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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 203 313
Rank change year-on-year -119 +110 -121
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 561 689 568
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.58% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 8.93% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 336 276 411
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £66,250 £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 £98,125 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £124,375 £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 10,781 7,717 14,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.81% 17.74% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,969 5,109 9,773
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 10 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 10 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 -37 364 £87,500 -12.50% 354
North of England -129 72 £75,000 +7.14% 73
North West -81 54 £75,000 +7.14% 37
South East -38 43 £67,500 -4.59% 54
South West -78 36 £85,000 +30.77% 29
Midlands -81 29 £85,000 +25.93% 11
West Midlands -29 27 £85,000 +51.11% 9
East of England -26 21 £72,500 -15.45% 5
North East -53 12 £67,500 +42.11% 8
Yorkshire -48 6 £78,500 +4.67% 28
East Midlands -64 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
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
1 105 (18.72%) Apache Spark
2 65 (11.59%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (8.56%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.89%) Camunda
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
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%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) 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
1 332 (59.18%) AWS
2 235 (41.89%) Azure
3 107 (19.07%) GCP
4 75 (13.37%) Serverless
5 72 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (7.66%) Amazon S3
7 40 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (6.95%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.77%) GitHub
10 33 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 31 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
12 30 (5.35%) dbt
13 29 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 28 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
16 26 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
17 25 (4.46%) Datadog
18 21 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.81%) MQTT
2 9 (1.60%) DNS
3 7 (1.25%) BGP
4 6 (1.07%) IPsec
4 6 (1.07%) Network Security
4 6 (1.07%) VPN
5 5 (0.89%) Internet
6 4 (0.71%) 4G
6 4 (0.71%) 5G
6 4 (0.71%) HTTP
6 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) SSH
8 2 (0.36%) AMQP
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) ATM
9 1 (0.18%) Broadband
9 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.18%) LAN
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (24.42%) NoSQL
2 88 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (13.37%) MongoDB
4 59 (10.52%) Relational Database
5 51 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (8.73%) Big Data
6 49 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (7.66%) Data Lake
8 37 (6.60%) Power BI
9 36 (6.42%) MySQL
10 28 (4.99%) Tableau
11 27 (4.81%) Redis
11 27 (4.81%) SQL Server
12 26 (4.63%) Flink
12 26 (4.63%) Hadoop
13 24 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (4.28%) DynamoDB
14 18 (3.21%) BigQuery
15 16 (2.85%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (13.73%) Git
2 74 (13.19%) GitLab
3 47 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 45 (8.02%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.21%) Selenium
6 16 (2.85%) MLflow
7 15 (2.67%) JIRA
8 10 (1.78%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.43%) JUnit
9 8 (1.43%) Maven
10 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Mockito
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.36%) Gradle
12 2 (0.36%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 191 (34.05%) Finance
2 124 (22.10%) Social Skills
3 64 (11.41%) Banking
4 56 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.74%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.85%) Retail
9 15 (2.67%) Front Office
9 15 (2.67%) Marketing
10 12 (2.14%) Law
11 10 (1.78%) Military
12 9 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.25%) Publishing
14 6 (1.07%) Advertising
14 6 (1.07%) Games
14 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.89%) Aviation
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 185 (32.98%) Senior
2 119 (21.21%) Developer
3 101 (18.00%) Data Engineer
4 88 (15.69%) Java Engineer
5 76 (13.55%) Software Engineer
6 58 (10.34%) Architect
7 56 (9.98%) Lead
8 49 (8.73%) Senior Developer
9 45 (8.02%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.42%) Senior Java Engineer
11 35 (6.24%) Java Developer
11 35 (6.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
13 31 (5.53%) Principal Java Engineer
13 31 (5.53%) Python Engineer
14 25 (4.46%) Python Developer
15 24 (4.28%) Backend Developer
16 22 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (28.70%) Spring
2 144 (25.67%) Spring Boot
3 116 (20.68%) Terraform
4 99 (17.65%) RESTful
5 91 (16.22%) REST
6 88 (15.69%) RabbitMQ
7 55 (9.80%) Node.js
8 39 (6.95%) .NET
8 39 (6.95%) React
9 37 (6.60%) PySpark
10 29 (5.17%) Swagger
11 28 (4.99%) OpenAPI
12 24 (4.28%) FastAPI
13 21 (3.74%) gRPC
13 21 (3.74%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.74%) TensorFlow
14 19 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
14 19 (3.39%) Hibernate
15 18 (3.21%) Keycloak
15 18 (3.21%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 188 (33.51%) Cloud Native
2 143 (25.49%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.95%) Onboarding
5 38 (6.77%) e-Learning
6 31 (5.53%) Product Ownership
7 28 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.67%) Clustering
11 14 (2.50%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.78%) EPoS
14 10 (1.78%) iSeries
15 9 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.66%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Unix
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (49.55%) CI/CD
2 256 (45.63%) Microservices
3 242 (43.14%) Event-Driven
4 222 (39.57%) Agile
5 195 (34.76%) DevOps
6 171 (30.48%) AI
6 171 (30.48%) Software Engineering
7 163 (29.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 136 (24.24%) Mentoring
9 135 (24.06%) Containerisation
10 125 (22.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 124 (22.10%) Data Pipeline
11 124 (22.10%) Test Automation
12 113 (20.14%) Analytics
13 110 (19.61%) Observability
14 98 (17.47%) Data Modelling
15 89 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
16 84 (14.97%) Data Engineering
17 82 (14.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 267 (47.59%) Java
2 248 (44.21%) Python
3 218 (38.86%) SQL
4 62 (11.05%) TypeScript
5 57 (10.16%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.84%) C#
7 42 (7.49%) Go
8 25 (4.46%) Scala
9 19 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.03%) Bash
11 12 (2.14%) Rust
12 11 (1.96%) Groovy
12 11 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 8 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.25%) C
15 7 (1.25%) C++
15 7 (1.25%) PHP
16 6 (1.07%) Ruby
16 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.94%) Degree
4 53 (9.45%) AWS Certification
5 38 (6.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 31 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (5.35%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.89%) PhD
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
11 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.36%) OCP
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.99%) GDPR
3 23 (4.10%) QA
4 16 (2.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
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%) 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
1 168 (29.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 212 (37.79%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.31%) Prometheus
3 32 (5.70%) Grafana
4 23 (4.10%) Ansible
5 12 (2.14%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) 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 3 (0.53%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 2 (0.36%) Salt
13 1 (0.18%) Control-M
13 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
13 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (10.70%) Databricks
2 56 (9.98%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.63%) Oracle
4 24 (4.28%) IBM
5 16 (2.85%) Dell
6 15 (2.67%) Cloudera
6 15 (2.67%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.67%) Google
7 11 (1.96%) Confluent
7 11 (1.96%) Splunk
8 10 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.25%) Talend
11 6 (1.07%) HP
11 6 (1.07%) SAP
12 5 (0.89%) Informatica
12 5 (0.89%) Solace