Kafka Jobs in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 313 138
Rank change year-on-year +95 -175 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 732 761 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.51% 0.88% 2.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.70% 4.36% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 370 640 1,258
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £122,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £76,250 £88,480
% change year-on-year +8.20% -13.82% +10.60%

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 8,418 17,460 26,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.42% 20.15% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,206 14,143 16,345
10th Percentile £39,625 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,350 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,064 £108,750
UK median annual salary £66,230 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +5.88%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in England.

Salary trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 23 May 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 23 May 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 +50 336 £100,000 +11.11% 592
North of England +127 194 £71,991 +10.76% 541
North West +80 171 £70,000 +12.00% 279
South East +45 82 £72,500 +26.09% 694
Midlands +118 74 £70,000 -4.11% 436
East Midlands +69 42 £67,500 +12.50% 163
West Midlands +83 32 £77,500 - 245
South West +84 28 £67,500 - 265
East of England +41 22 £71,500 -15.88% 309
Yorkshire +61 17 £80,000 +13.35% 199
North East +51 6 £62,500 +8.70% 63
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 144 (19.67%) Apache Spark
2 127 (17.35%) Confluence
3 102 (13.93%) Apache Airflow
4 90 (12.30%) Apache
5 8 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.82%) GemFire
7 5 (0.68%) Appian
7 5 (0.68%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) JBoss
9 2 (0.27%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Traefik
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Maya
2 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.09%) Endur
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 552 (75.41%) AWS
2 354 (48.36%) Azure
3 195 (26.64%) GCP
4 121 (16.53%) Serverless
5 104 (14.21%) AWS Lambda
6 88 (12.02%) OpenShift
7 78 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
8 76 (10.38%) dbt
9 44 (6.01%) Amazon S3
10 40 (5.46%) Snowflake
11 30 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (4.10%) GitHub
11 30 (4.10%) SaaS
12 26 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.42%) Power Platform
14 19 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.42%) HTTP
2 15 (2.05%) Network Security
3 4 (0.55%) Internet
3 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) DHCP
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) ICMP
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
5 1 (0.14%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (32.24%) SQL Server
2 100 (13.66%) NoSQL
3 91 (12.43%) MongoDB
4 79 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (9.84%) Apache Iceberg
6 70 (9.56%) Apache Ignite
7 66 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (8.88%) Dremio
9 63 (8.61%) Apache Arrow
10 42 (5.74%) Big Data
11 40 (5.46%) Hadoop
12 38 (5.19%) Relational Database
13 37 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
14 33 (4.51%) MySQL
15 26 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (3.28%) Data Lake
17 23 (3.14%) BigQuery
18 20 (2.73%) Redis
19 18 (2.46%) Power BI
20 17 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 234 (31.97%) GitLab
2 228 (31.15%) JIRA
3 214 (29.23%) Selenium
4 212 (28.96%) Maven
5 211 (28.83%) Bitbucket
6 209 (28.55%) Cucumber
7 204 (27.87%) SonarQube
8 199 (27.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 65 (8.88%) Artifactory
10 63 (8.61%) Jenkins
11 57 (7.79%) Git
12 27 (3.69%) JUnit
13 14 (1.91%) CircleCI
14 11 (1.50%) Mockito
15 8 (1.09%) Postman
16 7 (0.96%) Gradle
16 7 (0.96%) NUnit
17 6 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.82%) REST Assured
18 5 (0.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 438 (59.84%) Finance
2 294 (40.16%) Banking
3 255 (34.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (17.35%) Social Skills
5 120 (16.39%) Retail
6 103 (14.07%) Investment Banking
7 90 (12.30%) Corporate Banking
8 79 (10.79%) Front Office
9 54 (7.38%) Law
10 44 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (4.64%) Games
12 27 (3.69%) Financial Institution
13 24 (3.28%) Public Sector
14 20 (2.73%) Advertising
15 14 (1.91%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.78%) Retail Banking
17 8 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.82%) Back Office
18 6 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 325 (44.40%) Software Engineer
2 130 (17.76%) Senior
3 109 (14.89%) Data Engineer
4 102 (13.93%) Lead
5 94 (12.84%) Developer
6 91 (12.43%) Python Engineer
7 81 (11.07%) AWS Engineer
8 78 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 75 (10.25%) AWS DevOps
9 75 (10.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 65 (8.88%) Java Engineer
11 55 (7.51%) Architect
12 48 (6.56%) Java Software Engineer
12 48 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (5.46%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (3.69%) Senior Developer
16 19 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.60%) Senior Java Engineer
16 19 (2.60%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (42.08%) Spring Boot
2 306 (41.80%) Spring
3 275 (37.57%) React
4 209 (28.55%) CSS
4 209 (28.55%) HTML
5 201 (27.46%) JPA
5 201 (27.46%) Redux
6 146 (19.95%) REST
7 142 (19.40%) RESTful
8 116 (15.85%) Hibernate
9 97 (13.25%) Jest
10 94 (12.84%) HTML5
11 92 (12.57%) CSS3
12 90 (12.30%) Sass
13 85 (11.61%) PySpark
14 68 (9.29%) RabbitMQ
15 67 (9.15%) J2EE
16 60 (8.20%) AngularJS
17 40 (5.46%) .NET
18 38 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 241 (32.92%) Product Ownership
2 199 (27.19%) Enterprise Software
3 91 (12.43%) Cloud Native
4 67 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (5.05%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.64%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.37%) Mobile Games
13 10 (1.37%) Replication
14 8 (1.09%) Equities
15 7 (0.96%) Blockchain
15 7 (0.96%) Derivative
15 7 (0.96%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.96%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.87%) Linux
2 16 (2.19%) Unix
3 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (65.85%) Software Engineering
2 473 (64.62%) Agile
3 451 (61.61%) CI/CD
4 419 (57.24%) DevOps
5 414 (56.56%) Microservices
6 288 (39.34%) Containerisation
7 260 (35.52%) Test Automation
8 251 (34.29%) SDLC
9 248 (33.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 222 (30.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 213 (29.10%) Front End Development
12 193 (26.37%) TDD
13 177 (24.18%) Mentoring
14 136 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 128 (17.49%) Clean Code
16 124 (16.94%) Data Engineering
17 115 (15.71%) Migration
18 108 (14.75%) User Experience
19 97 (13.25%) Event-Driven
20 96 (13.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 510 (69.67%) Java
2 335 (45.77%) SQL
3 256 (34.97%) JavaScript
4 222 (30.33%) Python
5 136 (18.58%) TypeScript
6 96 (13.11%) Go
7 63 (8.61%) C#
8 37 (5.05%) Scala
9 11 (1.50%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.37%) C++
11 7 (0.96%) Bash
11 7 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.82%) R
13 5 (0.68%) Groovy
14 4 (0.55%) Rust
15 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.27%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 83 (11.34%) Degree
2 58 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 52 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 42 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (5.60%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.96%) CISSP
10 7 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.41%) PhD
12 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.14%) OCP
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (28.55%) QA
2 101 (13.80%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.78%) GDPR
4 21 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.73%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.78%) Def Stans
7 10 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) RMADS
System Software
1 459 (62.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.23%) HDFS
3 6 (0.82%) Apache Flume
3 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 504 (68.85%) Kubernetes
2 157 (21.45%) Terraform
3 44 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 35 (4.78%) Grafana
5 19 (2.60%) Ansible
6 11 (1.50%) Argo
7 7 (0.96%) Istio
8 6 (0.82%) Oozie
9 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.41%) Mesos
10 3 (0.41%) Packer
10 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.27%) Kibana
11 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.27%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.14%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 205 (28.01%) Solace
2 63 (8.61%) Databricks
3 55 (7.51%) Google
4 41 (5.60%) Microsoft
5 33 (4.51%) Oracle
6 21 (2.87%) VMware
7 17 (2.32%) Apple
8 13 (1.78%) Splunk
9 12 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.37%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.23%) Confluent
12 7 (0.96%) Okta
13 6 (0.82%) New Relic
13 6 (0.82%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (0.68%) Black Duck
14 5 (0.68%) UiPath
15 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.55%) WSO2