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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 309 189
Rank change year-on-year +29 -120 -64
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 399 494 790
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.81% 0.89% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.49% 4.14% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 250 315 667
10th Percentile £59,750 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £137,500 £105,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% -5.88%

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 6,149 11,929 11,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.49% 21.43% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,703 7,260 9,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +43 294 £110,000 +15.79% 117
North of England +24 41 £71,000 +29.09% 84
South East +2 29 £70,000 +24.44% 110
North West +39 24 £88,750 +61.36% 43
Yorkshire -6 15 £71,000 +29.09% 36
South West +4 13 £76,250 +27.08% 45
Midlands +33 10 £72,500 +20.83% 53
West Midlands +34 6 £72,500 +20.83% 28
East of England +20 6 £80,000 +3.23% 51
East Midlands +12 4 £93,750 +70.07% 21
North East +7 2 £45,000 -26.09% 5
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 83 (20.80%) Apache Spark
2 55 (13.78%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (10.53%) Apache
4 10 (2.51%) Confluence
5 6 (1.50%) Appian
5 6 (1.50%) Mule
6 5 (1.25%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.25%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (1.25%) IIS
6 5 (1.25%) nginx
6 5 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.25%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.75%) JBoss
7 3 (0.75%) Luigi
7 3 (0.75%) SAS
7 3 (0.75%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.25%) TPMS
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 13 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.50%) Endur
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Actimize
3 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 268 (67.17%) AWS
2 126 (31.58%) Azure
3 90 (22.56%) GCP
4 43 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (9.52%) Serverless
6 34 (8.52%) GitHub
7 32 (8.02%) Amazon Kinesis
8 31 (7.77%) Amazon S3
9 27 (6.77%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (5.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (5.26%) Snowflake
13 20 (5.01%) Power Platform
14 19 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (4.01%) SaaS
16 15 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
18 13 (3.26%) OpenShift
19 11 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) DNS
2 4 (1.00%) AMQP
2 4 (1.00%) HTTP
3 3 (0.75%) FTP
3 3 (0.75%) MQTT
3 3 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) BGP
4 2 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.50%) Firewall
4 2 (0.50%) OSPF
4 2 (0.50%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.50%) RTMP
4 2 (0.50%) VLAN
4 2 (0.50%) WAN
4 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.50%) Wireless
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (20.55%) NoSQL
2 58 (14.54%) Big Data
2 58 (14.54%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 50 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (9.77%) Hadoop
6 33 (8.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (7.02%) Relational Database
8 26 (6.52%) SQL Server
9 24 (6.02%) Metadata
10 21 (5.26%) Redis
11 19 (4.76%) DynamoDB
12 18 (4.51%) MySQL
13 14 (3.51%) Power BI
14 13 (3.26%) Flink
15 12 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (3.01%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.01%) RDBMS
16 11 (2.76%) BigQuery
16 11 (2.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (13.03%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.77%) Git
3 22 (5.51%) JIRA
4 18 (4.51%) GitLab
5 15 (3.76%) Selenium
6 13 (3.26%) JUnit
7 12 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.76%) MLflow
9 10 (2.51%) JMeter
10 9 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.75%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.50%) git-flow
12 6 (1.50%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.50%) Snyk
13 5 (1.25%) Artifactory
13 5 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.25%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.00%) VisualVM
General
1 185 (46.37%) Finance
2 110 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 59 (14.79%) Front Office
4 46 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.53%) Banking
5 44 (11.03%) Financial Institution
6 38 (9.52%) Law
7 27 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.01%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.51%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.51%) Marketing
11 9 (2.26%) Games
12 5 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Billing
14 3 (0.75%) Retail
15 2 (0.50%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (29.82%) Developer
2 89 (22.31%) Software Engineer
3 68 (17.04%) Lead
4 67 (16.79%) Senior
5 49 (12.28%) Data Engineer
6 47 (11.78%) Java Engineer
7 39 (9.77%) Java Developer
8 36 (9.02%) Architect
9 32 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (7.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 27 (6.77%) Kafka Engineer
12 25 (6.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 23 (5.76%) Lead Developer
14 21 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (4.51%) Principal Engineer
17 17 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
18 16 (4.01%) Kafka Developer
18 16 (4.01%) Lead Software Developer
19 15 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (24.56%) Spring
2 78 (19.55%) React
2 78 (19.55%) Spring Boot
3 60 (15.04%) RESTful
4 51 (12.78%) RabbitMQ
5 50 (12.53%) Node.js
6 49 (12.28%) GraphQL
7 46 (11.53%) REST
8 36 (9.02%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.27%) Redux
10 26 (6.52%) gRPC
11 22 (5.51%) .NET
12 20 (5.01%) Akka
13 18 (4.51%) RxJava
13 18 (4.51%) Spring WebFlux
14 15 (3.76%) ActiveMQ
14 15 (3.76%) JMS
14 15 (3.76%) Pandas
15 14 (3.51%) Hibernate
15 14 (3.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 93 (23.31%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (9.77%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.52%) Fixed Income
5 26 (6.52%) Algorithms
6 24 (6.02%) Data Structures
7 21 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (3.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (3.76%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.51%) FMCG
10 14 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (3.26%) e-Learning
11 13 (3.26%) Hedge funds
12 11 (2.76%) Public Cloud
12 11 (2.76%) Reference Data
13 9 (2.26%) Equities
14 7 (1.75%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.77%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) Windows
3 9 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.75%) Android
5 6 (1.50%) Unix
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (46.37%) CI/CD
2 177 (44.36%) Microservices
3 166 (41.60%) Agile
4 150 (37.59%) DevOps
5 136 (34.09%) Software Engineering
6 89 (22.31%) Data Pipeline
7 76 (19.05%) Data Modelling
8 74 (18.55%) Data Engineering
8 74 (18.55%) Event-Driven
9 69 (17.29%) AI
9 69 (17.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 68 (17.04%) Analytics
11 67 (16.79%) Fintech
12 66 (16.54%) ETL
12 66 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (16.29%) Machine Learning
14 64 (16.04%) Containerisation
15 60 (15.04%) Computer Science
16 56 (14.04%) Mentoring
17 54 (13.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 218 (54.64%) Java
2 173 (43.36%) Python
3 129 (32.33%) SQL
4 63 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 60 (15.04%) Go
6 50 (12.53%) JavaScript
7 35 (8.77%) C#
8 23 (5.76%) Scala
9 19 (4.76%) Bash
10 14 (3.51%) Kotlin
11 12 (3.01%) C++
12 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.50%) Groovy
14 3 (0.75%) R
15 2 (0.50%) Perl
15 2 (0.50%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.50%) Rust
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.25%) PHP
16 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (11.78%) Degree
2 33 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.51%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.76%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.76%) PhD
8 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.50%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.77%) QA
3 17 (4.26%) GDPR
4 5 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 118 (29.57%) Docker
2 10 (2.51%) HDFS
3 7 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.50%) NFS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 152 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 45 (11.28%) Terraform
3 28 (7.02%) Ansible
4 16 (4.01%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.76%) Grafana
6 13 (3.26%) Argo
7 9 (2.26%) Kibana
7 9 (2.26%) Puppet
8 8 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.25%) Kubeflow
10 4 (1.00%) logstash
11 3 (0.75%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.75%) Podman
12 2 (0.50%) Control-M
12 2 (0.50%) Oozie
13 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Mesos
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 48 (12.03%) Databricks
2 30 (7.52%) Oracle
3 21 (5.26%) SAP
4 17 (4.26%) VMware
5 13 (3.26%) Google
6 10 (2.51%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.26%) Splunk
8 6 (1.50%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.50%) Black Duck
8 6 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.50%) UiPath
9 5 (1.25%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.25%) Confluent
9 5 (1.25%) Coverity
9 5 (1.25%) Informatica
10 4 (1.00%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.00%) Dell
10 4 (1.00%) Ericsson
10 4 (1.00%) Nokia
10 4 (1.00%) Salesforce