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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 199 312
Rank change year-on-year -117 +113 -136
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 566 705 586
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.61% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 8.75% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 342 293 436
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,875 £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 10,769 8,053 14,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.13% 18.36% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,022 5,394 10,469
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,978
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 29 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 29 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 -18 380 £87,500 -12.50% 650
North of England -138 66 £75,000 +11.11% 112
North West -90 50 £75,000 +11.11% 58
South East -61 43 £67,500 -6.90% 80
South West -66 34 £85,000 +30.77% 44
Midlands -82 24 £85,000 +23.64% 32
West Midlands -29 22 £85,000 +21.43% 23
East of England -11 20 £72,500 +1.40% 10
North East -56 11 £65,000 +36.84% 16
Yorkshire -43 5 £72,653 -3.13% 38
East Midlands -66 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
1 116 (20.49%) Apache Spark
2 75 (13.25%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (8.83%) Apache
4 15 (2.65%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.88%) Camunda
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.35%) 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 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 341 (60.25%) AWS
2 245 (43.29%) Azure
3 124 (21.91%) GCP
4 79 (13.96%) Serverless
5 71 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (8.66%) Power Platform
7 43 (7.60%) Amazon S3
8 42 (7.42%) Snowflake
9 40 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (6.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (6.89%) dbt
11 38 (6.71%) GitHub
12 30 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (4.95%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.77%) Datadog
15 26 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
17 24 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (3.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.42%) MQTT
2 7 (1.24%) BGP
2 7 (1.24%) DNS
2 7 (1.24%) Network Security
3 6 (1.06%) IPsec
3 6 (1.06%) VPN
4 5 (0.88%) Internet
5 2 (0.35%) 4G
5 2 (0.35%) 5G
5 2 (0.35%) AMQP
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.35%) 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
1 130 (22.97%) NoSQL
2 82 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (12.19%) MongoDB
4 61 (10.78%) Relational Database
5 59 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
6 58 (10.25%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.54%) Data Lake
8 49 (8.66%) Big Data
9 47 (8.30%) Power BI
10 35 (6.18%) Tableau
11 34 (6.01%) MySQL
12 33 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (4.77%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.59%) BigQuery
14 26 (4.59%) Flink
14 26 (4.59%) Hadoop
15 25 (4.42%) DynamoDB
15 25 (4.42%) Snowflake Schema
16 24 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (4.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (13.25%) Git
2 69 (12.19%) GitLab
3 46 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 41 (7.24%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.59%) MLflow
6 16 (2.83%) JIRA
6 16 (2.83%) Selenium
7 13 (2.30%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.59%) JUnit
9 8 (1.41%) Maven
10 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.88%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.88%) 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 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.53%) Gradle
General
1 200 (35.34%) Finance
2 125 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.84%) Banking
4 64 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.06%) Front Office
7 21 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.36%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.83%) Retail
10 15 (2.65%) Marketing
11 12 (2.12%) Law
12 10 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.77%) Military
13 6 (1.06%) Advertising
13 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Games
15 4 (0.71%) Aviation
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (31.80%) Senior
2 122 (21.55%) Developer
3 100 (17.67%) Data Engineer
4 85 (15.02%) Java Engineer
5 80 (14.13%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.60%) Architect
7 59 (10.42%) Lead
8 43 (7.60%) Principal Engineer
9 41 (7.24%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.18%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (5.65%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (5.30%) Python Engineer
13 30 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (5.12%) Principal Java Engineer
15 25 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
16 23 (4.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 23 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (25.97%) Spring
2 131 (23.14%) Spring Boot
3 122 (21.55%) Terraform
4 98 (17.31%) RESTful
5 89 (15.72%) REST
6 84 (14.84%) RabbitMQ
7 60 (10.60%) Node.js
8 45 (7.95%) React
9 39 (6.89%) .NET
9 39 (6.89%) PySpark
10 29 (5.12%) PyTorch
10 29 (5.12%) TensorFlow
11 27 (4.77%) Swagger
12 26 (4.59%) OpenAPI
12 26 (4.59%) pgvector
13 25 (4.42%) LangChain
13 25 (4.42%) scikit-learn
14 23 (4.06%) LlamaIndex
15 22 (3.89%) gRPC
16 20 (3.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 191 (33.75%) Cloud Native
2 137 (24.20%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (10.95%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.89%) Onboarding
5 34 (6.01%) e-Learning
6 26 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.59%) Product Ownership
7 23 (4.06%) Clustering
8 21 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.83%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.83%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.94%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.77%) EPoS
13 10 (1.77%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.24%) Linux
2 7 (1.24%) Unix
2 7 (1.24%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (47.70%) CI/CD
2 253 (44.70%) Microservices
3 231 (40.81%) Event-Driven
4 217 (38.34%) Agile
5 196 (34.63%) DevOps
6 176 (31.10%) AI
7 171 (30.21%) Software Engineering
8 158 (27.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 134 (23.67%) Containerisation
10 130 (22.97%) Data Pipeline
11 127 (22.44%) Mentoring
12 123 (21.73%) Analytics
13 120 (21.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 117 (20.67%) Test Automation
15 109 (19.26%) Data Modelling
16 103 (18.20%) Observability
17 94 (16.61%) Data Engineering
18 93 (16.43%) Machine Learning
19 90 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
20 85 (15.02%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 265 (46.82%) Java
2 262 (46.29%) Python
3 229 (40.46%) SQL
4 63 (11.13%) JavaScript
4 63 (11.13%) TypeScript
5 52 (9.19%) Go
6 45 (7.95%) C#
7 24 (4.24%) Scala
8 20 (3.53%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.65%) Bash
10 13 (2.30%) Rust
11 11 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.77%) RPG
13 9 (1.59%) Groovy
13 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.41%) C++
14 8 (1.41%) PHP
15 7 (1.24%) C
16 6 (1.06%) Ruby
17 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.37%) Degree
3 65 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.66%) AWS Certification
5 34 (6.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 29 (5.12%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.88%) PhD
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) MBA
9 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) OCP
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.84%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.71%) GDPR
3 24 (4.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 20 (3.53%) QA
5 8 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.71%) 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
1 168 (29.68%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 210 (37.10%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.07%) Prometheus
3 30 (5.30%) Grafana
4 27 (4.77%) Ansible
5 12 (2.12%) Argo
6 11 (1.94%) Istio
7 7 (1.24%) Kibana
7 7 (1.24%) Puppet
8 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.88%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
11 2 (0.35%) 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 (12.37%) Databricks
2 59 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.77%) Oracle
4 24 (4.24%) Dell
4 24 (4.24%) IBM
5 23 (4.06%) Cloudera
6 15 (2.65%) Google
7 12 (2.12%) Confluent
7 12 (2.12%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.94%) Splunk
9 10 (1.77%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.24%) Talend
11 6 (1.06%) HP
11 6 (1.06%) SAP
11 6 (1.06%) Solace
12 5 (0.88%) Informatica
12 5 (0.88%) ServiceNow