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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 184 311
Rank change year-on-year -133 +127 -173
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 456 731 756
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.93% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 9.83% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 310 368 633
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,188 £62,500 £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 £131,875 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% +6.45% -13.89%

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 8,359 7,435 17,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.08% 19.58% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,361 5,069 14,220
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 27 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 27 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 -22 332 £100,000 - 115
North of England -142 48 £80,000 +11.13% 27
South East -54 43 £67,500 -6.90% 24
North West -101 34 £80,000 +14.29% 18
Yorkshire -46 11 £70,000 -12.50% 6
Midlands -93 11 £87,500 +25.00% 5
South West -75 10 £75,000 +11.11% 13
East of England -38 9 £67,500 -5.59% 3
West Midlands -58 9 £87,500 +12.90% 3
North East -41 3 - - 3
East Midlands -74 2 £71,500 +5.93% 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 95 (20.83%) Apache Spark
2 92 (20.18%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (10.75%) Apache
4 9 (1.97%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.10%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) Camunda
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.44%) CICS
7 2 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Actimize
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 298 (65.35%) AWS
2 165 (36.18%) Azure
3 111 (24.34%) GCP
4 76 (16.67%) Serverless
5 62 (13.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (12.72%) Amazon S3
7 56 (12.28%) dbt
8 46 (10.09%) Snowflake
9 39 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.33%) Datadog
11 36 (7.89%) Power Platform
12 32 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (6.80%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (5.26%) GitHub
17 23 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.63%) MQTT
2 7 (1.54%) Broadband
3 6 (1.32%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) 4G
4 2 (0.44%) 5G
4 2 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (21.71%) NoSQL
2 58 (12.72%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (10.53%) Data Lake
4 46 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (9.87%) Relational Database
6 42 (9.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 42 (9.21%) Elasticsearch
7 41 (8.99%) MongoDB
8 38 (8.33%) Tableau
9 35 (7.68%) Big Data
10 34 (7.46%) BigQuery
10 34 (7.46%) Power BI
11 30 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (6.36%) DynamoDB
13 27 (5.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (5.70%) Looker
15 25 (5.48%) SQL Server
16 23 (5.04%) Metadata
17 22 (4.82%) MySQL
18 20 (4.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (13.60%) Git
2 54 (11.84%) GitLab
3 50 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.92%) MLflow
5 25 (5.48%) CircleCI
6 22 (4.82%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.85%) JIRA
8 10 (2.19%) JUnit
9 8 (1.75%) Selenium
10 5 (1.10%) Maven
10 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.88%) JMeter
11 4 (0.88%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.66%) Postman
12 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.66%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.44%) Mockito
13 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 179 (39.25%) Finance
2 102 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.62%) Banking
4 51 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.18%) Front Office
5 11 (2.41%) Law
5 11 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.19%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.19%) Retail
7 9 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.75%) Advertising
8 8 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.32%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Back Office
11 2 (0.44%) Games
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) International Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (29.17%) Developer
2 131 (28.73%) Senior
3 86 (18.86%) Data Engineer
4 71 (15.57%) Lead
5 64 (14.04%) Software Engineer
6 58 (12.72%) Java Engineer
7 43 (9.43%) Architect
8 41 (8.99%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 33 (7.24%) Senior Developer
10 32 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.58%) Lead Developer
12 26 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (5.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (5.04%) Python Engineer
14 23 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (20.61%) Spring
2 86 (18.86%) Spring Boot
3 71 (15.57%) REST
4 69 (15.13%) React
5 65 (14.25%) RabbitMQ
6 63 (13.82%) RESTful
7 61 (13.38%) Node.js
8 35 (7.68%) GraphQL
9 33 (7.24%) Redux
10 32 (7.02%) .NET
10 32 (7.02%) gRPC
11 31 (6.80%) PySpark
12 24 (5.26%) scikit-learn
12 24 (5.26%) TensorFlow
13 23 (5.04%) LangChain
13 23 (5.04%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (5.04%) pgvector
13 23 (5.04%) PyTorch
14 21 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (3.95%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 89 (19.52%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (8.99%) Public Cloud
4 38 (8.33%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.04%) Clustering
6 19 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.95%) Blockchain
7 18 (3.95%) Web3
8 17 (3.73%) e-Learning
9 15 (3.29%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.07%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (1.32%) Anti-Piracy
17 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.70%) Linux
2 6 (1.32%) Unix
2 6 (1.32%) Windows
3 4 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 191 (41.89%) Microservices
3 170 (37.28%) Agile
4 153 (33.55%) DevOps
5 141 (30.92%) Event-Driven
6 137 (30.04%) Software Engineering
7 113 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 112 (24.56%) Containerisation
9 110 (24.12%) Analytics
10 109 (23.90%) AI
11 108 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
12 98 (21.49%) Data Modelling
13 93 (20.39%) Data Engineering
14 92 (20.18%) Observability
15 87 (19.08%) Test Automation
16 80 (17.54%) Mentoring
17 76 (16.67%) ETL
18 70 (15.35%) Machine Learning
19 67 (14.69%) Data Governance
19 67 (14.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 259 (56.80%) Python
2 207 (45.39%) SQL
3 200 (43.86%) Java
4 84 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 82 (17.98%) Go
6 74 (16.23%) TypeScript
7 39 (8.55%) C#
8 23 (5.04%) Scala
9 20 (4.39%) Rust
10 19 (4.17%) C++
11 18 (3.95%) Bash
12 9 (1.97%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.32%) Groovy
13 6 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.10%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.88%) Bicep
16 3 (0.66%) PHP
16 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.66%) RPG
17 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 49 (10.75%) Degree
2 43 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) GIAC
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) SSCP
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.24%) GDPR
3 23 (5.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.29%) QA
5 10 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.75%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (32.68%) Docker
2 8 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (38.60%) Kubernetes
2 124 (27.19%) Terraform
3 47 (10.31%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.80%) Grafana
5 26 (5.70%) Ansible
6 9 (1.97%) Istio
7 7 (1.54%) Argo
7 7 (1.54%) Kibana
8 6 (1.32%) Puppet
9 4 (0.88%) Podman
10 2 (0.44%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) Cilium
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (12.28%) Databricks
2 35 (7.68%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.04%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.04%) Dell
4 12 (2.63%) Confluent
5 11 (2.41%) Oracle
6 10 (2.19%) Splunk
7 8 (1.75%) Solace
8 7 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.32%) Pega
10 5 (1.10%) Google
10 5 (1.10%) Talend
11 4 (0.88%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.88%) IBM
11 4 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.88%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.88%) WSO2