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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 206 324
Rank change year-on-year -112 +118 -133
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 567 686 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.58% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 8.92% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 341 274 414
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +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 10,779 7,693 14,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.76% 17.70% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,967 5,087 9,811
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -28 368 £87,500 -15.46% 475
North of England -114 73 £75,000 +7.14% 84
North West -92 55 £75,000 +7.14% 43
South East -58 44 £67,500 -4.59% 63
South West -74 36 £85,000 +25.93% 26
Midlands -84 29 £85,000 +25.93% 16
West Midlands -31 27 £85,000 +51.11% 12
East of England -29 21 £72,500 -4.29% 11
North East -50 12 £67,500 +42.11% 10
Yorkshire -49 6 £78,500 +4.67% 31
East Midlands -72 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
1 106 (18.69%) Apache Spark
2 64 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (8.47%) Apache
4 15 (2.65%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.88%) Camunda
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 338 (59.61%) AWS
2 234 (41.27%) Azure
3 106 (18.69%) GCP
4 78 (13.76%) Serverless
5 72 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (7.76%) Amazon S3
7 43 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (6.88%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.70%) GitHub
10 33 (5.82%) Snowflake
11 32 (5.64%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (5.11%) dbt
13 28 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
15 26 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (4.41%) Datadog
17 22 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.76%) MQTT
2 9 (1.59%) DNS
3 7 (1.23%) BGP
4 6 (1.06%) Internet
4 6 (1.06%) IPsec
4 6 (1.06%) Network Security
4 6 (1.06%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) 4G
5 4 (0.71%) 5G
5 4 (0.71%) HTTP
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) ATM
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (24.51%) NoSQL
2 91 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (13.40%) MongoDB
4 59 (10.41%) Relational Database
5 51 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (8.64%) Big Data
6 49 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (7.76%) Data Lake
8 37 (6.53%) Power BI
9 36 (6.35%) MySQL
10 30 (5.29%) Redis
11 28 (4.94%) Tableau
12 27 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (4.76%) SQL Server
13 26 (4.59%) Flink
13 26 (4.59%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (4.23%) DynamoDB
16 18 (3.17%) BigQuery
17 16 (2.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 80 (14.11%) Git
2 74 (13.05%) GitLab
3 50 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 45 (7.94%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.17%) Selenium
6 16 (2.82%) MLflow
7 15 (2.65%) JIRA
8 10 (1.76%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.41%) JUnit
9 8 (1.41%) Maven
10 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.88%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.88%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Mockito
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.35%) Gradle
12 2 (0.35%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 190 (33.51%) Finance
2 124 (21.87%) Social Skills
3 64 (11.29%) Banking
4 57 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.82%) Retail
9 15 (2.65%) Front Office
9 15 (2.65%) Marketing
10 12 (2.12%) Law
11 10 (1.76%) Military
12 9 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.23%) Publishing
14 6 (1.06%) Advertising
14 6 (1.06%) Games
14 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.88%) Aviation
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 186 (32.80%) Senior
2 120 (21.16%) Developer
3 101 (17.81%) Data Engineer
4 88 (15.52%) Java Engineer
5 76 (13.40%) Software Engineer
6 58 (10.23%) Architect
7 56 (9.88%) Lead
8 49 (8.64%) Senior Developer
9 46 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.35%) Java Developer
10 36 (6.35%) Senior Java Engineer
11 35 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (5.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 31 (5.47%) Principal Java Engineer
13 31 (5.47%) Python Engineer
14 26 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (4.41%) Python Developer
16 24 (4.23%) Backend Developer
17 23 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
18 21 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (28.57%) Spring
2 145 (25.57%) Spring Boot
3 121 (21.34%) Terraform
4 99 (17.46%) RESTful
5 92 (16.23%) REST
6 89 (15.70%) RabbitMQ
7 56 (9.88%) Node.js
8 39 (6.88%) .NET
8 39 (6.88%) React
9 37 (6.53%) PySpark
10 29 (5.11%) Swagger
11 28 (4.94%) OpenAPI
12 24 (4.23%) FastAPI
13 21 (3.70%) gRPC
13 21 (3.70%) Keycloak
13 21 (3.70%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.70%) TensorFlow
14 19 (3.35%) Apache NiFi
14 19 (3.35%) Hibernate
15 18 (3.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 188 (33.16%) Cloud Native
2 144 (25.40%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (10.23%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.88%) Onboarding
5 38 (6.70%) e-Learning
6 31 (5.47%) Product Ownership
7 28 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.82%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.65%) Clustering
11 14 (2.47%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.94%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.94%) Replication
14 10 (1.76%) EPoS
14 10 (1.76%) iSeries
15 9 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.76%) Linux
2 7 (1.23%) Unix
2 7 (1.23%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (49.74%) CI/CD
2 256 (45.15%) Microservices
3 244 (43.03%) Event-Driven
4 226 (39.86%) Agile
5 199 (35.10%) DevOps
6 171 (30.16%) AI
6 171 (30.16%) Software Engineering
7 168 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 139 (24.51%) Mentoring
9 135 (23.81%) Containerisation
10 128 (22.57%) Test Automation
11 126 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 125 (22.05%) Data Pipeline
13 115 (20.28%) Observability
14 112 (19.75%) Analytics
15 98 (17.28%) Data Modelling
16 90 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 90 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
17 85 (14.99%) Data Engineering
18 84 (14.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 268 (47.27%) Java
2 251 (44.27%) Python
3 219 (38.62%) SQL
4 63 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 57 (10.05%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.76%) C#
7 42 (7.41%) Go
8 25 (4.41%) Scala
9 20 (3.53%) Bash
10 19 (3.35%) Kotlin
11 14 (2.47%) Groovy
12 12 (2.12%) Rust
13 11 (1.94%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.76%) RPG
15 8 (1.41%) PHP
15 8 (1.41%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.23%) C
16 7 (1.23%) C++
17 6 (1.06%) Ruby
17 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 80 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.64%) Degree
4 54 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 38 (6.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (5.64%) DV Cleared
7 31 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (5.29%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.88%) PhD
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
11 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.35%) OCP
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.64%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.94%) GDPR
3 23 (4.06%) QA
4 16 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.53%) NIST
8 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.53%) PSD2
8 3 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 171 (30.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 215 (37.92%) Kubernetes
2 44 (7.76%) Prometheus
3 35 (6.17%) Grafana
4 23 (4.06%) Ansible
5 12 (2.12%) Argo
6 9 (1.59%) Istio
7 7 (1.23%) Kibana
7 7 (1.23%) Puppet
8 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.06%) Rancher
9 5 (0.88%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
11 2 (0.35%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Control-M
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (10.76%) Databricks
2 56 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.59%) Oracle
4 24 (4.23%) IBM
5 18 (3.17%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.82%) Dell
7 15 (2.65%) Cloudera
7 15 (2.65%) Google
8 11 (1.94%) Confluent
8 11 (1.94%) Splunk
9 10 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.23%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.06%) HP
12 6 (1.06%) SAP
12 6 (1.06%) Talend
13 5 (0.88%) Informatica
13 5 (0.88%) Solace