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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 193 322
Rank change year-on-year -103 +129 -144
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 556 759 646
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.75% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.95% 9.61% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 367 332 511
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +14.58% -15.98%

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 9,352 7,898 14,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 18.18% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 5,340 11,425
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,870
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 26 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 26 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 -31 384 £95,000 -5.00% 233
North of England -135 58 £75,000 +11.11% 43
South East -61 48 £67,500 -6.90% 49
North West -90 47 £75,000 +11.11% 19
South West -70 28 £85,000 +30.77% 22
Midlands -86 19 £85,000 +25.93% 8
West Midlands -33 17 £85,000 +41.67% 6
East of England -19 16 £72,500 +1.40% 5
North East -48 7 £62,500 +31.58% 11
Yorkshire -41 4 £66,805 -9.42% 13
East Midlands -72 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
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
1 124 (22.30%) Apache Spark
2 92 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (8.81%) Apache
4 13 (2.34%) Confluence
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.72%) Camunda
7 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 357 (64.21%) AWS
2 225 (40.47%) Azure
3 131 (23.56%) GCP
4 84 (15.11%) Serverless
5 71 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (10.07%) dbt
7 52 (9.35%) Snowflake
8 46 (8.27%) Amazon S3
9 42 (7.55%) Power Platform
10 41 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (6.47%) Datadog
13 32 (5.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (5.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (5.22%) GitHub
16 28 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (4.50%) Amazon EMR
18 23 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
19 21 (3.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.14%) MQTT
2 7 (1.26%) BGP
3 6 (1.08%) Broadband
3 6 (1.08%) DNS
3 6 (1.08%) IPsec
3 6 (1.08%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) VPN
4 5 (0.90%) Internet
5 3 (0.54%) AMQP
6 2 (0.36%) 4G
6 2 (0.36%) 5G
7 1 (0.18%) ATM
7 1 (0.18%) CTI
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.18%) HTTP
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (22.30%) NoSQL
2 68 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (10.97%) MongoDB
4 60 (10.79%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (9.89%) Elasticsearch
6 53 (9.53%) Data Lake
6 53 (9.53%) Relational Database
7 50 (8.99%) Big Data
8 40 (7.19%) Power BI
9 36 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (5.76%) Tableau
11 31 (5.58%) BigQuery
12 27 (4.86%) MySQL
13 26 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (4.68%) Looker
14 25 (4.50%) DynamoDB
14 25 (4.50%) Redis
14 25 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (4.14%) SQL Server
16 22 (3.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (12.41%) GitLab
2 66 (11.87%) Git
3 44 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.58%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.68%) MLflow
6 21 (3.78%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.52%) Selenium
8 12 (2.16%) JIRA
9 7 (1.26%) JUnit
10 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.90%) Maven
11 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.72%) Postman
11 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 210 (37.77%) Finance
2 122 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.79%) Banking
5 47 (8.45%) Front Office
6 26 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.52%) Retail
8 13 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.16%) Law
10 11 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.98%) Marketing
11 9 (1.62%) Advertising
11 9 (1.62%) Military
12 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.90%) Billing
13 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 160 (28.78%) Senior
2 142 (25.54%) Developer
3 106 (19.06%) Data Engineer
4 81 (14.57%) Java Engineer
5 80 (14.39%) Software Engineer
6 72 (12.95%) Lead
7 59 (10.61%) Architect
8 40 (7.19%) Principal Engineer
9 39 (7.01%) Java Developer
10 38 (6.83%) Senior Developer
11 36 (6.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 34 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
13 32 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (5.58%) Lead Developer
15 29 (5.22%) Python Engineer
16 26 (4.68%) Principal Java Engineer
16 26 (4.68%) Senior Java Engineer
17 25 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 25 (4.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 24 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (23.02%) Spring
2 119 (21.40%) Spring Boot
3 83 (14.93%) RESTful
4 78 (14.03%) Node.js
4 78 (14.03%) REST
5 75 (13.49%) RabbitMQ
6 70 (12.59%) React
7 38 (6.83%) GraphQL
7 38 (6.83%) PySpark
8 36 (6.47%) Redux
9 35 (6.29%) .NET
10 27 (4.86%) PyTorch
10 27 (4.86%) TensorFlow
11 25 (4.50%) gRPC
11 25 (4.50%) scikit-learn
12 24 (4.32%) pgvector
13 23 (4.14%) LangChain
13 23 (4.14%) LlamaIndex
14 20 (3.60%) AngularJS
15 19 (3.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 167 (30.04%) Cloud Native
2 110 (19.78%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.71%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.19%) Fixed Income
5 36 (6.47%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.86%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.14%) Clustering
8 22 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.96%) Product Ownership
9 20 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (3.42%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.34%) Blockchain
11 13 (2.34%) Web3
12 12 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.80%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.80%) EPoS
14 10 (1.80%) iSeries
15 9 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.19%) Linux
2 9 (1.62%) Windows
3 8 (1.44%) Unix
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (46.40%) CI/CD
2 227 (40.83%) Microservices
3 217 (39.03%) Agile
4 187 (33.63%) DevOps
5 186 (33.45%) Event-Driven
6 174 (31.29%) Software Engineering
7 165 (29.68%) AI
8 143 (25.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (24.46%) Containerisation
10 132 (23.74%) Data Pipeline
11 130 (23.38%) Analytics
12 117 (21.04%) Mentoring
13 113 (20.32%) Data Modelling
14 111 (19.96%) Test Automation
15 107 (19.24%) Observability
16 102 (18.35%) Data Engineering
17 95 (17.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 89 (16.01%) Machine Learning
19 87 (15.65%) ETL
20 84 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 298 (53.60%) Python
2 260 (46.76%) Java
3 245 (44.06%) SQL
4 87 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 86 (15.47%) TypeScript
6 76 (13.67%) Go
7 46 (8.27%) C#
8 27 (4.86%) Scala
9 20 (3.60%) Rust
10 19 (3.42%) C++
11 16 (2.88%) Bash
12 11 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.98%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.80%) RPG
14 9 (1.62%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.44%) Groovy
15 8 (1.44%) PHP
16 7 (1.26%) C
17 6 (1.08%) Ruby
18 4 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 77 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.23%) Degree
3 55 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.19%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (4.86%) DV Cleared
8 24 (4.32%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.90%) PhD
10 4 (0.72%) MBA
10 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) GIAC
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
12 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.19%) GDPR
3 23 (4.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.24%) QA
5 12 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.80%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.54%) PSD2
9 2 (0.36%) NIST
9 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 162 (29.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 205 (36.87%) Kubernetes
2 134 (24.10%) Terraform
3 52 (9.35%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.83%) Grafana
5 32 (5.76%) Ansible
6 10 (1.80%) Istio
7 7 (1.26%) Argo
7 7 (1.26%) Kibana
8 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.08%) Puppet
9 4 (0.72%) Podman
10 2 (0.36%) Cilium
10 2 (0.36%) Salt
11 1 (0.18%) Control-M
11 1 (0.18%) kaniko
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 69 (12.41%) Databricks
2 52 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.32%) Dell
4 23 (4.14%) Cloudera
5 21 (3.78%) IBM
5 21 (3.78%) Oracle
6 14 (2.52%) Confluent
7 13 (2.34%) Google
8 12 (2.16%) Splunk
9 10 (1.80%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.62%) Solace
11 8 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.44%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.26%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.26%) Talend
13 6 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.08%) HP
13 6 (1.08%) SAP
14 5 (0.90%) Informatica
14 5 (0.90%) Pega