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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 190 322
Rank change year-on-year -124 +132 -148
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 520 769 722
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.78% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 9.66% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 349 343 585
10th Percentile £55,725 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 9,183 7,964 16,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 18.39% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,032 5,393 13,105
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,750
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £104,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 17 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 17 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 -41 362 £95,500 -4.50% 130
North of England -137 53 £75,000 +11.11% 50
South East -57 47 £67,500 -6.25% 52
North West -91 45 £75,000 +11.11% 25
South West -61 22 £85,000 +30.77% 25
Midlands -83 18 £85,000 +25.93% 22
West Midlands -33 16 £86,250 +43.75% 10
East of England -15 15 £72,500 +1.40% 20
Yorkshire -41 4 £66,805 -33.20% 15
North East -59 4 £62,500 +31.58% 10
East Midlands -53 2 £71,500 +5.93% 12
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
1 117 (22.50%) Apache Spark
2 90 (17.31%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (8.46%) Apache
4 13 (2.50%) Confluence
5 5 (0.96%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.77%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.58%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 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
1 339 (65.19%) AWS
2 207 (39.81%) Azure
3 124 (23.85%) GCP
4 83 (15.96%) Serverless
5 71 (13.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (11.15%) dbt
7 50 (9.62%) Snowflake
8 47 (9.04%) Amazon S3
9 40 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (7.50%) Power Platform
11 36 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (6.92%) Datadog
12 33 (6.35%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (5.19%) GitHub
16 25 (4.81%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
19 19 (3.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.23%) MQTT
2 7 (1.35%) BGP
2 7 (1.35%) Broadband
3 6 (1.15%) DNS
3 6 (1.15%) IPsec
3 6 (1.15%) Network Security
3 6 (1.15%) VPN
4 5 (0.96%) Internet
5 3 (0.58%) AMQP
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) 5G
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 59 (11.35%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (10.77%) MongoDB
5 52 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (9.81%) Data Lake
7 49 (9.42%) Big Data
8 46 (8.85%) Relational Database
9 37 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (7.12%) Power BI
10 33 (6.35%) BigQuery
11 32 (6.15%) Tableau
12 26 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (5.00%) DynamoDB
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%) Hadoop
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 22 (4.23%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.31%) JIRA
7 12 (2.31%) Selenium
8 7 (1.35%) JUnit
9 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.96%) Maven
10 4 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.77%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.77%) Postman
10 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.58%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 196 (37.69%) Finance
2 112 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 58 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.58%) Banking
5 43 (8.27%) Front Office
6 23 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.31%) Retail
8 11 (2.12%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.12%) Law
9 9 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.73%) Marketing
9 9 (1.73%) Military
10 8 (1.54%) Advertising
11 6 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.96%) Billing
13 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.38%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 150 (28.85%) Senior
2 135 (25.96%) Developer
3 99 (19.04%) Data Engineer
4 74 (14.23%) Java Engineer
5 71 (13.65%) Software Engineer
6 65 (12.50%) Lead
7 57 (10.96%) Architect
8 40 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 37 (7.12%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.92%) Senior Developer
11 35 (6.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 33 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
13 32 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (5.77%) Lead Developer
15 28 (5.38%) Python Engineer
16 25 (4.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 24 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (4.62%) Principal Java Engineer
18 23 (4.42%) Senior Java Engineer
18 23 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (21.92%) Spring
2 111 (21.35%) Spring Boot
3 75 (14.42%) Node.js
4 74 (14.23%) REST
5 70 (13.46%) RabbitMQ
6 69 (13.27%) RESTful
7 66 (12.69%) React
8 36 (6.92%) PySpark
9 35 (6.73%) GraphQL
9 35 (6.73%) Redux
10 32 (6.15%) .NET
11 26 (5.00%) PyTorch
11 26 (5.00%) TensorFlow
12 25 (4.81%) gRPC
12 25 (4.81%) scikit-learn
13 23 (4.42%) LangChain
13 23 (4.42%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.42%) pgvector
14 19 (3.65%) Middleware
15 18 (3.46%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 156 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 99 (19.04%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (10.19%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.12%) Fixed Income
5 32 (6.15%) Onboarding
6 26 (5.00%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.42%) Clustering
8 21 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (4.04%) Product Ownership
9 18 (3.46%) Data Structures
10 17 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.69%) Blockchain
11 14 (2.69%) Web3
12 10 (1.92%) EPoS
12 10 (1.92%) iSeries
13 9 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.08%) Linux
2 8 (1.54%) Windows
3 7 (1.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (45.58%) CI/CD
2 211 (40.58%) Microservices
3 199 (38.27%) Agile
4 171 (32.88%) Event-Driven
5 169 (32.50%) DevOps
6 159 (30.58%) Software Engineering
7 149 (28.65%) AI
8 132 (25.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (24.23%) Containerisation
10 122 (23.46%) Analytics
11 116 (22.31%) Data Pipeline
12 109 (20.96%) Mentoring
13 105 (20.19%) Data Modelling
14 102 (19.62%) Test Automation
15 101 (19.42%) Observability
16 93 (17.88%) Data Engineering
17 88 (16.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 84 (16.15%) Machine Learning
19 82 (15.77%) ETL
20 80 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 279 (53.65%) Python
2 236 (45.38%) Java
3 235 (45.19%) SQL
4 82 (15.77%) JavaScript
4 82 (15.77%) TypeScript
5 74 (14.23%) Go
6 44 (8.46%) C#
7 24 (4.62%) Scala
8 21 (4.04%) Rust
9 19 (3.65%) C++
10 18 (3.46%) Bash
11 10 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.92%) RPG
12 9 (1.73%) PHP
12 9 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.54%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.35%) C
15 6 (1.15%) Groovy
15 6 (1.15%) Ruby
16 4 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.50%) Degree
3 50 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 37 (7.12%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (4.42%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.65%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.96%) PhD
10 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.58%) MBA
11 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) GIAC
12 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.19%) SSCP
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.92%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.31%) GDPR
3 23 (4.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.27%) QA
5 12 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.96%) 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
1 150 (28.85%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 190 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 131 (25.19%) 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%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.15%) Kibana
8 6 (1.15%) Puppet
9 4 (0.77%) Podman
10 2 (0.38%) Cilium
10 2 (0.38%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 63 (12.12%) Databricks
2 49 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.62%) Dell
4 23 (4.42%) Cloudera
5 20 (3.85%) IBM
6 18 (3.46%) Oracle
7 13 (2.50%) Confluent
8 11 (2.12%) Google
8 11 (2.12%) Splunk
9 9 (1.73%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.54%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.54%) Solace
11 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.35%) Talend
12 6 (1.15%) HP
12 6 (1.15%) SAP
13 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.96%) Informatica
13 5 (0.96%) ServiceNow