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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 175 308
Rank change year-on-year -153 +133 -153
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 462 787 789
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.99% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.33% 10.09% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 315 363 645
10th Percentile £55,835 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.45% -13.89%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -15.72%

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 8,663 7,798 18,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 19.71% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,602 5,240 14,659
10th Percentile £40,638 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -30 335 £100,000 - 168
North of England -148 46 £80,000 +16.36% 31
South East -59 41 £67,500 -6.90% 25
North West -92 37 £80,000 +18.52% 22
East of England -25 12 £72,500 +1.40% 6
South West -76 12 £75,000 +11.11% 16
Midlands -74 11 £87,500 +27.27% 7
West Midlands -44 9 £87,500 +25.00% 3
Yorkshire -48 5 £90,000 +12.50% 4
North East -48 4 £62,500 +31.58% 5
East Midlands -62 2 £71,500 +5.93% 4
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 98 (21.21%) Apache Spark
2 96 (20.78%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (11.04%) Apache
4 5 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
6 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 299 (64.72%) AWS
2 175 (37.88%) Azure
3 114 (24.68%) GCP
4 73 (15.80%) Serverless
5 67 (14.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (12.77%) dbt
7 55 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.17%) Snowflake
9 42 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.23%) Datadog
10 38 (8.23%) Power Platform
11 34 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
14 23 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
14 23 (4.98%) GitHub
15 20 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (4.11%) Amazon EMR
16 19 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.25%) MQTT
2 7 (1.52%) Broadband
3 6 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (22.08%) NoSQL
2 61 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (11.04%) Data Lake
4 47 (10.17%) MongoDB
4 47 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.31%) Elasticsearch
5 43 (9.31%) Relational Database
6 42 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (8.23%) Tableau
8 36 (7.79%) Power BI
9 34 (7.36%) Big Data
9 34 (7.36%) BigQuery
10 29 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (5.84%) DynamoDB
11 27 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (5.63%) Looker
13 23 (4.98%) Metadata
13 23 (4.98%) MySQL
14 22 (4.76%) SQL Server
15 20 (4.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (13.20%) Git
2 60 (12.99%) GitLab
3 45 (9.74%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.63%) Cucumber
4 26 (5.63%) MLflow
5 25 (5.41%) CircleCI
6 12 (2.60%) JIRA
7 8 (1.73%) JUnit
7 8 (1.73%) Selenium
8 5 (1.08%) Maven
9 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.65%) JMeter
10 3 (0.65%) Postman
10 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
General
1 179 (38.74%) Finance
2 101 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 52 (11.26%) Banking
4 50 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.52%) Front Office
6 15 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.38%) Law
8 9 (1.95%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.95%) Retail
9 8 (1.73%) Advertising
10 7 (1.52%) Billing
10 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Games
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (29.22%) Senior
2 130 (28.14%) Developer
3 94 (20.35%) Data Engineer
4 66 (14.29%) Lead
5 63 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 61 (13.20%) Java Engineer
7 49 (10.61%) Architect
8 37 (8.01%) Senior Developer
9 36 (7.79%) Java Developer
10 34 (7.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 32 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (6.49%) Lead Developer
13 29 (6.28%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
16 23 (4.98%) Python Engineer
16 23 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
17 21 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
18 20 (4.33%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (21.21%) Spring
2 92 (19.91%) Spring Boot
3 70 (15.15%) REST
4 67 (14.50%) RabbitMQ
5 60 (12.99%) React
5 60 (12.99%) RESTful
6 58 (12.55%) Node.js
7 35 (7.58%) GraphQL
8 33 (7.14%) PySpark
8 33 (7.14%) Redux
9 32 (6.93%) .NET
10 28 (6.06%) gRPC
11 25 (5.41%) PyTorch
11 25 (5.41%) scikit-learn
11 25 (5.41%) TensorFlow
12 23 (4.98%) LangChain
12 23 (4.98%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (4.98%) pgvector
13 19 (4.11%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.90%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 141 (30.52%) Cloud Native
2 82 (17.75%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.96%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.01%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.98%) Clustering
6 21 (4.55%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.11%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.90%) Blockchain
8 18 (3.90%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.90%) Web3
9 17 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (3.03%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.30%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.49%) Linux
2 7 (1.52%) Unix
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
3 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (46.10%) CI/CD
2 186 (40.26%) Microservices
3 175 (37.88%) Agile
4 151 (32.68%) Event-Driven
5 148 (32.03%) DevOps
6 141 (30.52%) Software Engineering
7 122 (26.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 117 (25.32%) Containerisation
9 114 (24.68%) AI
10 113 (24.46%) Analytics
11 109 (23.59%) Data Pipeline
12 104 (22.51%) Data Modelling
13 99 (21.43%) Observability
14 92 (19.91%) Data Engineering
15 91 (19.70%) Test Automation
16 85 (18.40%) Mentoring
17 79 (17.10%) ETL
18 75 (16.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 71 (15.37%) Data Governance
20 66 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 261 (56.49%) Python
2 214 (46.32%) SQL
3 199 (43.07%) Java
4 77 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 74 (16.02%) Go
5 74 (16.02%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.01%) C#
7 22 (4.76%) Scala
8 20 (4.33%) Bash
8 20 (4.33%) Rust
9 18 (3.90%) C++
10 9 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.52%) Groovy
12 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.87%) Bicep
14 4 (0.87%) RPG
15 3 (0.65%) PHP
15 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 51 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.31%) Degree
3 36 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) GIAC
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) SSCP
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.36%) GDPR
3 23 (4.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.68%) QA
5 10 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.65%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 148 (32.03%) Docker
2 8 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (38.31%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.27%) Terraform
3 50 (10.82%) Prometheus
4 34 (7.36%) Grafana
5 27 (5.84%) Ansible
6 10 (2.16%) Istio
7 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 6 (1.30%) Puppet
9 5 (1.08%) Argo
10 4 (0.87%) Podman
11 2 (0.43%) Cilium
11 2 (0.43%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.77%) Databricks
2 40 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.98%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.98%) Dell
4 13 (2.81%) Confluent
5 11 (2.38%) Oracle
5 11 (2.38%) Splunk
6 9 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.73%) Solace
8 7 (1.52%) Google
8 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.30%) Talend
10 5 (1.08%) IBM
10 5 (1.08%) Pega
10 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.87%) WSO2