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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 198 311
Rank change year-on-year -107 +113 -136
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 568 730 610
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.68% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.90% 9.50% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 356 311 474
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £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 £107,500 £111,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £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 9,630 7,687 13,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.32% 17.64% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,229 5,144 10,283
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
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 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

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 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 8 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 -24 388 £90,000 -9.32% 387
North of England -135 61 £75,000 +11.88% 49
South East -59 49 £67,500 -6.90% 55
North West -89 48 £75,000 +11.11% 17
South West -70 32 £85,000 +36.00% 31
Midlands -77 20 £85,000 +25.93% 10
West Midlands -34 18 £85,000 +41.67% 7
East of England -25 17 £72,500 +1.40% 4
North East -48 9 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Yorkshire -39 4 £66,805 -10.93% 23
East Midlands -62 2 £71,500 +5.93% 3
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
1 125 (22.01%) Apache Spark
2 91 (16.02%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (9.33%) Apache
4 15 (2.64%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
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%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) 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
1 358 (63.03%) AWS
2 233 (41.02%) Azure
3 136 (23.94%) GCP
4 80 (14.08%) Serverless
5 70 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 53 (9.33%) dbt
7 51 (8.98%) Snowflake
8 45 (7.92%) Power Platform
9 44 (7.75%) Amazon S3
10 39 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (6.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (5.46%) Amazon Kinesis
12 31 (5.46%) Datadog
12 31 (5.46%) GitHub
13 30 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.40%) MQTT
2 7 (1.23%) BGP
2 7 (1.23%) Network Security
3 6 (1.06%) Broadband
3 6 (1.06%) DNS
3 6 (1.06%) IPsec
3 6 (1.06%) VPN
4 5 (0.88%) Internet
5 2 (0.35%) 4G
5 2 (0.35%) 5G
5 2 (0.35%) AMQP
5 2 (0.35%) WAN
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
1 127 (22.36%) NoSQL
2 74 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (11.27%) MongoDB
4 60 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (10.56%) Relational Database
5 57 (10.04%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (9.68%) Data Lake
7 51 (8.98%) Big Data
8 43 (7.57%) Power BI
9 34 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (5.99%) Tableau
10 31 (5.46%) BigQuery
10 31 (5.46%) MySQL
11 27 (4.75%) Looker
11 27 (4.75%) Redis
11 27 (4.75%) SQL Server
12 26 (4.58%) Flink
12 26 (4.58%) Hadoop
13 24 (4.23%) DynamoDB
13 24 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (12.50%) Git
2 69 (12.15%) GitLab
3 40 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.99%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.58%) MLflow
6 17 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 16 (2.82%) JIRA
8 15 (2.64%) Selenium
9 7 (1.23%) JUnit
10 6 (1.06%) Maven
11 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.88%) Postman
12 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.70%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.35%) JMeter
14 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 212 (37.32%) Finance
2 130 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (11.62%) Banking
5 41 (7.22%) Front Office
6 34 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.82%) Retail
8 15 (2.64%) Law
9 13 (2.29%) Marketing
10 12 (2.11%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.76%) Military
12 8 (1.41%) Advertising
13 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Billing
15 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (28.70%) Senior
2 134 (23.59%) Developer
3 109 (19.19%) Data Engineer
4 84 (14.79%) Software Engineer
5 83 (14.61%) Java Engineer
6 69 (12.15%) Lead
7 59 (10.39%) Architect
8 41 (7.22%) Principal Engineer
9 39 (6.87%) Java Developer
10 35 (6.16%) Senior Developer
11 33 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.46%) Python Engineer
13 30 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
14 29 (5.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 28 (4.93%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (4.75%) Lead Developer
16 27 (4.75%) Principal Java Engineer
17 26 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
18 25 (4.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
19 23 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (23.59%) Spring
2 121 (21.30%) Spring Boot
3 91 (16.02%) RESTful
4 78 (13.73%) REST
5 75 (13.20%) RabbitMQ
6 71 (12.50%) Node.js
7 61 (10.74%) React
8 38 (6.69%) .NET
8 38 (6.69%) PySpark
9 34 (5.99%) GraphQL
10 29 (5.11%) PyTorch
10 29 (5.11%) TensorFlow
11 28 (4.93%) Redux
12 25 (4.40%) scikit-learn
13 24 (4.23%) gRPC
13 24 (4.23%) pgvector
14 23 (4.05%) LangChain
14 23 (4.05%) LlamaIndex
15 20 (3.52%) Apache NiFi
15 20 (3.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 177 (31.16%) Cloud Native
2 119 (20.95%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (10.04%) Public Cloud
4 38 (6.69%) Onboarding
5 33 (5.81%) Fixed Income
6 29 (5.11%) e-Learning
7 26 (4.58%) Product Ownership
8 24 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (4.05%) Clustering
10 21 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (3.17%) Data Structures
12 17 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (2.11%) AI Agents
13 12 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.94%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.94%) Web3
15 10 (1.76%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.76%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.39%) Linux
2 10 (1.76%) Windows
3 8 (1.41%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (46.30%) CI/CD
2 237 (41.73%) Microservices
3 226 (39.79%) Agile
4 201 (35.39%) Event-Driven
5 188 (33.10%) DevOps
6 175 (30.81%) Software Engineering
7 173 (30.46%) AI
8 149 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 139 (24.47%) Containerisation
9 139 (24.47%) Data Pipeline
10 129 (22.71%) Analytics
11 122 (21.48%) Mentoring
12 114 (20.07%) Test Automation
13 111 (19.54%) Data Modelling
14 106 (18.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 104 (18.31%) Observability
16 101 (17.78%) Data Engineering
17 96 (16.90%) Machine Learning
18 90 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
19 88 (15.49%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 290 (51.06%) Python
2 268 (47.18%) Java
3 242 (42.61%) SQL
4 82 (14.44%) JavaScript
5 78 (13.73%) TypeScript
6 68 (11.97%) Go
7 48 (8.45%) C#
8 26 (4.58%) Scala
9 20 (3.52%) Rust
10 17 (2.99%) C++
11 14 (2.46%) Kotlin
12 13 (2.29%) Bash
13 11 (1.94%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.76%) RPG
15 9 (1.58%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.41%) Groovy
16 8 (1.41%) PHP
17 7 (1.23%) C
18 6 (1.06%) Ruby
19 4 (0.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 85 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.50%) Degree
3 61 (10.74%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.75%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 29 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 26 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.88%) PhD
9 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.70%) MBA
9 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.35%) OCP
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) GIAC
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.15%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.04%) GDPR
3 24 (4.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 19 (3.35%) QA
5 10 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.41%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.53%) NIST
8 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.53%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (29.58%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 208 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 131 (23.06%) Terraform
3 45 (7.92%) Prometheus
4 33 (5.81%) Grafana
5 30 (5.28%) Ansible
6 10 (1.76%) Istio
7 9 (1.58%) Argo
8 7 (1.23%) Kibana
8 7 (1.23%) Puppet
9 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.88%) Podman
11 2 (0.35%) Cilium
11 2 (0.35%) kaniko
11 2 (0.35%) Salt
12 1 (0.18%) Control-M
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (12.50%) Databricks
2 55 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.23%) Dell
4 23 (4.05%) Cloudera
5 22 (3.87%) Oracle
6 21 (3.70%) IBM
7 17 (2.99%) Google
8 15 (2.64%) Confluent
9 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.94%) Splunk
10 9 (1.58%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.41%) Solace
12 7 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.23%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.23%) Talend
13 6 (1.06%) HP
13 6 (1.06%) SAP
14 5 (0.88%) Informatica
15 4 (0.70%) Adobe