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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 192 306
Rank change year-on-year -129 +114 -175
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 435 685 775
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.75% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 8.91% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 295 388 652
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £104,063
90th Percentile £148,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% +6.45% -12.41%

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 7,904 7,689 16,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 19.66% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 5,726 14,176
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,188 £51,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -7 330 £105,000 +5.00% 112
North of England -151 40 £80,000 +10.73% 38
South East -66 36 £60,000 -15.79% 45
North West -100 27 £95,000 +35.71% 20
Yorkshire -62 10 £61,750 -17.67% 8
East of England -27 9 £62,500 -19.35% 16
South West -65 8 £75,000 +33.33% 19
Midlands -83 7 £80,000 +16.36% 15
West Midlands -45 5 £72,500 -6.45% 7
North East -30 3 - - 10
East Midlands -69 2 £120,000 +81.13% 8
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
1 100 (22.99%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (22.53%) Apache Spark
3 51 (11.72%) Apache
4 8 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.15%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.92%) Confluence
7 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.46%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.46%) Camunda
8 2 (0.46%) CICS
8 2 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Actimize
2 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 291 (66.90%) AWS
2 154 (35.40%) Azure
3 117 (26.90%) GCP
4 65 (14.94%) Serverless
5 56 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (12.64%) dbt
7 50 (11.49%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.80%) Snowflake
9 36 (8.28%) Datadog
10 35 (8.05%) Amazon Kinesis
10 35 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 35 (8.05%) Power Platform
11 34 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (4.37%) GitHub
15 17 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.84%) Broadband
2 5 (1.15%) MQTT
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
3 3 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) 4G
4 2 (0.46%) 5G
4 2 (0.46%) AMQP
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) BGP
5 1 (0.23%) CTI
5 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.23%) LTE
5 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (20.69%) NoSQL
2 57 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (9.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 41 (9.43%) Data Lake
6 39 (8.97%) Relational Database
7 38 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (8.74%) Tableau
8 35 (8.05%) BigQuery
9 34 (7.82%) Power BI
10 32 (7.36%) Big Data
10 32 (7.36%) MongoDB
11 28 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (6.44%) DynamoDB
11 28 (6.44%) SQL Server
12 27 (6.21%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (5.98%) Looker
14 22 (5.06%) Metadata
14 22 (5.06%) MySQL
15 21 (4.83%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (11.72%) Git
2 50 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 49 (11.26%) GitLab
4 28 (6.44%) MLflow
5 24 (5.52%) CircleCI
6 16 (3.68%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.45%) JIRA
8 9 (2.07%) JUnit
9 7 (1.61%) Selenium
10 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.92%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.92%) Maven
11 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.69%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.46%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 172 (39.54%) Finance
2 105 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 55 (12.64%) Front Office
4 54 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (11.95%) Banking
6 22 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.30%) Law
7 10 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.07%) Retail
9 7 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.15%) Billing
10 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.92%) Advertising
12 3 (0.69%) Games
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 130 (29.89%) Senior
2 129 (29.66%) Developer
3 84 (19.31%) Data Engineer
4 74 (17.01%) Lead
5 54 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 49 (11.26%) Java Engineer
7 35 (8.05%) Architect
8 34 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.82%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 29 (6.67%) Lead Developer
12 25 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (5.29%) Python Engineer
13 23 (5.29%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (4.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (17.47%) Spring
2 73 (16.78%) REST
3 69 (15.86%) React
3 69 (15.86%) RESTful
3 69 (15.86%) Spring Boot
4 62 (14.25%) RabbitMQ
5 58 (13.33%) Node.js
6 37 (8.51%) gRPC
7 36 (8.28%) GraphQL
8 33 (7.59%) Redux
9 25 (5.75%) PySpark
10 24 (5.52%) scikit-learn
10 24 (5.52%) TensorFlow
11 23 (5.29%) LangChain
11 23 (5.29%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (5.29%) pgvector
11 23 (5.29%) PyTorch
12 21 (4.83%) .NET
13 20 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.37%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 121 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 80 (18.39%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (9.20%) Fixed Income
4 36 (8.28%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.29%) Clustering
6 17 (3.91%) Blockchain
6 17 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.91%) Web3
7 15 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 14 (3.22%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.99%) e-Learning
10 12 (2.76%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.38%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.60%) Linux
2 9 (2.07%) Android
3 8 (1.84%) Windows
4 4 (0.92%) Unix
5 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (45.75%) CI/CD
2 172 (39.54%) Microservices
3 155 (35.63%) Agile
3 155 (35.63%) DevOps
4 130 (29.89%) Event-Driven
5 127 (29.20%) Software Engineering
6 117 (26.90%) Analytics
7 113 (25.98%) Data Pipeline
8 110 (25.29%) Containerisation
9 103 (23.68%) Data Modelling
10 99 (22.76%) Data Engineering
11 97 (22.30%) AI
11 97 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 81 (18.62%) ETL
12 81 (18.62%) Observability
13 77 (17.70%) Test Automation
14 69 (15.86%) Data Governance
14 69 (15.86%) Machine Learning
15 67 (15.40%) Computer Science
16 63 (14.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 248 (57.01%) Python
2 199 (45.75%) SQL
3 182 (41.84%) Java
4 89 (20.46%) Go
5 67 (15.40%) JavaScript
6 66 (15.17%) TypeScript
7 32 (7.36%) C#
8 22 (5.06%) Bash
8 22 (5.06%) C++
9 20 (4.60%) Scala
10 15 (3.45%) Rust
11 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.38%) Groovy
13 5 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.69%) Bicep
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (11.72%) Degree
2 38 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (7.13%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 17 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (15.40%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.82%) GDPR
3 23 (5.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.91%) QA
5 10 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.84%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (34.25%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 170 (39.08%) Kubernetes
2 109 (25.06%) Terraform
3 46 (10.57%) Prometheus
4 31 (7.13%) Grafana
5 26 (5.98%) Ansible
6 9 (2.07%) Argo
6 9 (2.07%) Istio
7 5 (1.15%) Kibana
7 5 (1.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.46%) Salt
9 1 (0.23%) Cilium
9 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.23%) Icinga
9 1 (0.23%) Nagios
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 52 (11.95%) Databricks
2 23 (5.29%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.29%) Dell
3 21 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.22%) Confluent
5 9 (2.07%) Oracle
6 7 (1.61%) Solace
7 6 (1.38%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.38%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.38%) Pega
7 6 (1.38%) Splunk
8 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.15%) Google
8 5 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.15%) Talend
9 4 (0.92%) Ericsson
9 4 (0.92%) Mavenir
9 4 (0.92%) Nokia
9 4 (0.92%) VMware
9 4 (0.92%) WSO2