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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 315 188
Rank change year-on-year +106 -127 -75
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 690 575 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.60% 0.83% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.78% 4.28% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 276 411 825
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £53,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £102,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £85,000
% 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 7,057 13,419 14,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.33% 19.44% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,627 8,811 11,945
10th Percentile £38,825 £39,720 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +68 330 £105,000 +10.53% 158
North of England +110 169 £70,000 +27.27% 52
North West +90 153 £68,750 +25.00% 34
Midlands +104 69 £67,500 +12.50% 10
South East -20 59 £72,000 +37.14% 72
East Midlands +74 42 £67,500 - 3
South West +84 37 £67,500 -3.57% 9
West Midlands +60 27 £56,250 -6.25% 7
East of England +6 21 £75,750 +26.25% 7
Yorkshire +20 10 £75,000 +36.36% 12
North East +25 6 £47,500 -3.60% 6
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 126 (18.26%) Confluence
2 89 (12.90%) Apache Spark
3 53 (7.68%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (5.36%) Apache
5 9 (1.30%) Appian
5 9 (1.30%) nginx
6 6 (0.87%) JBoss
7 4 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (0.58%) Luigi
7 4 (0.58%) Mule
7 4 (0.58%) SAS
7 4 (0.58%) Traefik
7 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) GemFire
10 1 (0.14%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Maya
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Endur
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 535 (77.54%) AWS
2 343 (49.71%) Azure
3 222 (32.17%) GCP
4 57 (8.26%) Serverless
5 40 (5.80%) GitHub
6 35 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (4.78%) Amazon S3
8 29 (4.20%) Power Platform
9 24 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (3.48%) Amazon Kinesis
10 23 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (3.04%) Snowflake
12 20 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (2.46%) SaaS
15 16 (2.32%) OpenShift
16 13 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.01%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.87%) HTTP
2 6 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
2 6 (0.87%) VPN
3 5 (0.72%) Network Security
4 4 (0.58%) DHCP
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
4 4 (0.58%) FTP
4 4 (0.58%) ICMP
4 4 (0.58%) MQTT
5 3 (0.43%) Internet
5 3 (0.43%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.29%) BGP
6 2 (0.29%) Broadband
6 2 (0.29%) Firewall
6 2 (0.29%) OSPF
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) WAN
6 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (34.49%) SQL Server
2 112 (16.23%) NoSQL
3 102 (14.78%) MongoDB
4 64 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (8.26%) Big Data
6 50 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (6.96%) Relational Database
8 47 (6.81%) Hadoop
9 34 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (3.91%) Metadata
10 27 (3.91%) MySQL
11 18 (2.61%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.61%) DynamoDB
11 18 (2.61%) Power BI
11 18 (2.61%) Redis
12 16 (2.32%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 228 (33.04%) JIRA
2 222 (32.17%) Selenium
3 221 (32.03%) GitLab
4 215 (31.16%) Cucumber
5 207 (30.00%) Maven
6 205 (29.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 203 (29.42%) Bitbucket
7 203 (29.42%) SonarQube
8 51 (7.39%) Jenkins
9 47 (6.81%) Git
10 26 (3.77%) JUnit
11 15 (2.17%) Mockito
12 11 (1.59%) CircleCI
13 9 (1.30%) MLflow
13 9 (1.30%) Robot Framework
13 9 (1.30%) Snyk
14 8 (1.16%) Vite
15 7 (1.01%) Postman
16 5 (0.72%) JMeter
16 5 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 448 (64.93%) Finance
2 293 (42.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 291 (42.17%) Banking
4 128 (18.55%) Social Skills
5 116 (16.81%) Law
6 100 (14.49%) Investment Banking
7 93 (13.48%) Retail
8 90 (13.04%) Corporate Banking
9 62 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (6.52%) Financial Institution
11 42 (6.09%) Front Office
12 23 (3.33%) Public Sector
13 22 (3.19%) Marketing
14 10 (1.45%) Games
15 9 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.87%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.58%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 364 (52.75%) Software Engineer
2 122 (17.68%) Developer
3 104 (15.07%) Lead
4 85 (12.32%) Java Engineer
5 83 (12.03%) Senior
6 71 (10.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 52 (7.54%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.39%) Architect
8 51 (7.39%) Java Developer
9 48 (6.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 29 (4.20%) Python Engineer
11 28 (4.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 24 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (3.33%) Lead Developer
14 19 (2.75%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (2.61%) Senior Java Engineer
16 17 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.32%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (48.70%) Spring
2 333 (48.26%) Spring Boot
3 299 (43.33%) React
4 226 (32.75%) Redux
5 212 (30.72%) CSS
6 211 (30.58%) HTML
7 207 (30.00%) JPA
8 163 (23.62%) RESTful
9 152 (22.03%) REST
10 123 (17.83%) Hibernate
11 102 (14.78%) Jest
12 96 (13.91%) HTML5
13 93 (13.48%) CSS3
14 90 (13.04%) Sass
15 68 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (8.12%) AngularJS
17 51 (7.39%) GraphQL
18 50 (7.25%) Node.js
19 30 (4.35%) .NET
20 28 (4.06%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 248 (35.94%) Product Ownership
2 205 (29.71%) Enterprise Software
3 128 (18.55%) Cloud Native
4 74 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (5.65%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.93%) Algorithms
7 29 (4.20%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.62%) Fixed Income
9 23 (3.33%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (2.32%) Mobile App
13 15 (2.17%) Client/Server
13 15 (2.17%) FMCG
14 13 (1.88%) Distributed Applications
15 12 (1.74%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.59%) Equities
16 11 (1.59%) Low-Code
17 9 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
17 9 (1.30%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.33%) Linux
2 8 (1.16%) Unix
3 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (63.04%) Software Engineering
2 433 (62.75%) Agile
3 416 (60.29%) CI/CD
4 412 (59.71%) Microservices
5 350 (50.72%) DevOps
6 283 (41.01%) Test Automation
7 279 (40.43%) SDLC
8 274 (39.71%) Containerisation
9 266 (38.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 221 (32.03%) Performance Optimisation
11 209 (30.29%) Front End Development
12 176 (25.51%) TDD
13 165 (23.91%) Mentoring
14 137 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 120 (17.39%) Clean Code
16 119 (17.25%) Migration
16 119 (17.25%) User Experience
17 93 (13.48%) Strategic Thinking
18 91 (13.19%) Analytics
19 90 (13.04%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 488 (70.72%) Java
2 350 (50.72%) SQL
3 263 (38.12%) JavaScript
4 180 (26.09%) Python
5 163 (23.62%) TypeScript
6 65 (9.42%) Go
7 40 (5.80%) C#
8 31 (4.49%) Scala
9 25 (3.62%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.17%) Bash
11 12 (1.74%) C++
12 10 (1.45%) Groovy
13 7 (1.01%) R
14 6 (0.87%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.43%) PROC SQL
16 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.29%) MATLAB
18 1 (0.14%) Perl
18 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 54 (7.83%) Degree
2 41 (5.94%) AWS Certification
3 40 (5.80%) Security Cleared
4 33 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 28 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.33%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.03%) PhD
8 13 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.72%) CISSP
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (32.17%) QA
2 92 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.78%) GDPR
4 31 (4.49%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.30%) Def Stans
5 9 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 361 (52.32%) Docker
2 9 (1.30%) HDFS
3 7 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.29%) NFS
7 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 422 (61.16%) Kubernetes
2 74 (10.72%) Terraform
3 26 (3.77%) Ansible
4 24 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.04%) Grafana
6 12 (1.74%) Argo
7 8 (1.16%) Mesos
8 6 (0.87%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.87%) Puppet
9 5 (0.72%) Istio
9 5 (0.72%) Kibana
9 5 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.58%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.58%) logstash
10 4 (0.58%) Podman
11 3 (0.43%) Oozie
11 3 (0.43%) Packer
11 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 200 (28.99%) Solace
2 52 (7.54%) Databricks
3 42 (6.09%) Oracle
4 29 (4.20%) Google
5 24 (3.48%) Microsoft
6 23 (3.33%) VMware
7 18 (2.61%) SAP
8 12 (1.74%) Splunk
9 9 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
9 9 (1.30%) Black Duck
9 9 (1.30%) UiPath
10 8 (1.16%) Confluent
11 6 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.72%) Informatica
13 4 (0.58%) Blue Prism
13 4 (0.58%) Coverity
13 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.58%) WSO2