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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 186 312
Rank change year-on-year -123 +126 -142
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 520 781 754
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.81% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 9.76% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 353 353 614
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £116,250 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.03% +11.86% -15.71%

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 9,199 7,999 17,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.54% 18.50% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,054 5,414 13,650
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.77%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -39 358 £100,000 -1.72% 121
North of England -145 55 £75,000 +11.11% 30
South East -60 49 £65,000 -10.34% 40
North West -90 47 £75,000 +11.11% 19
South West -73 21 £85,000 +25.93% 22
Midlands -86 18 £85,000 +25.93% 8
West Midlands -32 16 £86,250 +43.75% 5
East of England -18 14 £72,500 +1.40% 7
Yorkshire -32 4 £66,805 -40.02% 7
North East -51 4 £62,500 +31.58% 4
East Midlands -69 2 £71,500 +5.93% 3
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 (22.31%) Apache Spark
2 92 (17.69%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (9.42%) Apache
4 13 (2.50%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.77%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.58%) Camunda
7 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (2.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 337 (64.81%) AWS
2 207 (39.81%) Azure
3 125 (24.04%) GCP
4 82 (15.77%) Serverless
5 71 (13.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (11.35%) dbt
7 50 (9.62%) Snowflake
8 49 (9.42%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (7.69%) Power Platform
11 37 (7.12%) Datadog
12 36 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (5.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (5.58%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (5.19%) GitHub
17 24 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.85%) MQTT
2 7 (1.35%) Broadband
3 6 (1.15%) BGP
3 6 (1.15%) Network Security
4 5 (0.96%) DNS
4 5 (0.96%) IPsec
4 5 (0.96%) VPN
5 4 (0.77%) Internet
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) 5G
6 2 (0.38%) AMQP
7 1 (0.19%) ATM
7 1 (0.19%) CTI
7 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (22.69%) NoSQL
2 65 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (10.96%) MongoDB
5 52 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 50 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
7 47 (9.04%) Big Data
8 46 (8.85%) Relational Database
9 38 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (7.31%) Power BI
10 34 (6.54%) BigQuery
10 34 (6.54%) Tableau
11 27 (5.19%) DynamoDB
12 26 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (5.00%) Looker
12 26 (5.00%) MySQL
13 25 (4.81%) Snowflake Schema
14 24 (4.62%) Redis
15 22 (4.23%) Metadata
15 22 (4.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (12.50%) GitLab
2 62 (11.92%) Git
3 43 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.77%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.00%) MLflow
6 23 (4.42%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.31%) JIRA
8 11 (2.12%) Selenium
9 7 (1.35%) JUnit
10 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.96%) Maven
11 4 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.77%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.77%) Postman
11 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 196 (37.69%) Finance
2 109 (20.96%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.58%) Banking
5 43 (8.27%) Front Office
6 22 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.31%) Law
7 12 (2.31%) Retail
8 10 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.73%) Advertising
9 9 (1.73%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.54%) Marketing
10 8 (1.54%) Military
11 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.96%) Billing
12 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.38%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 148 (28.46%) Senior
2 135 (25.96%) Developer
3 103 (19.81%) Data Engineer
4 70 (13.46%) Java Engineer
4 70 (13.46%) Software Engineer
5 67 (12.88%) Lead
6 58 (11.15%) Architect
7 40 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 37 (7.12%) Principal Engineer
9 36 (6.92%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 32 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (6.15%) Senior Data Engineer
12 30 (5.77%) Lead Developer
13 27 (5.19%) Python Engineer
14 25 (4.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (4.62%) Principal Java Engineer
16 23 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (21.54%) Spring
2 108 (20.77%) Spring Boot
3 73 (14.04%) Node.js
3 73 (14.04%) REST
4 70 (13.46%) RabbitMQ
5 68 (13.08%) RESTful
6 64 (12.31%) React
7 36 (6.92%) GraphQL
8 35 (6.73%) PySpark
8 35 (6.73%) Redux
9 34 (6.54%) .NET
10 27 (5.19%) gRPC
11 25 (4.81%) PyTorch
11 25 (4.81%) scikit-learn
11 25 (4.81%) TensorFlow
12 23 (4.42%) LangChain
12 23 (4.42%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (4.42%) pgvector
13 19 (3.65%) Middleware
14 18 (3.46%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 156 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 94 (18.08%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.12%) Fixed Income
5 29 (5.58%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.81%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.42%) Clustering
8 22 (4.23%) Product Ownership
9 21 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (3.46%) Data Structures
10 18 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.88%) Blockchain
11 15 (2.88%) Web3
12 10 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.92%) EPoS
12 10 (1.92%) iSeries
13 9 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.27%) Linux
2 8 (1.54%) Windows
3 7 (1.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (45.19%) CI/CD
2 209 (40.19%) Microservices
3 200 (38.46%) Agile
4 171 (32.88%) DevOps
5 169 (32.50%) Event-Driven
6 157 (30.19%) Software Engineering
7 143 (27.50%) AI
8 131 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (24.23%) Analytics
9 126 (24.23%) Containerisation
10 118 (22.69%) Data Pipeline
11 106 (20.38%) Data Modelling
12 104 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 101 (19.42%) Observability
14 100 (19.23%) Test Automation
15 96 (18.46%) Data Engineering
16 86 (16.54%) ETL
16 86 (16.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 81 (15.58%) Machine Learning
18 79 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 282 (54.23%) Python
2 236 (45.38%) Java
2 236 (45.38%) SQL
3 81 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 80 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 75 (14.42%) Go
6 44 (8.46%) C#
7 24 (4.62%) Scala
8 22 (4.23%) Rust
9 19 (3.65%) Bash
9 19 (3.65%) C++
10 10 (1.92%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.92%) RPG
11 9 (1.73%) Groovy
11 9 (1.73%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.54%) PHP
13 6 (1.15%) C
14 5 (0.96%) Ruby
15 4 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 71 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.92%) Degree
3 52 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (4.62%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.46%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.77%) PhD
10 3 (0.58%) MBA
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) GIAC
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.19%) SSCP
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.31%) GDPR
3 23 (4.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.46%) QA
5 12 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (29.23%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 133 (25.58%) Terraform
3 50 (9.62%) Prometheus
4 36 (6.92%) Grafana
5 30 (5.77%) Ansible
6 10 (1.92%) Istio
7 7 (1.35%) Argo
8 6 (1.15%) Kibana
8 6 (1.15%) Puppet
9 5 (0.96%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.77%) Podman
11 2 (0.38%) Cilium
11 2 (0.38%) Salt
12 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 63 (12.12%) Databricks
2 47 (9.04%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.62%) Dell
4 23 (4.42%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.27%) IBM
6 16 (3.08%) Oracle
7 13 (2.50%) Confluent
8 11 (2.12%) Splunk
9 10 (1.92%) Google
10 9 (1.73%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.54%) Solace
12 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.35%) Talend
13 6 (1.15%) Informatica
14 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.96%) HP
14 5 (0.96%) SAP
14 5 (0.96%) ServiceNow