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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 199 321
Rank change year-on-year -117 +122 -135
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 561 693 577
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.60% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.21% 9.05% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 329 278 410
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,563 £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 £118,000 £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 10,762 7,655 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.59% 17.72% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,872 5,073 9,652
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 £87,000
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 18 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 18 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 -38 356 £87,500 -16.67% 678
North of England -131 79 £75,000 +7.14% 140
North West -71 61 £75,000 +9.09% 89
South East -55 45 £67,500 -6.25% 68
South West -88 35 £85,000 +25.93% 46
Midlands -82 30 £85,000 +25.93% 30
West Midlands -42 29 £85,000 +51.11% 24
East of England -29 21 £72,500 -4.29% 22
North East -60 14 £65,000 +36.84% 15
Yorkshire -50 6 £72,653 -3.13% 36
East Midlands -83 1 £71,500 +5.93% 6
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 (17.83%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.63%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.84%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Camunda
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
1 329 (58.65%) AWS
2 223 (39.75%) Azure
3 91 (16.22%) GCP
4 77 (13.73%) Serverless
5 69 (12.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (8.02%) Amazon S3
7 43 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (7.49%) GitHub
9 36 (6.42%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (6.24%) Power Platform
11 32 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (5.17%) Snowflake
13 27 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
14 26 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (4.10%) dbt
17 22 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.99%) 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
1 135 (24.06%) NoSQL
2 88 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (14.44%) MongoDB
4 57 (10.16%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.56%) Big Data
6 44 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
7 43 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (7.31%) Data Lake
9 33 (5.88%) Power BI
10 31 (5.53%) MySQL
11 30 (5.35%) Redis
12 26 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (4.63%) Hadoop
12 26 (4.63%) SQL Server
13 25 (4.46%) Flink
13 25 (4.46%) Tableau
14 23 (4.10%) DynamoDB
15 19 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (3.03%) Metadata
17 16 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 83 (14.80%) Git
2 76 (13.55%) GitLab
3 51 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 48 (8.56%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.03%) Selenium
6 15 (2.67%) JIRA
7 11 (1.96%) MLflow
8 8 (1.43%) Maven
9 7 (1.25%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.25%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.07%) JUnit
11 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.89%) Postman
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.36%) Gradle
13 2 (0.36%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.36%) Mockito
13 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 186 (33.16%) Finance
2 123 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.70%) Banking
4 53 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.03%) Front Office
8 17 (3.03%) Retail
9 15 (2.67%) Marketing
10 12 (2.14%) Law
11 10 (1.78%) Military
11 10 (1.78%) Publishing
12 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.07%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.89%) Aviation
14 5 (0.89%) Games
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 183 (32.62%) Senior
2 118 (21.03%) Developer
3 97 (17.29%) Data Engineer
4 89 (15.86%) Java Engineer
5 81 (14.44%) Software Engineer
6 58 (10.34%) Architect
6 58 (10.34%) Lead
7 50 (8.91%) Senior Developer
8 47 (8.38%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.60%) Senior Java Engineer
9 37 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 36 (6.42%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.53%) Principal Java Engineer
13 30 (5.35%) Python Engineer
14 24 (4.28%) Backend Developer
15 23 (4.10%) Python Developer
16 21 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (3.57%) Kafka Engineer
18 18 (3.21%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (30.66%) Spring
2 153 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 112 (19.96%) Terraform
4 100 (17.83%) RESTful
5 93 (16.58%) REST
6 84 (14.97%) RabbitMQ
7 59 (10.52%) Node.js
8 46 (8.20%) React
9 39 (6.95%) .NET
10 38 (6.77%) PySpark
11 28 (4.99%) Swagger
12 27 (4.81%) OpenAPI
13 25 (4.46%) FastAPI
14 22 (3.92%) Keycloak
15 21 (3.74%) gRPC
16 19 (3.39%) Middleware
17 17 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
17 17 (3.03%) Hibernate
18 16 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (2.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.98%) Cloud Native
2 151 (26.92%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.80%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.13%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.95%) Onboarding
6 34 (6.06%) Product Ownership
7 30 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.67%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.32%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.96%) Replication
14 10 (1.78%) Clustering
14 10 (1.78%) EPoS
14 10 (1.78%) Equities
14 10 (1.78%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.66%) 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
1 284 (50.62%) CI/CD
2 258 (45.99%) Microservices
3 255 (45.45%) Event-Driven
4 238 (42.42%) Agile
5 196 (34.94%) DevOps
6 171 (30.48%) Software Engineering
7 166 (29.59%) AI
8 164 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (26.02%) Mentoring
10 129 (22.99%) Containerisation
10 129 (22.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 128 (22.82%) Test Automation
12 119 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
13 118 (21.03%) Observability
14 104 (18.54%) Analytics
15 95 (16.93%) Data Modelling
16 94 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (15.51%) Roadmaps
19 78 (13.90%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (49.20%) Java
2 234 (41.71%) Python
3 210 (37.43%) SQL
4 69 (12.30%) TypeScript
5 61 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 43 (7.66%) C#
7 34 (6.06%) Go
8 27 (4.81%) Scala
9 19 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 18 (3.21%) Bash
11 13 (2.32%) Groovy
12 12 (2.14%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.96%) Rust
14 10 (1.78%) RPG
15 9 (1.60%) PHP
16 7 (1.25%) C
16 7 (1.25%) C++
16 7 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 6 (1.07%) Ruby
17 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 109 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.76%) Degree
4 56 (9.98%) AWS Certification
5 40 (7.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (5.53%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.89%) PhD
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
11 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
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 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.28%) QA
3 22 (3.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
8 2 (0.36%) Basel III
8 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 170 (30.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 218 (38.86%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.13%) Prometheus
3 33 (5.88%) Grafana
4 20 (3.57%) Ansible
5 12 (2.14%) Argo
6 7 (1.25%) Kibana
7 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (1.07%) Puppet
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
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (10.70%) Databricks
2 56 (9.98%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.81%) Oracle
4 25 (4.46%) IBM
5 19 (3.39%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.67%) Google
7 11 (1.96%) Dell
7 11 (1.96%) Splunk
8 10 (1.78%) Cloudera
8 10 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.25%) Confluent
10 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.07%) HP
11 6 (1.07%) SAP
11 6 (1.07%) Solace
12 5 (0.89%) Informatica
12 5 (0.89%) Talend