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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 191 317
Rank change year-on-year -121 +126 -148
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 519 774 748
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.79% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 9.71% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 348 347 608
10th Percentile £55,000 £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 £115,313 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £120,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.03% +11.86% -15.71%

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 9,173 7,970 17,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 18.39% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,023 5,401 13,534
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% -10.45%

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 15 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 15 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 -37 360 £97,500 -2.50% 170
North of England -141 53 £75,000 +11.11% 77
South East -56 48 £66,250 -7.99% 64
North West -91 45 £75,000 +11.11% 39
South West -74 21 £85,000 +30.77% 43
Midlands -82 18 £85,000 +25.93% 30
West Midlands -41 16 £86,250 +43.75% 13
East of England -23 15 £72,500 +1.40% 31
Yorkshire -39 4 £66,805 -40.02% 24
North East -59 4 £62,500 +31.58% 14
East Midlands -64 2 £71,500 +5.93% 17
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 (22.54%) Apache Spark
2 91 (17.53%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (8.67%) 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 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.39%) CICS
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 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 339 (65.32%) AWS
2 205 (39.50%) Azure
3 123 (23.70%) GCP
4 83 (15.99%) Serverless
5 72 (13.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (11.18%) dbt
7 50 (9.63%) Snowflake
8 48 (9.25%) Amazon S3
9 40 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (7.51%) Power Platform
11 36 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (6.94%) Datadog
12 34 (6.55%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (5.78%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (5.20%) GitHub
16 25 (4.82%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (3.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.24%) MQTT
2 7 (1.35%) BGP
2 7 (1.35%) Broadband
3 6 (1.16%) DNS
3 6 (1.16%) IPsec
3 6 (1.16%) Network Security
3 6 (1.16%) VPN
4 5 (0.96%) Internet
5 3 (0.58%) AMQP
6 2 (0.39%) 4G
6 2 (0.39%) 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 (22.74%) NoSQL
2 64 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (11.37%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (10.40%) MongoDB
5 51 (9.83%) Data Lake
5 51 (9.83%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (9.44%) Big Data
7 45 (8.67%) Relational Database
8 38 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (7.13%) Power BI
10 33 (6.36%) BigQuery
10 33 (6.36%) Tableau
11 26 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (5.01%) DynamoDB
11 26 (5.01%) Looker
11 26 (5.01%) MySQL
12 25 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (4.62%) Redis
14 22 (4.24%) Hadoop
14 22 (4.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (12.72%) GitLab
2 63 (12.14%) Git
3 42 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.17%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.01%) MLflow
6 22 (4.24%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.31%) JIRA
8 11 (2.12%) Selenium
9 7 (1.35%) JUnit
10 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.96%) Maven
11 4 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.77%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.77%) Postman
11 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 196 (37.76%) Finance
2 110 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 57 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.40%) Banking
5 43 (8.29%) Front Office
6 22 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.12%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.12%) Law
7 11 (2.12%) Retail
8 9 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.73%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.73%) Marketing
8 9 (1.73%) Military
9 8 (1.54%) Advertising
10 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.96%) Billing
12 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (28.52%) Senior
2 135 (26.01%) Developer
3 100 (19.27%) Data Engineer
4 72 (13.87%) Java Engineer
5 69 (13.29%) Software Engineer
6 66 (12.72%) Lead
7 57 (10.98%) Architect
8 40 (7.71%) Java Developer
9 38 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (6.94%) Senior Developer
11 35 (6.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (5.78%) Lead Developer
14 27 (5.20%) Python Engineer
15 25 (4.82%) Principal Java Engineer
15 25 (4.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 24 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
17 23 (4.43%) Senior Java Engineer
17 23 (4.43%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (21.77%) Spring
2 109 (21.00%) Spring Boot
3 75 (14.45%) Node.js
4 73 (14.07%) REST
5 70 (13.49%) RabbitMQ
6 67 (12.91%) RESTful
7 65 (12.52%) React
8 36 (6.94%) GraphQL
8 36 (6.94%) PySpark
9 35 (6.74%) Redux
10 33 (6.36%) .NET
11 26 (5.01%) gRPC
12 25 (4.82%) PyTorch
12 25 (4.82%) scikit-learn
12 25 (4.82%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.43%) LangChain
13 23 (4.43%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.43%) pgvector
14 19 (3.66%) Middleware
15 18 (3.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 155 (29.87%) Cloud Native
2 97 (18.69%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (10.40%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.13%) Fixed Income
5 32 (6.17%) Onboarding
6 27 (5.20%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.43%) Clustering
8 22 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (4.24%) Product Ownership
9 18 (3.47%) Data Structures
10 17 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.70%) Blockchain
11 14 (2.70%) Web3
12 10 (1.93%) EPoS
12 10 (1.93%) iSeries
13 9 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.29%) Linux
2 8 (1.54%) Windows
3 7 (1.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (45.66%) CI/CD
2 210 (40.46%) Microservices
3 199 (38.34%) Agile
4 170 (32.76%) Event-Driven
5 167 (32.18%) DevOps
6 156 (30.06%) Software Engineering
7 147 (28.32%) AI
8 132 (25.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 125 (24.08%) Containerisation
10 124 (23.89%) Analytics
11 115 (22.16%) Data Pipeline
12 108 (20.81%) Mentoring
13 105 (20.23%) Data Modelling
14 101 (19.46%) Test Automation
15 100 (19.27%) Observability
16 94 (18.11%) Data Engineering
17 86 (16.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 83 (15.99%) Machine Learning
19 82 (15.80%) ETL
20 80 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 280 (53.95%) Python
2 237 (45.66%) SQL
3 234 (45.09%) Java
4 82 (15.80%) JavaScript
5 80 (15.41%) TypeScript
6 74 (14.26%) Go
7 44 (8.48%) C#
8 24 (4.62%) Scala
9 22 (4.24%) Rust
10 19 (3.66%) Bash
10 19 (3.66%) C++
11 10 (1.93%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.93%) RPG
12 9 (1.73%) PHP
12 9 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.54%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.35%) C
15 6 (1.16%) Groovy
15 6 (1.16%) Ruby
16 4 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.52%) Degree
3 50 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 29 (5.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.24%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.47%) 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 63 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.32%) GDPR
3 23 (4.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.47%) QA
5 12 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) 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
1 152 (29.29%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 189 (36.42%) Kubernetes
2 131 (25.24%) Terraform
3 49 (9.44%) Prometheus
4 36 (6.94%) Grafana
5 30 (5.78%) Ansible
6 10 (1.93%) Istio
7 7 (1.35%) Argo
8 6 (1.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.16%) Kibana
8 6 (1.16%) Puppet
9 4 (0.77%) Podman
10 2 (0.39%) Cilium
10 2 (0.39%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 63 (12.14%) Databricks
2 48 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.62%) Dell
4 23 (4.43%) Cloudera
5 19 (3.66%) IBM
6 17 (3.28%) Oracle
7 13 (2.50%) Confluent
8 11 (2.12%) Splunk
9 10 (1.93%) Google
10 9 (1.73%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.54%) Solace
12 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.35%) Talend
13 6 (1.16%) HP
13 6 (1.16%) SAP
14 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.96%) Informatica
14 5 (0.96%) Pega