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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 202 321
Rank change year-on-year -105 +119 -145
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 565 750 623
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.72% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.93% 9.61% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 367 322 491
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,000 £63,750 £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 £112,500 £112,500 £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% -19.98%

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 9,527 7,802 13,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.92% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,219 5,251 10,684
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
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 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 1 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 1 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 -33 390 £95,000 -5.00% 320
North of England -138 60 £75,000 +11.49% 42
South East -60 48 £67,500 -6.90% 47
North West -88 47 £75,000 +11.11% 19
South West -73 30 £85,000 +30.77% 23
Midlands -83 19 £85,000 +25.93% 8
West Midlands -42 17 £85,000 +41.67% 6
East of England -19 16 £72,500 +1.40% 7
North East -49 9 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Yorkshire -33 4 £66,805 -10.93% 16
East Midlands -68 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
1 128 (22.65%) Apache Spark
2 93 (16.46%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (8.85%) Apache
4 14 (2.48%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.53%) Camunda
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Luigi
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%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 361 (63.89%) AWS
2 227 (40.18%) Azure
3 134 (23.72%) GCP
4 82 (14.51%) Serverless
5 70 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (9.91%) dbt
7 52 (9.20%) Snowflake
8 44 (7.79%) Amazon S3
9 43 (7.61%) Power Platform
10 39 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (6.02%) Datadog
13 30 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (5.31%) Amazon Kinesis
14 29 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (5.13%) GitHub
15 25 (4.42%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
17 21 (3.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.25%) MQTT
2 7 (1.24%) BGP
3 6 (1.06%) Broadband
3 6 (1.06%) DNS
3 6 (1.06%) IPsec
3 6 (1.06%) Network Security
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%) CTI
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
1 124 (21.95%) NoSQL
2 71 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (10.97%) MongoDB
4 60 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (10.27%) Relational Database
6 56 (9.91%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.56%) Data Lake
8 51 (9.03%) Big Data
9 41 (7.26%) Power BI
10 34 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (5.66%) BigQuery
11 32 (5.66%) Tableau
12 29 (5.13%) MySQL
13 26 (4.60%) Looker
13 26 (4.60%) Redis
14 24 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (4.25%) DynamoDB
14 24 (4.25%) Flink
14 24 (4.25%) Hadoop
14 24 (4.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (12.21%) Git
1 69 (12.21%) GitLab
2 42 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 33 (5.84%) Cucumber
4 26 (4.60%) MLflow
5 19 (3.36%) CircleCI
6 15 (2.65%) Selenium
7 14 (2.48%) JIRA
8 7 (1.24%) JUnit
9 6 (1.06%) Maven
10 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.88%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.53%) WinDbg
General
1 215 (38.05%) Finance
2 125 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.97%) Banking
5 47 (8.32%) Front Office
6 30 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.65%) Retail
8 13 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.30%) Law
9 11 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.95%) Marketing
10 9 (1.59%) Advertising
10 9 (1.59%) Military
11 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.88%) Billing
13 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 161 (28.50%) Senior
2 140 (24.78%) Developer
3 111 (19.65%) Data Engineer
4 84 (14.87%) Software Engineer
5 82 (14.51%) Java Engineer
6 73 (12.92%) Lead
7 58 (10.27%) Architect
8 40 (7.08%) Java Developer
8 40 (7.08%) Principal Engineer
9 36 (6.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 36 (6.37%) Senior Developer
10 34 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
11 31 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (5.49%) Lead Developer
12 30 (5.31%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.78%) Senior Java Engineer
14 26 (4.60%) Principal Java Engineer
15 25 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (4.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 24 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (22.83%) Spring
2 120 (21.24%) Spring Boot
3 84 (14.87%) RESTful
4 78 (13.81%) Node.js
4 78 (13.81%) REST
5 75 (13.27%) RabbitMQ
6 69 (12.21%) React
7 40 (7.08%) GraphQL
8 38 (6.73%) PySpark
9 36 (6.37%) Redux
10 34 (6.02%) .NET
11 28 (4.96%) PyTorch
11 28 (4.96%) TensorFlow
12 25 (4.42%) gRPC
12 25 (4.42%) scikit-learn
13 24 (4.25%) pgvector
14 23 (4.07%) LangChain
14 23 (4.07%) LlamaIndex
15 21 (3.72%) AngularJS
16 20 (3.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 171 (30.27%) Cloud Native
2 116 (20.53%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (9.91%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.08%) Fixed Income
5 36 (6.37%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.96%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.25%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.07%) Clustering
8 23 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (3.36%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (2.12%) Blockchain
12 12 (2.12%) Web3
13 11 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.77%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.77%) EPoS
14 10 (1.77%) iSeries
15 9 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.43%) Linux
2 10 (1.77%) Windows
3 8 (1.42%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (46.37%) CI/CD
2 229 (40.53%) Microservices
3 225 (39.82%) Agile
4 193 (34.16%) Event-Driven
5 189 (33.45%) DevOps
6 177 (31.33%) Software Engineering
7 170 (30.09%) AI
8 148 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 137 (24.25%) Containerisation
9 137 (24.25%) Data Pipeline
10 128 (22.65%) Analytics
11 119 (21.06%) Mentoring
12 114 (20.18%) Test Automation
13 113 (20.00%) Data Modelling
14 106 (18.76%) Observability
15 102 (18.05%) Data Engineering
16 101 (17.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 91 (16.11%) Machine Learning
18 87 (15.40%) ETL
19 86 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 299 (52.92%) Python
2 268 (47.43%) Java
3 244 (43.19%) SQL
4 89 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 85 (15.04%) TypeScript
6 75 (13.27%) Go
7 46 (8.14%) C#
8 27 (4.78%) Scala
9 20 (3.54%) Rust
10 19 (3.36%) C++
11 14 (2.48%) Bash
12 11 (1.95%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.95%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.77%) RPG
14 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.42%) Groovy
15 8 (1.42%) PHP
16 7 (1.24%) C
17 6 (1.06%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 81 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.39%) Degree
3 58 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.43%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (4.78%) DV Cleared
8 24 (4.25%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.88%) PhD
10 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.71%) MBA
10 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) GIAC
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.21%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.08%) GDPR
3 23 (4.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 19 (3.36%) QA
5 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.53%) PSD2
9 2 (0.35%) NIST
9 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.35%) WCAG
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 165 (29.20%) Docker
2 8 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 207 (36.64%) Kubernetes
2 134 (23.72%) Terraform
3 49 (8.67%) Prometheus
4 36 (6.37%) Grafana
5 31 (5.49%) Ansible
6 10 (1.77%) Istio
7 8 (1.42%) Argo
8 7 (1.24%) Kibana
8 7 (1.24%) 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 70 (12.39%) Databricks
2 54 (9.56%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.25%) Dell
4 23 (4.07%) Cloudera
5 21 (3.72%) IBM
5 21 (3.72%) Oracle
6 15 (2.65%) Confluent
6 15 (2.65%) Google
7 12 (2.12%) Splunk
8 11 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.59%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.59%) Solace
10 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.24%) Talend
12 6 (1.06%) HP
12 6 (1.06%) SAP
13 5 (0.88%) Informatica
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe