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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 231 299
Rank change year-on-year -91 +68 -174
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 421 524 786
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.39% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.41% 7.02% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 284 384 657
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £74,688 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £97,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +6.45% -13.89%

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 7,779 7,468 16,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.73% 19.74% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,877 5,762 14,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -19 323 £107,500 +7.50% 116
North of England -101 36 £95,000 +31.50% 31
South East -71 33 £60,000 -14.29% 36
North West -58 23 £95,000 +35.71% 19
Yorkshire -67 10 £61,750 -17.67% 6
East of England -21 9 £62,500 -19.35% 7
South West -65 8 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Midlands -40 7 £72,500 +7.41% 12
West Midlands -31 5 £72,500 -6.45% 5
North East -37 3 - - 6
East Midlands -45 2 £120,000 +84.62% 7
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 98 (23.28%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (22.80%) Apache Spark
3 49 (11.64%) Apache
4 8 (1.90%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.19%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.19%) Confluence
6 4 (0.95%) IIS
6 4 (0.95%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.48%) Camunda
7 2 (0.48%) CICS
7 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 284 (67.46%) AWS
2 144 (34.20%) Azure
3 117 (27.79%) GCP
4 62 (14.73%) Serverless
5 55 (13.06%) dbt
6 54 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (10.93%) Amazon S3
7 46 (10.93%) Snowflake
8 36 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (8.55%) Amazon Kinesis
8 36 (8.55%) Datadog
9 35 (8.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 35 (8.31%) Power Platform
10 34 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (4.75%) GitHub
14 19 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.90%) Broadband
2 4 (0.95%) MQTT
3 3 (0.71%) DNS
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) 4G
4 2 (0.48%) 5G
4 2 (0.48%) AMQP
4 2 (0.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) CTI
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (21.14%) NoSQL
2 56 (13.30%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (9.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (9.26%) Relational Database
6 38 (9.03%) Data Lake
6 38 (9.03%) Tableau
7 37 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (8.31%) BigQuery
9 34 (8.08%) Power BI
10 31 (7.36%) MongoDB
11 29 (6.89%) Big Data
12 28 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (6.65%) DynamoDB
13 27 (6.41%) Snowflake Schema
13 27 (6.41%) SQL Server
14 26 (6.18%) Looker
15 22 (5.23%) Flink
15 22 (5.23%) Metadata
15 22 (5.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (12.11%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.64%) Git
3 47 (11.16%) GitLab
4 28 (6.65%) MLflow
5 24 (5.70%) CircleCI
6 16 (3.80%) JIRA
7 14 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.14%) JUnit
9 6 (1.43%) Selenium
10 5 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.95%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.71%) Maven
12 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.71%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.48%) Mockito
13 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 170 (40.38%) Finance
2 104 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.30%) Front Office
4 52 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.35%) Banking
5 23 (5.46%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.38%) Law
8 9 (2.14%) Retail
9 7 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.19%) Billing
11 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 129 (30.64%) Developer
2 126 (29.93%) Senior
3 83 (19.71%) Data Engineer
4 73 (17.34%) Lead
5 53 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 47 (11.16%) Java Engineer
7 35 (8.31%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (8.08%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (7.36%) Architect
11 30 (7.13%) Lead Developer
11 30 (7.13%) Senior Developer
12 26 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (5.46%) Python Engineer
14 23 (5.46%) Systems Engineer
15 21 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (4.99%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (4.99%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (4.75%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.34%) Spring
2 69 (16.39%) REST
3 67 (15.91%) React
3 67 (15.91%) RESTful
4 66 (15.68%) Spring Boot
5 62 (14.73%) RabbitMQ
6 59 (14.01%) Node.js
7 36 (8.55%) GraphQL
8 35 (8.31%) gRPC
9 33 (7.84%) Redux
10 24 (5.70%) scikit-learn
10 24 (5.70%) TensorFlow
11 23 (5.46%) LangChain
11 23 (5.46%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (5.46%) pgvector
11 23 (5.46%) PyTorch
12 22 (5.23%) PySpark
13 20 (4.75%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.51%) AngularJS
15 17 (4.04%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 115 (27.32%) Cloud Native
2 76 (18.05%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.74%) Fixed Income
4 34 (8.08%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.46%) Clustering
6 17 (4.04%) Blockchain
6 17 (4.04%) Web3
7 15 (3.56%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 13 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.61%) e-Learning
11 10 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.43%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.75%) Linux
2 9 (2.14%) Android
2 9 (2.14%) Windows
3 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.95%) Unix
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (45.84%) CI/CD
2 163 (38.72%) Microservices
3 152 (36.10%) Agile
3 152 (36.10%) DevOps
4 124 (29.45%) Software Engineering
5 123 (29.22%) Event-Driven
6 116 (27.55%) Analytics
7 112 (26.60%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (25.42%) Containerisation
9 102 (24.23%) Data Modelling
10 99 (23.52%) Data Engineering
11 91 (21.62%) AI
11 91 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 80 (19.00%) ETL
13 77 (18.29%) Observability
14 72 (17.10%) Test Automation
15 69 (16.39%) Data Governance
16 66 (15.68%) Machine Learning
17 64 (15.20%) Computer Science
18 63 (14.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 242 (57.48%) Python
2 191 (45.37%) SQL
3 178 (42.28%) Java
4 89 (21.14%) Go
5 64 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 63 (14.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (6.89%) C#
8 23 (5.46%) Bash
9 21 (4.99%) C++
10 19 (4.51%) Scala
11 14 (3.33%) Rust
12 6 (1.43%) Groovy
12 6 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.71%) Bicep
14 3 (0.71%) PHP
14 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (11.40%) Degree
2 36 (8.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.18%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.08%) GDPR
3 23 (5.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.56%) QA
5 10 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 147 (34.92%) Docker
2 8 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 167 (39.67%) Kubernetes
2 103 (24.47%) Terraform
3 44 (10.45%) Prometheus
4 30 (7.13%) Grafana
5 26 (6.18%) Ansible
6 10 (2.38%) Argo
7 9 (2.14%) Istio
8 5 (1.19%) Kibana
8 5 (1.19%) Puppet
9 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.48%) Salt
11 1 (0.24%) Cilium
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Icinga
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (11.64%) Databricks
2 23 (5.46%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.46%) Dell
3 14 (3.33%) Confluent
3 14 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.14%) Oracle
5 7 (1.66%) Solace
6 6 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.43%) Google
6 6 (1.43%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.43%) Pega
7 5 (1.19%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.19%) Splunk
7 5 (1.19%) Talend
7 5 (1.19%) VMware
8 4 (0.95%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.95%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.95%) Nokia
8 4 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.71%) OpenAI