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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 202 311
Rank change year-on-year -109 +109 -180
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 440 681 766
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.75% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 8.85% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 301 386 644
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £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 7,998 7,691 16,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 19.74% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,048 5,682 14,134
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,177 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -15 330 £100,000 - 114
North of England -158 42 £80,000 +10.73% 32
South East -61 37 £62,500 -13.79% 35
North West -102 29 £95,000 +35.71% 19
Yorkshire -60 10 £61,750 -17.67% 5
East of England -19 9 £62,500 -19.35% 3
Midlands -94 9 £80,000 +16.36% 7
South West -60 8 £75,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands -54 7 £72,500 -6.45% 5
North East -48 3 - - 8
East Midlands -61 2 £120,000 +81.13% 2
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 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (22.27%) Apache Spark
3 52 (11.82%) Apache
4 8 (1.82%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.14%) Confluence
6 4 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.68%) IIS
7 3 (0.68%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.45%) Camunda
8 2 (0.45%) CICS
8 2 (0.45%) 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
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) 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
1 292 (66.36%) AWS
2 159 (36.14%) Azure
3 115 (26.14%) GCP
4 67 (15.23%) Serverless
5 58 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (12.50%) dbt
7 52 (11.82%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.68%) Snowflake
9 36 (8.18%) Datadog
9 36 (8.18%) Power Platform
10 35 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (7.73%) Amazon Kinesis
12 25 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (4.32%) GitHub
16 17 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.59%) Broadband
2 6 (1.36%) MQTT
3 5 (1.14%) Network Security
4 3 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.45%) 4G
5 2 (0.45%) 5G
5 2 (0.45%) AMQP
5 2 (0.45%) DNS
6 1 (0.23%) BGP
6 1 (0.23%) CTI
6 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.23%) LTE
6 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 57 (12.95%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (9.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 39 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
6 39 (8.86%) Relational Database
7 38 (8.64%) Tableau
8 35 (7.95%) BigQuery
9 34 (7.73%) Power BI
10 33 (7.50%) Big Data
10 33 (7.50%) MongoDB
11 28 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (6.14%) DynamoDB
12 27 (6.14%) Snowflake Schema
12 27 (6.14%) SQL Server
13 26 (5.91%) Looker
14 22 (5.00%) Metadata
14 22 (5.00%) MySQL
15 21 (4.77%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (11.82%) Git
2 50 (11.36%) GitLab
3 49 (11.14%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.36%) MLflow
5 24 (5.45%) CircleCI
6 17 (3.86%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.41%) JIRA
8 9 (2.05%) JUnit
9 7 (1.59%) Selenium
10 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.91%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.91%) Maven
10 4 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.68%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.68%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.68%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.45%) Mockito
12 2 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 174 (39.55%) Finance
2 104 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 55 (12.50%) Front Office
4 54 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (12.05%) Banking
6 18 (4.09%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.27%) Law
8 9 (2.05%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.05%) Retail
9 8 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.14%) Billing
13 4 (0.91%) Advertising
14 3 (0.68%) Games
15 2 (0.45%) Back Office
15 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Legal
15 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (29.32%) Developer
2 127 (28.86%) Senior
3 84 (19.09%) Data Engineer
4 73 (16.59%) Lead
5 53 (12.05%) Software Engineer
6 50 (11.36%) Java Engineer
7 39 (8.86%) Architect
8 34 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.73%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (6.82%) Senior Developer
11 29 (6.59%) Lead Developer
12 25 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (5.23%) Python Engineer
13 23 (5.23%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (4.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.73%) Spring
2 73 (16.59%) REST
3 72 (16.36%) Spring Boot
4 70 (15.91%) React
5 66 (15.00%) RESTful
6 61 (13.86%) RabbitMQ
7 57 (12.95%) Node.js
8 36 (8.18%) GraphQL
8 36 (8.18%) gRPC
9 33 (7.50%) Redux
10 27 (6.14%) PySpark
11 24 (5.45%) .NET
11 24 (5.45%) scikit-learn
11 24 (5.45%) TensorFlow
12 23 (5.23%) LangChain
12 23 (5.23%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.23%) pgvector
12 23 (5.23%) PyTorch
13 20 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.32%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 124 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 79 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (9.09%) Fixed Income
4 37 (8.41%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.23%) Clustering
6 17 (3.86%) Blockchain
6 17 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.86%) Web3
7 15 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.18%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 14 (3.18%) e-Learning
9 12 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.50%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.36%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.36%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.77%) Linux
2 9 (2.05%) Windows
3 8 (1.82%) Android
4 4 (0.91%) Unix
5 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (45.91%) CI/CD
2 174 (39.55%) Microservices
3 157 (35.68%) Agile
4 155 (35.23%) DevOps
5 133 (30.23%) Event-Driven
6 127 (28.86%) Software Engineering
7 116 (26.36%) Analytics
8 114 (25.91%) Data Pipeline
9 111 (25.23%) Containerisation
10 104 (23.64%) Data Modelling
11 103 (23.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 99 (22.50%) Data Engineering
13 97 (22.05%) AI
14 83 (18.86%) Observability
15 81 (18.41%) ETL
16 78 (17.73%) Test Automation
17 70 (15.91%) Data Governance
18 67 (15.23%) Machine Learning
19 66 (15.00%) Mentoring
20 64 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 253 (57.50%) Python
2 200 (45.45%) SQL
3 184 (41.82%) Java
4 85 (19.32%) Go
5 70 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 67 (15.23%) TypeScript
7 35 (7.95%) C#
8 23 (5.23%) C++
9 21 (4.77%) Bash
10 19 (4.32%) Scala
11 16 (3.64%) Rust
12 7 (1.59%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.59%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.36%) Groovy
14 4 (0.91%) Bicep
14 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.68%) PHP
15 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.23%) RPG
Qualifications
1 48 (10.91%) Degree
2 35 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 34 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.09%) AWS Certification
5 18 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) GIAC
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) SSCP
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (15.23%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.50%) GDPR
3 23 (5.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.86%) QA
5 10 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.82%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.91%) 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
1 148 (33.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 171 (38.86%) Kubernetes
2 114 (25.91%) Terraform
3 45 (10.23%) Prometheus
4 31 (7.05%) Grafana
5 26 (5.91%) Ansible
6 9 (2.05%) Argo
6 9 (2.05%) Istio
7 6 (1.36%) Puppet
8 5 (1.14%) Kibana
9 2 (0.45%) Podman
9 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.45%) Salt
10 1 (0.23%) Cilium
10 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 55 (12.50%) Databricks
2 26 (5.91%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.23%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.23%) Dell
4 14 (3.18%) Confluent
5 10 (2.27%) Oracle
6 7 (1.59%) Solace
6 7 (1.59%) Splunk
7 6 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.36%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.36%) Pega
8 5 (1.14%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.14%) Talend
9 4 (0.91%) Google
9 4 (0.91%) WSO2
10 3 (0.68%) Nokia
10 3 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.68%) VMware