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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 187 315
Rank change year-on-year -133 +128 -147
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 511 784 758
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.81% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.57% 9.80% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 345 357 619
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -14.29%

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 9,172 8,003 17,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 18.52% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,013 5,426 13,770
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.13%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -33 357 £100,000 -3.38% 185
North of England -152 51 £75,000 +11.11% 42
South East -72 48 £65,000 -10.34% 46
North West -90 45 £75,000 +11.11% 29
South West -69 21 £85,000 +25.93% 83
Midlands -88 15 £86,250 +27.78% 10
East of England -14 14 £72,500 +1.40% 7
West Midlands -32 13 £87,500 +34.62% 7
North East -48 4 £62,500 +31.58% 5
Yorkshire -39 2 £90,000 -19.20% 8
East Midlands -61 2 £71,500 +5.93% 3
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
1 112 (21.92%) Apache Spark
2 91 (17.81%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (9.39%) Apache
4 13 (2.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.59%) Camunda
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 328 (64.19%) AWS
2 200 (39.14%) Azure
3 123 (24.07%) GCP
4 82 (16.05%) Serverless
5 70 (13.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (11.55%) dbt
7 49 (9.59%) Snowflake
8 48 (9.39%) Amazon S3
9 41 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (7.83%) Power Platform
11 37 (7.24%) Datadog
12 35 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (6.07%) Amazon Kinesis
14 29 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (5.09%) GitHub
16 24 (4.70%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.91%) MQTT
2 7 (1.37%) Broadband
3 6 (1.17%) BGP
3 6 (1.17%) Network Security
4 5 (0.98%) DNS
4 5 (0.98%) IPsec
4 5 (0.98%) VPN
5 4 (0.78%) Internet
6 2 (0.39%) 4G
6 2 (0.39%) 5G
6 2 (0.39%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) ATM
7 1 (0.20%) CTI
7 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.20%) HTTP
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (23.09%) NoSQL
2 64 (12.52%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (11.55%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (10.96%) MongoDB
5 51 (9.98%) Data Lake
6 50 (9.78%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (8.81%) Relational Database
8 43 (8.41%) Big Data
9 38 (7.44%) Power BI
10 37 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 34 (6.65%) BigQuery
11 34 (6.65%) Tableau
12 27 (5.28%) DynamoDB
13 26 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (5.09%) Looker
14 25 (4.89%) MySQL
14 25 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (4.70%) Redis
16 22 (4.31%) SQL Server
17 21 (4.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (12.72%) GitLab
2 60 (11.74%) Git
3 43 (8.41%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.87%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.09%) MLflow
6 23 (4.50%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.35%) JIRA
8 11 (2.15%) Selenium
9 7 (1.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.98%) Maven
11 4 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.78%) Postman
11 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.59%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.59%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 196 (38.36%) Finance
2 107 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (10.76%) Banking
4 43 (8.41%) Front Office
5 17 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.35%) Law
6 12 (2.35%) Retail
7 10 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.76%) Advertising
8 9 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.57%) Marketing
9 8 (1.57%) Military
10 6 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Billing
13 3 (0.59%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (27.98%) Senior
2 133 (26.03%) Developer
3 98 (19.18%) Data Engineer
4 70 (13.70%) Software Engineer
5 68 (13.31%) Java Engineer
6 67 (13.11%) Lead
7 58 (11.35%) Architect
8 40 (7.83%) Java Developer
9 35 (6.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 35 (6.85%) Principal Engineer
9 35 (6.85%) Senior Developer
10 32 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.87%) Lead Developer
12 28 (5.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 27 (5.28%) Python Engineer
14 25 (4.89%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (4.31%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (21.33%) Spring
2 105 (20.55%) Spring Boot
3 73 (14.29%) Node.js
4 72 (14.09%) REST
5 69 (13.50%) RabbitMQ
6 66 (12.92%) RESTful
7 64 (12.52%) React
8 36 (7.05%) GraphQL
9 35 (6.85%) Redux
10 34 (6.65%) .NET
11 31 (6.07%) PySpark
12 27 (5.28%) gRPC
13 25 (4.89%) PyTorch
13 25 (4.89%) scikit-learn
13 25 (4.89%) TensorFlow
14 23 (4.50%) LangChain
14 23 (4.50%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (4.50%) pgvector
15 19 (3.72%) Middleware
16 18 (3.52%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 154 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 91 (17.81%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.18%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.24%) Fixed Income
5 29 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.89%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.50%) Clustering
8 22 (4.31%) Product Ownership
9 20 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (3.52%) Data Structures
10 18 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.94%) Blockchain
11 15 (2.94%) Web3
12 10 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.96%) EPoS
12 10 (1.96%) iSeries
13 9 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.57%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.41%) Linux
2 8 (1.57%) Windows
3 7 (1.37%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (45.21%) CI/CD
2 206 (40.31%) Microservices
3 196 (38.36%) Agile
4 169 (33.07%) Event-Driven
5 166 (32.49%) DevOps
6 155 (30.33%) Software Engineering
7 140 (27.40%) AI
8 129 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (24.66%) Containerisation
10 121 (23.68%) Analytics
11 113 (22.11%) Data Pipeline
12 105 (20.55%) Data Modelling
13 101 (19.77%) Observability
14 99 (19.37%) Test Automation
15 98 (19.18%) Mentoring
16 91 (17.81%) Data Engineering
17 86 (16.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 81 (15.85%) ETL
18 81 (15.85%) Machine Learning
19 74 (14.48%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 277 (54.21%) Python
2 233 (45.60%) Java
3 230 (45.01%) SQL
4 81 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 80 (15.66%) TypeScript
6 75 (14.68%) Go
7 44 (8.61%) C#
8 24 (4.70%) Scala
9 22 (4.31%) Rust
10 19 (3.72%) Bash
10 19 (3.72%) C++
11 10 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.96%) RPG
12 9 (1.76%) Groovy
12 9 (1.76%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.57%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.57%) PHP
14 6 (1.17%) C
15 5 (0.98%) Ruby
16 4 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 67 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.94%) Degree
3 48 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (4.70%) DV Cleared
8 17 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.78%) PhD
10 3 (0.59%) MBA
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) GIAC
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.20%) SSCP
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.24%) GDPR
3 23 (4.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.52%) QA
5 12 (2.35%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (29.55%) Docker
2 8 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 190 (37.18%) Kubernetes
2 131 (25.64%) Terraform
3 50 (9.78%) Prometheus
4 36 (7.05%) Grafana
5 30 (5.87%) Ansible
6 10 (1.96%) Istio
7 7 (1.37%) Argo
8 6 (1.17%) Kibana
8 6 (1.17%) Puppet
9 5 (0.98%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.78%) Podman
11 2 (0.39%) Cilium
11 2 (0.39%) Salt
12 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 63 (12.33%) Databricks
2 46 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.70%) Dell
4 23 (4.50%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.33%) IBM
6 16 (3.13%) Oracle
7 13 (2.54%) Confluent
8 11 (2.15%) Splunk
9 9 (1.76%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.57%) Google
10 8 (1.57%) Solace
11 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.37%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.37%) Talend
12 6 (1.17%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.98%) HP
13 5 (0.98%) Pega
13 5 (0.98%) SAP
13 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow