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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 321 193
Rank change year-on-year +50 -128 -62
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 414 492 804
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 0.85% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 4.04% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 244 313 681
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £133,125 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £97,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -5.88%

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 6,149 12,178 12,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.07% 20.96% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,654 7,374 9,971
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
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

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 December 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 1 December 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 +48 307 £110,000 +15.79% 77
North of England +23 43 £70,500 +28.18% 23
South East +3 28 £70,000 +25.00% 42
North West +44 27 £82,500 +50.00% 16
Yorkshire +3 14 £71,000 +29.09% 6
South West 0 14 £76,250 +27.08% 14
Midlands +49 10 £72,500 +20.83% 9
West Midlands +55 6 £72,500 +20.83% 8
East of England +23 6 £80,000 +3.23% 3
East Midlands +21 4 £93,750 +70.07% 1
North East +12 2 £45,000 -26.09% 1
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 84 (20.29%) Apache Spark
2 54 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (9.66%) Apache
4 9 (2.17%) Confluence
5 6 (1.45%) Apache Pulsar
5 6 (1.45%) Appian
5 6 (1.45%) Mule
5 6 (1.45%) nginx
6 5 (1.21%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (1.21%) IIS
6 5 (1.21%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.97%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.72%) JBoss
8 3 (0.72%) Luigi
8 3 (0.72%) SAS
8 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.48%) Traefik
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.24%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.24%) Endur
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 277 (66.91%) AWS
2 129 (31.16%) Azure
3 97 (23.43%) GCP
4 41 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (9.42%) Serverless
6 34 (8.21%) GitHub
7 29 (7.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 29 (7.00%) Amazon S3
8 26 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (5.07%) Power Platform
11 21 (5.07%) Snowflake
12 18 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.86%) SaaS
14 15 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (3.14%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
18 10 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.45%) DNS
2 4 (0.97%) AMQP
2 4 (0.97%) HTTP
2 4 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.97%) VPN
3 3 (0.72%) FTP
3 3 (0.72%) MQTT
4 2 (0.48%) BGP
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.48%) DHCP
4 2 (0.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.48%) ICMP
4 2 (0.48%) OSPF
4 2 (0.48%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.48%) RTMP
4 2 (0.48%) VLAN
4 2 (0.48%) WAN
4 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (20.53%) NoSQL
2 61 (14.73%) MongoDB
3 58 (14.01%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (13.77%) Big Data
5 50 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (9.42%) Hadoop
7 33 (7.97%) Relational Database
8 32 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (5.80%) Metadata
9 24 (5.80%) SQL Server
10 21 (5.07%) Redis
11 20 (4.83%) DynamoDB
11 20 (4.83%) MySQL
12 15 (3.62%) Power BI
13 13 (3.14%) Flink
14 12 (2.90%) Apache Hive
14 12 (2.90%) BigQuery
14 12 (2.90%) Oracle Database
14 12 (2.90%) RDBMS
15 11 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 49 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.70%) Git
3 20 (4.83%) JIRA
4 17 (4.11%) GitLab
5 15 (3.62%) Selenium
6 13 (3.14%) JUnit
7 11 (2.66%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.42%) JMeter
8 10 (2.42%) MLflow
9 9 (2.17%) Cypress.io
9 9 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.69%) git-flow
10 7 (1.69%) LoadRunner
11 6 (1.45%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.45%) Robot Framework
11 6 (1.45%) Snyk
12 5 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.97%) VisualVM
General
1 204 (49.28%) Finance
2 112 (27.05%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.53%) Front Office
4 55 (13.29%) Banking
4 55 (13.29%) Law
5 48 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (10.87%) Financial Institution
7 44 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.62%) Marketing
8 15 (3.62%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.38%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.42%) Games
11 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.97%) Legal
13 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Billing
14 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (28.02%) Developer
2 108 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 72 (17.39%) Lead
4 69 (16.67%) Senior
5 51 (12.32%) Java Engineer
6 50 (12.08%) Data Engineer
7 39 (9.42%) Java Developer
8 36 (8.70%) Architect
9 35 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (6.52%) Kafka Engineer
11 27 (6.52%) Lead Software Engineer
12 26 (6.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 23 (5.56%) Lead Developer
14 21 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
16 17 (4.11%) Python Engineer
17 16 (3.86%) Kafka Developer
17 16 (3.86%) Lead Software Developer
18 15 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (26.33%) Spring
2 86 (20.77%) React
2 86 (20.77%) Spring Boot
3 65 (15.70%) RESTful
4 52 (12.56%) Node.js
5 51 (12.32%) GraphQL
5 51 (12.32%) RabbitMQ
6 47 (11.35%) REST
7 37 (8.94%) AngularJS
8 29 (7.00%) Redux
9 25 (6.04%) gRPC
10 22 (5.31%) .NET
11 20 (4.83%) Akka
12 18 (4.35%) RxJava
12 18 (4.35%) Spring WebFlux
13 16 (3.86%) JMS
14 15 (3.62%) ActiveMQ
14 15 (3.62%) Middleware
15 14 (3.38%) Jest
15 14 (3.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 105 (25.36%) Cloud Native
2 93 (22.46%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.90%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.25%) Fixed Income
5 28 (6.76%) Data Structures
6 27 (6.52%) Algorithms
7 20 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (4.11%) Management Information System
9 14 (3.38%) FMCG
9 14 (3.38%) Public Cloud
10 13 (3.14%) Distributed Architecture
10 13 (3.14%) e-Learning
10 13 (3.14%) Hedge funds
10 13 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.90%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.93%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (1.93%) Equities
12 8 (1.93%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.76%) Linux
2 11 (2.66%) Windows
3 9 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.45%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Unix
5 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (45.41%) CI/CD
2 181 (43.72%) Agile
3 179 (43.24%) Microservices
4 158 (38.16%) Software Engineering
5 145 (35.02%) DevOps
6 86 (20.77%) Data Pipeline
7 77 (18.60%) Data Modelling
8 74 (17.87%) Fintech
9 73 (17.63%) Event-Driven
10 72 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 70 (16.91%) AI
11 70 (16.91%) Data Engineering
12 68 (16.43%) Analytics
13 67 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (15.94%) Machine Learning
15 65 (15.70%) Containerisation
15 65 (15.70%) ETL
16 64 (15.46%) Test Automation
17 59 (14.25%) Computer Science
18 56 (13.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 233 (56.28%) Java
2 170 (41.06%) Python
3 131 (31.64%) SQL
4 66 (15.94%) TypeScript
5 61 (14.73%) Go
6 51 (12.32%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.21%) C#
8 25 (6.04%) Scala
9 19 (4.59%) Bash
10 18 (4.35%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.14%) C++
12 7 (1.69%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.45%) Groovy
14 3 (0.72%) R
14 3 (0.72%) Rust
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.24%) PHP
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (10.87%) Degree
2 31 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.31%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.62%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.66%) PhD
8 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.48%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.73%) QA
3 18 (4.35%) GDPR
4 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) SEPA
7 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 116 (28.02%) Docker
2 10 (2.42%) HDFS
3 7 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.48%) NFS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 159 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.11%) Terraform
3 28 (6.76%) Ansible
4 17 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.86%) Grafana
6 13 (3.14%) Argo
7 9 (2.17%) Kibana
7 9 (2.17%) Puppet
8 8 (1.93%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.21%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.97%) logstash
11 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.72%) Podman
12 2 (0.48%) Control-M
12 2 (0.48%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.48%) Mesos
12 2 (0.48%) Oozie
13 1 (0.24%) Icinga
13 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (11.59%) Databricks
2 33 (7.97%) Oracle
3 21 (5.07%) SAP
4 17 (4.11%) VMware
5 14 (3.38%) Google
6 11 (2.66%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.17%) Splunk
8 6 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.45%) Black Duck
8 6 (1.45%) Confluent
8 6 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.45%) UiPath
9 5 (1.21%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.21%) Coverity
9 5 (1.21%) Informatica
10 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.97%) Dell
10 4 (0.97%) Ericsson
10 4 (0.97%) Nokia
10 4 (0.97%) Salesforce