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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 207 331
Rank change year-on-year -129 +124 -139
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 562 673 520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.57% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.21% 9.14% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 333 261 349
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.14% -12.12%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £87,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.04% +24.64% -14.50%

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 10,796 7,363 14,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.33% 17.18% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,750 4,867 8,714
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -56 323 £85,000 -19.05% 551
North of England -117 97 £67,500 -3.57% 117
North West -78 68 £75,000 +7.14% 77
South East -57 52 £70,000 - 37
South West -65 40 £85,000 +6.25% 27
Midlands -80 32 £85,000 +25.93% 22
West Midlands -42 31 £85,000 +51.11% 18
North East -43 26 £60,000 +26.32% 12
East of England -41 25 £72,500 +1.40% 25
Yorkshire -38 9 £66,805 -10.93% 28
East Midlands -68 1 £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 82 (14.59%) Apache Spark
2 40 (7.12%) Apache
3 33 (5.87%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.85%) Confluence
5 8 (1.42%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.89%) Camunda
8 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Luigi
9 2 (0.36%) Tornado
10 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 336 (59.79%) AWS
2 215 (38.26%) Azure
3 77 (13.70%) GCP
4 74 (13.17%) Serverless
5 70 (12.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (9.96%) Amazon S3
7 53 (9.43%) GitHub
8 45 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (5.34%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.80%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.91%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (3.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.05%) MQTT
2 11 (1.96%) Internet
3 9 (1.60%) DNS
4 7 (1.25%) Network Security
5 6 (1.07%) BGP
5 6 (1.07%) IPsec
5 6 (1.07%) VPN
6 5 (0.89%) 4G
6 5 (0.89%) 5G
7 4 (0.71%) HTTP
8 3 (0.53%) AMQP
8 3 (0.53%) SSH
8 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) ATM
10 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.18%) Broadband
10 1 (0.18%) LAN
10 1 (0.18%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (23.84%) NoSQL
2 93 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (14.06%) MongoDB
4 53 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 39 (6.94%) Big Data
6 33 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (5.87%) Redis
7 32 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (5.34%) Data Lake
9 28 (4.98%) Power BI
10 27 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (4.80%) MySQL
11 22 (3.91%) Hadoop
12 21 (3.74%) SQL Server
13 20 (3.56%) Flink
14 17 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (3.02%) DynamoDB
14 17 (3.02%) Metadata
15 15 (2.67%) Tableau
16 14 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 95 (16.90%) GitLab
2 93 (16.55%) Git
3 57 (10.14%) Cucumber
3 57 (10.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.31%) JIRA
4 13 (2.31%) Selenium
5 11 (1.96%) JUnit
6 9 (1.60%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.42%) Mockito
8 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.07%) Maven
9 5 (0.89%) Gatling
9 5 (0.89%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.53%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.36%) git-flow
12 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 178 (31.67%) Finance
2 123 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.92%) Banking
4 49 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.80%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.85%) Retail
9 15 (2.67%) Front Office
9 15 (2.67%) Marketing
9 15 (2.67%) Publishing
10 11 (1.96%) Law
11 10 (1.78%) Military
12 7 (1.25%) Aviation
12 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.07%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Games
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 182 (32.38%) Senior
2 119 (21.17%) Developer
3 95 (16.90%) Java Engineer
4 93 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 91 (16.19%) Data Engineer
6 59 (10.50%) Architect
7 56 (9.96%) Lead
8 53 (9.43%) Principal Engineer
9 48 (8.54%) Senior Developer
10 42 (7.47%) Senior Java Engineer
11 41 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (6.76%) Java Developer
13 34 (6.05%) Principal Java Engineer
14 33 (5.87%) Python Engineer
15 32 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (4.27%) Backend Developer
17 22 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.91%) Kafka Engineer
17 22 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (33.63%) Spring
2 170 (30.25%) Spring Boot
3 107 (19.04%) Terraform
4 100 (17.79%) REST
5 98 (17.44%) RESTful
6 92 (16.37%) RabbitMQ
7 61 (10.85%) Node.js
8 48 (8.54%) React
9 39 (6.94%) .NET
10 36 (6.41%) PySpark
11 35 (6.23%) OpenAPI
11 35 (6.23%) Swagger
12 32 (5.69%) FastAPI
13 27 (4.80%) Keycloak
14 20 (3.56%) gRPC
15 19 (3.38%) Middleware
16 18 (3.20%) AngularJS
16 18 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (3.02%) Hibernate
18 15 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 183 (32.56%) Cloud Native
2 156 (27.76%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (9.43%) Public Cloud
4 47 (8.36%) e-Learning
5 37 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.58%) Product Ownership
6 35 (6.23%) Onboarding
7 23 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.67%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 14 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.31%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.14%) Media Streaming
12 12 (2.14%) Podcast
12 12 (2.14%) Replication
13 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.96%) IoT
14 10 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Unix
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (54.98%) CI/CD
2 272 (48.40%) Microservices
3 265 (47.15%) Agile
4 264 (46.98%) Event-Driven
5 215 (38.26%) DevOps
6 177 (31.49%) Software Engineering
7 166 (29.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 160 (28.47%) AI
9 155 (27.58%) Mentoring
10 144 (25.62%) Test Automation
11 140 (24.91%) Containerisation
12 130 (23.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 117 (20.82%) Observability
14 106 (18.86%) Data Pipeline
15 105 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 101 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (16.90%) Analytics
18 92 (16.37%) Roadmaps
19 83 (14.77%) Data Modelling
20 67 (11.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 288 (51.25%) Java
2 213 (37.90%) Python
3 185 (32.92%) SQL
4 73 (12.99%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.50%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.30%) C#
7 38 (6.76%) Go
8 28 (4.98%) Scala
9 21 (3.74%) Bash
10 20 (3.56%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.67%) Groovy
12 13 (2.31%) PHP
12 13 (2.31%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
13 10 (1.78%) Rust
14 7 (1.25%) C
15 6 (1.07%) Ruby
15 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.89%) C++
16 5 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 107 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.92%) AWS Certification
4 63 (11.21%) Degree
5 47 (8.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.41%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.69%) DV Cleared
8 31 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.89%) PhD
12 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.71%) MBA
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.36%) OCP
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (10.32%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.45%) QA
3 12 (2.14%) GDPR
4 7 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.53%) NIST
6 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 2 (0.36%) Basel III
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (33.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 233 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.76%) Prometheus
3 32 (5.69%) Grafana
4 19 (3.38%) Ansible
5 11 (1.96%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Rancher
7 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.89%) Podman
8 5 (0.89%) Puppet
9 4 (0.71%) Kibana
10 3 (0.53%) Cilium
11 2 (0.36%) Control-M
11 2 (0.36%) Istio
11 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.43%) Databricks
3 32 (5.69%) Oracle
4 25 (4.45%) IBM
5 19 (3.38%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.67%) Google
7 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.96%) Splunk
8 10 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.25%) Confluent
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe
14 4 (0.71%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.71%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.71%) Solace
14 4 (0.71%) Talend