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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 316 187
Rank change year-on-year +71 -129 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 471 496 821
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 0.82% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.32% 4.02% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 254 307 694
10th Percentile £56,625 £44,738 £51,625
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £132,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 6,438 12,343 12,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.88% 20.45% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,781 7,394 10,195
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -3.70% +1.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +60 346 £108,750 +14.47% 340
North of England +34 44 £70,000 +27.27% 58
South East +5 34 £70,000 +27.27% 83
North West +43 31 £70,000 +27.27% 49
South West +15 22 £76,250 +27.08% 19
Yorkshire +7 11 £73,000 +32.73% 9
Midlands +56 10 £70,000 +16.67% 15
West Midlands +47 5 £71,250 +18.75% 13
East Midlands +28 5 £70,000 +26.98% 2
East of England +22 5 £80,000 +3.23% 13
North East +8 2 £45,000 -8.67%
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 92 (19.53%) Apache Spark
2 58 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (8.92%) Apache
4 14 (2.97%) Confluence
5 8 (1.70%) Apache Pulsar
6 7 (1.49%) Appian
6 7 (1.49%) nginx
7 6 (1.27%) Mule
8 4 (0.85%) Apache Synapse
8 4 (0.85%) IIS
8 4 (0.85%) JBoss
8 4 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.85%) Traefik
9 3 (0.64%) Luigi
9 3 (0.64%) SAS
9 3 (0.64%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.21%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.21%) Endur
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 320 (67.94%) AWS
2 143 (30.36%) Azure
3 115 (24.42%) GCP
4 43 (9.13%) GitHub
4 43 (9.13%) Serverless
5 38 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (6.16%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (5.52%) Amazon Kinesis
8 26 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (4.46%) Power Platform
11 20 (4.25%) Snowflake
12 19 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.82%) SaaS
14 16 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (2.97%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.70%) DNS
2 7 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
3 6 (1.27%) VPN
4 4 (0.85%) DHCP
4 4 (0.85%) FTP
4 4 (0.85%) ICMP
5 3 (0.64%) AMQP
5 3 (0.64%) MQTT
6 2 (0.42%) BGP
6 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.42%) Firewall
6 2 (0.42%) HTTP
6 2 (0.42%) Internet
6 2 (0.42%) OSPF
6 2 (0.42%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.42%) VLAN
6 2 (0.42%) WAN
6 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (22.72%) NoSQL
2 72 (15.29%) MongoDB
3 62 (13.16%) Big Data
4 61 (12.95%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (9.55%) Relational Database
7 43 (9.13%) Hadoop
8 31 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (5.52%) SQL Server
10 25 (5.31%) MySQL
11 24 (5.10%) DynamoDB
11 24 (5.10%) Metadata
11 24 (5.10%) Redis
12 15 (3.18%) Data Lake
13 14 (2.97%) Flink
13 14 (2.97%) Oracle Database
13 14 (2.97%) Power BI
14 13 (2.76%) BigQuery
15 12 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (2.55%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 46 (9.77%) Jenkins
2 36 (7.64%) Git
3 23 (4.88%) JIRA
4 20 (4.25%) GitLab
4 20 (4.25%) Selenium
5 15 (3.18%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.97%) JUnit
7 10 (2.12%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.12%) MLflow
8 9 (1.91%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.91%) git-flow
8 9 (1.91%) JMeter
8 9 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.70%) Mockito
9 8 (1.70%) Vite
10 7 (1.49%) Robot Framework
10 7 (1.49%) Snyk
11 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.27%) LoadRunner
12 5 (1.06%) Artifactory
General
1 250 (53.08%) Finance
2 134 (28.45%) Social Skills
3 103 (21.87%) Law
4 93 (19.75%) Banking
5 89 (18.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (11.68%) Front Office
7 52 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (9.98%) Financial Institution
9 24 (5.10%) Marketing
10 16 (3.40%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.55%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.34%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.12%) Games
14 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.85%) Legal
15 4 (0.85%) Retail
15 4 (0.85%) Wholesale Banking
16 3 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 151 (32.06%) Software Engineer
2 127 (26.96%) Developer
3 91 (19.32%) Lead
4 76 (16.14%) Senior
5 69 (14.65%) Java Engineer
6 54 (11.46%) Data Engineer
7 52 (11.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 45 (9.55%) Lead Software Engineer
9 42 (8.92%) Java Developer
10 36 (7.64%) Architect
11 28 (5.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 28 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (5.31%) Kafka Engineer
13 24 (5.10%) Python Engineer
14 23 (4.88%) Lead Developer
14 23 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
15 20 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
16 17 (3.61%) Senior Java Engineer
16 17 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
17 16 (3.40%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (29.51%) Spring
2 113 (23.99%) Spring Boot
3 96 (20.38%) React
4 86 (18.26%) RESTful
5 63 (13.38%) RabbitMQ
6 53 (11.25%) Node.js
6 53 (11.25%) REST
7 52 (11.04%) GraphQL
8 40 (8.49%) AngularJS
9 29 (6.16%) Redux
10 25 (5.31%) .NET
11 24 (5.10%) gRPC
12 20 (4.25%) Akka
13 19 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
14 18 (3.82%) JMS
14 18 (3.82%) Pandas
14 18 (3.82%) RxJava
14 18 (3.82%) Spring WebFlux
15 17 (3.61%) Hibernate
15 17 (3.61%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 143 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 96 (20.38%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (9.34%) Product Ownership
4 40 (8.49%) Data Structures
5 36 (7.64%) Algorithms
6 28 (5.94%) Fixed Income
7 25 (5.31%) Management Information System
8 23 (4.88%) Public Cloud
9 21 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (3.18%) Mobile App
13 14 (2.97%) Client/Server
13 14 (2.97%) FMCG
13 14 (2.97%) Hedge funds
13 14 (2.97%) Reference Data
14 13 (2.76%) Distributed Applications
14 13 (2.76%) e-Learning
15 11 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (2.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.58%) Linux
2 10 (2.12%) Windows
3 8 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.49%) Unix
5 5 (1.06%) Android
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (48.20%) CI/CD
2 222 (47.13%) Agile
3 215 (45.65%) Microservices
4 210 (44.59%) Software Engineering
5 156 (33.12%) DevOps
6 101 (21.44%) Fintech
7 91 (19.32%) Data Pipeline
8 87 (18.47%) Event-Driven
9 84 (17.83%) SDLC
10 83 (17.62%) Test Automation
11 82 (17.41%) AI
12 81 (17.20%) Data Modelling
13 79 (16.77%) Analytics
14 78 (16.56%) Machine Learning
15 76 (16.14%) Data Engineering
16 74 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
17 73 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
18 72 (15.29%) Containerisation
19 68 (14.44%) ETL
20 66 (14.01%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 280 (59.45%) Java
2 187 (39.70%) Python
3 158 (33.55%) SQL
4 75 (15.92%) Go
5 70 (14.86%) TypeScript
6 51 (10.83%) JavaScript
7 37 (7.86%) C#
8 31 (6.58%) Scala
9 28 (5.94%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.03%) Bash
11 14 (2.97%) C++
12 8 (1.70%) Groovy
13 6 (1.27%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.06%) Rust
15 3 (0.64%) R
15 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.42%) PROC SQL
17 1 (0.21%) Clojure
17 1 (0.21%) Perl
17 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (10.40%) Degree
2 34 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (6.37%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.46%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.40%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.34%) PhD
8 8 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.58%) QA
3 21 (4.46%) GDPR
4 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) SEPA
7 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 134 (28.45%) Docker
2 10 (2.12%) HDFS
3 7 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.42%) NFS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 199 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.31%) Terraform
3 28 (5.94%) Ansible
4 23 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.46%) Grafana
6 14 (2.97%) Argo
7 9 (1.91%) Kibana
7 9 (1.91%) Puppet
8 8 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.49%) Mesos
10 5 (1.06%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.85%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.85%) logstash
12 3 (0.64%) Podman
13 2 (0.42%) Control-M
13 2 (0.42%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.42%) Oozie
14 1 (0.21%) Icinga
14 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (10.40%) Databricks
2 45 (9.55%) Oracle
3 21 (4.46%) Google
3 21 (4.46%) SAP
4 17 (3.61%) VMware
5 12 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.55%) Splunk
6 7 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
6 7 (1.49%) Black Duck
6 7 (1.49%) UiPath
7 6 (1.27%) Informatica
8 5 (1.06%) Blue Prism
8 5 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.06%) Confluent
8 5 (1.06%) Coverity
8 5 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.85%) Mavenir
9 4 (0.85%) Nokia
9 4 (0.85%) Salesforce