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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 320 195
Rank change year-on-year +83 -125 -70
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 510 490 839
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.16% 0.80% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.58% 3.94% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 247 309 711
10th Percentile £55,750 £44,738 £52,500
25th Percentile £69,875 £56,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £76,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.18% -7.27% -2.94%
75th Percentile £123,625 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £123,800 £115,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £72,500 £80,294
% change year-on-year +27.59% -9.71% -5.54%

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 6,732 12,431 12,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.32% 20.38% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,658 7,471 10,570
10th Percentile £36,750 £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% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,460
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.70% +0.71%

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 November 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 November 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 +61 334 £106,250 +14.86% 541
North of England +49 81 £70,000 +27.27% 60
North West +56 65 £70,000 +27.27% 48
South East -15 39 £70,000 +55.56% 474
South West +32 27 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Midlands +50 13 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Yorkshire +15 12 £75,000 +36.36% 6
East of England +32 8 £71,500 +14.40% 28
West Midlands +46 7 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East Midlands +26 6 £68,750 +24.72% 6
North East +12 4 £47,500 -3.60% 6
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 96 (18.82%) Apache Spark
2 58 (11.37%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (7.84%) Apache
4 15 (2.94%) Confluence
5 11 (2.16%) Appian
6 7 (1.37%) nginx
7 6 (1.18%) Mule
8 5 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.78%) Apache Synapse
9 4 (0.78%) JBoss
9 4 (0.78%) SAS
9 4 (0.78%) Traefik
10 3 (0.59%) Luigi
10 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.39%) IIS
11 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.20%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 361 (70.78%) AWS
2 176 (34.51%) Azure
3 108 (21.18%) GCP
4 48 (9.41%) GitHub
5 45 (8.82%) Serverless
6 34 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (6.27%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
9 26 (5.10%) Power Platform
10 22 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (4.12%) Snowflake
12 20 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.14%) SaaS
14 14 (2.75%) OpenShift
15 11 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.16%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.18%) DNS
2 6 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
2 6 (1.18%) VPN
3 4 (0.78%) DHCP
3 4 (0.78%) FTP
3 4 (0.78%) ICMP
3 4 (0.78%) MQTT
4 3 (0.59%) AMQP
4 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 3 (0.59%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.39%) BGP
5 2 (0.39%) Broadband
5 2 (0.39%) Firewall
5 2 (0.39%) Internet
5 2 (0.39%) OSPF
5 2 (0.39%) VLAN
5 2 (0.39%) WAN
5 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (22.35%) NoSQL
2 83 (16.27%) MongoDB
3 67 (13.14%) Big Data
4 65 (12.75%) SQL Server
5 63 (12.35%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
7 49 (9.61%) Hadoop
8 45 (8.82%) Relational Database
9 32 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (4.71%) Metadata
10 24 (4.71%) MySQL
11 23 (4.51%) DynamoDB
11 23 (4.51%) Redis
12 18 (3.53%) Data Lake
13 15 (2.94%) Power BI
14 14 (2.75%) Oracle Database
15 13 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (2.55%) Apache Hive
15 13 (2.55%) BigQuery
16 12 (2.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 63 (12.35%) Selenium
2 60 (11.76%) JIRA
3 59 (11.57%) GitLab
4 56 (10.98%) Cucumber
5 46 (9.02%) Jenkins
6 45 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 40 (7.84%) Bitbucket
7 40 (7.84%) Maven
8 39 (7.65%) SonarQube
9 38 (7.45%) Git
10 18 (3.53%) JUnit
11 11 (2.16%) Robot Framework
11 11 (2.16%) Snyk
12 10 (1.96%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.96%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.76%) JMeter
13 9 (1.76%) MLflow
14 8 (1.57%) git-flow
14 8 (1.57%) Mockito
14 8 (1.57%) Vite
General
1 292 (57.25%) Finance
2 138 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 127 (24.90%) Banking
3 127 (24.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 109 (21.37%) Law
5 54 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (10.20%) Front Office
7 48 (9.41%) Financial Institution
8 47 (9.22%) Investment Banking
9 39 (7.65%) Retail
10 36 (7.06%) Corporate Banking
11 22 (4.31%) Marketing
12 13 (2.55%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.96%) Games
14 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.78%) Wholesale Banking
16 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 124 (24.31%) Developer
3 91 (17.84%) Lead
4 75 (14.71%) Java Engineer
5 69 (13.53%) Senior
6 58 (11.37%) Java Software Engineer
7 53 (10.39%) Data Engineer
8 47 (9.22%) Architect
9 45 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
10 42 (8.24%) Java Developer
11 28 (5.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 27 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (4.90%) Python Engineer
14 23 (4.51%) Kafka Engineer
14 23 (4.51%) Lead Developer
15 22 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
18 17 (3.33%) Senior Java Engineer
19 16 (3.14%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (35.29%) Spring
2 155 (30.39%) Spring Boot
3 135 (26.47%) React
4 112 (21.96%) RESTful
5 85 (16.67%) REST
6 68 (13.33%) Redux
7 63 (12.35%) RabbitMQ
8 53 (10.39%) GraphQL
8 53 (10.39%) Jest
8 53 (10.39%) Node.js
9 51 (10.00%) CSS
10 49 (9.61%) HTML
11 47 (9.22%) JPA
12 43 (8.43%) AngularJS
13 41 (8.04%) HTML5
14 38 (7.45%) CSS3
15 36 (7.06%) Sass
16 28 (5.49%) .NET
17 25 (4.90%) Akka
18 20 (3.92%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 147 (28.82%) Cloud Native
2 85 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (16.27%) Product Ownership
4 44 (8.63%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (7.65%) Data Structures
6 36 (7.06%) Algorithms
7 29 (5.69%) Management Information System
8 27 (5.29%) Fixed Income
9 24 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (4.31%) Public Cloud
11 18 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (3.14%) Client/Server
12 16 (3.14%) Mobile App
13 15 (2.94%) Hedge funds
14 14 (2.75%) Reference Data
15 13 (2.55%) Distributed Applications
15 13 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (2.55%) FMCG
15 13 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (2.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.49%) Linux
2 8 (1.57%) Unix
2 8 (1.57%) Windows
3 6 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (52.35%) Agile
2 263 (51.57%) CI/CD
3 261 (51.18%) Software Engineering
4 245 (48.04%) Microservices
5 194 (38.04%) DevOps
6 126 (24.71%) Test Automation
7 119 (23.33%) SDLC
8 112 (21.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 103 (20.20%) Containerisation
10 99 (19.41%) Fintech
10 99 (19.41%) Mentoring
11 89 (17.45%) Data Pipeline
12 86 (16.86%) Data Modelling
13 81 (15.88%) Analytics
14 80 (15.69%) Event-Driven
15 78 (15.29%) AI
16 74 (14.51%) Machine Learning
17 73 (14.31%) Data Engineering
18 70 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
19 69 (13.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 322 (63.14%) Java
2 195 (38.24%) SQL
3 185 (36.27%) Python
4 108 (21.18%) TypeScript
5 92 (18.04%) JavaScript
6 68 (13.33%) Go
7 38 (7.45%) C#
8 33 (6.47%) Scala
9 28 (5.49%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.33%) Bash
11 12 (2.35%) C++
12 10 (1.96%) Groovy
13 5 (0.98%) R
13 5 (0.98%) Rust
14 4 (0.78%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.59%) PROC SQL
15 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.20%) Perl
17 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (8.63%) Degree
2 36 (7.06%) AWS Certification
3 28 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (5.29%) Security Cleared
5 22 (4.31%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.92%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.16%) PhD
9 9 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.39%) CISSP
13 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (13.14%) QA
2 40 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 31 (6.08%) Data Quality
4 29 (5.69%) GDPR
5 7 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 167 (32.75%) Docker
2 11 (2.16%) HDFS
3 8 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.39%) NFS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 233 (45.69%) Kubernetes
2 65 (12.75%) Terraform
3 29 (5.69%) Ansible
4 21 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.53%) Grafana
6 13 (2.55%) Argo
7 10 (1.96%) Kibana
8 8 (1.57%) Mesos
9 7 (1.37%) Puppet
10 6 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.98%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.98%) logstash
12 4 (0.78%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.59%) Oozie
13 3 (0.59%) Podman
14 2 (0.39%) Control-M
14 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.39%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.20%) Istio
15 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (9.61%) Databricks
2 48 (9.41%) Oracle
3 39 (7.65%) Solace
4 25 (4.90%) Google
5 21 (4.12%) SAP
5 21 (4.12%) VMware
6 16 (3.14%) Microsoft
7 11 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
7 11 (2.16%) Black Duck
7 11 (2.16%) Splunk
7 11 (2.16%) UiPath
8 7 (1.37%) Informatica
9 6 (1.18%) Blue Prism
9 6 (1.18%) Coverity
10 5 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.78%) Confluent
11 4 (0.78%) Dell
11 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.59%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.59%) Red Hat