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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 227 283
Rank change year-on-year -91 +56 -157
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 424 534 801
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.43% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 6.97% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 282 386 663
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £74,063 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.23% -13.89%

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 7,760 7,662 16,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.92% 20.46% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,868 5,885 14,104
10th Percentile £38,025 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -11 325 £115,000 +15.00% 95
North of England -104 35 £87,500 +23.25% 23
South East -83 33 £60,000 -14.29% 38
North West -59 22 £95,000 +40.74% 14
Yorkshire -60 10 £61,750 -17.67% 4
East of England -38 9 £62,500 -19.35% 13
Midlands -36 8 £72,500 +7.41% 11
South West -62 7 £75,000 +57.89% 18
West Midlands -27 4 £72,500 -6.45% 5
East Midlands -46 4 £120,000 +84.62% 6
North East -45 3 - - 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 99 (23.35%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (22.88%) Apache Spark
3 50 (11.79%) Apache
4 8 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 6 (1.42%) Confluence
6 5 (1.18%) IIS
6 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
7 2 (0.47%) CICS
7 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 285 (67.22%) AWS
2 146 (34.43%) Azure
3 118 (27.83%) GCP
4 62 (14.62%) Serverless
5 55 (12.97%) dbt
6 48 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (11.08%) Snowflake
8 44 (10.38%) Amazon S3
9 40 (9.43%) Amazon Kinesis
10 37 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (8.25%) Power Platform
12 34 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (7.55%) Datadog
14 24 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (4.72%) GitHub
17 18 (4.25%) Azure Service Bus
18 17 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.89%) Broadband
2 4 (0.94%) DNS
2 4 (0.94%) MQTT
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) 5G
4 2 (0.47%) AMQP
4 2 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) CTI
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (20.28%) NoSQL
2 60 (14.15%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (10.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (9.20%) Relational Database
6 38 (8.96%) Tableau
7 36 (8.49%) Data Lake
8 35 (8.25%) BigQuery
8 35 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (8.02%) Big Data
9 34 (8.02%) Power BI
10 31 (7.31%) MongoDB
11 29 (6.84%) SQL Server
12 28 (6.60%) DynamoDB
13 27 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (6.37%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (6.13%) Looker
15 24 (5.66%) Redis
16 22 (5.19%) Flink
16 22 (5.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (11.79%) Git
1 50 (11.79%) Jenkins
2 44 (10.38%) GitLab
3 28 (6.60%) MLflow
4 22 (5.19%) CircleCI
5 16 (3.77%) JIRA
6 12 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.12%) JUnit
8 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.42%) Selenium
9 5 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.94%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.71%) Maven
11 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.71%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.47%) Mockito
12 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 169 (39.86%) Finance
2 106 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 58 (13.68%) Front Office
4 54 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (11.79%) Banking
6 26 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.59%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.36%) Law
9 9 (2.12%) Retail
10 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.18%) Billing
12 4 (0.94%) Advertising
12 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.94%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
14 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (30.66%) Developer
2 128 (30.19%) Senior
3 84 (19.81%) Data Engineer
4 73 (17.22%) Lead
5 54 (12.74%) Software Engineer
6 43 (10.14%) Java Engineer
7 37 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (8.25%) Java Developer
9 32 (7.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (7.08%) Architect
10 30 (7.08%) Senior Developer
11 29 (6.84%) Lead Developer
12 26 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (5.42%) Python Engineer
14 23 (5.42%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (4.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.69%) Spring
2 70 (16.51%) React
3 69 (16.27%) REST
4 67 (15.80%) RESTful
5 65 (15.33%) Spring Boot
6 61 (14.39%) Node.js
7 58 (13.68%) RabbitMQ
8 39 (9.20%) GraphQL
9 35 (8.25%) gRPC
10 33 (7.78%) Redux
11 24 (5.66%) scikit-learn
11 24 (5.66%) TensorFlow
12 23 (5.42%) LangChain
12 23 (5.42%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.42%) pgvector
12 23 (5.42%) PyTorch
13 20 (4.72%) AngularJS
13 20 (4.72%) PySpark
14 19 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (4.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (26.89%) Cloud Native
2 79 (18.63%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.67%) Fixed Income
4 32 (7.55%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.42%) Clustering
6 16 (3.77%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.54%) Blockchain
7 15 (3.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.54%) Web3
8 13 (3.07%) AI Agents
8 13 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.59%) e-Learning
9 11 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (2.36%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.89%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.19%) Linux
2 11 (2.59%) Windows
3 10 (2.36%) Android
4 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.94%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (45.52%) CI/CD
2 165 (38.92%) Microservices
3 155 (36.56%) DevOps
4 154 (36.32%) Agile
5 122 (28.77%) Software Engineering
6 119 (28.07%) Event-Driven
7 115 (27.12%) Analytics
8 113 (26.65%) Data Pipeline
9 106 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 102 (24.06%) Data Engineering
10 102 (24.06%) Data Modelling
11 92 (21.70%) AI
12 84 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 80 (18.87%) ETL
14 70 (16.51%) Data Governance
14 70 (16.51%) Machine Learning
14 70 (16.51%) Observability
15 69 (16.27%) Computer Science
16 67 (15.80%) Test Automation
17 63 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 245 (57.78%) Python
2 190 (44.81%) SQL
3 183 (43.16%) Java
4 92 (21.70%) Go
5 64 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 62 (14.62%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.08%) C#
8 25 (5.90%) Bash
9 23 (5.42%) Scala
10 21 (4.95%) C++
11 14 (3.30%) Rust
12 7 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.65%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.42%) Groovy
13 6 (1.42%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.71%) PHP
14 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.47%) Bicep
16 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 52 (12.26%) Degree
2 40 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.90%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.07%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (14.15%) Data Quality
2 37 (8.73%) GDPR
3 23 (5.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 16 (3.77%) QA
5 10 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (35.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.47%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 168 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 98 (23.11%) Terraform
3 43 (10.14%) Prometheus
4 30 (7.08%) Grafana
5 28 (6.60%) Ansible
6 11 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (2.12%) Istio
8 6 (1.42%) Puppet
9 4 (0.94%) Kibana
9 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) Salt
11 1 (0.24%) Cilium
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Icinga
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (11.32%) Databricks
2 23 (5.42%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.42%) Dell
3 14 (3.30%) Confluent
4 12 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.36%) Oracle
6 6 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.42%) Google
6 6 (1.42%) Pega
6 6 (1.42%) Solace
6 6 (1.42%) VMware
7 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.18%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.18%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.18%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.18%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.18%) Nokia
7 5 (1.18%) SAP
7 5 (1.18%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) Talend