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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 197 323
Rank change year-on-year -117 +126 -148
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 555 704 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.60% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.18% 8.75% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 332 292 431
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,938 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +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 10,723 8,049 14,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.03% 18.35% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,974 5,390 10,428
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,380
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -27 368 £87,500 -12.50% 352
North of England -152 66 £75,000 +11.11% 65
North West -87 50 £75,000 +11.11% 31
South East -53 43 £67,500 -6.90% 63
South West -70 34 £85,000 +30.77% 35
Midlands -80 25 £85,000 +23.64% 15
West Midlands -34 23 £85,000 +21.43% 9
East of England -11 20 £72,500 +1.40% 5
North East -55 11 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Yorkshire -41 5 £72,653 -3.13% 25
East Midlands -65 2 £71,500 +5.93% 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
1 116 (20.90%) Apache Spark
2 74 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (9.01%) Apache
4 15 (2.70%) Confluence
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.90%) Camunda
6 4 (0.72%) 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%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (1.98%) 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
1 330 (59.46%) AWS
2 245 (44.14%) Azure
3 120 (21.62%) GCP
4 76 (13.69%) Serverless
5 70 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (8.65%) Power Platform
7 41 (7.39%) Amazon S3
7 41 (7.39%) Snowflake
8 39 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (6.85%) dbt
9 38 (6.85%) GitHub
10 30 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (4.68%) Datadog
13 25 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.50%) MQTT
2 7 (1.26%) BGP
2 7 (1.26%) DNS
3 6 (1.08%) IPsec
3 6 (1.08%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) VPN
4 5 (0.90%) 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
1 129 (23.24%) NoSQL
2 82 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (12.43%) MongoDB
4 61 (10.99%) Relational Database
5 59 (10.63%) Data Warehouse
6 58 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.73%) Data Lake
8 49 (8.83%) Big Data
9 46 (8.29%) Power BI
10 34 (6.13%) Tableau
11 33 (5.95%) MySQL
12 32 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (5.05%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.68%) BigQuery
14 26 (4.68%) Flink
14 26 (4.68%) Hadoop
15 25 (4.50%) DynamoDB
16 24 (4.32%) Looker
16 24 (4.32%) Milvus
16 24 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (13.33%) Git
2 68 (12.25%) GitLab
3 45 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 41 (7.39%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.68%) MLflow
6 16 (2.88%) JIRA
6 16 (2.88%) Selenium
7 12 (2.16%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.44%) JUnit
9 7 (1.26%) Maven
10 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.90%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.90%) Postman
11 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.72%) Mockito
11 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.36%) HP UFT
General
1 190 (34.23%) Finance
2 124 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 65 (11.71%) Banking
4 64 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.42%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.88%) Front Office
8 16 (2.88%) Retail
9 15 (2.70%) Marketing
10 12 (2.16%) Law
11 10 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.80%) Military
12 6 (1.08%) Advertising
12 6 (1.08%) Games
12 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.72%) Aviation
13 4 (0.72%) Billing
13 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (32.61%) Senior
2 115 (20.72%) Developer
3 99 (17.84%) Data Engineer
4 82 (14.77%) Java Engineer
5 72 (12.97%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.81%) Architect
7 54 (9.73%) Lead
8 43 (7.75%) Principal Engineer
8 43 (7.75%) Senior Developer
9 33 (5.95%) Java Developer
9 33 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (5.77%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (5.41%) Python Engineer
11 30 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 29 (5.23%) Principal Java Engineer
13 23 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (4.14%) Backend Developer
13 23 (4.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (3.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (26.49%) Spring
2 131 (23.60%) Spring Boot
3 120 (21.62%) Terraform
4 98 (17.66%) RESTful
5 89 (16.04%) REST
6 82 (14.77%) RabbitMQ
7 53 (9.55%) Node.js
8 40 (7.21%) .NET
9 38 (6.85%) PySpark
10 37 (6.67%) React
11 29 (5.23%) PyTorch
11 29 (5.23%) TensorFlow
12 27 (4.86%) Swagger
13 26 (4.68%) OpenAPI
13 26 (4.68%) pgvector
14 25 (4.50%) LangChain
14 25 (4.50%) scikit-learn
15 23 (4.14%) LlamaIndex
16 22 (3.96%) gRPC
17 20 (3.60%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 191 (34.41%) Cloud Native
2 136 (24.50%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (11.17%) Public Cloud
4 39 (7.03%) Onboarding
5 34 (6.13%) e-Learning
6 27 (4.86%) Product Ownership
7 26 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (4.14%) Clustering
9 21 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.88%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.52%) Data Structures
12 14 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.98%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.80%) EPoS
15 10 (1.80%) iSeries
16 9 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.39%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Unix
2 7 (1.26%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (48.29%) CI/CD
2 250 (45.05%) Microservices
3 229 (41.26%) Event-Driven
4 210 (37.84%) Agile
5 193 (34.77%) DevOps
6 176 (31.71%) AI
7 161 (29.01%) Software Engineering
8 157 (28.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (23.78%) Containerisation
10 129 (23.24%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (22.70%) Mentoring
12 123 (22.16%) Analytics
13 119 (21.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 117 (21.08%) Test Automation
15 109 (19.64%) Data Modelling
16 103 (18.56%) Observability
17 93 (16.76%) Data Engineering
17 93 (16.76%) Machine Learning
18 89 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
19 84 (15.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 256 (46.13%) Java
2 254 (45.77%) Python
3 228 (41.08%) SQL
4 56 (10.09%) TypeScript
5 55 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 46 (8.29%) C#
7 42 (7.57%) Go
8 24 (4.32%) Scala
9 19 (3.42%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.52%) Bash
11 13 (2.34%) Rust
12 11 (1.98%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.80%) RPG
14 9 (1.62%) Groovy
14 9 (1.62%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.44%) C++
16 7 (1.26%) C
16 7 (1.26%) PHP
17 6 (1.08%) Ruby
18 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.61%) Degree
3 65 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.83%) AWS Certification
5 34 (6.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 29 (5.23%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.90%) PhD
9 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.72%) MBA
9 4 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
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 67 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.67%) GDPR
3 24 (4.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 20 (3.60%) QA
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.72%) 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
1 165 (29.73%) Docker
2 8 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 207 (37.30%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.03%) Prometheus
3 29 (5.23%) Grafana
4 26 (4.68%) Ansible
5 12 (2.16%) Argo
6 11 (1.98%) Istio
7 7 (1.26%) Kibana
7 7 (1.26%) Puppet
8 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.90%) Podman
10 4 (0.72%) Cilium
11 2 (0.36%) kaniko
11 2 (0.36%) 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%) Rancher
Vendors
1 70 (12.61%) Databricks
2 59 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.86%) Oracle
4 24 (4.32%) Dell
4 24 (4.32%) IBM
5 23 (4.14%) Cloudera
6 15 (2.70%) Google
7 12 (2.16%) Confluent
7 12 (2.16%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.98%) Splunk
9 10 (1.80%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.26%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.26%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.26%) Talend
11 6 (1.08%) HP
11 6 (1.08%) SAP
12 5 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.90%) Solace