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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 210 321
Rank change year-on-year -97 +111 -145
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 562 708 598
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.62% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.83% 9.42% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 345 296 457
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9,641 7,516 13,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 17.17% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,193 4,991 10,099
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 19 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 19 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 -21 379 £90,000 -10.00% 372
North of England -131 65 £75,000 +11.88% 57
North West -90 49 £75,000 +11.49% 29
South East -53 46 £67,500 -6.90% 61
South West -63 33 £85,000 +30.77% 23
Midlands -87 21 £85,000 +25.93% 19
West Midlands -37 19 £85,000 +41.67% 14
East of England -26 17 £72,500 +1.40% 12
North East -51 11 £65,000 +36.84% 13
Yorkshire -26 5 £72,653 -3.13% 15
East Midlands -59 2 £71,500 +5.93% 5
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
1 118 (21.00%) Apache Spark
2 81 (14.41%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (9.07%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) 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%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
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 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 350 (62.28%) AWS
2 236 (41.99%) Azure
3 126 (22.42%) GCP
4 78 (13.88%) Serverless
5 71 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (8.54%) Snowflake
7 46 (8.19%) Power Platform
8 45 (8.01%) dbt
9 43 (7.65%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (6.58%) GitHub
12 30 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (5.16%) Datadog
14 28 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (4.27%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.27%) MQTT
2 7 (1.25%) BGP
2 7 (1.25%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) DNS
3 6 (1.07%) IPsec
3 6 (1.07%) VPN
4 5 (0.89%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) Broadband
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.18%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (22.78%) NoSQL
2 78 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (11.74%) MongoDB
4 63 (11.21%) Relational Database
5 58 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (10.14%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.61%) Data Lake
8 50 (8.90%) Big Data
9 44 (7.83%) Power BI
10 34 (6.05%) MySQL
10 34 (6.05%) Tableau
11 33 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (4.80%) SQL Server
13 26 (4.63%) BigQuery
13 26 (4.63%) DynamoDB
13 26 (4.63%) Flink
13 26 (4.63%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.45%) Looker
15 24 (4.27%) Redis
15 24 (4.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (12.99%) Git
2 68 (12.10%) GitLab
3 43 (7.65%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.76%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.63%) MLflow
6 16 (2.85%) JIRA
7 15 (2.67%) CircleCI
7 15 (2.67%) Selenium
8 8 (1.42%) JUnit
9 7 (1.25%) Maven
10 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.53%) Mockito
13 2 (0.36%) WinDbg
General
1 209 (37.19%) Finance
2 126 (22.42%) Social Skills
3 68 (12.10%) Banking
4 67 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.69%) Front Office
7 19 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.20%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.85%) Retail
10 14 (2.49%) Marketing
11 12 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.14%) Law
12 10 (1.78%) Military
13 6 (1.07%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.53%) Games
15 3 (0.53%) Publishing
15 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (29.72%) Senior
2 123 (21.89%) Developer
3 103 (18.33%) Data Engineer
4 86 (15.30%) Java Engineer
5 84 (14.95%) Software Engineer
6 64 (11.39%) Lead
7 58 (10.32%) Architect
8 42 (7.47%) Principal Engineer
9 33 (5.87%) Senior Developer
10 32 (5.69%) Java Developer
10 32 (5.69%) Senior Java Engineer
10 32 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.52%) Python Engineer
12 29 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (4.98%) Principal Java Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 23 (4.09%) Lead Developer
15 23 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (25.09%) Spring
2 124 (22.06%) Spring Boot
3 95 (16.90%) RESTful
4 81 (14.41%) REST
5 80 (14.23%) RabbitMQ
6 65 (11.57%) Node.js
7 54 (9.61%) React
8 38 (6.76%) .NET
8 38 (6.76%) PySpark
9 29 (5.16%) PyTorch
9 29 (5.16%) TensorFlow
10 27 (4.80%) GraphQL
11 25 (4.45%) pgvector
11 25 (4.45%) scikit-learn
12 24 (4.27%) LangChain
13 23 (4.09%) gRPC
13 23 (4.09%) LlamaIndex
14 21 (3.74%) Swagger
15 20 (3.56%) OpenAPI
15 20 (3.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 183 (32.56%) Cloud Native
2 130 (23.13%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (10.68%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.94%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.69%) e-Learning
6 25 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (4.09%) Clustering
7 23 (4.09%) Fixed Income
7 23 (4.09%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (2.67%) AI Agents
10 15 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (2.31%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.78%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.78%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.65%) Linux
2 9 (1.60%) Unix
3 8 (1.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (47.86%) CI/CD
2 241 (42.88%) Microservices
3 219 (38.97%) Agile
4 213 (37.90%) Event-Driven
5 191 (33.99%) DevOps
6 174 (30.96%) Software Engineering
7 172 (30.60%) AI
8 157 (27.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (24.20%) Containerisation
10 134 (23.84%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (22.42%) Mentoring
12 124 (22.06%) Analytics
13 114 (20.28%) Test Automation
14 111 (19.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 106 (18.86%) Data Modelling
16 104 (18.51%) Observability
17 94 (16.73%) Data Engineering
18 93 (16.55%) Machine Learning
19 91 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
20 84 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 275 (48.93%) Python
2 263 (46.80%) Java
3 231 (41.10%) SQL
4 72 (12.81%) JavaScript
5 71 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 60 (10.68%) Go
7 47 (8.36%) C#
8 22 (3.91%) Scala
9 19 (3.38%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.02%) Rust
11 14 (2.49%) Bash
12 11 (1.96%) C++
12 11 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.42%) Groovy
15 8 (1.42%) PHP
16 7 (1.25%) C
17 6 (1.07%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 88 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.28%) Degree
3 62 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.36%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 27 (4.80%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.89%) PhD
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) MBA
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.92%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.94%) GDPR
3 24 (4.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.20%) QA
5 9 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
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%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (29.54%) Docker
2 8 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 206 (36.65%) Kubernetes
2 130 (23.13%) Terraform
3 43 (7.65%) Prometheus
4 32 (5.69%) Grafana
5 29 (5.16%) Ansible
6 11 (1.96%) 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 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
Vendors
1 70 (12.46%) Databricks
2 57 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.27%) Dell
4 23 (4.09%) Cloudera
4 23 (4.09%) Oracle
5 21 (3.74%) IBM
6 17 (3.02%) Google
7 13 (2.31%) Confluent
8 11 (1.96%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.96%) Splunk
9 10 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.25%) Solace
11 7 (1.25%) Talend
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe