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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 207 323
Rank change year-on-year -127 +116 -126
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 556 669 527
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.55% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 9.07% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 334 258 355
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £88,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +22.41% -14.71%
75th Percentile £96,860 £114,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £86,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.54% +23.93% -15.15%

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 10,641 7,374 14,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.23% 17.14% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,666 4,864 8,805
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -45 324 £85,000 -19.05% 690
North of England -117 94 £67,500 -3.57% 119
North West -77 66 £75,000 +7.14% 79
South East -51 51 £70,000 - 49
South West -64 40 £85,000 +6.25% 26
Midlands -86 32 £85,000 +25.93% 23
West Midlands -45 31 £85,000 +51.11% 18
North East -48 25 £60,000 +26.32% 13
East of England -41 23 £72,500 +1.40% 23
Yorkshire -46 9 £66,805 -10.93% 27
East Midlands -70 1 £71,500 +5.93% 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 (14.93%) Apache Spark
2 41 (7.37%) Apache
3 35 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.88%) Confluence
5 7 (1.26%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.72%) Camunda
9 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.36%) JBoss
10 2 (0.36%) Luigi
10 2 (0.36%) Tornado
11 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 329 (59.17%) AWS
2 216 (38.85%) Azure
3 76 (13.67%) GCP
4 75 (13.49%) Serverless
5 68 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 54 (9.71%) Amazon S3
7 53 (9.53%) GitHub
8 45 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (7.91%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (5.40%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (3.24%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.94%) MQTT
2 11 (1.98%) Internet
3 9 (1.62%) DNS
4 6 (1.08%) BGP
4 6 (1.08%) IPsec
4 6 (1.08%) Network Security
4 6 (1.08%) VPN
5 5 (0.90%) 4G
5 5 (0.90%) 5G
6 4 (0.72%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) SSH
7 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.36%) AMQP
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) ATM
9 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.18%) Broadband
9 1 (0.18%) LAN
9 1 (0.18%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (23.56%) NoSQL
2 93 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (14.39%) MongoDB
4 54 (9.71%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.19%) Big Data
6 33 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (5.76%) Redis
8 31 (5.58%) Data Lake
9 28 (5.04%) Power BI
10 27 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (4.86%) MySQL
11 22 (3.96%) Hadoop
11 22 (3.96%) SQL Server
12 21 (3.78%) Flink
13 17 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.06%) DynamoDB
13 17 (3.06%) Metadata
14 15 (2.70%) Tableau
15 13 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 93 (16.73%) GitLab
2 92 (16.55%) Git
3 56 (10.07%) Jenkins
4 55 (9.89%) Cucumber
5 14 (2.52%) JIRA
6 13 (2.34%) Selenium
7 10 (1.80%) JUnit
8 9 (1.62%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.26%) Mockito
10 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.08%) Maven
11 5 (0.90%) Gatling
11 5 (0.90%) Postman
12 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.54%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.36%) git-flow
14 2 (0.36%) XCTest
14 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 178 (32.01%) Finance
2 119 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.87%) Banking
4 48 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.68%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.06%) Retail
9 16 (2.88%) Front Office
10 15 (2.70%) Marketing
10 15 (2.70%) Publishing
11 11 (1.98%) Law
12 10 (1.80%) Military
13 7 (1.26%) Aviation
13 7 (1.26%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.08%) Advertising
14 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.90%) Games
16 4 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 180 (32.37%) Senior
2 117 (21.04%) Developer
3 90 (16.19%) Data Engineer
3 90 (16.19%) Java Engineer
3 90 (16.19%) Software Engineer
4 59 (10.61%) Architect
5 58 (10.43%) Lead
6 51 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
7 48 (8.63%) Senior Developer
8 41 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (7.19%) Senior Java Engineer
10 37 (6.65%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.94%) Principal Java Engineer
11 33 (5.94%) Python Engineer
12 32 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (4.14%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.96%) Kafka Engineer
14 22 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.09%) Spring
2 165 (29.68%) Spring Boot
3 108 (19.42%) Terraform
4 99 (17.81%) REST
4 99 (17.81%) RESTful
5 91 (16.37%) RabbitMQ
6 60 (10.79%) Node.js
7 48 (8.63%) React
8 40 (7.19%) .NET
9 36 (6.47%) PySpark
10 34 (6.12%) OpenAPI
10 34 (6.12%) Swagger
11 31 (5.58%) FastAPI
12 27 (4.86%) Keycloak
13 20 (3.60%) gRPC
14 19 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (3.42%) Middleware
15 18 (3.24%) AngularJS
16 17 (3.06%) Hibernate
17 15 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 181 (32.55%) Cloud Native
2 153 (27.52%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (9.17%) Public Cloud
4 45 (8.09%) e-Learning
5 36 (6.47%) Onboarding
5 36 (6.47%) Product Ownership
6 35 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.52%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.34%) Replication
12 12 (2.16%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.16%) Media Streaming
12 12 (2.16%) Podcast
13 11 (1.98%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.98%) IoT
14 10 (1.80%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.09%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Unix
2 7 (1.26%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (55.04%) CI/CD
2 267 (48.02%) Microservices
3 261 (46.94%) Agile
3 261 (46.94%) Event-Driven
4 212 (38.13%) DevOps
5 171 (30.76%) Software Engineering
6 165 (29.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 158 (28.42%) AI
8 151 (27.16%) Mentoring
9 142 (25.54%) Test Automation
10 139 (25.00%) Containerisation
11 129 (23.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 117 (21.04%) Observability
13 105 (18.88%) Data Pipeline
14 103 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
16 95 (17.09%) Analytics
17 91 (16.37%) Roadmaps
18 83 (14.93%) Data Modelling
19 68 (12.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 280 (50.36%) Java
2 212 (38.13%) Python
3 185 (33.27%) SQL
4 72 (12.95%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 42 (7.55%) C#
7 37 (6.65%) Go
8 28 (5.04%) Scala
9 21 (3.78%) Bash
10 20 (3.60%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.70%) Groovy
12 13 (2.34%) PHP
12 13 (2.34%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.80%) RPG
13 10 (1.80%) Rust
14 7 (1.26%) C
15 6 (1.08%) Ruby
15 6 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 127 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 105 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.51%) AWS Certification
4 62 (11.15%) Degree
5 45 (8.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.47%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.76%) DV Cleared
8 30 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.90%) PhD
10 5 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.72%) MBA
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.36%) OCP
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CISSP
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.79%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.50%) QA
3 12 (2.16%) GDPR
4 7 (1.26%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.54%) NIST
6 3 (0.54%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.54%) PSD2
6 3 (0.54%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) Basel III
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 186 (33.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 229 (41.19%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.83%) Prometheus
3 32 (5.76%) Grafana
4 19 (3.42%) Ansible
5 11 (1.98%) Argo
6 9 (1.62%) Rancher
7 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.90%) Kibana
8 5 (0.90%) Podman
8 5 (0.90%) Puppet
9 3 (0.54%) Cilium
10 2 (0.36%) Control-M
10 2 (0.36%) Istio
10 2 (0.36%) kaniko
11 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (9.71%) Databricks
2 53 (9.53%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.58%) Oracle
4 25 (4.50%) IBM
5 19 (3.42%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.70%) Google
7 11 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.98%) Splunk
8 10 (1.80%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.80%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.44%) Confluent
9 8 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.08%) HP
10 6 (1.08%) SAP
11 5 (0.90%) Informatica
11 5 (0.90%) Solace
12 4 (0.72%) Adobe
12 4 (0.72%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.72%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.72%) Talend