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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 190 317
Rank change year-on-year -117 +127 -143
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 521 780 748
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.80% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 9.72% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 351 351 608
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £115,625 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £120,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.03% +11.86% -15.71%

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 9,186 8,026 17,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 18.48% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,041 5,440 13,537
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.17%

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 13 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 13 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 -41 359 £97,500 -4.18% 287
North of England -140 55 £75,000 +11.11% 43
South East -52 49 £65,000 -9.09% 40
North West -100 47 £75,000 +11.11% 29
South West -72 21 £85,000 +30.77% 66
Midlands -86 18 £85,000 +25.93% 11
West Midlands -35 16 £86,250 +43.75% 7
East of England -21 14 £72,500 +1.40% 7
Yorkshire -40 4 £66,805 -40.02% 9
North East -53 4 £62,500 +31.58% 5
East Midlands -70 2 £71,500 +5.93% 4
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
1 118 (22.65%) Apache Spark
2 92 (17.66%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (9.40%) Apache
4 13 (2.50%) Confluence
5 5 (0.96%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.77%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.58%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.38%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (2.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 338 (64.88%) AWS
2 206 (39.54%) Azure
3 125 (23.99%) GCP
4 83 (15.93%) Serverless
5 70 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (11.32%) dbt
7 50 (9.60%) Snowflake
8 48 (9.21%) Amazon S3
9 40 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (7.68%) Power Platform
10 36 (6.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (6.91%) Datadog
11 34 (6.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 30 (5.76%) Cloud Computing
13 29 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.18%) GitHub
15 25 (4.80%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.03%) MQTT
2 7 (1.34%) BGP
2 7 (1.34%) Broadband
3 6 (1.15%) DNS
3 6 (1.15%) IPsec
3 6 (1.15%) Network Security
3 6 (1.15%) VPN
4 5 (0.96%) Internet
5 3 (0.58%) AMQP
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) 5G
7 1 (0.19%) ATM
7 1 (0.19%) CTI
7 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.84%) NoSQL
2 65 (12.48%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (11.52%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (10.94%) MongoDB
5 52 (9.98%) Data Lake
6 51 (9.79%) Elasticsearch
7 48 (9.21%) Big Data
8 46 (8.83%) Relational Database
9 38 (7.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (7.29%) Power BI
10 34 (6.53%) BigQuery
10 34 (6.53%) Tableau
11 26 (4.99%) DynamoDB
11 26 (4.99%) Looker
11 26 (4.99%) MySQL
12 25 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (4.61%) Redis
14 22 (4.22%) Hadoop
14 22 (4.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 64 (12.28%) GitLab
2 62 (11.90%) Git
3 42 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.76%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.99%) MLflow
6 22 (4.22%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.30%) JIRA
8 11 (2.11%) Selenium
9 7 (1.34%) JUnit
10 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.96%) Maven
11 4 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.77%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.77%) Postman
11 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
General
1 195 (37.43%) Finance
2 109 (20.92%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.36%) Banking
5 43 (8.25%) Front Office
6 22 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.30%) Law
7 12 (2.30%) Retail
8 10 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.73%) Advertising
9 9 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.73%) Marketing
9 9 (1.73%) Military
10 6 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.96%) Billing
12 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.38%) Back Office
13 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (28.02%) Senior
2 134 (25.72%) Developer
3 103 (19.77%) Data Engineer
4 70 (13.44%) Java Engineer
5 69 (13.24%) Software Engineer
6 67 (12.86%) Lead
7 59 (11.32%) Architect
8 40 (7.68%) Java Developer
9 37 (7.10%) Principal Engineer
10 35 (6.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 35 (6.72%) Senior Developer
11 32 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (6.14%) Senior Data Engineer
12 30 (5.76%) Lead Developer
13 27 (5.18%) Python Engineer
14 25 (4.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (4.61%) Principal Java Engineer
16 23 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (21.50%) Spring
2 108 (20.73%) Spring Boot
3 74 (14.20%) Node.js
4 73 (14.01%) REST
5 69 (13.24%) RabbitMQ
6 67 (12.86%) RESTful
7 64 (12.28%) React
8 36 (6.91%) GraphQL
9 35 (6.72%) PySpark
9 35 (6.72%) Redux
10 33 (6.33%) .NET
11 26 (4.99%) gRPC
12 25 (4.80%) PyTorch
12 25 (4.80%) scikit-learn
12 25 (4.80%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.41%) LangChain
13 23 (4.41%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.41%) pgvector
14 19 (3.65%) Middleware
15 18 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 154 (29.56%) Cloud Native
2 95 (18.23%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (9.98%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.10%) Fixed Income
5 32 (6.14%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.80%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.41%) Clustering
8 22 (4.22%) Product Ownership
9 21 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (3.45%) Data Structures
10 18 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.69%) Blockchain
11 14 (2.69%) Web3
12 10 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.92%) EPoS
12 10 (1.92%) iSeries
13 9 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.45%) Linux
2 8 (1.54%) Windows
3 7 (1.34%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 208 (39.92%) Microservices
3 200 (38.39%) Agile
4 170 (32.63%) DevOps
5 168 (32.25%) Event-Driven
6 155 (29.75%) Software Engineering
7 146 (28.02%) AI
8 130 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (24.38%) Analytics
10 125 (23.99%) Containerisation
11 118 (22.65%) Data Pipeline
12 107 (20.54%) Data Modelling
13 106 (20.35%) Mentoring
14 100 (19.19%) Observability
15 99 (19.00%) Test Automation
16 96 (18.43%) Data Engineering
17 86 (16.51%) ETL
18 85 (16.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 83 (15.93%) Machine Learning
20 79 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 283 (54.32%) Python
2 238 (45.68%) SQL
3 237 (45.49%) Java
4 81 (15.55%) JavaScript
5 80 (15.36%) TypeScript
6 74 (14.20%) Go
7 44 (8.45%) C#
8 24 (4.61%) Scala
9 22 (4.22%) Rust
10 19 (3.65%) Bash
10 19 (3.65%) C++
11 10 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.92%) RPG
12 9 (1.73%) Groovy
12 9 (1.73%) PHP
12 9 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.54%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.34%) C
15 6 (1.15%) Ruby
16 4 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 71 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.28%) Degree
3 52 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.91%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (4.61%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.96%) PhD
10 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.58%) MBA
11 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) GIAC
12 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.19%) SSCP
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.29%) GDPR
3 23 (4.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.45%) QA
5 12 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (28.98%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 190 (36.47%) Kubernetes
2 132 (25.34%) Terraform
3 49 (9.40%) Prometheus
4 36 (6.91%) Grafana
5 30 (5.76%) Ansible
6 10 (1.92%) Istio
7 7 (1.34%) Argo
8 6 (1.15%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.15%) Kibana
8 6 (1.15%) Puppet
9 4 (0.77%) Podman
10 2 (0.38%) Cilium
10 2 (0.38%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 63 (12.09%) Databricks
2 48 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.61%) Dell
4 23 (4.41%) Cloudera
5 19 (3.65%) IBM
6 17 (3.26%) Oracle
7 13 (2.50%) Confluent
8 11 (2.11%) Splunk
9 10 (1.92%) Google
10 9 (1.73%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.54%) Solace
12 7 (1.34%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.34%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.34%) Talend
13 6 (1.15%) HP
13 6 (1.15%) Informatica
13 6 (1.15%) SAP
14 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.96%) Pega