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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 177 317
Rank change year-on-year -143 +140 -165
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 460 766 771
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.96% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.43% 9.92% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 314 363 634
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £44,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8,474 7,718 17,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.30% 19.71% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 5,231 14,376
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -27 334 £100,000 - 171
North of England -145 47 £77,500 +10.71% 42
South East -64 41 £67,500 -6.90% 30
North West -95 36 £80,000 +18.52% 27
South West -73 12 £75,000 +11.11% 13
Midlands -83 11 £87,500 +25.00% 5
East of England -27 10 £72,500 +1.40% 7
West Midlands -54 9 £87,500 +12.90% 4
Yorkshire -49 7 £80,000 - 11
North East -43 4 £62,500 - 4
East Midlands -68 2 £71,500 +5.93% 1
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 99 (21.52%) Apache Spark
2 94 (20.43%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (10.87%) Apache
4 6 (1.30%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.09%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 298 (64.78%) AWS
2 170 (36.96%) Azure
3 112 (24.35%) GCP
4 74 (16.09%) Serverless
5 65 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (12.39%) dbt
7 55 (11.96%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.22%) Snowflake
9 40 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.26%) Power Platform
11 37 (8.04%) Datadog
12 33 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (6.09%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (4.78%) GitHub
16 20 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.83%) MQTT
2 7 (1.52%) Broadband
3 6 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) 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
1 101 (21.96%) NoSQL
2 61 (13.26%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (10.87%) Data Lake
4 48 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (9.57%) Relational Database
6 43 (9.35%) MongoDB
7 42 (9.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 42 (9.13%) Elasticsearch
8 38 (8.26%) Tableau
9 36 (7.83%) Power BI
10 35 (7.61%) Big Data
11 34 (7.39%) BigQuery
12 28 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (6.09%) DynamoDB
13 27 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (5.65%) Looker
15 23 (5.00%) MySQL
15 23 (5.00%) SQL Server
16 22 (4.78%) Metadata
17 20 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (12.83%) Git
2 57 (12.39%) GitLab
3 47 (10.22%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.65%) MLflow
5 25 (5.43%) Cucumber
6 24 (5.22%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.17%) JIRA
8 8 (1.74%) JUnit
9 7 (1.52%) Selenium
10 5 (1.09%) Maven
11 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.65%) JMeter
12 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 178 (38.70%) Finance
2 102 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (11.09%) Banking
4 47 (10.22%) Front Office
5 13 (2.83%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.39%) Law
7 10 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.17%) Retail
7 10 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.74%) Advertising
10 7 (1.52%) Billing
10 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Games
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (29.13%) Senior
2 128 (27.83%) Developer
3 92 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 69 (15.00%) Lead
5 64 (13.91%) Software Engineer
6 61 (13.26%) Java Engineer
7 47 (10.22%) Architect
8 37 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 34 (7.39%) Senior Developer
10 33 (7.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 31 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (6.52%) Lead Developer
13 28 (6.09%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (5.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
16 23 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
17 22 (4.78%) Python Engineer
18 21 (4.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (20.87%) Spring
2 88 (19.13%) Spring Boot
3 71 (15.43%) REST
4 64 (13.91%) React
5 63 (13.70%) RabbitMQ
6 61 (13.26%) Node.js
7 59 (12.83%) RESTful
8 35 (7.61%) GraphQL
9 33 (7.17%) PySpark
9 33 (7.17%) Redux
10 30 (6.52%) .NET
11 29 (6.30%) gRPC
12 25 (5.43%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.43%) TensorFlow
13 24 (5.22%) PyTorch
14 23 (5.00%) LangChain
14 23 (5.00%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (5.00%) pgvector
15 18 (3.91%) AngularJS
16 17 (3.70%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 135 (29.35%) Cloud Native
2 88 (19.13%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (9.57%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.04%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.00%) Clustering
6 20 (4.35%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.70%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.70%) Web3
9 16 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (3.26%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.30%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.09%) Linux
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
3 6 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (46.52%) CI/CD
2 189 (41.09%) Microservices
3 175 (38.04%) Agile
4 149 (32.39%) DevOps
5 148 (32.17%) Event-Driven
6 139 (30.22%) Software Engineering
7 118 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 115 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 111 (24.13%) AI
10 110 (23.91%) Analytics
11 109 (23.70%) Data Pipeline
12 103 (22.39%) Data Modelling
13 95 (20.65%) Observability
14 94 (20.43%) Data Engineering
15 88 (19.13%) Test Automation
16 83 (18.04%) Mentoring
17 78 (16.96%) ETL
18 72 (15.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 71 (15.43%) Data Governance
19 71 (15.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 258 (56.09%) Python
2 211 (45.87%) SQL
3 199 (43.26%) Java
4 79 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 78 (16.96%) Go
6 74 (16.09%) TypeScript
7 36 (7.83%) C#
8 24 (5.22%) Scala
9 20 (4.35%) Rust
10 19 (4.13%) Bash
10 19 (4.13%) C++
11 9 (1.96%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.52%) Groovy
13 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.87%) Bicep
14 4 (0.87%) RPG
15 3 (0.65%) PHP
15 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 49 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.22%) Degree
3 35 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 24 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) GIAC
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) SSCP
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.35%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.39%) GDPR
3 23 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.26%) QA
5 10 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (32.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (38.48%) Kubernetes
2 125 (27.17%) Terraform
3 47 (10.22%) Prometheus
4 32 (6.96%) Grafana
5 27 (5.87%) Ansible
6 9 (1.96%) Istio
7 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 6 (1.30%) Argo
8 6 (1.30%) Puppet
9 4 (0.87%) Podman
10 2 (0.43%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) Cilium
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.83%) Databricks
2 37 (8.04%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.00%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.00%) Dell
4 13 (2.83%) Confluent
5 10 (2.17%) Oracle
6 9 (1.96%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.74%) Solace
8 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) Google
9 6 (1.30%) Pega
10 5 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.09%) Talend
11 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.87%) IBM
11 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) WSO2