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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 175 314
Rank change year-on-year -153 +139 -157
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 464 780 797
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.96% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.31% 9.98% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 316 355 653
10th Percentile £56,875 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.45% -13.89%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -15.24%

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 8,737 7,812 18,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.46% 19.64% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,666 5,253 14,823
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,838 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -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 19 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 19 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 -40 337 £100,000 +1.52% 91
North of England -148 46 £80,000 +16.36% 20
South East -64 41 £67,500 -6.90% 27
North West -89 37 £80,000 +18.52% 14
East of England -25 12 £72,500 +1.40% 4
South West -75 12 £85,000 +25.93% 11
Midlands -81 11 £87,500 +29.63% 6
West Midlands -35 9 £87,500 +34.62% 4
Yorkshire -51 5 £90,000 +12.50% 3
North East -45 4 £62,500 +31.58% 3
East Midlands -66 2 £71,500 +5.93% 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 (21.55%) Apache Spark
2 95 (20.47%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (10.56%) Apache
4 8 (1.72%) Confluence
5 4 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
6 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
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%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 301 (64.87%) AWS
2 177 (38.15%) Azure
3 114 (24.57%) GCP
4 73 (15.73%) Serverless
5 66 (14.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (12.72%) dbt
7 53 (11.42%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.13%) Snowflake
9 41 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.19%) Power Platform
11 37 (7.97%) Datadog
12 34 (7.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.39%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
16 23 (4.96%) GitHub
17 20 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (4.09%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.23%) MQTT
2 7 (1.51%) Broadband
3 6 (1.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) BGP
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) IPsec
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (21.98%) NoSQL
2 61 (13.15%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (10.99%) Data Lake
4 50 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (9.91%) MongoDB
6 43 (9.27%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (9.27%) Relational Database
7 41 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.97%) Tableau
9 36 (7.76%) Power BI
10 35 (7.54%) Big Data
11 34 (7.33%) BigQuery
12 28 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (5.82%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (5.60%) DynamoDB
14 26 (5.60%) Looker
15 23 (4.96%) MySQL
16 22 (4.74%) Metadata
17 21 (4.53%) SQL Server
18 20 (4.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (12.93%) Git
1 60 (12.93%) GitLab
2 44 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.60%) Cucumber
3 26 (5.60%) MLflow
4 24 (5.17%) CircleCI
5 12 (2.59%) JIRA
6 8 (1.72%) JUnit
6 8 (1.72%) Selenium
7 5 (1.08%) Maven
8 4 (0.86%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.65%) JMeter
9 3 (0.65%) Postman
9 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
General
1 181 (39.01%) Finance
2 102 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.99%) Banking
4 50 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (9.27%) Front Office
6 15 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.37%) Law
8 9 (1.94%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.94%) Retail
9 8 (1.72%) Advertising
10 7 (1.51%) Billing
10 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.65%) Marketing
12 2 (0.43%) Back Office
12 2 (0.43%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Military
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (29.09%) Senior
2 128 (27.59%) Developer
3 92 (19.83%) Data Engineer
4 66 (14.22%) Lead
5 63 (13.58%) Software Engineer
6 61 (13.15%) Java Engineer
7 52 (11.21%) Architect
8 36 (7.76%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.76%) Senior Developer
9 34 (7.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.47%) Lead Developer
12 29 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (5.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (4.96%) Python Engineer
15 23 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
16 21 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
16 21 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (4.53%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (21.77%) Spring
2 95 (20.47%) Spring Boot
3 69 (14.87%) REST
4 66 (14.22%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (13.58%) Node.js
6 60 (12.93%) React
7 59 (12.72%) RESTful
8 35 (7.54%) GraphQL
9 33 (7.11%) PySpark
9 33 (7.11%) Redux
10 32 (6.90%) .NET
11 27 (5.82%) gRPC
12 25 (5.39%) PyTorch
12 25 (5.39%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.39%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.96%) LangChain
13 23 (4.96%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.96%) pgvector
14 19 (4.09%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.66%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 140 (30.17%) Cloud Native
2 83 (17.89%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.91%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.97%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.96%) Clustering
6 21 (4.53%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.09%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.09%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.66%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.66%) Web3
9 14 (3.02%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.29%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.29%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.29%) EPoS
14 6 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.68%) Linux
2 7 (1.51%) Unix
2 7 (1.51%) Windows
3 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (45.69%) CI/CD
2 189 (40.73%) Microservices
3 176 (37.93%) Agile
4 154 (33.19%) Event-Driven
5 146 (31.47%) DevOps
6 141 (30.39%) Software Engineering
7 122 (26.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 118 (25.43%) AI
8 118 (25.43%) Containerisation
9 112 (24.14%) Analytics
10 107 (23.06%) Data Pipeline
11 102 (21.98%) Data Modelling
12 98 (21.12%) Observability
13 91 (19.61%) Data Engineering
14 90 (19.40%) Test Automation
15 85 (18.32%) Mentoring
16 77 (16.59%) ETL
16 77 (16.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 70 (15.09%) Data Governance
18 68 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 259 (55.82%) Python
2 213 (45.91%) SQL
3 201 (43.32%) Java
4 77 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 75 (16.16%) TypeScript
6 73 (15.73%) Go
7 38 (8.19%) C#
8 22 (4.74%) Scala
9 20 (4.31%) Rust
10 19 (4.09%) Bash
11 18 (3.88%) C++
12 9 (1.94%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.29%) Groovy
13 6 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.29%) RPG
14 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.86%) Bicep
15 4 (0.86%) PHP
16 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 44 (9.48%) Degree
3 36 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.82%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.88%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) GIAC
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) MBA
11 1 (0.22%) SSCP
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.33%) GDPR
3 23 (4.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.66%) QA
5 10 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.72%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.65%) 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
1 147 (31.68%) Docker
2 8 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (38.15%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.16%) Terraform
3 49 (10.56%) Prometheus
4 34 (7.33%) Grafana
5 28 (6.03%) Ansible
6 10 (2.16%) Istio
7 7 (1.51%) Kibana
8 6 (1.29%) Puppet
9 5 (1.08%) Argo
10 4 (0.86%) Podman
11 2 (0.43%) Cilium
11 2 (0.43%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.72%) Databricks
2 41 (8.84%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.96%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.96%) Dell
4 13 (2.80%) Confluent
5 12 (2.59%) Oracle
6 11 (2.37%) Splunk
7 9 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.72%) IBM
8 8 (1.72%) Solace
9 7 (1.51%) Google
9 7 (1.51%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.29%) Talend
11 5 (1.08%) Pega
11 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.86%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.86%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.86%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.86%) WSO2