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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 205 314
Rank change year-on-year -114 +109 -123
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 569 688 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.59% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.28% 9.01% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 332 272 409
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,250 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -17.65%

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 10,777 7,639 14,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.63% 17.70% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,880 5,045 9,616
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -35 364 £87,500 -16.67% 752
North of England -120 77 £75,000 +7.14% 152
North West -87 60 £75,000 +9.09% 97
South East -66 45 £67,500 -5.59% 65
South West -75 35 £85,000 +25.93% 53
Midlands -80 31 £85,000 +25.93% 33
West Midlands -34 29 £85,000 +51.11% 26
East of England -30 22 £72,500 -4.29% 27
North East -58 12 £67,500 +42.11% 17
Yorkshire -46 5 £78,500 +4.67% 38
East Midlands -81 2 £71,500 +5.93% 7
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
1 105 (18.45%) Apache Spark
2 61 (10.72%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (7.91%) Apache
4 15 (2.64%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.70%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 334 (58.70%) AWS
2 229 (40.25%) Azure
3 97 (17.05%) GCP
4 78 (13.71%) Serverless
5 71 (12.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (7.73%) Amazon S3
7 43 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (7.03%) GitHub
8 40 (7.03%) Power Platform
9 34 (5.98%) Amazon SQS
10 33 (5.80%) Snowflake
11 31 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (4.92%) dbt
13 27 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.75%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (4.57%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (4.22%) Datadog
16 22 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.92%) MQTT
2 9 (1.58%) DNS
3 7 (1.23%) BGP
3 7 (1.23%) Internet
4 6 (1.05%) IPsec
4 6 (1.05%) Network Security
4 6 (1.05%) VPN
5 4 (0.70%) 4G
5 4 (0.70%) 5G
5 4 (0.70%) HTTP
5 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) ATM
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (24.43%) NoSQL
2 90 (15.82%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (13.88%) MongoDB
4 58 (10.19%) Relational Database
5 49 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (8.61%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (8.44%) Big Data
7 44 (7.73%) Data Lake
8 38 (6.68%) Power BI
9 32 (5.62%) MySQL
10 30 (5.27%) Redis
11 29 (5.10%) Tableau
12 28 (4.92%) SQL Server
13 27 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (4.57%) Hadoop
15 25 (4.39%) Flink
16 24 (4.22%) DynamoDB
17 23 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (2.99%) BigQuery
18 17 (2.99%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 82 (14.41%) Git
2 75 (13.18%) GitLab
3 52 (9.14%) Jenkins
4 47 (8.26%) Cucumber
5 17 (2.99%) Selenium
6 15 (2.64%) JIRA
6 15 (2.64%) MLflow
7 9 (1.58%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.41%) Maven
9 6 (1.05%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.05%) JUnit
10 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.88%) Postman
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.35%) Gradle
12 2 (0.35%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.35%) Mockito
12 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (33.39%) Finance
2 124 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.72%) Banking
4 56 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.87%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.99%) Front Office
8 17 (2.99%) Retail
9 15 (2.64%) Marketing
10 12 (2.11%) Law
11 10 (1.76%) Military
11 10 (1.76%) Publishing
12 8 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.05%) Advertising
13 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.88%) Aviation
14 5 (0.88%) Games
15 4 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 188 (33.04%) Senior
2 118 (20.74%) Developer
3 99 (17.40%) Data Engineer
4 90 (15.82%) Java Engineer
5 81 (14.24%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.54%) Lead
7 58 (10.19%) Architect
8 51 (8.96%) Senior Developer
9 47 (8.26%) Principal Engineer
10 37 (6.50%) Senior Java Engineer
10 37 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 35 (6.15%) Java Developer
12 33 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
13 31 (5.45%) Principal Java Engineer
13 31 (5.45%) Python Engineer
14 24 (4.22%) Backend Developer
14 24 (4.22%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (3.51%) Kafka Engineer
17 19 (3.34%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (30.05%) Spring
2 152 (26.71%) Spring Boot
3 112 (19.68%) Terraform
4 100 (17.57%) RESTful
5 92 (16.17%) REST
6 88 (15.47%) RabbitMQ
7 58 (10.19%) Node.js
8 46 (8.08%) React
9 40 (7.03%) .NET
10 38 (6.68%) PySpark
11 28 (4.92%) Swagger
12 27 (4.75%) OpenAPI
13 25 (4.39%) FastAPI
14 22 (3.87%) gRPC
14 22 (3.87%) Keycloak
15 20 (3.51%) PyTorch
15 20 (3.51%) TensorFlow
16 19 (3.34%) Middleware
17 17 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
17 17 (2.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 189 (33.22%) Cloud Native
2 150 (26.36%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.37%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.03%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.85%) Onboarding
6 33 (5.80%) Product Ownership
7 29 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.81%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.81%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.46%) Clustering
11 14 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.28%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.93%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.93%) Replication
14 10 (1.76%) EPoS
14 10 (1.76%) Equities
14 10 (1.76%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.56%) Linux
2 7 (1.23%) Unix
2 7 (1.23%) Windows
3 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (50.09%) CI/CD
2 262 (46.05%) Microservices
3 256 (44.99%) Event-Driven
4 236 (41.48%) Agile
5 195 (34.27%) DevOps
6 174 (30.58%) AI
6 174 (30.58%) Software Engineering
7 165 (29.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (25.83%) Mentoring
9 131 (23.02%) Containerisation
10 129 (22.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 127 (22.32%) Test Automation
12 123 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
13 119 (20.91%) Observability
14 110 (19.33%) Analytics
15 100 (17.57%) Data Modelling
16 93 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (15.29%) Roadmaps
19 83 (14.59%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 275 (48.33%) Java
2 242 (42.53%) Python
3 217 (38.14%) SQL
4 68 (11.95%) TypeScript
5 60 (10.54%) JavaScript
6 45 (7.91%) C#
7 36 (6.33%) Go
8 27 (4.75%) Scala
9 19 (3.34%) Bash
9 19 (3.34%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.28%) Groovy
11 12 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.11%) Rust
12 10 (1.76%) RPG
13 9 (1.58%) PHP
14 7 (1.23%) C
14 7 (1.23%) C++
14 7 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.05%) Ruby
15 6 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 82 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.78%) Degree
4 56 (9.84%) AWS Certification
5 40 (7.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.80%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (5.45%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.88%) PhD
11 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.70%) MBA
11 4 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.35%) OCP
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.75%) GDPR
3 23 (4.04%) QA
4 15 (2.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
7 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.35%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 169 (29.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 219 (38.49%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.38%) Prometheus
3 34 (5.98%) Grafana
4 22 (3.87%) Ansible
5 13 (2.28%) Argo
6 7 (1.23%) Kibana
6 7 (1.23%) Puppet
7 6 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (1.05%) Rancher
8 5 (0.88%) Podman
9 4 (0.70%) Cilium
10 3 (0.53%) Istio
11 2 (0.35%) Control-M
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
11 2 (0.35%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (11.07%) Databricks
2 57 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.75%) Oracle
4 25 (4.39%) IBM
5 18 (3.16%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.64%) Dell
6 15 (2.64%) Google
7 14 (2.46%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.93%) Splunk
9 10 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.58%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.23%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.05%) Confluent
12 6 (1.05%) HP
12 6 (1.05%) SAP
12 6 (1.05%) Solace
12 6 (1.05%) Talend
13 5 (0.88%) Informatica