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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 178 310
Rank change year-on-year -133 +132 -156
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 454 755 767
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.94% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 9.80% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 312 369 635
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £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 £101,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 8,422 7,702 17,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.13% 19.75% 19.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,399 5,249 14,352
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -21 330 £100,000 - 160
North of England -153 46 £80,000 +14.29% 36
South East -62 41 £67,500 -6.90% 29
North West -104 35 £80,000 +16.36% 23
South West -77 12 £75,000 +11.11% 14
Midlands -86 11 £87,500 +25.00% 7
East of England -18 10 £72,500 +1.40% 4
West Midlands -49 9 £87,500 +12.90% 5
Yorkshire -52 8 £80,000 - 7
North East -43 3 - - 6
East Midlands -69 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 (21.15%) Apache Spark
2 93 (20.48%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (11.01%) Apache
4 7 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.10%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.66%) 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 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 295 (64.98%) AWS
2 164 (36.12%) Azure
3 109 (24.01%) GCP
4 74 (16.30%) Serverless
5 64 (14.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (12.33%) Amazon S3
6 56 (12.33%) dbt
7 46 (10.13%) Snowflake
8 39 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (8.15%) Datadog
10 36 (7.93%) Power Platform
11 32 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (6.83%) Amazon Kinesis
13 29 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (5.07%) GitHub
16 22 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.86%) MQTT
2 7 (1.54%) Broadband
3 6 (1.32%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) 4G
4 2 (0.44%) 5G
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%) HTTP
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 98 (21.59%) NoSQL
2 59 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (10.79%) Data Lake
4 47 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 43 (9.47%) Relational Database
6 42 (9.25%) Elasticsearch
7 41 (9.03%) MongoDB
8 38 (8.37%) Tableau
9 35 (7.71%) Big Data
10 34 (7.49%) BigQuery
10 34 (7.49%) Power BI
11 28 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (6.17%) DynamoDB
12 27 (5.95%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (5.73%) Looker
14 23 (5.07%) Metadata
14 23 (5.07%) SQL Server
15 22 (4.85%) MySQL
16 19 (4.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (13.00%) Git
2 56 (12.33%) GitLab
3 46 (10.13%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.73%) MLflow
5 24 (5.29%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.29%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.42%) JIRA
7 8 (1.76%) JUnit
8 7 (1.54%) Selenium
9 5 (1.10%) Maven
10 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.88%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.66%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.66%) JMeter
11 3 (0.66%) Postman
11 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.66%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 176 (38.77%) Finance
2 98 (21.59%) Social Skills
3 52 (11.45%) Banking
4 50 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.79%) Front Office
6 11 (2.42%) Law
7 10 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.20%) Retail
7 10 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.98%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.76%) Advertising
9 8 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.54%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.32%) Billing
12 2 (0.44%) Back Office
12 2 (0.44%) Games
12 2 (0.44%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (29.07%) Senior
2 127 (27.97%) Developer
3 89 (19.60%) Data Engineer
4 72 (15.86%) Lead
5 64 (14.10%) Software Engineer
6 60 (13.22%) Java Engineer
7 44 (9.69%) Architect
8 38 (8.37%) Java Developer
9 34 (7.49%) Senior Developer
10 33 (7.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 31 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (6.61%) Lead Developer
13 27 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (5.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (5.07%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
17 22 (4.85%) Python Engineer
17 22 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
18 21 (4.63%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (20.48%) Spring
2 85 (18.72%) Spring Boot
3 67 (14.76%) React
3 67 (14.76%) REST
4 64 (14.10%) RabbitMQ
5 60 (13.22%) Node.js
6 59 (13.00%) RESTful
7 35 (7.71%) GraphQL
8 33 (7.27%) Redux
9 32 (7.05%) PySpark
10 31 (6.83%) .NET
11 30 (6.61%) gRPC
12 24 (5.29%) scikit-learn
12 24 (5.29%) TensorFlow
13 23 (5.07%) LangChain
13 23 (5.07%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (5.07%) pgvector
13 23 (5.07%) PyTorch
14 19 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (3.74%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 130 (28.63%) Cloud Native
2 86 (18.94%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (9.47%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.15%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.07%) Clustering
6 19 (4.19%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.96%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.74%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.74%) Web3
9 16 (3.52%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.08%) Data Structures
10 14 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.54%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.32%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.17%) Linux
2 7 (1.54%) Windows
3 6 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (46.92%) CI/CD
2 185 (40.75%) Microservices
3 171 (37.67%) Agile
4 151 (33.26%) DevOps
5 144 (31.72%) Event-Driven
6 137 (30.18%) Software Engineering
7 115 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 112 (24.67%) Analytics
9 110 (24.23%) AI
9 110 (24.23%) Containerisation
10 108 (23.79%) Data Pipeline
11 99 (21.81%) Data Modelling
12 94 (20.70%) Data Engineering
13 92 (20.26%) Observability
14 87 (19.16%) Test Automation
15 81 (17.84%) Mentoring
16 78 (17.18%) ETL
17 69 (15.20%) Data Governance
17 69 (15.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 69 (15.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 257 (56.61%) Python
2 209 (46.04%) SQL
3 198 (43.61%) Java
4 80 (17.62%) Go
4 80 (17.62%) JavaScript
5 73 (16.08%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.37%) C#
7 23 (5.07%) Scala
8 20 (4.41%) Bash
8 20 (4.41%) Rust
9 18 (3.96%) C++
10 9 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.54%) Groovy
12 6 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.32%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.88%) Bicep
13 4 (0.88%) RPG
14 3 (0.66%) PHP
14 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 47 (10.35%) Degree
2 46 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 23 (5.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) GIAC
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) SSCP
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.10%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.27%) GDPR
3 23 (5.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.30%) QA
5 10 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.10%) 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
1 146 (32.16%) Docker
2 8 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 173 (38.11%) Kubernetes
2 125 (27.53%) Terraform
3 46 (10.13%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.83%) Grafana
5 27 (5.95%) Ansible
6 9 (1.98%) Istio
7 8 (1.76%) Argo
8 7 (1.54%) Kibana
9 6 (1.32%) Puppet
10 4 (0.88%) Podman
11 2 (0.44%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) Cilium
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (12.33%) Databricks
2 34 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.07%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.07%) Dell
4 12 (2.64%) Confluent
5 11 (2.42%) Oracle
6 10 (2.20%) Splunk
7 8 (1.76%) Solace
8 7 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.32%) Pega
10 5 (1.10%) Google
10 5 (1.10%) Talend
11 4 (0.88%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.88%) IBM
11 4 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.88%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.88%) WSO2