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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 201 328
Rank change year-on-year -132 +127 -144
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 564 695 570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.61% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 9.14% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 334 280 394
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,875 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +19.64% -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 10,843 7,607 14,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.52% 17.67% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 5,040 9,314
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -33 351 £85,000 -19.05% 715
North of England -128 85 £75,000 +7.14% 149
North West -80 66 £75,000 +7.14% 95
South East -68 48 £68,250 -4.55% 71
South West -79 35 £85,000 +25.93% 49
Midlands -88 31 £85,000 +25.93% 32
West Midlands -43 30 £85,000 +51.11% 25
East of England -35 20 £72,500 +1.40% 21
North East -56 15 £62,500 +31.58% 18
Yorkshire -43 6 £72,653 -3.13% 36
East Midlands -66 1 £71,500 +5.93% 7
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 89 (15.78%) Apache Spark
2 43 (7.62%) Apache
2 43 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.84%) Confluence
4 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.71%) Camunda
6 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.35%) CMS
7 2 (0.35%) JBoss
7 2 (0.35%) Luigi
7 2 (0.35%) Tornado
7 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 330 (58.51%) AWS
2 218 (38.65%) Azure
3 81 (14.36%) GCP
4 79 (14.01%) Serverless
5 71 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (7.98%) Amazon S3
6 45 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (7.45%) GitHub
8 37 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (4.61%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (4.61%) Power Platform
13 24 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
15 22 (3.90%) Datadog
16 19 (3.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.32%) MQTT
2 9 (1.60%) DNS
3 8 (1.42%) Internet
4 6 (1.06%) BGP
4 6 (1.06%) IPsec
4 6 (1.06%) Network Security
4 6 (1.06%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) 4G
5 4 (0.71%) 5G
5 4 (0.71%) HTTP
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
6 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) ATM
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (24.11%) NoSQL
2 92 (16.31%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (14.18%) MongoDB
4 58 (10.28%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.33%) Big Data
6 34 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (5.67%) Data Lake
8 32 (5.67%) Redis
9 31 (5.50%) MySQL
10 29 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (4.61%) Hadoop
11 26 (4.61%) SQL Server
12 25 (4.43%) Flink
13 24 (4.26%) Power BI
14 23 (4.08%) DynamoDB
15 18 (3.19%) Metadata
16 17 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (2.84%) Tableau
18 15 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 87 (15.43%) Git
2 79 (14.01%) GitLab
3 55 (9.75%) Jenkins
4 50 (8.87%) Cucumber
5 16 (2.84%) JIRA
5 16 (2.84%) Selenium
6 8 (1.42%) Maven
7 7 (1.24%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.24%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.06%) JUnit
9 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.89%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.35%) Gradle
11 2 (0.35%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.35%) JMeter
11 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 185 (32.80%) Finance
2 127 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 62 (10.99%) Banking
4 43 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.01%) Front Office
8 17 (3.01%) Retail
9 15 (2.66%) Marketing
9 15 (2.66%) Publishing
10 12 (2.13%) Law
11 10 (1.77%) Military
12 7 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.06%) Advertising
13 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.89%) Aviation
14 5 (0.89%) Games
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 181 (32.09%) Senior
2 118 (20.92%) Developer
3 98 (17.38%) Data Engineer
4 90 (15.96%) Java Engineer
5 88 (15.60%) Software Engineer
6 59 (10.46%) Architect
6 59 (10.46%) Lead
7 50 (8.87%) Senior Developer
8 48 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
9 41 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 36 (6.38%) Java Developer
12 35 (6.21%) Senior Data Engineer
13 33 (5.85%) Python Engineer
14 32 (5.67%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (4.26%) Backend Developer
16 22 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (3.72%) Kafka Engineer
17 21 (3.72%) Python Developer
18 20 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (31.74%) Spring
2 160 (28.37%) Spring Boot
3 115 (20.39%) Terraform
4 102 (18.09%) RESTful
5 93 (16.49%) REST
6 88 (15.60%) RabbitMQ
7 60 (10.64%) Node.js
8 51 (9.04%) React
9 39 (6.91%) .NET
9 39 (6.91%) PySpark
10 30 (5.32%) Swagger
11 29 (5.14%) OpenAPI
12 27 (4.79%) FastAPI
13 26 (4.61%) Keycloak
14 20 (3.55%) gRPC
14 20 (3.55%) Middleware
15 19 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (3.01%) Hibernate
17 16 (2.84%) AngularJS
17 16 (2.84%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 177 (31.38%) Cloud Native
2 153 (27.13%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 42 (7.45%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.91%) Onboarding
6 34 (6.03%) Product Ownership
7 31 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (2.66%) AI Agents
12 14 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (2.48%) Replication
13 13 (2.30%) Data Structures
14 12 (2.13%) Media Streaming
14 12 (2.13%) Podcast
15 11 (1.95%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (1.77%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.80%) Linux
2 8 (1.42%) Windows
3 7 (1.24%) Unix
4 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.35%) Android
5 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (52.13%) CI/CD
2 264 (46.81%) Event-Driven
3 263 (46.63%) Microservices
4 250 (44.33%) Agile
5 205 (36.35%) DevOps
6 175 (31.03%) Software Engineering
7 168 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 160 (28.37%) AI
9 152 (26.95%) Mentoring
10 136 (24.11%) Containerisation
11 132 (23.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 132 (23.40%) Test Automation
12 125 (22.16%) Observability
13 111 (19.68%) Data Pipeline
14 99 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (16.67%) Analytics
15 94 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 92 (16.31%) Roadmaps
17 85 (15.07%) Data Modelling
18 70 (12.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 282 (50.00%) Java
2 226 (40.07%) Python
3 199 (35.28%) SQL
4 75 (13.30%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.99%) JavaScript
6 43 (7.62%) C#
7 35 (6.21%) Go
8 28 (4.96%) Scala
9 21 (3.72%) Bash
10 19 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.66%) Groovy
12 12 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.95%) Rust
14 10 (1.77%) PHP
14 10 (1.77%) RPG
15 7 (1.24%) C
15 7 (1.24%) C++
15 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.06%) Ruby
16 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.52%) Degree
4 58 (10.28%) AWS Certification
5 42 (7.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.21%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (5.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.89%) PhD
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
11 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.35%) OCP
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) GIAC
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.26%) QA
3 12 (2.13%) GDPR
4 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.53%) NIST
6 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.53%) PSD2
6 3 (0.53%) SLA
7 2 (0.35%) Basel III
7 2 (0.35%) 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
1 177 (31.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 228 (40.43%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.45%) Prometheus
3 35 (6.21%) Grafana
4 20 (3.55%) Ansible
5 12 (2.13%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Rancher
7 7 (1.24%) Kibana
8 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.06%) Puppet
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
10 3 (0.53%) Cilium
11 2 (0.35%) Control-M
11 2 (0.35%) Istio
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.22%) Databricks
3 27 (4.79%) Oracle
4 25 (4.43%) IBM
5 22 (3.90%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.66%) Google
7 12 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.95%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.95%) Splunk
9 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.24%) Confluent
10 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.06%) HP
11 6 (1.06%) SAP
11 6 (1.06%) Solace
12 5 (0.89%) Informatica
13 4 (0.71%) Adobe
13 4 (0.71%) Talend
13 4 (0.71%) WSO2