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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 219 272
Rank change year-on-year -101 +53 -144
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 408 524 801
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.43% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.49% 6.66% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 272 375 657
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,274 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £149,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £84,115 £77,500
% change year-on-year +18.89% +8.54% -13.41%

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 7,433 7,873 16,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 21.53% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,650 5,972 13,977
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -15 315 £117,500 +17.50% 123
South East -77 32 £65,000 -8.77% 31
North of England -103 31 £71,250 +0.36% 33
North West -56 18 £95,000 +40.74% 22
Yorkshire -64 11 £53,500 -27.46% 6
East of England -26 9 £62,500 -19.35% 9
Midlands -47 8 £72,500 +11.54% 5
South West -50 7 £75,000 +36.36% 16
West Midlands -19 4 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Midlands -42 4 £120,000 +84.62% 1
North East -24 2 - - 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 94 (23.04%) Apache Spark
2 91 (22.30%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (11.27%) Apache
4 8 (1.96%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.23%) Confluence
5 5 (1.23%) IIS
5 5 (1.23%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.49%) Camunda
6 2 (0.49%) CICS
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Actimize
2 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 274 (67.16%) AWS
2 137 (33.58%) Azure
3 116 (28.43%) GCP
4 56 (13.73%) Serverless
5 51 (12.50%) dbt
6 44 (10.78%) Amazon S3
7 43 (10.54%) Snowflake
8 42 (10.29%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (9.31%) Amazon Kinesis
10 35 (8.58%) Power Platform
11 32 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (6.37%) Datadog
14 25 (6.13%) GitHub
15 24 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.96%) Broadband
2 4 (0.98%) DNS
2 4 (0.98%) MQTT
3 3 (0.74%) AMQP
3 3 (0.74%) HTTP
4 2 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) 5G
5 1 (0.25%) BGP
5 1 (0.25%) CTI
5 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (20.34%) NoSQL
2 61 (14.95%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (10.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 41 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (9.56%) Tableau
6 35 (8.58%) BigQuery
7 34 (8.33%) Power BI
8 33 (8.09%) Big Data
8 33 (8.09%) Data Lake
9 32 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (7.84%) Relational Database
10 27 (6.62%) Redis
10 27 (6.62%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (6.37%) Looker
12 25 (6.13%) DynamoDB
12 25 (6.13%) MongoDB
12 25 (6.13%) SQL Server
13 24 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (5.15%) Flink
15 20 (4.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.01%) Git
3 43 (10.54%) GitLab
4 28 (6.86%) MLflow
5 21 (5.15%) CircleCI
6 14 (3.43%) JIRA
7 12 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.45%) JUnit
9 6 (1.47%) Selenium
10 5 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.98%) git-flow
11 4 (0.98%) JMeter
11 4 (0.98%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.74%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.74%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.74%) WinDbg
General
1 167 (40.93%) Finance
2 107 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 61 (14.95%) Front Office
4 53 (12.99%) Banking
5 51 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.19%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.21%) Law
10 8 (1.96%) Retail
11 7 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.98%) Advertising
12 4 (0.98%) Billing
12 4 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.98%) Marketing
13 3 (0.74%) Games
13 3 (0.74%) Legal
13 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Back Office
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 136 (33.33%) Developer
2 124 (30.39%) Senior
3 76 (18.63%) Data Engineer
4 65 (15.93%) Lead
5 54 (13.24%) Software Engineer
6 40 (9.80%) Java Engineer
7 37 (9.07%) Java Developer
8 36 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (7.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 32 (7.84%) Senior Developer
10 30 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.37%) Lead Developer
13 25 (6.13%) Architect
13 25 (6.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.88%) Python Developer
15 23 (5.64%) Systems Engineer
16 21 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
16 21 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 21 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.89%) React
1 73 (17.89%) Spring
2 66 (16.18%) RESTful
3 64 (15.69%) REST
4 60 (14.71%) Spring Boot
5 59 (14.46%) Node.js
6 56 (13.73%) RabbitMQ
7 42 (10.29%) GraphQL
8 35 (8.58%) gRPC
9 34 (8.33%) Redux
10 25 (6.13%) scikit-learn
10 25 (6.13%) TensorFlow
11 24 (5.88%) LangChain
11 24 (5.88%) PyTorch
12 23 (5.64%) AngularJS
12 23 (5.64%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.64%) pgvector
13 19 (4.66%) .NET
13 19 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 112 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 73 (17.89%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (10.05%) Fixed Income
4 31 (7.60%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.64%) Clustering
6 18 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 16 (3.92%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.43%) Blockchain
8 14 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.43%) Web3
9 13 (3.19%) AI Agents
9 13 (3.19%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (2.70%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.96%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.72%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.88%) Linux
2 13 (3.19%) Windows
3 10 (2.45%) Android
4 6 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.98%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (46.81%) CI/CD
2 162 (39.71%) Microservices
3 156 (38.24%) DevOps
4 154 (37.75%) Agile
5 117 (28.68%) Software Engineering
6 111 (27.21%) Analytics
7 109 (26.72%) Data Pipeline
8 108 (26.47%) Event-Driven
9 98 (24.02%) Data Modelling
10 97 (23.77%) Containerisation
10 97 (23.77%) Data Engineering
11 90 (22.06%) AI
12 77 (18.87%) ETL
13 76 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (17.16%) Data Governance
15 68 (16.67%) Computer Science
15 68 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 67 (16.42%) Machine Learning
17 63 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
18 62 (15.20%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 239 (58.58%) Python
2 180 (44.12%) SQL
3 178 (43.63%) Java
4 96 (23.53%) Go
5 68 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 60 (14.71%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.35%) C#
8 25 (6.13%) Bash
9 22 (5.39%) Scala
10 21 (5.15%) C++
11 14 (3.43%) Rust
12 8 (1.96%) Groovy
12 8 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.72%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.49%) PHP
16 1 (0.25%) Perl
16 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 50 (12.25%) Degree
2 40 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.13%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 38 (9.31%) GDPR
3 23 (5.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 16 (3.92%) QA
5 10 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.96%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (33.33%) Docker
2 8 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.74%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 156 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 89 (21.81%) Terraform
3 43 (10.54%) Prometheus
4 29 (7.11%) Ansible
4 29 (7.11%) Grafana
5 12 (2.94%) Argo
6 9 (2.21%) Istio
7 6 (1.47%) Puppet
8 4 (0.98%) Kibana
8 4 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.49%) Salt
10 1 (0.25%) Cilium
10 1 (0.25%) Control-M
10 1 (0.25%) Icinga
10 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (11.52%) Databricks
2 23 (5.64%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.64%) Dell
3 13 (3.19%) Confluent
4 12 (2.94%) Oracle
5 9 (2.21%) VMware
6 7 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.47%) Google
7 6 (1.47%) Pega
7 6 (1.47%) Splunk
8 5 (1.23%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.23%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.23%) Nokia
8 5 (1.23%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.23%) SAP
8 5 (1.23%) Solace
9 4 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.98%) Informatica
9 4 (0.98%) MuleSoft