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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 182 317
Rank change year-on-year -137 +135 -155
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 504 786 760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.85% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.52% 9.85% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 341 359 625
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +16.13% -13.89%
75th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £121,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -14.29%

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 9,130 7,976 17,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.55% 18.75% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,992 5,409 14,010
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 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.43%

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 8 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 8 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 -39 355 £100,000 -1.72% 122
North of England -154 51 £75,000 +11.11% 39
South East -61 46 £66,250 -7.99% 44
North West -95 45 £75,000 +11.11% 23
South West -70 19 £85,000 +25.93% 27
East of England -27 14 £72,500 +1.40% 10
Midlands -82 14 £87,500 +29.63% 12
West Midlands -34 12 £87,500 +34.62% 6
North East -47 4 £62,500 +31.58% 5
Yorkshire -36 2 £90,000 -19.20% 12
East Midlands -65 2 £71,500 +5.93% 6
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
1 107 (21.23%) Apache Spark
2 93 (18.45%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (9.33%) Apache
4 13 (2.58%) Confluence
5 4 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Pig
6 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.60%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.40%) CICS
7 2 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (2.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (64.29%) AWS
2 197 (39.09%) Azure
3 124 (24.60%) GCP
4 80 (15.87%) Serverless
5 70 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (11.71%) dbt
7 49 (9.72%) Amazon S3
7 49 (9.72%) Snowflake
8 41 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (7.74%) Power Platform
10 37 (7.34%) Datadog
11 34 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (5.75%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (5.16%) GitHub
15 23 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.77%) MQTT
2 7 (1.39%) Broadband
3 6 (1.19%) Network Security
4 5 (0.99%) BGP
5 4 (0.79%) DNS
5 4 (0.79%) IPsec
5 4 (0.79%) VPN
6 3 (0.60%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) 4G
7 2 (0.40%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) ATM
8 1 (0.20%) CTI
8 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.20%) HTTP
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (22.62%) NoSQL
2 63 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (10.71%) MongoDB
5 51 (10.12%) Data Lake
6 49 (9.72%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (8.93%) Relational Database
8 41 (8.13%) Big Data
9 38 (7.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 37 (7.34%) Power BI
11 35 (6.94%) Tableau
12 34 (6.75%) BigQuery
13 27 (5.36%) DynamoDB
14 26 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (5.16%) Looker
15 25 (4.96%) MySQL
15 25 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (4.56%) Redis
17 22 (4.37%) Metadata
17 22 (4.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (12.90%) GitLab
2 61 (12.10%) Git
3 42 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.95%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.16%) MLflow
6 23 (4.56%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.38%) JIRA
8 10 (1.98%) Selenium
9 7 (1.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.99%) Maven
11 4 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.79%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.79%) Postman
11 4 (0.79%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.60%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 193 (38.29%) Finance
2 106 (21.03%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.91%) Banking
4 54 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (8.53%) Front Office
6 16 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.38%) Law
8 11 (2.18%) Retail
9 10 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.79%) Advertising
10 9 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.39%) Marketing
11 7 (1.39%) Military
11 7 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.99%) Billing
13 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Back Office
15 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (27.98%) Senior
2 132 (26.19%) Developer
3 95 (18.85%) Data Engineer
4 70 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 69 (13.69%) Lead
6 67 (13.29%) Java Engineer
7 58 (11.51%) Architect
8 39 (7.74%) Java Developer
9 35 (6.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 35 (6.94%) Principal Engineer
9 35 (6.94%) Senior Developer
10 32 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.95%) Lead Developer
12 26 (5.16%) Python Engineer
12 26 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (4.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (4.56%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (4.37%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (21.63%) Spring
2 104 (20.63%) Spring Boot
3 72 (14.29%) Node.js
4 71 (14.09%) REST
5 68 (13.49%) RabbitMQ
6 66 (13.10%) RESTful
7 63 (12.50%) React
8 36 (7.14%) GraphQL
9 35 (6.94%) Redux
10 34 (6.75%) .NET
11 31 (6.15%) PySpark
12 27 (5.36%) gRPC
13 25 (4.96%) PyTorch
13 25 (4.96%) scikit-learn
13 25 (4.96%) TensorFlow
14 23 (4.56%) LangChain
14 23 (4.56%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (4.56%) pgvector
15 19 (3.77%) Middleware
16 18 (3.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 153 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 88 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.32%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.34%) Fixed Income
5 26 (5.16%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.96%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.56%) Clustering
8 21 (4.17%) Product Ownership
9 20 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.37%) Data Structures
10 17 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.98%) Blockchain
11 15 (2.98%) Web3
12 10 (1.98%) EPoS
12 10 (1.98%) iSeries
13 9 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.59%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
15 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.13%) Linux
2 8 (1.59%) Windows
3 7 (1.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 204 (40.48%) Microservices
3 195 (38.69%) Agile
4 167 (33.13%) Event-Driven
5 162 (32.14%) DevOps
6 154 (30.56%) Software Engineering
7 137 (27.18%) AI
8 128 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 125 (24.80%) Containerisation
10 117 (23.21%) Analytics
11 111 (22.02%) Data Pipeline
12 103 (20.44%) Data Modelling
13 100 (19.84%) Observability
14 98 (19.44%) Test Automation
15 95 (18.85%) Mentoring
16 91 (18.06%) Data Engineering
17 84 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 79 (15.67%) ETL
19 78 (15.48%) Machine Learning
20 74 (14.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 273 (54.17%) Python
2 230 (45.63%) Java
3 227 (45.04%) SQL
4 81 (16.07%) JavaScript
5 79 (15.67%) TypeScript
6 74 (14.68%) Go
7 43 (8.53%) C#
8 24 (4.76%) Scala
9 22 (4.37%) Rust
10 20 (3.97%) Bash
11 19 (3.77%) C++
12 10 (1.98%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.98%) RPG
13 9 (1.79%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.59%) Groovy
14 8 (1.59%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.39%) PHP
16 5 (0.99%) C
17 4 (0.79%) Bicep
17 4 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.51%) Degree
3 45 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.37%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.98%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.60%) MBA
10 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) GIAC
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.20%) SSCP
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.34%) GDPR
3 23 (4.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.57%) QA
5 12 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.40%) PSD2
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (29.76%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 189 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 130 (25.79%) Terraform
3 50 (9.92%) Prometheus
4 36 (7.14%) Grafana
5 30 (5.95%) Ansible
6 10 (1.98%) Istio
7 7 (1.39%) Argo
8 6 (1.19%) Kibana
8 6 (1.19%) Puppet
9 4 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.79%) Podman
10 2 (0.40%) Cilium
10 2 (0.40%) Salt
11 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 62 (12.30%) Databricks
2 45 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.76%) Dell
4 23 (4.56%) Cloudera
5 15 (2.98%) IBM
5 15 (2.98%) Oracle
6 13 (2.58%) Confluent
7 11 (2.18%) Splunk
8 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.59%) Google
9 8 (1.59%) Solace
10 7 (1.39%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.39%) Talend
11 6 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.99%) Pega
12 5 (0.99%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.79%) SAP
13 4 (0.79%) WSO2