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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 206 314
Rank change year-on-year -103 +108 -142
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 559 714 599
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.62% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.80% 9.44% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 344 301 459
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9,646 7,565 13,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.17% 17.20% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 5,034 10,107
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 August 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 August 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 -31 379 £90,000 -10.00% 364
North of England -140 64 £75,000 +11.88% 60
North West -95 49 £75,000 +11.49% 28
South East -65 45 £67,500 -6.90% 54
South West -75 33 £85,000 +30.77% 26
Midlands -75 21 £85,000 +25.93% 13
West Midlands -27 19 £85,000 +41.67% 9
East of England -19 17 £72,500 +1.40% 11
North East -58 10 £65,000 +36.84% 13
Yorkshire -32 5 £72,653 -3.13% 19
East Midlands -60 2 £71,500 +5.93% 4
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
1 119 (21.29%) Apache Spark
2 83 (14.85%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (9.30%) Apache
4 15 (2.68%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.72%) Camunda
7 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 344 (61.54%) AWS
2 233 (41.68%) Azure
3 125 (22.36%) GCP
4 78 (13.95%) Serverless
5 68 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (8.59%) Snowflake
7 46 (8.23%) dbt
8 45 (8.05%) Power Platform
9 43 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (6.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (6.26%) GitHub
12 30 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (5.19%) Datadog
14 28 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (5.01%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (4.29%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.29%) MQTT
2 7 (1.25%) BGP
2 7 (1.25%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) DNS
3 6 (1.07%) IPsec
3 6 (1.07%) VPN
4 5 (0.89%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) Broadband
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.18%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (22.36%) NoSQL
2 76 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (11.45%) MongoDB
4 62 (11.09%) Relational Database
5 59 (10.55%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.66%) Data Lake
8 50 (8.94%) Big Data
9 43 (7.69%) Power BI
10 34 (6.08%) Tableau
11 33 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (5.90%) MySQL
12 27 (4.83%) BigQuery
12 27 (4.83%) SQL Server
13 26 (4.65%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.47%) DynamoDB
14 25 (4.47%) Flink
14 25 (4.47%) Looker
14 25 (4.47%) Redis
15 24 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (12.70%) Git
2 67 (11.99%) GitLab
3 41 (7.33%) Jenkins
4 36 (6.44%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.65%) MLflow
6 16 (2.86%) JIRA
7 15 (2.68%) CircleCI
7 15 (2.68%) Selenium
8 8 (1.43%) JUnit
9 7 (1.25%) Maven
10 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.54%) Mockito
13 2 (0.36%) WinDbg
General
1 207 (37.03%) Finance
2 127 (22.72%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (11.99%) Banking
4 34 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.72%) Front Office
6 19 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.04%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.86%) Retail
9 14 (2.50%) Marketing
10 13 (2.33%) Law
11 12 (2.15%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.79%) Military
13 6 (1.07%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Billing
15 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.54%) Publishing
15 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (29.70%) Senior
2 122 (21.82%) Developer
3 104 (18.60%) Data Engineer
4 84 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 83 (14.85%) Java Engineer
6 64 (11.45%) Lead
7 58 (10.38%) Architect
8 41 (7.33%) Principal Engineer
9 33 (5.90%) Java Developer
9 33 (5.90%) Senior Developer
10 32 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.55%) Python Engineer
12 30 (5.37%) Senior Data Engineer
12 30 (5.37%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (4.83%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (4.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 23 (4.11%) Lead Developer
16 23 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (24.87%) Spring
2 122 (21.82%) Spring Boot
3 92 (16.46%) RESTful
4 80 (14.31%) REST
5 78 (13.95%) RabbitMQ
6 64 (11.45%) Node.js
7 54 (9.66%) React
8 38 (6.80%) .NET
8 38 (6.80%) PySpark
9 29 (5.19%) PyTorch
9 29 (5.19%) TensorFlow
10 27 (4.83%) GraphQL
11 25 (4.47%) pgvector
11 25 (4.47%) scikit-learn
12 24 (4.29%) LangChain
13 23 (4.11%) gRPC
13 23 (4.11%) LlamaIndex
14 20 (3.58%) Apache NiFi
14 20 (3.58%) Redux
14 20 (3.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 180 (32.20%) Cloud Native
2 124 (22.18%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (10.38%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.98%) Onboarding
5 30 (5.37%) e-Learning
6 24 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (4.29%) Product Ownership
7 23 (4.11%) Clustering
7 23 (4.11%) Fixed Income
8 20 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.50%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.97%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.79%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.79%) EPoS
13 10 (1.79%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.87%) Linux
2 9 (1.61%) Unix
2 9 (1.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (47.58%) CI/CD
2 236 (42.22%) Microservices
3 215 (38.46%) Agile
4 207 (37.03%) Event-Driven
5 188 (33.63%) DevOps
6 173 (30.95%) Software Engineering
7 172 (30.77%) AI
8 151 (27.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (24.33%) Containerisation
10 134 (23.97%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (22.54%) Analytics
12 124 (22.18%) Mentoring
13 110 (19.68%) Test Automation
14 109 (19.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 107 (19.14%) Data Modelling
16 104 (18.60%) Observability
17 94 (16.82%) Data Engineering
18 93 (16.64%) Machine Learning
19 90 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
20 85 (15.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 277 (49.55%) Python
2 259 (46.33%) Java
3 232 (41.50%) SQL
4 72 (12.88%) JavaScript
5 70 (12.52%) TypeScript
6 60 (10.73%) Go
7 47 (8.41%) C#
8 23 (4.11%) Scala
9 19 (3.40%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.04%) Rust
11 14 (2.50%) Bash
12 12 (2.15%) C++
13 11 (1.97%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.79%) RPG
15 9 (1.61%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.43%) Groovy
16 8 (1.43%) PHP
17 7 (1.25%) C
18 6 (1.07%) Ruby
19 4 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 87 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.52%) Degree
3 62 (11.09%) SC Cleared
4 45 (8.05%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (5.37%) DV Cleared
7 27 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.89%) PhD
9 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.72%) MBA
9 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.36%) OCP
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.99%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.98%) GDPR
3 24 (4.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.22%) QA
5 9 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.54%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.54%) PSD2
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (29.52%) Docker
2 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 206 (36.85%) Kubernetes
2 128 (22.90%) Terraform
3 43 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 32 (5.72%) Grafana
5 29 (5.19%) Ansible
6 11 (1.97%) Istio
7 10 (1.79%) Argo
8 7 (1.25%) Kibana
8 7 (1.25%) Puppet
9 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.89%) Podman
11 4 (0.72%) Cilium
12 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 2 (0.36%) Salt
13 1 (0.18%) Control-M
13 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (12.52%) Databricks
2 56 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.29%) Dell
4 23 (4.11%) Cloudera
4 23 (4.11%) Oracle
5 21 (3.76%) IBM
6 16 (2.86%) Google
7 13 (2.33%) Confluent
8 11 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.97%) Splunk
9 9 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.25%) Solace
10 7 (1.25%) Talend
11 6 (1.07%) HP
11 6 (1.07%) SAP
12 5 (0.89%) Informatica
13 4 (0.72%) Adobe