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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 201 323
Rank change year-on-year -126 +122 -135
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 564 684 569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.59% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 9.15% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 334 272 389
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,188 £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 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £78,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.85% +17.86% -15.15%

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 10,753 7,475 14,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 17.37% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,821 4,934 9,202
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,135 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 28 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 28 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 -28 346 £85,000 -19.05% 588
North of England -118 89 £67,500 -3.57% 134
North West -87 67 £75,000 +7.14% 85
South East -64 49 £69,000 -1.43% 41
South West -82 35 £85,000 +25.93% 43
Midlands -86 31 £85,000 +25.93% 29
West Midlands -34 30 £85,000 +51.11% 21
East of England -30 20 £72,500 +1.40% 20
North East -53 18 £65,000 +36.84% 16
Yorkshire -30 8 £66,805 -10.93% 33
East Midlands -77 1 £71,500 +5.93% 8
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 89 (15.78%) Apache Spark
2 44 (7.80%) Apache
3 41 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.84%) Confluence
5 6 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
6 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.71%) Camunda
8 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.35%) Luigi
9 2 (0.35%) Tornado
9 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) 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
1 331 (58.69%) AWS
2 219 (38.83%) Azure
3 81 (14.36%) GCP
3 81 (14.36%) Serverless
4 71 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (8.69%) Amazon S3
6 46 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (7.98%) GitHub
8 40 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
12 27 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
12 27 (4.79%) Power Platform
13 25 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (3.72%) Amazon EMR
15 21 (3.72%) Datadog
16 19 (3.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.32%) MQTT
2 9 (1.60%) DNS
2 9 (1.60%) Internet
3 6 (1.06%) BGP
3 6 (1.06%) IPsec
3 6 (1.06%) Network Security
3 6 (1.06%) VPN
4 4 (0.71%) 4G
4 4 (0.71%) 5G
4 4 (0.71%) HTTP
5 3 (0.53%) SSH
5 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.35%) AMQP
6 2 (0.35%) WAN
7 1 (0.18%) ATM
7 1 (0.18%) Broadband
7 1 (0.18%) LAN
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (24.11%) NoSQL
2 93 (16.49%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (14.54%) MongoDB
4 59 (10.46%) Relational Database
5 46 (8.16%) Big Data
6 34 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (5.85%) Data Lake
8 32 (5.67%) Redis
9 31 (5.50%) MySQL
10 28 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (4.61%) Hadoop
11 26 (4.61%) SQL Server
12 25 (4.43%) Power BI
13 24 (4.26%) Flink
14 22 (3.90%) DynamoDB
15 18 (3.19%) Metadata
16 17 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (2.84%) Tableau
18 14 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 90 (15.96%) Git
2 83 (14.72%) GitLab
3 57 (10.11%) Jenkins
4 51 (9.04%) Cucumber
5 16 (2.84%) JIRA
5 16 (2.84%) Selenium
6 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
6 8 (1.42%) Maven
7 7 (1.24%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.06%) JUnit
9 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.89%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.53%) Gatling
12 2 (0.35%) git-flow
12 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.35%) XCTest
12 2 (0.35%) XCUITest
General
1 184 (32.62%) Finance
2 127 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.17%) Banking
4 45 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.01%) Retail
9 16 (2.84%) Front Office
10 15 (2.66%) Marketing
10 15 (2.66%) Publishing
11 12 (2.13%) Law
12 10 (1.77%) Military
13 7 (1.24%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.06%) Advertising
14 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.89%) Aviation
15 5 (0.89%) Games
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 183 (32.45%) Senior
2 119 (21.10%) Developer
3 97 (17.20%) Data Engineer
4 89 (15.78%) Java Engineer
5 88 (15.60%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.64%) Architect
7 58 (10.28%) Lead
8 50 (8.87%) Senior Developer
9 48 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
10 41 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (6.74%) Java Developer
11 38 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
12 35 (6.21%) Senior Data Engineer
13 33 (5.85%) Python Engineer
14 32 (5.67%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (4.26%) Backend Developer
16 22 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (3.72%) Kafka Engineer
18 20 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
18 20 (3.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (32.09%) Spring
2 162 (28.72%) Spring Boot
3 115 (20.39%) Terraform
4 103 (18.26%) RESTful
5 96 (17.02%) REST
6 88 (15.60%) RabbitMQ
7 62 (10.99%) Node.js
8 52 (9.22%) React
9 39 (6.91%) .NET
9 39 (6.91%) PySpark
10 30 (5.32%) Swagger
11 29 (5.14%) OpenAPI
12 27 (4.79%) FastAPI
13 26 (4.61%) Keycloak
14 20 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (3.55%) gRPC
14 20 (3.55%) Middleware
15 17 (3.01%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.01%) Hibernate
16 16 (2.84%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 179 (31.74%) Cloud Native
2 154 (27.30%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 42 (7.45%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.91%) Onboarding
6 35 (6.21%) Product Ownership
7 32 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.48%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (2.48%) Replication
12 12 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.13%) Media Streaming
12 12 (2.13%) Podcast
13 11 (1.95%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.77%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.80%) Linux
2 8 (1.42%) Windows
3 7 (1.24%) Unix
4 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.35%) Android
5 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (53.01%) CI/CD
2 263 (46.63%) Event-Driven
2 263 (46.63%) Microservices
3 255 (45.21%) Agile
4 210 (37.23%) DevOps
5 172 (30.50%) Software Engineering
6 169 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 159 (28.19%) AI
8 151 (26.77%) Mentoring
9 136 (24.11%) Containerisation
9 136 (24.11%) Test Automation
10 131 (23.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 124 (21.99%) Observability
12 110 (19.50%) Data Pipeline
13 102 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
15 95 (16.84%) Analytics
16 93 (16.49%) Roadmaps
17 85 (15.07%) Data Modelling
18 70 (12.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 284 (50.35%) Java
2 223 (39.54%) Python
3 197 (34.93%) SQL
4 76 (13.48%) TypeScript
5 64 (11.35%) JavaScript
6 43 (7.62%) C#
7 35 (6.21%) Go
8 28 (4.96%) Scala
9 21 (3.72%) Bash
10 19 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.66%) Groovy
12 12 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.95%) PHP
14 10 (1.77%) RPG
14 10 (1.77%) Rust
15 7 (1.24%) C
15 7 (1.24%) C++
15 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.06%) Ruby
16 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 116 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 93 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.52%) Degree
4 59 (10.46%) AWS Certification
5 42 (7.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.21%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (5.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.89%) PhD
10 5 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
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 64 (11.35%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.43%) QA
3 12 (2.13%) GDPR
4 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.06%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.53%) NIST
5 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.53%) PSD2
5 3 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Basel III
6 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (32.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 231 (40.96%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.27%) Prometheus
3 35 (6.21%) Grafana
4 19 (3.37%) Ansible
5 11 (1.95%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Rancher
7 7 (1.24%) Kibana
8 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
9 5 (0.89%) Puppet
10 3 (0.53%) Cilium
11 2 (0.35%) Control-M
11 2 (0.35%) Istio
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.57%) Databricks
3 27 (4.79%) Oracle
4 25 (4.43%) IBM
5 23 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.66%) Google
7 11 (1.95%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.95%) Splunk
8 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.42%) Confluent
10 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.06%) HP
11 6 (1.06%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.06%) SAP
11 6 (1.06%) Solace
12 5 (0.89%) Informatica
13 4 (0.71%) Adobe
13 4 (0.71%) Talend
13 4 (0.71%) WSO2