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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 173 310
Rank change year-on-year -144 +137 -157
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 461 785 787
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.99% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.35% 10.07% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 314 361 644
10th Percentile £56,625 £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 £129,375 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8,616 7,795 18,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.44% 19.76% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,560 5,233 14,586
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 13 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 13 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 -31 335 £100,000 +0.76% 102
North of England -157 45 £80,000 +14.29% 25
South East -54 42 £67,500 -6.90% 30
North West -88 36 £80,000 +18.52% 16
South West -76 12 £75,000 +11.11% 16
East of England -24 11 £72,500 +1.40% 7
Midlands -79 11 £87,500 +25.00% 4
West Midlands -44 9 £87,500 +12.90% 1
Yorkshire -50 5 £90,000 +12.50% 6
North East -42 4 £62,500 +13.64% 3
East Midlands -61 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 98 (21.26%) Apache Spark
2 95 (20.61%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (11.06%) Apache
4 5 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
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 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 299 (64.86%) AWS
2 172 (37.31%) Azure
3 112 (24.30%) GCP
4 72 (15.62%) Serverless
5 66 (14.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (12.58%) dbt
7 55 (11.93%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.20%) Snowflake
9 40 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.24%) Power Platform
11 37 (8.03%) Datadog
12 34 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.42%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (4.77%) Cloud Computing
16 22 (4.77%) GitHub
17 19 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (4.12%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.04%) MQTT
2 7 (1.52%) Broadband
3 6 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (22.13%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (11.06%) Data Lake
4 49 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (9.98%) MongoDB
6 44 (9.54%) Relational Database
7 43 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
8 42 (9.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (8.24%) Tableau
10 36 (7.81%) Power BI
11 34 (7.38%) Big Data
11 34 (7.38%) BigQuery
12 28 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (5.86%) DynamoDB
13 27 (5.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (5.64%) Looker
15 23 (4.99%) Metadata
15 23 (4.99%) MySQL
15 23 (4.99%) SQL Server
16 21 (4.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (13.23%) Git
2 59 (12.80%) GitLab
3 44 (9.54%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.64%) Cucumber
4 26 (5.64%) MLflow
5 24 (5.21%) CircleCI
6 11 (2.39%) JIRA
7 8 (1.74%) JUnit
8 7 (1.52%) Selenium
9 5 (1.08%) Maven
10 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.65%) JMeter
11 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 176 (38.18%) Finance
2 102 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (11.06%) Banking
4 45 (9.76%) Front Office
5 15 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.39%) Law
7 10 (2.17%) Retail
8 9 (1.95%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.74%) Advertising
9 8 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.52%) Billing
10 7 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Games
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (29.07%) Senior
2 129 (27.98%) Developer
3 93 (20.17%) Data Engineer
4 67 (14.53%) Lead
5 64 (13.88%) Software Engineer
6 62 (13.45%) Java Engineer
7 49 (10.63%) Architect
8 36 (7.81%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 33 (7.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.51%) Lead Developer
12 29 (6.29%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (5.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (4.99%) Python Engineer
15 23 (4.99%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (4.56%) Senior Java Engineer
18 20 (4.34%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (21.48%) Spring
2 92 (19.96%) Spring Boot
3 71 (15.40%) REST
4 66 (14.32%) RabbitMQ
5 61 (13.23%) React
6 60 (13.02%) Node.js
7 57 (12.36%) RESTful
8 35 (7.59%) GraphQL
9 33 (7.16%) PySpark
9 33 (7.16%) Redux
10 32 (6.94%) .NET
11 27 (5.86%) gRPC
12 25 (5.42%) PyTorch
12 25 (5.42%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.42%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.99%) LangChain
13 23 (4.99%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.99%) pgvector
14 19 (4.12%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.69%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 138 (29.93%) Cloud Native
2 85 (18.44%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.98%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.03%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.99%) Clustering
6 21 (4.56%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.12%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.90%) Onboarding
9 17 (3.69%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.69%) Web3
10 15 (3.25%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.30%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.51%) Linux
2 7 (1.52%) Unix
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
3 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (46.20%) CI/CD
2 187 (40.56%) Microservices
3 176 (38.18%) Agile
4 151 (32.75%) Event-Driven
5 148 (32.10%) DevOps
6 140 (30.37%) Software Engineering
7 121 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 116 (25.16%) Containerisation
9 113 (24.51%) AI
10 111 (24.08%) Analytics
11 110 (23.86%) Data Pipeline
12 103 (22.34%) Data Modelling
13 98 (21.26%) Observability
14 92 (19.96%) Data Engineering
15 90 (19.52%) Test Automation
16 84 (18.22%) Mentoring
17 78 (16.92%) ETL
18 75 (16.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 70 (15.18%) Data Governance
20 68 (14.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 261 (56.62%) Python
2 213 (46.20%) SQL
3 201 (43.60%) Java
4 79 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 75 (16.27%) TypeScript
6 73 (15.84%) Go
7 37 (8.03%) C#
8 22 (4.77%) Scala
9 20 (4.34%) Bash
9 20 (4.34%) Rust
10 18 (3.90%) C++
11 9 (1.95%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.52%) Groovy
13 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.87%) Bicep
15 4 (0.87%) RPG
16 3 (0.65%) PHP
16 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 51 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 44 (9.54%) Degree
3 36 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 25 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (3.90%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.60%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) GIAC
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) SSCP
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.32%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.38%) GDPR
3 23 (4.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.69%) QA
5 10 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.30%) 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
1 148 (32.10%) Docker
2 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (38.39%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.33%) Terraform
3 49 (10.63%) Prometheus
4 34 (7.38%) Grafana
5 27 (5.86%) Ansible
6 10 (2.17%) Istio
7 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 6 (1.30%) Puppet
9 5 (1.08%) Argo
10 4 (0.87%) Podman
11 2 (0.43%) Cilium
11 2 (0.43%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (12.80%) Databricks
2 40 (8.68%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.99%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.99%) Dell
4 13 (2.82%) Confluent
5 11 (2.39%) Oracle
6 10 (2.17%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.74%) Solace
8 7 (1.52%) Google
8 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.08%) IBM
10 5 (1.08%) Pega
10 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.08%) Talend
11 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.87%) WSO2