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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 208 315
Rank change year-on-year -109 +107 -125
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 564 690 574
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.59% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.30% 8.98% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 338 275 415
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,875 £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 10,648 7,683 14,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.64% 17.71% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,852 5,073 9,802
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 £114,979
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 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 12 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 -25 366 £87,500 -16.67% 486
North of England -122 74 £75,000 +7.14% 87
North West -83 56 £75,000 +7.14% 48
South East -51 43 £67,500 -5.59% 62
South West -79 35 £85,000 +25.93% 25
Midlands -76 29 £85,000 +25.93% 20
West Midlands -40 27 £85,000 +51.11% 16
East of England -27 21 £72,500 -4.29% 12
North East -56 12 £67,500 +42.11% 10
Yorkshire -52 6 £78,500 +4.67% 29
East Midlands -75 2 £71,500 +5.93% 4
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
1 107 (18.97%) Apache Spark
2 64 (11.35%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (8.51%) Apache
4 15 (2.66%) 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 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) 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 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (59.40%) AWS
2 230 (40.78%) Azure
3 102 (18.09%) GCP
4 77 (13.65%) Serverless
5 71 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (7.80%) Amazon S3
7 43 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (7.09%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.74%) GitHub
10 33 (5.85%) Snowflake
11 32 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (5.14%) dbt
13 27 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (4.26%) Datadog
15 22 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.79%) MQTT
2 9 (1.60%) DNS
3 7 (1.24%) BGP
4 6 (1.06%) Internet
4 6 (1.06%) IPsec
4 6 (1.06%) Network Security
4 6 (1.06%) 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 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) 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
1 139 (24.65%) NoSQL
2 89 (15.78%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (13.48%) MongoDB
4 58 (10.28%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.87%) Big Data
5 50 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (7.80%) Data Lake
7 38 (6.74%) Power BI
8 34 (6.03%) MySQL
9 30 (5.32%) Redis
10 29 (5.14%) Tableau
11 27 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (4.61%) Flink
12 26 (4.61%) Hadoop
12 26 (4.61%) SQL Server
13 25 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (4.26%) DynamoDB
15 18 (3.19%) BigQuery
16 17 (3.01%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (14.18%) Git
2 73 (12.94%) GitLab
3 50 (8.87%) Jenkins
4 45 (7.98%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.19%) Selenium
6 16 (2.84%) MLflow
7 14 (2.48%) JIRA
8 9 (1.60%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.42%) Maven
10 6 (1.06%) JUnit
11 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.89%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.89%) Postman
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.35%) git-flow
13 2 (0.35%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.35%) JMeter
13 2 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 191 (33.87%) Finance
2 125 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 64 (11.35%) Banking
4 56 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.72%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.84%) Retail
9 15 (2.66%) Marketing
10 14 (2.48%) Front Office
11 12 (2.13%) Law
12 10 (1.77%) Military
13 8 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.42%) Publishing
14 6 (1.06%) Advertising
14 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.89%) Aviation
15 5 (0.89%) Games
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 186 (32.98%) Senior
2 116 (20.57%) Developer
3 102 (18.09%) Data Engineer
4 87 (15.43%) Java Engineer
5 78 (13.83%) Software Engineer
6 58 (10.28%) Architect
7 57 (10.11%) Lead
8 48 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 45 (7.98%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.38%) Senior Java Engineer
10 36 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 34 (6.03%) Java Developer
11 34 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.50%) Python Engineer
13 30 (5.32%) Principal Java Engineer
14 25 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (4.43%) Python Developer
15 24 (4.26%) Backend Developer
16 22 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (28.55%) Spring
2 145 (25.71%) Spring Boot
3 119 (21.10%) Terraform
4 97 (17.20%) RESTful
5 91 (16.13%) REST
6 86 (15.25%) RabbitMQ
7 56 (9.93%) Node.js
8 41 (7.27%) React
9 38 (6.74%) .NET
9 38 (6.74%) PySpark
10 27 (4.79%) Swagger
11 26 (4.61%) OpenAPI
12 24 (4.26%) FastAPI
13 21 (3.72%) gRPC
13 21 (3.72%) Keycloak
13 21 (3.72%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.72%) TensorFlow
14 19 (3.37%) Apache NiFi
15 18 (3.19%) Middleware
15 18 (3.19%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 186 (32.98%) Cloud Native
2 145 (25.71%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (10.28%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.91%) Onboarding
5 38 (6.74%) e-Learning
6 31 (5.50%) Product Ownership
7 28 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.66%) AI Agents
10 15 (2.66%) Clustering
11 14 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.30%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.95%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.95%) Replication
14 10 (1.77%) EPoS
14 10 (1.77%) iSeries
15 9 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.80%) Linux
2 7 (1.24%) Unix
2 7 (1.24%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (49.47%) CI/CD
2 254 (45.04%) Microservices
3 245 (43.44%) Event-Driven
4 226 (40.07%) Agile
5 198 (35.11%) DevOps
6 172 (30.50%) AI
7 171 (30.32%) Software Engineering
8 166 (29.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 138 (24.47%) Mentoring
10 132 (23.40%) Containerisation
11 127 (22.52%) Test Automation
12 126 (22.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 125 (22.16%) Data Pipeline
14 115 (20.39%) Observability
15 112 (19.86%) Analytics
16 99 (17.55%) Data Modelling
17 91 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 90 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
19 86 (15.25%) Data Engineering
20 84 (14.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 267 (47.34%) Java
2 251 (44.50%) Python
3 218 (38.65%) SQL
4 65 (11.52%) TypeScript
5 58 (10.28%) JavaScript
6 43 (7.62%) C#
7 41 (7.27%) Go
8 26 (4.61%) Scala
9 19 (3.37%) Bash
9 19 (3.37%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.48%) Groovy
11 11 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.95%) Rust
12 10 (1.77%) RPG
13 8 (1.42%) PHP
14 7 (1.24%) C
14 7 (1.24%) C++
14 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.06%) Ruby
15 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 80 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.70%) Degree
4 54 (9.57%) AWS Certification
5 38 (6.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 31 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.89%) PhD
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) MBA
9 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) OCP
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) GIAC
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.88%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.96%) GDPR
3 23 (4.08%) QA
4 16 (2.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.06%) 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 1 (0.18%) Basel III
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 169 (29.96%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 213 (37.77%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.45%) Prometheus
3 34 (6.03%) Grafana
4 22 (3.90%) Ansible
5 12 (2.13%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Istio
7 7 (1.24%) Kibana
7 7 (1.24%) Puppet
8 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.06%) Rancher
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
11 2 (0.35%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Control-M
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 (10.99%) Databricks
2 56 (9.93%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.61%) Oracle
4 24 (4.26%) IBM
5 18 (3.19%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.84%) Dell
7 15 (2.66%) Cloudera
7 15 (2.66%) Google
8 11 (1.95%) Confluent
8 11 (1.95%) Splunk
9 10 (1.77%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.06%) HP
12 6 (1.06%) SAP
12 6 (1.06%) Talend
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
13 5 (0.89%) Solace