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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 244 251
Rank change year-on-year -59 +7 -126
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 391 519 828
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.32% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 5.87% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 263 356 683
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,297 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -8.57%

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 6,865 8,838 16,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.67% 22.40% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,236 6,062 13,614
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,075
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -4 291 £120,000 +20.00% 68
South East -48 38 £63,750 -8.93% 42
North of England -67 33 £70,500 +0.71% 32
North West -30 20 £95,000 +40.74% 16
Yorkshire -57 12 £53,500 -26.21% 12
East of England -3 8 £62,500 -19.35%
South West -44 8 £80,000 +45.45% 13
Midlands -27 7 £72,500 +11.54% 8
West Midlands -8 4 £72,500 +11.54% 5
East Midlands -30 3 £120,000 +84.62% 3
North East -25 1 - - 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 80 (20.46%) Apache Spark
2 69 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (11.51%) Apache
4 8 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.53%) Confluence
6 5 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.28%) IIS
6 5 (1.28%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.02%) Mule
8 3 (0.77%) Appian
8 3 (0.77%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.51%) CICS
9 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.26%) Camunda
10 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.26%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Actimize
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
2 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 261 (66.75%) AWS
2 110 (28.13%) Azure
3 97 (24.81%) GCP
4 51 (13.04%) Serverless
5 47 (12.02%) Amazon S3
6 46 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (9.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 34 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (7.67%) dbt
11 29 (7.42%) GitHub
11 29 (7.42%) Snowflake
12 25 (6.39%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (5.37%) Power Platform
14 19 (4.86%) Datadog
15 18 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.05%) Broadband
2 5 (1.28%) MQTT
3 4 (1.02%) AMQP
3 4 (1.02%) DNS
3 4 (1.02%) HTTP
4 2 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) BGP
5 1 (0.26%) CTI
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.26%) OSPF
5 1 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) VLAN
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.41%) NoSQL
2 47 (12.02%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (8.95%) Big Data
5 32 (8.18%) MongoDB
6 29 (7.42%) Relational Database
7 27 (6.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (6.65%) Redis
9 24 (6.14%) Tableau
10 23 (5.88%) DynamoDB
11 20 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (5.12%) BigQuery
11 20 (5.12%) Data Lake
11 20 (5.12%) Metadata
11 20 (5.12%) SQL Server
12 18 (4.60%) Power BI
13 16 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (4.09%) Flink
14 14 (3.58%) MySQL
15 12 (3.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (14.07%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.28%) Git
3 42 (10.74%) GitLab
4 17 (4.35%) CircleCI
5 15 (3.84%) Cucumber
5 15 (3.84%) MLflow
6 14 (3.58%) JIRA
7 10 (2.56%) JUnit
8 8 (2.05%) Selenium
9 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.79%) JMeter
10 6 (1.53%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.28%) git-flow
11 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.02%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.02%) VisualVM
13 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 167 (42.71%) Finance
2 104 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.62%) Front Office
4 49 (12.53%) Banking
5 36 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.39%) Telecoms
7 20 (5.12%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.30%) Law
10 7 (1.79%) Billing
10 7 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.79%) Retail
11 6 (1.53%) Advertising
12 4 (1.02%) Games
12 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 133 (34.02%) Developer
2 99 (25.32%) Senior
3 64 (16.37%) Data Engineer
3 64 (16.37%) Software Engineer
4 61 (15.60%) Lead
5 41 (10.49%) Java Engineer
6 37 (9.46%) Java Developer
7 34 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 32 (8.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (7.93%) Senior Developer
10 30 (7.67%) Architect
11 27 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (6.14%) Lead Developer
13 23 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.37%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (5.37%) Python Developer
15 20 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (5.12%) Lead Software Developer
16 17 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
17 15 (3.84%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (21.99%) Spring
2 77 (19.69%) React
3 69 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 61 (15.60%) RESTful
5 60 (15.35%) REST
6 56 (14.32%) Node.js
7 51 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
8 46 (11.76%) GraphQL
9 37 (9.46%) Redux
10 34 (8.70%) gRPC
11 27 (6.91%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.35%) .NET
12 17 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (4.35%) Pandas
13 15 (3.84%) PySpark
14 13 (3.32%) CSS
14 13 (3.32%) OAuth
14 13 (3.32%) OAuth2
14 13 (3.32%) TensorFlow
15 12 (3.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 80 (20.46%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (10.49%) Fixed Income
4 24 (6.14%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.09%) Data Structures
6 16 (4.09%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 12 (3.07%) Blockchain
9 12 (3.07%) e-Learning
9 12 (3.07%) Web3
10 11 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.56%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.56%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (2.05%) Clustering
13 8 (2.05%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.42%) Linux
2 12 (3.07%) Windows
3 10 (2.56%) Android
4 8 (2.05%) Unix
5 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (49.36%) CI/CD
2 169 (43.22%) Microservices
3 160 (40.92%) Agile
4 158 (40.41%) DevOps
5 120 (30.69%) Software Engineering
6 95 (24.30%) Event-Driven
7 91 (23.27%) Data Pipeline
8 88 (22.51%) Analytics
9 85 (21.74%) Data Modelling
10 84 (21.48%) Containerisation
11 81 (20.72%) Data Engineering
12 79 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 72 (18.41%) AI
14 68 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 64 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
16 62 (15.86%) Computer Science
17 61 (15.60%) Fintech
18 60 (15.35%) Test Automation
19 59 (15.09%) ETL
19 59 (15.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 206 (52.69%) Python
2 198 (50.64%) Java
3 148 (37.85%) SQL
4 85 (21.74%) Go
5 68 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 61 (15.60%) JavaScript
7 27 (6.91%) C#
8 25 (6.39%) Bash
9 22 (5.63%) Scala
10 20 (5.12%) C++
11 11 (2.81%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.79%) Groovy
13 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.51%) PHP
16 1 (0.26%) Perl
16 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (11.76%) Degree
2 40 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.16%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.51%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.63%) GDPR
3 19 (4.86%) QA
4 8 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.53%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (34.27%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.02%) HDFS
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 148 (37.85%) Kubernetes
2 74 (18.93%) Terraform
3 39 (9.97%) Prometheus
4 32 (8.18%) Ansible
5 28 (7.16%) Grafana
6 11 (2.81%) Argo
7 7 (1.79%) Kibana
8 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.02%) Puppet
10 3 (0.77%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.77%) Istio
11 2 (0.51%) Control-M
11 2 (0.51%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Icinga
12 1 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (9.21%) Databricks
2 18 (4.60%) Oracle
3 14 (3.58%) VMware
4 12 (3.07%) Dell
5 10 (2.56%) Google
6 9 (2.30%) Splunk
7 8 (2.05%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.79%) Confluent
9 6 (1.53%) Pega
9 6 (1.53%) Solace
10 5 (1.28%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.28%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.28%) Microsoft
10 5 (1.28%) Nokia
10 5 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.28%) SAP
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.02%) Informatica
11 4 (1.02%) UiPath