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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 203 313
Rank change year-on-year -109 +110 -138
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 561 704 594
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.61% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 8.68% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 343 295 452
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £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 £105,000 £111,250 £100,625
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +17.86% -17.65%

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 10,793 8,114 14,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.34% 18.55% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,026 5,447 10,939
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -26 378 £90,000 -8.86% 385
North of England -129 65 £75,000 +11.88% 66
North West -93 49 £75,000 +11.49% 34
South East -55 46 £67,500 -6.90% 63
South West -71 33 £85,000 +30.77% 25
Midlands -75 21 £85,000 +25.93% 20
West Midlands -38 19 £85,000 +41.67% 15
East of England -19 18 £72,500 +1.40% 9
North East -54 11 £65,000 +36.84% 14
Yorkshire -34 5 £72,653 -3.13% 18
East Midlands -66 2 £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
1 117 (20.86%) Apache Spark
2 80 (14.26%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (8.91%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 348 (62.03%) AWS
2 238 (42.42%) Azure
3 126 (22.46%) GCP
4 77 (13.73%) Serverless
5 70 (12.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (8.38%) Power Platform
6 47 (8.38%) Snowflake
7 44 (7.84%) dbt
8 43 (7.66%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (6.60%) GitHub
11 30 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (4.99%) Amazon Kinesis
12 28 (4.99%) Datadog
13 27 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (4.28%) Amazon EMR
15 23 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.46%) MQTT
2 7 (1.25%) BGP
2 7 (1.25%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) DNS
3 6 (1.07%) IPsec
3 6 (1.07%) VPN
4 5 (0.89%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) Broadband
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.18%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (22.64%) NoSQL
2 77 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 61 (10.87%) Relational Database
5 59 (10.52%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (10.16%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.63%) Data Lake
8 49 (8.73%) Big Data
9 45 (8.02%) Power BI
10 35 (6.24%) Tableau
11 33 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (5.88%) MySQL
12 27 (4.81%) SQL Server
13 26 (4.63%) BigQuery
13 26 (4.63%) DynamoDB
13 26 (4.63%) Flink
13 26 (4.63%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.46%) Looker
15 24 (4.28%) Redis
15 24 (4.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (13.19%) Git
2 67 (11.94%) GitLab
3 43 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.77%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.63%) MLflow
6 16 (2.85%) JIRA
7 15 (2.67%) Selenium
8 14 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.43%) JUnit
10 7 (1.25%) Maven
11 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.89%) Postman
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.53%) Mockito
14 2 (0.36%) WinDbg
General
1 208 (37.08%) Finance
2 124 (22.10%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.94%) Banking
4 65 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.24%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.53%) Front Office
7 19 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.21%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.85%) Retail
10 14 (2.50%) Marketing
11 12 (2.14%) Law
12 11 (1.96%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.78%) Military
14 6 (1.07%) Advertising
14 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
16 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.53%) Games
16 3 (0.53%) Publishing
16 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 168 (29.95%) Senior
2 124 (22.10%) Developer
3 103 (18.36%) Data Engineer
4 85 (15.15%) Java Engineer
5 84 (14.97%) Software Engineer
6 64 (11.41%) Lead
7 57 (10.16%) Architect
8 42 (7.49%) Principal Engineer
9 34 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 33 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 32 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (5.53%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (5.35%) Python Engineer
14 29 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (4.99%) Principal Java Engineer
16 27 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (4.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 23 (4.10%) Lead Developer
18 23 (4.10%) Systems Engineer
19 22 (3.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.96%) Spring
2 128 (22.82%) Terraform
3 123 (21.93%) Spring Boot
4 96 (17.11%) RESTful
5 83 (14.80%) REST
6 81 (14.44%) RabbitMQ
7 65 (11.59%) Node.js
8 54 (9.63%) React
9 39 (6.95%) PySpark
10 38 (6.77%) .NET
11 29 (5.17%) PyTorch
11 29 (5.17%) TensorFlow
12 27 (4.81%) GraphQL
13 25 (4.46%) pgvector
13 25 (4.46%) scikit-learn
14 24 (4.28%) LangChain
15 23 (4.10%) gRPC
15 23 (4.10%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (4.10%) Swagger
16 22 (3.92%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.98%) Cloud Native
2 132 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (10.70%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.95%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.70%) e-Learning
6 25 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (4.28%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.10%) Clustering
8 23 (4.10%) Fixed Income
9 20 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.67%) AI Agents
11 15 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (2.32%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.78%) Blockchain
14 10 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.78%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.49%) Linux
2 8 (1.43%) Unix
2 8 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (47.77%) CI/CD
2 242 (43.14%) Microservices
3 219 (39.04%) Agile
4 216 (38.50%) Event-Driven
5 191 (34.05%) DevOps
6 172 (30.66%) Software Engineering
7 171 (30.48%) AI
8 155 (27.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 135 (24.06%) Containerisation
10 133 (23.71%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (22.46%) Mentoring
12 123 (21.93%) Analytics
13 113 (20.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 113 (20.14%) Test Automation
14 106 (18.89%) Data Modelling
15 104 (18.54%) Observability
16 94 (16.76%) Data Engineering
17 93 (16.58%) Machine Learning
18 90 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
19 83 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 273 (48.66%) Python
2 262 (46.70%) Java
3 230 (41.00%) SQL
4 72 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 71 (12.66%) TypeScript
6 59 (10.52%) Go
7 46 (8.20%) C#
8 23 (4.10%) Scala
9 19 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.85%) Rust
11 13 (2.32%) Bash
12 11 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.78%) C++
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.43%) Groovy
15 8 (1.43%) PHP
16 7 (1.25%) C
17 6 (1.07%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 87 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.30%) Degree
3 62 (11.05%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.38%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 28 (4.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.89%) PhD
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) MBA
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.36%) OCP
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.77%) GDPR
3 24 (4.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 19 (3.39%) QA
5 8 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.07%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (29.59%) Docker
2 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 206 (36.72%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.31%) Prometheus
3 30 (5.35%) Grafana
4 28 (4.99%) Ansible
5 11 (1.96%) Argo
5 11 (1.96%) Istio
6 7 (1.25%) Kibana
6 7 (1.25%) Puppet
7 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.89%) Podman
9 4 (0.71%) Cilium
10 2 (0.36%) kaniko
10 2 (0.36%) Salt
11 1 (0.18%) Control-M
11 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (12.48%) Databricks
2 57 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.28%) Dell
3 24 (4.28%) Oracle
4 23 (4.10%) Cloudera
5 21 (3.74%) IBM
6 17 (3.03%) Google
7 13 (2.32%) Confluent
8 11 (1.96%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.96%) Splunk
9 10 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.25%) Solace
11 7 (1.25%) Talend
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe