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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 191 322
Rank change year-on-year -115 +131 -145
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 551 759 632
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.75% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.87% 9.72% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 361 330 500
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £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 £115,000 £113,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% -19.98%

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 9,382 7,805 14,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 17.97% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,133 5,251 11,015
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -28 381 £95,000 -5.00% 256
North of England -137 57 £75,000 +11.49% 45
South East -63 48 £67,500 -6.90% 42
North West -97 47 £75,000 +11.11% 21
South West -64 28 £85,000 +30.77% 25
Midlands -89 19 £85,000 +25.93% 9
West Midlands -42 17 £85,000 +41.67% 7
East of England -26 16 £72,500 +1.40% 6
North East -51 6 £62,500 +31.58% 11
Yorkshire -32 4 £66,805 -10.93% 13
East Midlands -67 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
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
1 121 (21.96%) Apache Spark
2 89 (16.15%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (8.35%) Apache
4 14 (2.54%) Confluence
5 5 (0.91%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.91%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.54%) Camunda
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 352 (63.88%) AWS
2 224 (40.65%) Azure
3 129 (23.41%) GCP
4 80 (14.52%) Serverless
5 71 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (10.16%) dbt
7 52 (9.44%) Snowflake
8 43 (7.80%) Amazon S3
9 42 (7.62%) Power Platform
10 38 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (6.17%) Datadog
12 30 (5.44%) Amazon Kinesis
13 29 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
14 28 (5.08%) GitHub
15 27 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (4.54%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (3.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.36%) MQTT
2 7 (1.27%) BGP
3 6 (1.09%) Broadband
3 6 (1.09%) DNS
3 6 (1.09%) IPsec
3 6 (1.09%) Network Security
3 6 (1.09%) VPN
4 5 (0.91%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) 4G
5 2 (0.36%) 5G
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) CTI
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
1 122 (22.14%) NoSQL
2 68 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (11.07%) MongoDB
4 59 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (9.98%) Elasticsearch
6 54 (9.80%) Relational Database
7 52 (9.44%) Data Lake
8 49 (8.89%) Big Data
9 40 (7.26%) Power BI
10 34 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (5.63%) BigQuery
11 31 (5.63%) Tableau
12 27 (4.90%) MySQL
13 26 (4.72%) Looker
14 25 (4.54%) Redis
15 24 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (4.36%) DynamoDB
15 24 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (4.17%) SQL Server
17 22 (3.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (12.52%) GitLab
2 64 (11.62%) Git
3 42 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.99%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.72%) MLflow
6 19 (3.45%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.54%) Selenium
8 13 (2.36%) JIRA
9 7 (1.27%) JUnit
10 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.91%) Maven
11 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.73%) Postman
11 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 212 (38.48%) Finance
2 119 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 62 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.07%) Banking
5 47 (8.53%) Front Office
6 26 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.54%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.54%) Retail
8 12 (2.18%) Law
9 11 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.81%) Marketing
11 9 (1.63%) Advertising
11 9 (1.63%) Military
12 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Billing
14 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (28.86%) Senior
2 137 (24.86%) Developer
3 104 (18.87%) Data Engineer
4 82 (14.88%) Java Engineer
4 82 (14.88%) Software Engineer
5 70 (12.70%) Lead
6 58 (10.53%) Architect
7 41 (7.44%) Principal Engineer
8 39 (7.08%) Java Developer
9 36 (6.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 35 (6.35%) Senior Developer
11 34 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (5.63%) Lead Developer
13 30 (5.44%) Python Engineer
14 27 (4.90%) Principal Java Engineer
14 27 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (4.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 24 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (23.23%) Spring
2 119 (21.60%) Spring Boot
3 81 (14.70%) RESTful
4 77 (13.97%) Node.js
5 75 (13.61%) RabbitMQ
6 74 (13.43%) REST
7 69 (12.52%) React
8 38 (6.90%) GraphQL
9 37 (6.72%) PySpark
10 36 (6.53%) Redux
11 34 (6.17%) .NET
12 27 (4.90%) PyTorch
12 27 (4.90%) TensorFlow
13 25 (4.54%) scikit-learn
14 24 (4.36%) gRPC
14 24 (4.36%) pgvector
15 23 (4.17%) LangChain
15 23 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
16 20 (3.63%) AngularJS
16 20 (3.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 166 (30.13%) Cloud Native
2 113 (20.51%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.26%) Fixed Income
5 36 (6.53%) Onboarding
6 29 (5.26%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.17%) Clustering
7 23 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.99%) Product Ownership
9 19 (3.45%) Data Structures
9 19 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (2.18%) Blockchain
11 12 (2.18%) Web3
12 11 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.81%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.81%) EPoS
13 10 (1.81%) iSeries
14 8 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.44%) Linux
2 10 (1.81%) Windows
3 8 (1.45%) Unix
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 225 (40.83%) Microservices
3 220 (39.93%) Agile
4 185 (33.58%) Event-Driven
5 183 (33.21%) DevOps
6 172 (31.22%) Software Engineering
7 165 (29.95%) AI
8 142 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 133 (24.14%) Containerisation
10 129 (23.41%) Data Pipeline
11 125 (22.69%) Analytics
12 118 (21.42%) Mentoring
13 111 (20.15%) Test Automation
14 110 (19.96%) Data Modelling
15 105 (19.06%) Observability
16 98 (17.79%) Data Engineering
17 95 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 88 (15.97%) Machine Learning
19 85 (15.43%) ETL
20 83 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 291 (52.81%) Python
2 260 (47.19%) Java
3 241 (43.74%) SQL
4 87 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 84 (15.25%) TypeScript
6 74 (13.43%) Go
7 46 (8.35%) C#
8 27 (4.90%) Scala
9 20 (3.63%) Rust
10 19 (3.45%) C++
11 14 (2.54%) Bash
12 11 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.81%) RPG
14 9 (1.63%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.45%) Groovy
15 8 (1.45%) PHP
16 7 (1.27%) C
17 6 (1.09%) Ruby
18 4 (0.73%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 77 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.16%) Degree
3 55 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.62%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (4.90%) DV Cleared
8 24 (4.36%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.91%) PhD
10 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.73%) MBA
10 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) GIAC
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.80%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.08%) GDPR
3 23 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.27%) QA
5 11 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.54%) PSD2
9 2 (0.36%) NIST
9 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 159 (28.86%) Docker
2 8 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 201 (36.48%) Kubernetes
2 132 (23.96%) Terraform
3 50 (9.07%) Prometheus
4 37 (6.72%) Grafana
5 31 (5.63%) Ansible
6 10 (1.81%) Istio
7 7 (1.27%) Argo
7 7 (1.27%) Kibana
8 6 (1.09%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.09%) Puppet
9 4 (0.73%) Podman
10 2 (0.36%) Cilium
10 2 (0.36%) Salt
11 1 (0.18%) Control-M
11 1 (0.18%) kaniko
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 69 (12.52%) Databricks
2 53 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.36%) Dell
4 23 (4.17%) Cloudera
5 21 (3.81%) IBM
6 20 (3.63%) Oracle
7 14 (2.54%) Confluent
8 13 (2.36%) Google
9 12 (2.18%) Splunk
10 10 (1.81%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.63%) Solace
12 8 (1.45%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.27%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
13 7 (1.27%) Talend
14 6 (1.09%) HP
14 6 (1.09%) SAP
15 5 (0.91%) Informatica
16 4 (0.73%) Adobe