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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 181 313
Rank change year-on-year -138 +132 -177
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 459 737 760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.92% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 9.82% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 314 372 632
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,188 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.12% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8,439 7,508 17,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 19.61% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 5,127 14,254
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 May 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 May 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 -19 335 £100,000 - 103
North of England -166 47 £80,000 +14.29% 26
South East -76 41 £67,500 -6.90% 23
North West -96 36 £80,000 +16.36% 16
South West -72 11 £75,000 +11.11% 9
Midlands -91 11 £87,500 +25.00% 7
East of England -32 9 £67,500 -5.59% 2
West Midlands -56 9 £87,500 +12.90% 5
Yorkshire -64 8 £80,000 - 6
North East -39 3 - - 4
East Midlands -74 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 96 (20.92%) Apache Spark
2 93 (20.26%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (10.89%) Apache
4 7 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.31%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.44%) CICS
7 2 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Actimize
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 298 (64.92%) AWS
2 166 (36.17%) Azure
3 111 (24.18%) GCP
4 74 (16.12%) Serverless
5 63 (13.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (12.20%) Amazon S3
6 56 (12.20%) dbt
7 46 (10.02%) Snowflake
8 39 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.28%) Datadog
10 36 (7.84%) Power Platform
11 32 (6.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 30 (6.54%) Amazon Kinesis
13 29 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (5.23%) GitHub
16 23 (5.01%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.61%) MQTT
2 7 (1.53%) Broadband
3 6 (1.31%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) 4G
4 2 (0.44%) 5G
4 2 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (21.79%) NoSQL
2 59 (12.85%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (10.46%) Data Lake
4 47 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.37%) MongoDB
5 43 (9.37%) Relational Database
6 42 (9.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 42 (9.15%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (8.28%) Tableau
8 35 (7.63%) Big Data
9 34 (7.41%) BigQuery
9 34 (7.41%) Power BI
10 30 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (6.32%) DynamoDB
12 27 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (5.66%) Looker
14 25 (5.45%) SQL Server
15 23 (5.01%) Metadata
16 22 (4.79%) MySQL
17 20 (4.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (13.07%) Git
2 56 (12.20%) GitLab
3 48 (10.46%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.88%) MLflow
5 25 (5.45%) CircleCI
6 23 (5.01%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.83%) JIRA
8 9 (1.96%) JUnit
9 7 (1.53%) Selenium
10 5 (1.09%) Maven
11 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.87%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.65%) JMeter
12 3 (0.65%) Postman
12 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 180 (39.22%) Finance
2 102 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.55%) Banking
4 50 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.89%) Front Office
5 11 (2.40%) Law
5 11 (2.40%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.18%) Retail
7 9 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 8 (1.74%) Advertising
8 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.53%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.31%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Back Office
11 2 (0.44%) Games
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) International Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (28.54%) Developer
1 131 (28.54%) Senior
2 87 (18.95%) Data Engineer
3 71 (15.47%) Lead
4 64 (13.94%) Software Engineer
5 59 (12.85%) Java Engineer
6 45 (9.80%) Architect
7 39 (8.50%) Java Developer
8 33 (7.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 33 (7.19%) Senior Developer
9 31 (6.75%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (6.54%) Lead Developer
11 27 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
12 25 (5.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 24 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (5.01%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (4.79%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (4.79%) Python Engineer
15 22 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.70%) Spring
2 87 (18.95%) Spring Boot
3 70 (15.25%) REST
4 68 (14.81%) React
5 65 (14.16%) RabbitMQ
6 63 (13.73%) RESTful
7 60 (13.07%) Node.js
8 35 (7.63%) GraphQL
9 33 (7.19%) gRPC
9 33 (7.19%) Redux
10 32 (6.97%) .NET
11 31 (6.75%) PySpark
12 24 (5.23%) scikit-learn
12 24 (5.23%) TensorFlow
13 23 (5.01%) LangChain
13 23 (5.01%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (5.01%) pgvector
13 23 (5.01%) PyTorch
14 19 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (3.92%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 132 (28.76%) Cloud Native
2 88 (19.17%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (9.15%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.06%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.01%) Clustering
6 19 (4.14%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.92%) Blockchain
7 18 (3.92%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.92%) Web3
8 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
9 14 (3.05%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.74%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.31%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.10%) Linux
2 7 (1.53%) Windows
3 6 (1.31%) Unix
4 4 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (47.49%) CI/CD
2 192 (41.83%) Microservices
3 170 (37.04%) Agile
4 153 (33.33%) DevOps
5 145 (31.59%) Event-Driven
6 138 (30.07%) Software Engineering
7 115 (25.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (24.62%) Containerisation
9 112 (24.40%) Analytics
10 111 (24.18%) AI
11 108 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
12 99 (21.57%) Data Modelling
13 93 (20.26%) Data Engineering
13 93 (20.26%) Observability
14 87 (18.95%) Test Automation
15 80 (17.43%) Mentoring
16 77 (16.78%) ETL
17 70 (15.25%) Machine Learning
18 69 (15.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 67 (14.60%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 258 (56.21%) Python
2 209 (45.53%) SQL
3 200 (43.57%) Java
4 82 (17.86%) Go
5 81 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 75 (16.34%) TypeScript
7 39 (8.50%) C#
8 23 (5.01%) Scala
9 20 (4.36%) Bash
9 20 (4.36%) Rust
10 19 (4.14%) C++
11 9 (1.96%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.53%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.31%) Groovy
13 6 (1.31%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.87%) Bicep
14 4 (0.87%) RPG
15 3 (0.65%) PHP
15 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 49 (10.68%) Degree
2 44 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (6.75%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) GIAC
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) SSCP
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.94%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.19%) GDPR
3 23 (5.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.27%) QA
5 10 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (32.46%) Docker
2 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (38.56%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.45%) Terraform
3 47 (10.24%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.75%) Grafana
5 27 (5.88%) Ansible
6 9 (1.96%) Istio
7 8 (1.74%) Argo
8 7 (1.53%) Kibana
9 6 (1.31%) Puppet
10 4 (0.87%) Podman
11 2 (0.44%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) Cilium
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (12.20%) Databricks
2 35 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.01%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.01%) Dell
4 12 (2.61%) Confluent
5 11 (2.40%) Oracle
6 10 (2.18%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Solace
8 7 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.53%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.31%) Pega
10 5 (1.09%) Google
10 5 (1.09%) Talend
11 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.87%) IBM
11 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) WSO2