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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 238 257
Rank change year-on-year -79 +19 -132
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 390 516 820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.32% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.55% 5.89% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 263 354 676
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,297 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -8.57%

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 7,026 8,761 16,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.80% 22.33% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,360 6,035 13,602
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,275
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +6 293 £115,000 +15.00% 100
South East -50 38 £63,750 -8.93% 39
North of England -69 32 £70,500 -0.70% 32
North West -32 19 £95,000 +40.74% 16
Yorkshire -56 12 £53,500 -26.21% 10
South West -41 8 £77,500 +31.91% 10
Midlands -28 7 £72,500 +11.54% 9
East of England -7 6 £62,500 -19.35% 2
West Midlands -3 4 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Midlands -38 3 £120,000 +84.62% 4
North East -21 1 - - 6
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 79 (20.26%) Apache Spark
2 69 (17.69%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (10.77%) Apache
4 8 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.54%) Confluence
6 5 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.28%) IIS
6 5 (1.28%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.03%) Mule
8 3 (0.77%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.51%) Appian
9 2 (0.51%) Camunda
9 2 (0.51%) CICS
9 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.26%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Actimize
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
2 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 262 (67.18%) AWS
2 114 (29.23%) Azure
3 101 (25.90%) GCP
4 51 (13.08%) Serverless
5 46 (11.79%) Amazon S3
6 44 (11.28%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (9.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 35 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (7.95%) dbt
11 29 (7.44%) GitHub
11 29 (7.44%) Snowflake
12 25 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (5.13%) Datadog
13 20 (5.13%) Power Platform
14 18 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.05%) Broadband
2 5 (1.28%) MQTT
3 4 (1.03%) AMQP
3 4 (1.03%) DNS
3 4 (1.03%) HTTP
4 2 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) 5G
5 1 (0.26%) BGP
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) CTI
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.26%) OSPF
5 1 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.26%) RTMP
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.46%) NoSQL
2 47 (12.05%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (8.72%) Big Data
5 31 (7.95%) Relational Database
6 30 (7.69%) MongoDB
7 26 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (6.41%) Redis
9 24 (6.15%) Tableau
10 23 (5.90%) DynamoDB
11 21 (5.38%) SQL Server
12 20 (5.13%) BigQuery
12 20 (5.13%) Data Lake
12 20 (5.13%) Metadata
13 19 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (4.62%) Power BI
15 16 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (4.10%) Flink
15 16 (4.10%) MySQL
16 12 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (14.36%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.56%) Git
3 42 (10.77%) GitLab
4 18 (4.62%) CircleCI
5 15 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 15 (3.85%) JIRA
5 15 (3.85%) MLflow
6 12 (3.08%) JUnit
7 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.79%) JMeter
7 7 (1.79%) Selenium
8 6 (1.54%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.28%) git-flow
9 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.77%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.77%) VisualVM
General
1 165 (42.31%) Finance
2 105 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.67%) Front Office
4 49 (12.56%) Banking
5 37 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.41%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.62%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.31%) Law
10 7 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.79%) Retail
11 6 (1.54%) Advertising
11 6 (1.54%) Billing
12 5 (1.28%) Games
13 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.03%) Marketing
14 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.77%) Legal
14 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 136 (34.87%) Developer
2 100 (25.64%) Senior
3 63 (16.15%) Data Engineer
4 61 (15.64%) Software Engineer
5 60 (15.38%) Lead
6 41 (10.51%) Java Engineer
7 39 (10.00%) Java Developer
8 34 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (8.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 32 (8.21%) Senior Developer
10 29 (7.44%) Architect
11 27 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (6.15%) Lead Developer
13 21 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
13 21 (5.38%) Python Developer
14 20 (5.13%) Lead Software Developer
15 19 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 16 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
17 15 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (21.79%) Spring
2 75 (19.23%) React
3 67 (17.18%) Spring Boot
4 63 (16.15%) RESTful
5 61 (15.64%) REST
6 56 (14.36%) Node.js
7 53 (13.59%) RabbitMQ
8 46 (11.79%) GraphQL
9 37 (9.49%) Redux
10 33 (8.46%) gRPC
11 27 (6.92%) AngularJS
12 18 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (4.36%) .NET
13 17 (4.36%) Pandas
14 15 (3.85%) OAuth
14 15 (3.85%) OAuth2
14 15 (3.85%) PySpark
15 14 (3.59%) Hibernate
16 13 (3.33%) CSS
16 13 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 99 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 75 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (10.51%) Fixed Income
4 23 (5.90%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 16 (4.10%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 12 (3.08%) Blockchain
9 12 (3.08%) Web3
10 11 (2.82%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.82%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.31%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (2.05%) Clustering
12 8 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.05%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.44%) Linux
2 12 (3.08%) Windows
3 10 (2.56%) Android
4 8 (2.05%) Unix
5 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 169 (43.33%) Microservices
3 159 (40.77%) Agile
4 156 (40.00%) DevOps
5 120 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 93 (23.85%) Event-Driven
7 89 (22.82%) Analytics
8 87 (22.31%) Containerisation
8 87 (22.31%) Data Pipeline
9 84 (21.54%) Data Modelling
10 78 (20.00%) Data Engineering
11 77 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 73 (18.72%) AI
13 69 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 65 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (15.90%) Computer Science
16 61 (15.64%) Fintech
17 59 (15.13%) ETL
17 59 (15.13%) Low Latency
17 59 (15.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 205 (52.56%) Python
2 194 (49.74%) Java
3 150 (38.46%) SQL
4 86 (22.05%) Go
5 66 (16.92%) TypeScript
6 59 (15.13%) JavaScript
7 27 (6.92%) C#
8 26 (6.67%) Bash
9 21 (5.38%) Scala
10 20 (5.13%) C++
11 12 (3.08%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.54%) Groovy
15 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.51%) PHP
16 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.26%) Bicep
17 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (12.05%) Degree
2 40 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.92%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.51%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.64%) GDPR
3 19 (4.87%) QA
4 9 (2.31%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (34.87%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.77%) HDFS
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 149 (38.21%) Kubernetes
2 74 (18.97%) Terraform
3 40 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 32 (8.21%) Ansible
5 29 (7.44%) Grafana
6 11 (2.82%) Argo
7 7 (1.79%) Kibana
8 6 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.03%) Puppet
10 3 (0.77%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.51%) Control-M
11 2 (0.51%) Istio
12 1 (0.26%) Icinga
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (8.97%) Databricks
2 18 (4.62%) Oracle
3 13 (3.33%) VMware
4 12 (3.08%) Dell
5 9 (2.31%) Google
5 9 (2.31%) Splunk
6 8 (2.05%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.79%) Confluent
8 6 (1.54%) Pega
9 5 (1.28%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.28%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.28%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.28%) Nokia
9 5 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.28%) SAP
9 5 (1.28%) Solace
10 4 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.03%) Informatica
11 3 (0.77%) Adobe