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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 174 322
Rank change year-on-year -139 +148 -168
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 462 783 782
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.99% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 10.03% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 316 358 643
10th Percentile £56,875 £56,250 £42,600
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 £130,000 £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% -16.67%

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 8,580 7,804 17,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 19.87% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,523 5,237 14,525
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,795 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £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 11 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 11 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 -37 336 £100,000 - 96
North of England -153 45 £80,000 +14.29% 32
South East -61 42 £67,500 -6.90% 28
North West -90 36 £80,000 +18.52% 23
South West -70 12 £75,000 +11.11% 13
East of England -25 11 £72,500 +1.40% 7
Midlands -79 11 £87,500 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -43 9 £87,500 +12.90% 1
Yorkshire -54 5 £90,000 +12.50% 4
North East -46 4 £62,500 +13.64% 5
East Midlands -62 2 £71,500 +5.93% 1
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 96 (20.78%) Apache Spark
2 95 (20.56%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (10.82%) Apache
4 5 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
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%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 302 (65.37%) AWS
2 174 (37.66%) Azure
3 115 (24.89%) GCP
4 72 (15.58%) Serverless
5 66 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (12.55%) dbt
7 54 (11.69%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.17%) Snowflake
9 40 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (8.01%) Datadog
10 37 (8.01%) Power Platform
11 33 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (5.84%) Amazon Kinesis
14 26 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (4.98%) GitHub
16 22 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (4.11%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.03%) 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
1 101 (21.86%) NoSQL
2 59 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (10.82%) Data Lake
4 48 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (9.96%) MongoDB
6 44 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 43 (9.31%) Elasticsearch
8 42 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (8.01%) Tableau
10 35 (7.58%) Power BI
11 34 (7.36%) BigQuery
12 33 (7.14%) Big Data
13 28 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
14 27 (5.84%) DynamoDB
14 27 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
15 26 (5.63%) Looker
16 23 (4.98%) MySQL
17 22 (4.76%) Metadata
17 22 (4.76%) SQL Server
18 20 (4.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (12.77%) Git
2 58 (12.55%) GitLab
3 44 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.63%) Cucumber
4 26 (5.63%) MLflow
5 24 (5.19%) CircleCI
6 11 (2.38%) JIRA
7 8 (1.73%) JUnit
8 7 (1.52%) Selenium
9 5 (1.08%) Maven
10 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.65%) JMeter
11 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 176 (38.10%) Finance
2 100 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.04%) Banking
4 50 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.17%) Front Office
6 15 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.38%) Law
8 10 (2.16%) Retail
8 10 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.73%) Advertising
11 7 (1.52%) Billing
11 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Back Office
12 2 (0.43%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (29.22%) Senior
2 127 (27.49%) Developer
3 91 (19.70%) Data Engineer
4 68 (14.72%) Lead
5 64 (13.85%) Software Engineer
6 62 (13.42%) Java Engineer
7 49 (10.61%) Architect
8 35 (7.58%) Java Developer
8 35 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 33 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.49%) Lead Developer
12 29 (6.28%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (4.98%) Python Engineer
14 23 (4.98%) Senior Data Engineer
14 23 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (21.00%) Spring
2 90 (19.48%) Spring Boot
3 72 (15.58%) REST
4 65 (14.07%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (13.64%) React
6 60 (12.99%) Node.js
6 60 (12.99%) RESTful
7 35 (7.58%) GraphQL
8 33 (7.14%) Redux
9 32 (6.93%) PySpark
10 31 (6.71%) .NET
11 30 (6.49%) gRPC
12 25 (5.41%) PyTorch
12 25 (5.41%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.41%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.98%) LangChain
13 23 (4.98%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.98%) pgvector
14 18 (3.90%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.68%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 139 (30.09%) Cloud Native
2 88 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (9.74%) 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%) Onboarding
9 17 (3.68%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.68%) Web3
10 15 (3.25%) 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%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
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 3 (0.65%) Android
4 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (46.54%) CI/CD
2 188 (40.69%) Microservices
3 175 (37.88%) Agile
4 152 (32.90%) Event-Driven
5 149 (32.25%) DevOps
6 139 (30.09%) Software Engineering
7 120 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 118 (25.54%) Containerisation
9 116 (25.11%) AI
10 110 (23.81%) Analytics
11 109 (23.59%) Data Pipeline
12 103 (22.29%) Data Modelling
13 98 (21.21%) Observability
14 93 (20.13%) Data Engineering
15 89 (19.26%) Test Automation
16 84 (18.18%) Mentoring
17 77 (16.67%) ETL
18 75 (16.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 71 (15.37%) Machine Learning
20 69 (14.94%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 262 (56.71%) Python
2 212 (45.89%) SQL
3 201 (43.51%) Java
4 79 (17.10%) JavaScript
5 78 (16.88%) Go
6 75 (16.23%) TypeScript
7 36 (7.79%) C#
8 21 (4.55%) Scala
9 20 (4.33%) Bash
9 20 (4.33%) C++
9 20 (4.33%) Rust
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 49 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.17%) Degree
3 34 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 25 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
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 65 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.36%) GDPR
3 23 (4.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.25%) 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
1 151 (32.68%) Docker
2 8 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 180 (38.96%) Kubernetes
2 127 (27.49%) Terraform
3 49 (10.61%) Prometheus
4 34 (7.36%) Grafana
5 27 (5.84%) Ansible
6 10 (2.16%) Istio
7 7 (1.52%) Argo
7 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 6 (1.30%) Puppet
9 4 (0.87%) Podman
10 2 (0.43%) Cilium
10 2 (0.43%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (12.55%) Databricks
2 40 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.98%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.98%) Dell
4 13 (2.81%) Confluent
5 10 (2.16%) Oracle
5 10 (2.16%) Splunk
6 8 (1.73%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.73%) Solace
7 7 (1.52%) Google
7 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.08%) Pega
9 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.08%) Talend
10 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.87%) IBM
10 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.87%) WSO2