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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 318 191
Rank change year-on-year +62 -127 -58
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 443 502 812
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 0.84% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.91% 4.01% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 255 316 685
10th Percentile £56,750 £45,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £132,500 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 6,414 12,518 12,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.67% 20.91% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,822 7,545 10,011
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +61 329 £107,500 +13.16% 114
North of England +23 42 £70,000 +27.27% 23
South East -4 29 £70,000 +22.81% 70
North West +50 28 £70,000 +27.27% 16
South West +1 18 £76,250 +27.08% 17
Yorkshire +12 12 £71,000 +29.09% 5
Midlands +61 10 £72,500 +20.83% 11
West Midlands +58 6 £72,500 +20.83% 9
East of England +29 6 £80,000 +3.23% 5
East Midlands +20 4 £93,750 +70.07% 2
North East +11 2 £45,000 -26.09% 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 87 (19.64%) Apache Spark
2 57 (12.87%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (9.48%) Apache
4 10 (2.26%) Confluence
5 7 (1.58%) Apache Pulsar
5 7 (1.58%) nginx
6 6 (1.35%) Appian
6 6 (1.35%) Mule
7 5 (1.13%) Apache Synapse
7 5 (1.13%) IIS
7 5 (1.13%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.90%) JBoss
9 3 (0.68%) Luigi
9 3 (0.68%) SAS
9 3 (0.68%) Traefik
9 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.23%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 297 (67.04%) AWS
2 138 (31.15%) Azure
3 107 (24.15%) GCP
4 41 (9.26%) Serverless
5 39 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (8.35%) GitHub
7 28 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 27 (6.09%) Amazon S3
8 27 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (5.64%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (4.74%) Power Platform
11 21 (4.74%) Snowflake
12 18 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (3.84%) SaaS
14 15 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (3.16%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.58%) DNS
2 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (1.13%) VPN
4 4 (0.90%) AMQP
4 4 (0.90%) FTP
5 3 (0.68%) DHCP
5 3 (0.68%) HTTP
5 3 (0.68%) ICMP
5 3 (0.68%) MQTT
6 2 (0.45%) BGP
6 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.45%) Firewall
6 2 (0.45%) OSPF
6 2 (0.45%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.45%) RTMP
6 2 (0.45%) VLAN
6 2 (0.45%) WAN
6 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (20.54%) NoSQL
2 64 (14.45%) MongoDB
3 59 (13.32%) Big Data
4 58 (13.09%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (9.03%) Hadoop
7 37 (8.35%) Relational Database
8 32 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (5.87%) SQL Server
10 25 (5.64%) Metadata
11 23 (5.19%) MySQL
12 22 (4.97%) DynamoDB
12 22 (4.97%) Redis
13 15 (3.39%) Power BI
14 14 (3.16%) Flink
14 14 (3.16%) Oracle Database
15 13 (2.93%) BigQuery
16 12 (2.71%) Apache Hive
16 12 (2.71%) Data Lake
16 12 (2.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (10.84%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.13%) Git
3 20 (4.51%) JIRA
4 17 (3.84%) GitLab
5 16 (3.61%) Selenium
6 13 (2.93%) JUnit
7 11 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.26%) JMeter
8 10 (2.26%) MLflow
9 9 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.81%) git-flow
11 7 (1.58%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.58%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.58%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.35%) Mockito
12 6 (1.35%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.35%) Snyk
12 6 (1.35%) Vite
General
1 227 (51.24%) Finance
2 121 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 75 (16.93%) Law
4 73 (16.48%) Banking
5 65 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (12.64%) Front Office
7 49 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (10.38%) Financial Institution
9 19 (4.29%) Marketing
10 17 (3.84%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.93%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.26%) Games
13 9 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
15 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Billing
16 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (28.44%) Software Engineer
2 124 (27.99%) Developer
3 80 (18.06%) Lead
4 73 (16.48%) Senior
5 57 (12.87%) Java Engineer
6 52 (11.74%) Data Engineer
7 41 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 41 (9.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 37 (8.35%) Architect
9 34 (7.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 29 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (6.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 26 (5.87%) Kafka Engineer
13 23 (5.19%) Lead Developer
14 21 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
15 20 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (4.51%) Python Engineer
16 16 (3.61%) Kafka Developer
16 16 (3.61%) Lead Software Developer
16 16 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (27.54%) Spring
2 98 (22.12%) Spring Boot
3 90 (20.32%) React
4 76 (17.16%) RESTful
5 59 (13.32%) RabbitMQ
6 52 (11.74%) GraphQL
6 52 (11.74%) REST
7 51 (11.51%) Node.js
8 40 (9.03%) AngularJS
9 29 (6.55%) Redux
10 24 (5.42%) .NET
10 24 (5.42%) gRPC
11 20 (4.51%) Akka
12 18 (4.06%) RxJava
12 18 (4.06%) Spring WebFlux
13 17 (3.84%) JMS
13 17 (3.84%) Pandas
14 16 (3.61%) Hibernate
14 16 (3.61%) Jest
15 15 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 121 (27.31%) Cloud Native
2 95 (21.44%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (9.48%) Product Ownership
4 32 (7.22%) Data Structures
5 31 (7.00%) Algorithms
6 29 (6.55%) Fixed Income
7 22 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (4.29%) Management Information System
10 17 (3.84%) Public Cloud
11 15 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (3.16%) FMCG
12 14 (3.16%) Hedge funds
13 13 (2.93%) e-Learning
13 13 (2.93%) Reference Data
13 13 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.48%) Mobile App
15 10 (2.26%) Client/Server
15 10 (2.26%) Distributed Applications
16 9 (2.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.55%) Linux
2 11 (2.48%) Windows
3 9 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.58%) Unix
5 6 (1.35%) Android
6 5 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (46.28%) CI/CD
2 199 (44.92%) Agile
3 197 (44.47%) Microservices
4 180 (40.63%) Software Engineering
5 151 (34.09%) DevOps
6 89 (20.09%) Data Pipeline
6 89 (20.09%) Fintech
7 80 (18.06%) Data Modelling
8 79 (17.83%) Event-Driven
9 75 (16.93%) AI
10 73 (16.48%) Analytics
10 73 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (16.25%) Data Engineering
11 72 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 72 (16.25%) Machine Learning
12 71 (16.03%) Test Automation
13 68 (15.35%) Containerisation
13 68 (15.35%) SDLC
14 65 (14.67%) ETL
15 62 (14.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 255 (57.56%) Java
2 180 (40.63%) Python
3 145 (32.73%) SQL
4 68 (15.35%) TypeScript
5 67 (15.12%) Go
6 51 (11.51%) JavaScript
7 36 (8.13%) C#
8 28 (6.32%) Scala
9 22 (4.97%) Kotlin
10 20 (4.51%) Bash
11 13 (2.93%) C++
12 8 (1.81%) Groovy
13 7 (1.58%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.68%) R
14 3 (0.68%) Rust
14 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.45%) PROC SQL
16 1 (0.23%) Clojure
16 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (10.61%) Degree
2 32 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.97%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 18 (4.06%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.48%) PhD
8 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.13%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.22%) QA
3 18 (4.06%) GDPR
4 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.45%) SEPA
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 126 (28.44%) Docker
2 10 (2.26%) HDFS
3 8 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.45%) NFS
6 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 179 (40.41%) Kubernetes
2 52 (11.74%) Terraform
3 28 (6.32%) Ansible
4 19 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.06%) Grafana
6 13 (2.93%) Argo
7 9 (2.03%) Kibana
7 9 (2.03%) Puppet
8 8 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.13%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.13%) Mesos
10 4 (0.90%) logstash
11 3 (0.68%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.68%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.68%) Podman
12 2 (0.45%) Control-M
12 2 (0.45%) Oozie
13 1 (0.23%) Icinga
13 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (11.29%) Databricks
2 40 (9.03%) Oracle
3 21 (4.74%) SAP
4 17 (3.84%) VMware
5 16 (3.61%) Google
6 12 (2.71%) Microsoft
7 11 (2.48%) Splunk
8 6 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.35%) Black Duck
8 6 (1.35%) Confluent
8 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.35%) UiPath
9 5 (1.13%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.13%) Coverity
9 5 (1.13%) Informatica
10 4 (0.90%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.90%) Dell
10 4 (0.90%) Ericsson
10 4 (0.90%) Salesforce