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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 184 317
Rank change year-on-year -131 +133 -153
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 490 781 764
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.87% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 9.86% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 333 356 626
10th Percentile £55,145 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £88,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +14.52% -13.89%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -14.29%

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 8,988 7,922 17,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 18.96% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,871 5,365 14,463
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,851 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,600 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -35 350 £100,000 - 173
North of England -149 50 £75,000 +11.11% 37
North West -97 44 £75,000 +11.11% 22
South East -62 43 £67,500 -6.90% 37
South West -83 15 £85,000 +25.93% 20
East of England -15 14 £72,500 +1.40% 4
Midlands -82 13 £86,250 +27.78% 16
West Midlands -42 11 £87,500 +34.62% 8
North East -50 4 £62,500 +31.58% 6
Yorkshire -41 2 £90,000 -26.69% 10
East Midlands -53 2 £71,500 +5.93% 8
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 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 94 (19.18%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (9.59%) Apache
4 11 (2.24%) Confluence
5 4 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.61%) Camunda
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Pig
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.41%) CICS
7 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 10 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 318 (64.90%) AWS
2 192 (39.18%) Azure
3 122 (24.90%) GCP
4 78 (15.92%) Serverless
5 69 (14.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (12.04%) dbt
7 49 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 47 (9.59%) Snowflake
9 42 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (7.76%) Power Platform
11 36 (7.35%) Datadog
12 33 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (5.10%) GitHub
17 22 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.67%) MQTT
2 7 (1.43%) Broadband
3 6 (1.22%) Network Security
4 4 (0.82%) BGP
5 3 (0.61%) DNS
5 3 (0.61%) IPsec
5 3 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) 4G
6 2 (0.41%) 5G
6 2 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) CTI
7 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.20%) HTTP
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (22.24%) NoSQL
2 60 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (10.41%) Data Lake
4 51 (10.41%) MongoDB
5 48 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (8.98%) Relational Database
7 39 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.55%) Big Data
9 36 (7.35%) Power BI
10 35 (7.14%) Tableau
11 34 (6.94%) BigQuery
12 28 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (5.51%) DynamoDB
14 26 (5.31%) Looker
14 26 (5.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (4.90%) MySQL
16 21 (4.29%) Metadata
16 21 (4.29%) Redis
16 21 (4.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (12.86%) GitLab
2 59 (12.04%) Git
3 43 (8.78%) Jenkins
4 28 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.31%) MLflow
6 24 (4.90%) CircleCI
7 11 (2.24%) JIRA
8 10 (2.04%) Selenium
9 7 (1.43%) JUnit
10 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.02%) Maven
11 4 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.82%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.82%) Postman
11 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.61%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 188 (38.37%) Finance
2 104 (21.22%) Social Skills
3 53 (10.82%) Banking
4 52 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (8.78%) Front Office
6 16 (3.27%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.24%) Law
8 9 (1.84%) Advertising
8 9 (1.84%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.84%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.84%) Retail
9 7 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.22%) Military
11 5 (1.02%) Billing
11 5 (1.02%) Marketing
12 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Back Office
13 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (28.16%) Senior
2 131 (26.73%) Developer
3 94 (19.18%) Data Engineer
4 67 (13.67%) Lead
5 66 (13.47%) Software Engineer
6 65 (13.27%) Java Engineer
7 56 (11.43%) Architect
8 38 (7.76%) Java Developer
9 35 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 35 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 33 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
12 30 (6.12%) Lead Developer
13 26 (5.31%) Python Engineer
13 26 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (5.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
17 21 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (4.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.43%) Spring
2 101 (20.61%) Spring Boot
3 71 (14.49%) REST
4 69 (14.08%) Node.js
4 69 (14.08%) RabbitMQ
5 64 (13.06%) RESTful
6 63 (12.86%) React
7 35 (7.14%) Redux
8 34 (6.94%) .NET
8 34 (6.94%) GraphQL
9 32 (6.53%) PySpark
10 28 (5.71%) gRPC
11 25 (5.10%) PyTorch
11 25 (5.10%) scikit-learn
11 25 (5.10%) TensorFlow
12 23 (4.69%) LangChain
12 23 (4.69%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (4.69%) pgvector
13 18 (3.67%) AngularJS
13 18 (3.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 150 (30.61%) Cloud Native
2 86 (17.55%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (9.80%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.55%) Fixed Income
5 24 (4.90%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.69%) Clustering
6 23 (4.69%) e-Learning
7 19 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.88%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.47%) Data Structures
9 16 (3.27%) Blockchain
9 16 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.27%) Web3
10 9 (1.84%) EPoS
10 9 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.84%) iSeries
11 8 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.76%) Linux
2 8 (1.63%) Windows
3 7 (1.43%) Unix
4 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 196 (40.00%) Microservices
3 187 (38.16%) Agile
4 164 (33.47%) Event-Driven
5 157 (32.04%) DevOps
6 151 (30.82%) Software Engineering
7 130 (26.53%) AI
8 126 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 125 (25.51%) Containerisation
10 115 (23.47%) Analytics
11 108 (22.04%) Data Pipeline
12 101 (20.61%) Data Modelling
13 99 (20.20%) Observability
14 95 (19.39%) Test Automation
15 92 (18.78%) Mentoring
16 88 (17.96%) Data Engineering
17 83 (16.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 79 (16.12%) ETL
19 73 (14.90%) Machine Learning
20 71 (14.49%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 266 (54.29%) Python
2 220 (44.90%) SQL
3 216 (44.08%) Java
4 80 (16.33%) JavaScript
5 79 (16.12%) TypeScript
6 76 (15.51%) Go
7 40 (8.16%) C#
8 21 (4.29%) Rust
8 21 (4.29%) Scala
9 20 (4.08%) Bash
10 19 (3.88%) C++
11 10 (2.04%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.84%) RPG
12 9 (1.84%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.22%) Groovy
13 6 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.22%) PHP
14 4 (0.82%) Bicep
15 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.22%) Degree
3 41 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 26 (5.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.61%) MBA
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.41%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) GIAC
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.20%) SSCP
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.86%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.94%) GDPR
3 23 (4.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.67%) QA
5 10 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.84%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (30.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 190 (38.78%) Kubernetes
2 130 (26.53%) Terraform
3 49 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 34 (6.94%) Grafana
5 29 (5.92%) Ansible
6 10 (2.04%) Istio
7 7 (1.43%) Argo
8 6 (1.22%) Kibana
8 6 (1.22%) Puppet
9 4 (0.82%) Podman
10 3 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.41%) Cilium
11 2 (0.41%) Salt
12 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.04%) Databricks
2 43 (8.78%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.69%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.69%) Dell
4 14 (2.86%) Oracle
5 13 (2.65%) Confluent
5 13 (2.65%) IBM
6 11 (2.24%) Splunk
7 9 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.63%) Google
8 8 (1.63%) Solace
9 7 (1.43%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.43%) Talend
10 5 (1.02%) Pega
10 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.82%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.82%) WSO2
12 3 (0.61%) AppDynamics