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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 233 262
Rank change year-on-year -83 +29 -138
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 394 515 801
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.35% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.56% 6.13% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 268 356 657
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £143,250 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £83,230 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.15% +4.04% -9.58%

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 7,081 8,400 16,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.66% 22.04% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,390 5,983 13,611
10th Percentile £36,700 £39,000 £36,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -2 300 £115,000 +15.00% 108
South East -59 36 £60,000 -7.69% 38
North of England -81 31 £70,000 -3.11% 35
North West -36 17 £95,000 +36.21% 20
Yorkshire -46 12 £53,500 -27.46% 9
Midlands -28 8 £72,500 +11.54% 7
East of England -17 7 £62,500 -19.35% 10
South West -46 6 £75,000 +27.66% 12
West Midlands -9 4 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Midlands -46 4 £120,000 +84.62% 3
North East -23 2 - - 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 84 (21.32%) Apache Spark
2 77 (19.54%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (11.17%) Apache
4 8 (2.03%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.27%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.27%) Confluence
5 5 (1.27%) IIS
5 5 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.51%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) Camunda
6 2 (0.51%) CICS
6 2 (0.51%) Mule
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Actimize
2 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 265 (67.26%) AWS
2 127 (32.23%) Azure
3 109 (27.66%) GCP
4 50 (12.69%) Serverless
5 46 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (11.42%) Amazon S3
7 37 (9.39%) Amazon Kinesis
7 37 (9.39%) dbt
8 36 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (8.63%) Snowflake
10 30 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (7.11%) GitHub
12 26 (6.60%) Power Platform
13 24 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (5.58%) Datadog
15 20 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (4.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.03%) Broadband
2 4 (1.02%) DNS
2 4 (1.02%) HTTP
2 4 (1.02%) MQTT
3 3 (0.76%) AMQP
4 2 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) 5G
5 1 (0.25%) CTI
5 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (20.30%) NoSQL
2 54 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (8.38%) Big Data
5 32 (8.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (8.12%) Relational Database
6 29 (7.36%) Tableau
7 26 (6.60%) MongoDB
8 25 (6.35%) BigQuery
8 25 (6.35%) Redis
9 24 (6.09%) Power BI
10 23 (5.84%) Data Lake
11 22 (5.58%) DynamoDB
11 22 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (5.58%) SQL Server
12 20 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (4.82%) Metadata
14 18 (4.57%) MySQL
15 17 (4.31%) Flink
15 17 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.18%) Git
3 42 (10.66%) GitLab
4 20 (5.08%) CircleCI
5 18 (4.57%) MLflow
6 14 (3.55%) Cucumber
6 14 (3.55%) JIRA
7 11 (2.79%) JUnit
8 8 (2.03%) Selenium
9 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.52%) JMeter
9 6 (1.52%) LoadRunner
10 5 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.27%) git-flow
11 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.76%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.76%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 167 (42.39%) Finance
2 109 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 63 (15.99%) Front Office
4 54 (13.71%) Banking
5 41 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.35%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.81%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.28%) Law
10 7 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.78%) Retail
11 6 (1.52%) Advertising
12 5 (1.27%) Games
12 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.02%) Billing
13 4 (1.02%) Marketing
14 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Legal
14 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 134 (34.01%) Developer
2 108 (27.41%) Senior
3 69 (17.51%) Data Engineer
4 62 (15.74%) Lead
5 57 (14.47%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.15%) Java Engineer
7 37 (9.39%) Java Developer
8 34 (8.63%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (8.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (8.12%) Senior Developer
11 29 (7.36%) Architect
11 29 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (5.84%) Lead Developer
13 22 (5.58%) Python Developer
14 21 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.08%) Lead Software Developer
16 18 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (20.30%) Spring
2 72 (18.27%) React
3 64 (16.24%) Spring Boot
4 63 (15.99%) RESTful
5 61 (15.48%) REST
6 56 (14.21%) RabbitMQ
7 55 (13.96%) Node.js
8 44 (11.17%) GraphQL
9 36 (9.14%) Redux
10 33 (8.38%) gRPC
11 26 (6.60%) AngularJS
12 19 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (4.57%) .NET
14 16 (4.06%) Pandas
14 16 (4.06%) PySpark
15 15 (3.81%) OAuth
15 15 (3.81%) OAuth2
15 15 (3.81%) scikit-learn
15 15 (3.81%) TensorFlow
16 14 (3.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 101 (25.63%) Cloud Native
2 73 (18.53%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (10.41%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.81%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 13 (3.30%) Blockchain
9 13 (3.30%) Clustering
9 13 (3.30%) Web3
10 12 (3.05%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.79%) e-Learning
11 11 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (2.03%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (2.03%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.36%) Linux
2 12 (3.05%) Windows
3 10 (2.54%) Android
4 6 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.52%) Unix
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (48.98%) CI/CD
2 168 (42.64%) Microservices
3 159 (40.36%) DevOps
4 157 (39.85%) Agile
5 117 (29.70%) Software Engineering
6 98 (24.87%) Analytics
7 95 (24.11%) Containerisation
7 95 (24.11%) Data Pipeline
7 95 (24.11%) Event-Driven
8 90 (22.84%) Data Modelling
9 83 (21.07%) Data Engineering
10 82 (20.81%) AI
11 73 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
12 70 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (16.50%) ETL
15 63 (15.99%) Computer Science
16 62 (15.74%) Data Governance
17 61 (15.48%) Fintech
17 61 (15.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 219 (55.58%) Python
2 188 (47.72%) Java
3 159 (40.36%) SQL
4 94 (23.86%) Go
5 65 (16.50%) TypeScript
6 59 (14.97%) JavaScript
7 29 (7.36%) C#
8 25 (6.35%) Bash
9 21 (5.33%) Scala
10 20 (5.08%) C++
11 13 (3.30%) Rust
12 7 (1.78%) Groovy
12 7 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.78%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (12.18%) Degree
2 40 (10.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.11%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.51%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.18%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.11%) GDPR
3 19 (4.82%) QA
4 13 (3.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (2.54%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.03%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (34.01%) Docker
2 8 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 151 (38.32%) Kubernetes
2 80 (20.30%) Terraform
3 40 (10.15%) Prometheus
4 32 (8.12%) Ansible
5 29 (7.36%) Grafana
6 11 (2.79%) Argo
7 8 (2.03%) Istio
8 6 (1.52%) Kibana
9 5 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.27%) Puppet
10 3 (0.76%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.51%) Control-M
12 1 (0.25%) Icinga
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 38 (9.64%) Databricks
2 17 (4.31%) Dell
3 16 (4.06%) Oracle
4 13 (3.30%) Cloudera
4 13 (3.30%) Confluent
5 11 (2.79%) VMware
6 9 (2.28%) Splunk
7 6 (1.52%) Google
7 6 (1.52%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.52%) Pega
8 5 (1.27%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.27%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.27%) Nokia
8 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.27%) SAP
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.02%) Informatica
9 4 (1.02%) Solace
10 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft