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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 203 312
Rank change year-on-year -114 +109 -133
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 560 697 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.59% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.22% 8.72% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 334 285 431
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 10,724 7,997 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.04% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 5,346 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 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 1 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 -18 372 £87,500 -12.50% 632
North of England -132 66 £75,000 +11.11% 105
North West -93 50 £75,000 +11.11% 55
South East -63 43 £67,500 -6.90% 80
South West -74 34 £85,000 +30.77% 47
Midlands -89 26 £85,000 +23.64% 28
West Midlands -29 24 £85,000 +21.43% 19
East of England -18 20 £72,500 +1.40% 12
North East -55 11 £65,000 +36.84% 16
Yorkshire -41 5 £72,653 -3.13% 34
East Midlands -60 2 £71,500 +5.93% 9
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
1 115 (20.54%) Apache Spark
2 74 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (8.75%) Apache
4 15 (2.68%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.89%) Camunda
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.36%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 336 (60.00%) AWS
2 244 (43.57%) Azure
3 121 (21.61%) GCP
4 77 (13.75%) Serverless
5 72 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (8.39%) Power Platform
7 41 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 41 (7.32%) Snowflake
8 39 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (6.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (6.79%) dbt
9 38 (6.79%) GitHub
10 30 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (4.82%) Datadog
12 26 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (3.75%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.46%) MQTT
2 7 (1.25%) BGP
2 7 (1.25%) DNS
3 6 (1.07%) IPsec
3 6 (1.07%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) VPN
4 5 (0.89%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) 4G
5 2 (0.36%) 5G
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) Broadband
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (23.57%) NoSQL
2 84 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 60 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 58 (10.36%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (10.36%) Elasticsearch
6 53 (9.46%) Data Lake
7 49 (8.75%) Big Data
8 45 (8.04%) Power BI
9 34 (6.07%) Tableau
10 33 (5.89%) MySQL
11 32 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (5.00%) SQL Server
13 26 (4.64%) BigQuery
13 26 (4.64%) Flink
13 26 (4.64%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (4.46%) DynamoDB
15 24 (4.29%) Looker
15 24 (4.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (13.39%) Git
2 70 (12.50%) GitLab
3 47 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 43 (7.68%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.64%) MLflow
6 16 (2.86%) JIRA
6 16 (2.86%) Selenium
7 12 (2.14%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.43%) JUnit
9 7 (1.25%) Maven
10 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.71%) Mockito
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.36%) HP UFT
General
1 192 (34.29%) Finance
2 125 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.96%) Banking
4 64 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.86%) Front Office
8 16 (2.86%) Retail
9 15 (2.68%) Marketing
10 12 (2.14%) Law
11 10 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.79%) Military
12 6 (1.07%) Advertising
12 6 (1.07%) Games
12 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.71%) Aviation
13 4 (0.71%) Billing
13 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 183 (32.68%) Senior
2 116 (20.71%) Developer
3 98 (17.50%) Data Engineer
4 84 (15.00%) Java Engineer
5 72 (12.86%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.71%) Architect
7 54 (9.64%) Lead
8 44 (7.86%) Principal Engineer
8 44 (7.86%) Senior Developer
9 34 (6.07%) Java Developer
10 33 (5.89%) Senior Java Engineer
10 33 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.36%) Principal Java Engineer
11 30 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 30 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (4.11%) Backend Developer
13 23 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (26.79%) Spring
2 134 (23.93%) Spring Boot
3 122 (21.79%) Terraform
4 98 (17.50%) RESTful
5 88 (15.71%) REST
6 82 (14.64%) RabbitMQ
7 53 (9.46%) Node.js
8 40 (7.14%) .NET
9 37 (6.61%) PySpark
9 37 (6.61%) React
10 29 (5.18%) PyTorch
10 29 (5.18%) TensorFlow
11 27 (4.82%) Swagger
12 26 (4.64%) OpenAPI
12 26 (4.64%) pgvector
13 25 (4.46%) LangChain
13 25 (4.46%) scikit-learn
14 23 (4.11%) LlamaIndex
15 22 (3.93%) gRPC
16 20 (3.57%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 193 (34.46%) Cloud Native
2 139 (24.82%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (11.43%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 36 (6.43%) e-Learning
6 28 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 27 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (4.11%) Clustering
9 21 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.86%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.50%) Data Structures
12 14 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.79%) EPoS
15 10 (1.79%) iSeries
16 9 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.32%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Unix
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 252 (45.00%) Microservices
3 232 (41.43%) Event-Driven
4 215 (38.39%) Agile
5 194 (34.64%) DevOps
6 176 (31.43%) AI
7 162 (28.93%) Software Engineering
8 161 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (23.57%) Containerisation
10 130 (23.21%) Mentoring
11 128 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
12 123 (21.96%) Analytics
13 121 (21.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 121 (21.61%) Test Automation
14 108 (19.29%) Data Modelling
15 107 (19.11%) Observability
16 92 (16.43%) Data Engineering
16 92 (16.43%) Machine Learning
17 89 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
18 83 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 259 (46.25%) Java
2 256 (45.71%) Python
3 229 (40.89%) SQL
4 56 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 55 (9.82%) JavaScript
6 46 (8.21%) C#
7 43 (7.68%) Go
8 23 (4.11%) Scala
9 19 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.86%) Bash
11 13 (2.32%) Rust
12 11 (1.96%) Groovy
12 11 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.79%) RPG
14 9 (1.61%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.43%) C++
16 7 (1.25%) C
16 7 (1.25%) PHP
17 6 (1.07%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.32%) Degree
3 68 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 51 (9.11%) AWS Certification
5 36 (6.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 28 (5.00%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.89%) PhD
10 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.71%) MBA
10 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.36%) OCP
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.79%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.61%) GDPR
3 24 (4.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 20 (3.57%) QA
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.54%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.54%) PSD2
8 3 (0.54%) 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
1 167 (29.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 209 (37.32%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.32%) Prometheus
3 31 (5.54%) Grafana
4 26 (4.64%) Ansible
5 12 (2.14%) Argo
6 11 (1.96%) Istio
7 7 (1.25%) Kibana
7 7 (1.25%) Puppet
8 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 3 (0.54%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 2 (0.36%) Salt
13 1 (0.18%) Control-M
13 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 69 (12.32%) Databricks
2 58 (10.36%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.82%) Oracle
4 24 (4.29%) Dell
4 24 (4.29%) IBM
5 23 (4.11%) Cloudera
6 15 (2.68%) Google
7 14 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.14%) Confluent
9 11 (1.96%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.96%) Splunk
10 10 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.25%) Talend
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
13 5 (0.89%) Solace