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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 202 317
Rank change year-on-year -102 +115 -142
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 571 734 609
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.68% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.95% 9.52% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 362 314 472
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,000 £62,813 £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 £111,625 £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% -17.65%

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 9,600 7,707 13,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.31% 17.69% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,227 5,159 10,320
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
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 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 7 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 7 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 -29 392 £95,000 -5.00% 393
North of England -141 61 £75,000 +11.88% 52
South East -46 49 £67,500 -6.90% 55
North West -93 48 £75,000 +11.11% 20
South West -64 31 £85,000 +30.77% 28
Midlands -84 20 £85,000 +25.93% 11
West Midlands -43 18 £85,000 +41.67% 8
East of England -27 17 £72,500 +1.40% 4
North East -49 9 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Yorkshire -26 4 £66,805 -10.93% 23
East Midlands -66 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
1 123 (21.54%) Apache Spark
2 89 (15.59%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (8.76%) Apache
4 14 (2.45%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.70%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
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 (1.93%) 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 (63.22%) AWS
2 229 (40.11%) Azure
3 134 (23.47%) GCP
4 79 (13.84%) Serverless
5 69 (12.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 53 (9.28%) dbt
7 51 (8.93%) Snowflake
8 43 (7.53%) Amazon S3
8 43 (7.53%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (6.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 31 (5.43%) Datadog
10 31 (5.43%) GitHub
11 30 (5.25%) Amazon Kinesis
12 29 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
13 27 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (4.38%) Amazon EMR
15 24 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.38%) MQTT
2 7 (1.23%) BGP
2 7 (1.23%) Network Security
3 6 (1.05%) Broadband
3 6 (1.05%) DNS
3 6 (1.05%) IPsec
3 6 (1.05%) 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%) 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
1 125 (21.89%) NoSQL
2 73 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (11.21%) MongoDB
4 59 (10.33%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (10.33%) Relational Database
5 57 (9.98%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (9.63%) Data Lake
7 50 (8.76%) Big Data
8 41 (7.18%) Power BI
9 34 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (5.60%) Tableau
11 31 (5.43%) BigQuery
11 31 (5.43%) MySQL
12 27 (4.73%) Redis
13 26 (4.55%) Looker
13 26 (4.55%) SQL Server
14 25 (4.38%) Flink
15 24 (4.20%) DynamoDB
15 24 (4.20%) Hadoop
15 24 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (12.43%) Git
2 69 (12.08%) GitLab
3 40 (7.01%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.95%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.55%) MLflow
6 17 (2.98%) CircleCI
7 15 (2.63%) JIRA
7 15 (2.63%) Selenium
8 7 (1.23%) JUnit
9 6 (1.05%) Maven
10 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.88%) Postman
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.70%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.35%) JMeter
13 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (38.35%) Finance
2 127 (22.24%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.56%) Banking
4 65 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.58%) Front Office
6 32 (5.60%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.80%) Retail
8 15 (2.63%) Law
9 13 (2.28%) Marketing
10 12 (2.10%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.58%) Military
12 8 (1.40%) Advertising
13 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Billing
15 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (28.37%) Senior
2 141 (24.69%) Developer
3 108 (18.91%) Data Engineer
4 92 (16.11%) Software Engineer
5 84 (14.71%) Java Engineer
6 74 (12.96%) Lead
7 58 (10.16%) Architect
8 41 (7.18%) Java Developer
8 41 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 34 (5.95%) Senior Developer
11 33 (5.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 32 (5.60%) Lead Developer
13 31 (5.43%) Python Engineer
14 30 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (4.73%) Principal Java Engineer
17 26 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
17 26 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
18 25 (4.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (23.12%) Spring
2 119 (20.84%) Spring Boot
3 87 (15.24%) RESTful
4 79 (13.84%) Node.js
5 77 (13.49%) REST
6 75 (13.13%) RabbitMQ
7 69 (12.08%) React
8 41 (7.18%) GraphQL
9 38 (6.65%) .NET
9 38 (6.65%) PySpark
10 36 (6.30%) Redux
11 28 (4.90%) PyTorch
11 28 (4.90%) TensorFlow
12 25 (4.38%) scikit-learn
13 24 (4.20%) gRPC
13 24 (4.20%) pgvector
14 23 (4.03%) LangChain
14 23 (4.03%) LlamaIndex
15 22 (3.85%) AngularJS
16 20 (3.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 173 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 117 (20.49%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (9.98%) Public Cloud
4 41 (7.18%) Fixed Income
5 37 (6.48%) Onboarding
6 29 (5.08%) e-Learning
7 25 (4.38%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.03%) Clustering
8 23 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (3.15%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.93%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.93%) Blockchain
13 11 (1.93%) Web3
14 10 (1.75%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
14 10 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.75%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.36%) Linux
2 10 (1.75%) Windows
3 8 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (45.53%) CI/CD
2 234 (40.98%) Microservices
3 230 (40.28%) Agile
4 198 (34.68%) Event-Driven
5 185 (32.40%) DevOps
6 182 (31.87%) Software Engineering
7 171 (29.95%) AI
8 146 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (23.82%) Containerisation
9 136 (23.82%) Data Pipeline
10 128 (22.42%) Analytics
11 121 (21.19%) Mentoring
12 114 (19.96%) Test Automation
13 109 (19.09%) Data Modelling
14 104 (18.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 104 (18.21%) Observability
15 99 (17.34%) Data Engineering
16 94 (16.46%) Machine Learning
17 88 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
18 86 (15.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 295 (51.66%) Python
2 273 (47.81%) Java
3 240 (42.03%) SQL
4 90 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 86 (15.06%) TypeScript
6 76 (13.31%) Go
7 48 (8.41%) C#
8 26 (4.55%) Scala
9 20 (3.50%) Rust
10 17 (2.98%) C++
11 14 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 13 (2.28%) Bash
13 11 (1.93%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.75%) RPG
15 9 (1.58%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.40%) Groovy
16 8 (1.40%) PHP
17 7 (1.23%) C
18 6 (1.05%) Ruby
19 4 (0.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 84 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.26%) Degree
3 60 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.53%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 29 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.38%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.88%) PhD
9 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.70%) MBA
9 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) GIAC
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.18%) OCP
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.91%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.65%) GDPR
3 23 (4.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.15%) QA
5 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.53%) NIST
8 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.53%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 163 (28.55%) Docker
2 8 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 205 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 130 (22.77%) Terraform
3 45 (7.88%) Prometheus
4 33 (5.78%) Grafana
5 30 (5.25%) Ansible
6 10 (1.75%) Istio
7 8 (1.40%) Argo
8 7 (1.23%) Kibana
8 7 (1.23%) Puppet
9 6 (1.05%) 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 71 (12.43%) Databricks
2 54 (9.46%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.20%) Dell
4 23 (4.03%) Cloudera
5 22 (3.85%) Oracle
6 21 (3.68%) IBM
7 16 (2.80%) Google
8 15 (2.63%) Confluent
9 11 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.93%) Splunk
10 9 (1.58%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.40%) Solace
12 7 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.23%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.23%) Talend
13 6 (1.05%) HP
13 6 (1.05%) SAP
14 5 (0.88%) Informatica
15 4 (0.70%) Adobe