Python Developer
14 21 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.56%) Kafka Engineer
16 19 (3.38%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (29.36%) Spring
2 147 (26.16%) Spring Boot
3 111 (19.75%) Terraform
4 100 (17.79%) RESTful
5 91 (16.19%) REST
6 88 (15.66%) RabbitMQ
7 57 (10.14%) Node.js
8 42 (7.47%) React
9 40 (7.12%) .NET
10 38 (6.76%) PySpark
11 28 (4.98%) Swagger
12 27 (4.80%) OpenAPI
13 25 (4.45%) FastAPI
14 22 (3.91%) Keycloak
15 21 (3.74%) gRPC
16 20 (3.56%) PyTorch
16 20 (3.56%) TensorFlow
17 18 (3.20%) Middleware
18 17 (3.02%) Apache NiFi
18 17 (3.02%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 189 (33.63%) Cloud Native
2 148 (26.33%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.50%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.12%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.94%) Onboarding
6 32 (5.69%) Product Ownership
7 29 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.85%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.49%) Clustering
11 14 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.31%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.96%) Replication
14 10 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.78%) EPoS
14 10 (1.78%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.65%) 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
1 282 (50.18%) CI/CD
2 259 (46.09%) Microservices
3 251 (44.66%) Event-Driven
4 231 (41.10%) Agile
5 194 (34.52%) DevOps
6 171 (30.43%) AI
6 171 (30.43%) Software Engineering
7 165 (29.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 143 (25.44%) Mentoring
9 130 (23.13%) Containerisation
10 127 (22.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 127 (22.60%) Test Automation
11 122 (21.71%) Data Pipeline
12 117 (20.82%) Observability
13 110 (19.57%) Analytics
14 99 (17.62%) Data Modelling
15 92 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 90 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
17 86 (15.30%) Roadmaps
18 83 (14.77%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 269 (47.86%) Java
2 241 (42.88%) Python
3 217 (38.61%) SQL
4 65 (11.57%) TypeScript
5 58 (10.32%) JavaScript
6 45 (8.01%) C#
7 36 (6.41%) Go
8 27 (4.80%) Scala
9 19 (3.38%) Bash
9 19 (3.38%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.31%) Groovy
11 12 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.96%) Rust
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 9 (1.60%) PHP
15 7 (1.25%) C
15 7 (1.25%) C++
15 7 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.07%) Ruby
16 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.74%) Degree
4 56 (9.96%) AWS Certification
5 40 (7.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.87%) Azure Certification
7 31 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (5.52%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.89%) PhD
10 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.71%) MBA
10 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.36%) OCP
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CISSP
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.39%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.80%) GDPR
3 23 (4.09%) QA
4 15 (2.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
7 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.36%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (29.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 214 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.47%) Prometheus
3 34 (6.05%) Grafana
4 22 (3.91%) Ansible
5 12 (2.14%) Argo
6 7 (1.25%) Kibana
6 7 (1.25%) Puppet
7 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (1.07%) Rancher
8 5 (0.89%) Podman
9 4 (0.71%) Cilium
10 3 (0.53%) Istio
11 2 (0.36%) Control-M
11 2 (0.36%) kaniko
11 2 (0.36%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (11.03%) Databricks
2 56 (9.96%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.63%) Oracle
4 24 (4.27%) IBM
5 18 (3.20%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.67%) Dell
6 15 (2.67%) Google
7 14 (2.49%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.96%) Splunk
9 10 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.07%) Confluent
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
12 6 (1.07%) Solace
12 6 (1.07%) Talend
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica