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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 187 320
Rank change year-on-year -126 +133 -144
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 525 767 707
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.76% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 9.63% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 350 341 569
10th Percentile £55,973 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £115,938 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 9,213 7,968 16,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.33% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,065 5,402 12,771
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 20 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 20 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 -37 365 £96,500 -3.50% 131
North of England -134 54 £75,000 +11.11% 36
South East -55 47 £67,500 -6.25% 39
North West -91 46 £75,000 +11.11% 13
South West -70 23 £85,000 +30.77% 18
Midlands -82 18 £85,000 +25.93% 8
West Midlands -32 16 £86,250 +43.75% 6
East of England -20 15 £72,500 +1.40% 6
Yorkshire -29 4 £66,805 -23.65% 13
North East -47 4 £62,500 +31.58% 10
East Midlands -60 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
1 117 (22.29%) Apache Spark
2 89 (16.95%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (8.19%) Apache
4 13 (2.48%) Confluence
5 5 (0.95%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.57%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
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 (2.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 340 (64.76%) AWS
2 210 (40.00%) Azure
3 124 (23.62%) GCP
4 83 (15.81%) Serverless
5 71 (13.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (11.05%) dbt
7 50 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 46 (8.76%) Amazon S3
9 40 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (7.62%) Power Platform
10 37 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (6.86%) Datadog
12 33 (6.29%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (5.14%) GitHub
16 25 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
19 20 (3.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.19%) MQTT
2 7 (1.33%) BGP
3 6 (1.14%) Broadband
3 6 (1.14%) DNS
3 6 (1.14%) IPsec
3 6 (1.14%) Network Security
3 6 (1.14%) VPN
4 5 (0.95%) Internet
5 3 (0.57%) 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
1 117 (22.29%) NoSQL
2 67 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (11.24%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (10.67%) MongoDB
5 53 (10.10%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (9.71%) Data Lake
7 49 (9.33%) Big Data
8 47 (8.95%) Relational Database
9 38 (7.24%) Power BI
10 37 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (6.10%) BigQuery
11 32 (6.10%) Tableau
12 27 (5.14%) MySQL
13 26 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (4.95%) DynamoDB
13 26 (4.95%) Looker
14 25 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (4.57%) Redis
16 23 (4.38%) SQL Server
17 22 (4.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (12.76%) GitLab
2 62 (11.81%) Git
3 43 (8.19%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.95%) MLflow
6 22 (4.19%) CircleCI
7 13 (2.48%) Selenium
8 12 (2.29%) JIRA
9 7 (1.33%) JUnit
10 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.95%) Maven
11 4 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.76%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.76%) Postman
11 4 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.57%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 199 (37.90%) Finance
2 112 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.48%) Banking
5 45 (8.57%) Front Office
6 23 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.48%) Retail
8 11 (2.10%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.10%) Law
9 9 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.71%) Marketing
9 9 (1.71%) Military
10 8 (1.52%) Advertising
11 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.95%) Billing
12 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.57%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.38%) Back Office
14 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (28.38%) Senior
2 136 (25.90%) Developer
3 99 (18.86%) Data Engineer
4 74 (14.10%) Java Engineer
5 72 (13.71%) Software Engineer
6 66 (12.57%) Lead
7 58 (11.05%) Architect
8 40 (7.62%) Java Developer
9 37 (7.05%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.86%) Senior Developer
11 35 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (6.10%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (5.71%) Lead Developer
14 28 (5.33%) Python Engineer
15 25 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 24 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (4.57%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (4.38%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (21.90%) Spring
2 112 (21.33%) Spring Boot
3 75 (14.29%) Node.js
3 75 (14.29%) REST
4 72 (13.71%) RabbitMQ
4 72 (13.71%) RESTful
5 67 (12.76%) React
6 36 (6.86%) PySpark
7 35 (6.67%) GraphQL
7 35 (6.67%) Redux
8 34 (6.48%) .NET
9 26 (4.95%) PyTorch
9 26 (4.95%) TensorFlow
10 25 (4.76%) gRPC
10 25 (4.76%) scikit-learn
11 23 (4.38%) LangChain
11 23 (4.38%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (4.38%) pgvector
12 19 (3.62%) Middleware
13 18 (3.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 157 (29.90%) Cloud Native
2 100 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (10.10%) Public Cloud
4 39 (7.43%) Fixed Income
5 33 (6.29%) Onboarding
6 26 (4.95%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.38%) Clustering
8 21 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (4.00%) Product Ownership
9 18 (3.43%) Data Structures
10 17 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.67%) Blockchain
11 14 (2.67%) Web3
12 10 (1.90%) EPoS
12 10 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.90%) iSeries
13 9 (1.71%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.81%) Linux
2 9 (1.71%) Windows
3 8 (1.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (45.52%) CI/CD
2 214 (40.76%) Microservices
3 201 (38.29%) Agile
4 172 (32.76%) DevOps
4 172 (32.76%) Event-Driven
5 160 (30.48%) Software Engineering
6 152 (28.95%) AI
7 131 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 127 (24.19%) Containerisation
9 121 (23.05%) Analytics
10 118 (22.48%) Data Pipeline
11 109 (20.76%) Mentoring
12 107 (20.38%) Data Modelling
13 103 (19.62%) Test Automation
14 101 (19.24%) Observability
15 93 (17.71%) Data Engineering
16 88 (16.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 84 (16.00%) Machine Learning
18 82 (15.62%) ETL
19 80 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 282 (53.71%) Python
2 241 (45.90%) Java
3 239 (45.52%) SQL
4 83 (15.81%) JavaScript
5 82 (15.62%) TypeScript
6 74 (14.10%) Go
7 44 (8.38%) C#
8 25 (4.76%) Scala
9 20 (3.81%) Rust
10 19 (3.62%) C++
11 17 (3.24%) Bash
12 11 (2.10%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.90%) RPG
14 9 (1.71%) PHP
14 9 (1.71%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.52%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.33%) C
17 6 (1.14%) Groovy
17 6 (1.14%) Ruby
18 4 (0.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.38%) Degree
3 50 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 37 (7.05%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.62%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.95%) PhD
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) GIAC
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.19%) SSCP
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.81%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.43%) GDPR
3 23 (4.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.24%) QA
5 12 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.57%) 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
1 150 (28.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 192 (36.57%) Kubernetes
2 130 (24.76%) Terraform
3 52 (9.90%) Prometheus
4 37 (7.05%) Grafana
5 31 (5.90%) Ansible
6 10 (1.90%) Istio
7 7 (1.33%) Argo
7 7 (1.33%) Kibana
8 6 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.14%) Puppet
9 4 (0.76%) Podman
10 2 (0.38%) Cilium
10 2 (0.38%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) Control-M
11 1 (0.19%) logstash
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 64 (12.19%) Databricks
2 50 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.57%) Dell
4 23 (4.38%) Cloudera
5 20 (3.81%) IBM
6 19 (3.62%) Oracle
7 13 (2.48%) Confluent
8 12 (2.29%) Splunk
9 11 (2.10%) Google
10 9 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.71%) Solace
11 8 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.33%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.33%) Talend
13 6 (1.14%) HP
13 6 (1.14%) SAP
14 5 (0.95%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.95%) Informatica
14 5 (0.95%) Pega