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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 195 308
Rank change year-on-year -132 +113 -178
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 435 683 766
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.75% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.51% 8.94% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 295 387 643
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +8.97% -13.33%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,000 £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 7,898 7,642 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.78% 19.63% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,955 5,674 14,137
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +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 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 8 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 8 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 -8 329 £100,000 - 111
North of England -151 41 £87,500 +21.11% 27
South East -78 36 £60,000 -17.24% 34
North West -105 28 £95,000 +35.71% 17
Yorkshire -58 10 £61,750 -17.67% 3
East of England -26 9 £62,500 -19.35% 5
South West -63 8 £75,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands -85 7 £80,000 +16.36% 6
West Midlands -47 5 £72,500 -6.45% 4
North East -37 3 - - 7
East Midlands -66 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 (22.99%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (22.53%) Apache Spark
3 51 (11.72%) Apache
4 8 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.92%) Confluence
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.46%) Camunda
7 2 (0.46%) CICS
7 2 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) 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
1 290 (66.67%) AWS
2 153 (35.17%) Azure
3 115 (26.44%) GCP
4 65 (14.94%) Serverless
5 56 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (12.64%) dbt
7 51 (11.72%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.80%) Snowflake
9 36 (8.28%) Datadog
9 36 (8.28%) Power Platform
10 35 (8.05%) Amazon Kinesis
10 35 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (4.60%) GitHub
15 19 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.84%) Broadband
2 5 (1.15%) MQTT
3 4 (0.92%) Network Security
4 3 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.46%) 4G
5 2 (0.46%) 5G
5 2 (0.46%) AMQP
5 2 (0.46%) 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 90 (20.69%) NoSQL
2 57 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (9.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 42 (9.66%) Data Lake
3 42 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (8.97%) Relational Database
5 38 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (8.74%) Tableau
6 35 (8.05%) BigQuery
7 34 (7.82%) Power BI
8 32 (7.36%) Big Data
8 32 (7.36%) MongoDB
9 28 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (6.44%) DynamoDB
9 28 (6.44%) SQL Server
10 27 (6.21%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (5.98%) Looker
12 22 (5.06%) Metadata
12 22 (5.06%) MySQL
13 21 (4.83%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (11.72%) Git
2 50 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 49 (11.26%) GitLab
4 28 (6.44%) MLflow
5 24 (5.52%) CircleCI
6 16 (3.68%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.45%) JIRA
8 9 (2.07%) JUnit
9 7 (1.61%) Selenium
10 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.92%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.92%) Maven
11 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.69%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.46%) Postman
12 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 173 (39.77%) Finance
2 106 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 55 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (12.64%) Front Office
4 52 (11.95%) Banking
5 19 (4.37%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.30%) Law
6 10 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.07%) Retail
8 7 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Billing
9 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.92%) Advertising
11 3 (0.69%) Games
11 3 (0.69%) Marketing
12 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Legal
12 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (29.66%) Developer
2 127 (29.20%) Senior
3 84 (19.31%) Data Engineer
4 73 (16.78%) Lead
5 54 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 49 (11.26%) Java Engineer
7 37 (8.51%) Architect
8 34 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.82%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 29 (6.67%) Lead Developer
12 25 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (5.29%) Python Engineer
13 23 (5.29%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (4.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.70%) Spring
2 72 (16.55%) REST
3 70 (16.09%) Spring Boot
4 69 (15.86%) React
5 67 (15.40%) RESTful
6 62 (14.25%) RabbitMQ
7 57 (13.10%) Node.js
8 36 (8.28%) GraphQL
9 35 (8.05%) gRPC
10 33 (7.59%) Redux
11 26 (5.98%) PySpark
12 24 (5.52%) scikit-learn
12 24 (5.52%) TensorFlow
13 23 (5.29%) LangChain
13 23 (5.29%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (5.29%) pgvector
13 23 (5.29%) PyTorch
14 21 (4.83%) .NET
15 20 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (4.37%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 120 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 78 (17.93%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (9.20%) Fixed Income
4 36 (8.28%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.29%) Clustering
6 17 (3.91%) Blockchain
6 17 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.91%) Web3
7 15 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.22%) Distributed Architecture
9 13 (2.99%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.53%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.38%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.38%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.83%) Linux
2 9 (2.07%) Windows
3 8 (1.84%) Android
4 4 (0.92%) Unix
5 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (45.75%) CI/CD
2 170 (39.08%) Microservices
3 155 (35.63%) Agile
4 153 (35.17%) DevOps
5 131 (30.11%) Event-Driven
6 127 (29.20%) Software Engineering
7 116 (26.67%) Analytics
8 114 (26.21%) Data Pipeline
9 109 (25.06%) Containerisation
10 104 (23.91%) Data Modelling
11 99 (22.76%) Data Engineering
12 98 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 95 (21.84%) AI
14 81 (18.62%) ETL
15 80 (18.39%) Observability
16 77 (17.70%) Test Automation
17 69 (15.86%) Data Governance
18 68 (15.63%) Machine Learning
19 64 (14.71%) Computer Science
20 63 (14.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 250 (57.47%) Python
2 200 (45.98%) SQL
3 183 (42.07%) Java
4 86 (19.77%) Go
5 67 (15.40%) JavaScript
6 66 (15.17%) TypeScript
7 32 (7.36%) C#
8 22 (5.06%) Bash
8 22 (5.06%) C++
9 20 (4.60%) Scala
10 15 (3.45%) Rust
11 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.38%) Groovy
12 6 (1.38%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.69%) Bicep
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 49 (11.26%) Degree
2 35 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (7.36%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.29%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 17 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) GIAC
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) SSCP
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (15.40%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.59%) GDPR
3 23 (5.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.91%) QA
5 10 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.84%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.92%) 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
1 147 (33.79%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 168 (38.62%) Kubernetes
2 110 (25.29%) Terraform
3 45 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 30 (6.90%) Grafana
5 26 (5.98%) Ansible
6 9 (2.07%) Argo
6 9 (2.07%) Istio
7 5 (1.15%) Kibana
7 5 (1.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.46%) Salt
9 1 (0.23%) Cilium
9 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.23%) Icinga
9 1 (0.23%) Nagios
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (12.18%) Databricks
2 23 (5.29%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.29%) Dell
2 23 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.22%) Confluent
4 10 (2.30%) Oracle
5 7 (1.61%) Solace
5 7 (1.61%) Splunk
6 6 (1.38%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.38%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.38%) Pega
7 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.15%) Google
7 5 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.15%) Talend
8 4 (0.92%) VMware
8 4 (0.92%) WSO2
9 3 (0.69%) Mavenir
9 3 (0.69%) Nokia
9 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow