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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 210 327
Rank change year-on-year -121 +117 -133
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 555 669 531
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.55% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 9.07% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 334 257 358
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +20.69% -14.71%
75th Percentile £96,860 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -15.15%

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 10,622 7,378 14,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.23% 17.12% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,675 4,865 8,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%

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 October 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 October 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 -44 324 £85,000 -19.05% 767
North of England -108 94 £67,500 -3.57% 131
North West -76 66 £75,000 +7.14% 86
South East -60 50 £70,000 - 51
South West -66 40 £85,000 +6.25% 40
Midlands -78 32 £85,000 +25.93% 33
West Midlands -42 31 £85,000 +51.11% 24
North East -52 25 £60,000 +26.32% 16
East of England -35 23 £72,500 +1.40% 22
Yorkshire -33 9 £66,805 -10.93% 29
East Midlands -76 1 £71,500 +5.93% 9
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 84 (15.14%) Apache Spark
2 42 (7.57%) Apache
3 37 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.88%) Confluence
5 7 (1.26%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.72%) Camunda
9 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.36%) JBoss
10 2 (0.36%) Luigi
10 2 (0.36%) Tornado
11 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (59.10%) AWS
2 216 (38.92%) Azure
3 77 (13.87%) GCP
4 75 (13.51%) Serverless
5 68 (12.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 54 (9.73%) Amazon S3
7 53 (9.55%) GitHub
8 45 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (7.93%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (5.41%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (3.24%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.95%) MQTT
2 11 (1.98%) Internet
3 9 (1.62%) DNS
4 6 (1.08%) BGP
4 6 (1.08%) IPsec
4 6 (1.08%) Network Security
4 6 (1.08%) VPN
5 4 (0.72%) 4G
5 4 (0.72%) 5G
5 4 (0.72%) HTTP
6 3 (0.54%) SSH
6 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.36%) AMQP
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) ATM
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (23.96%) NoSQL
2 95 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (14.59%) MongoDB
4 56 (10.09%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.21%) Big Data
6 34 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (5.77%) Data Lake
8 32 (5.77%) Redis
9 28 (5.05%) MySQL
9 28 (5.05%) Power BI
10 27 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (4.14%) SQL Server
12 22 (3.96%) Hadoop
13 21 (3.78%) Flink
14 18 (3.24%) DynamoDB
15 17 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (3.06%) Metadata
16 15 (2.70%) Tableau
17 13 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 93 (16.76%) GitLab
2 91 (16.40%) Git
3 56 (10.09%) Jenkins
4 55 (9.91%) Cucumber
5 14 (2.52%) JIRA
6 13 (2.34%) Selenium
7 10 (1.80%) JUnit
8 8 (1.44%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.26%) Mockito
10 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.08%) Maven
11 5 (0.90%) Gatling
11 5 (0.90%) Postman
12 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.54%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.36%) git-flow
14 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 178 (32.07%) Finance
2 119 (21.44%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.89%) Banking
4 49 (8.83%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.68%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.06%) Retail
9 16 (2.88%) Front Office
10 15 (2.70%) Marketing
10 15 (2.70%) Publishing
11 11 (1.98%) Law
12 10 (1.80%) Military
13 7 (1.26%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.08%) Advertising
14 6 (1.08%) Aviation
14 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.90%) Games
16 4 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 181 (32.61%) Senior
2 117 (21.08%) Developer
3 92 (16.58%) Data Engineer
4 90 (16.22%) Java Engineer
4 90 (16.22%) Software Engineer
5 59 (10.63%) Lead
6 58 (10.45%) Architect
7 51 (9.19%) Principal Engineer
8 48 (8.65%) Senior Developer
9 41 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 40 (7.21%) Senior Java Engineer
11 37 (6.67%) Java Developer
12 34 (6.13%) Python Engineer
13 33 (5.95%) Principal Java Engineer
13 33 (5.95%) Senior Data Engineer
14 23 (4.14%) Backend Developer
15 22 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (3.96%) Kafka Engineer
16 21 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.15%) Spring
2 165 (29.73%) Spring Boot
3 108 (19.46%) Terraform
4 99 (17.84%) REST
4 99 (17.84%) RESTful
5 90 (16.22%) RabbitMQ
6 60 (10.81%) Node.js
7 47 (8.47%) React
8 39 (7.03%) .NET
9 36 (6.49%) PySpark
10 33 (5.95%) OpenAPI
10 33 (5.95%) Swagger
11 31 (5.59%) FastAPI
12 27 (4.86%) Keycloak
13 20 (3.60%) gRPC
14 19 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (3.42%) Middleware
15 17 (3.06%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.06%) Hibernate
16 15 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 181 (32.61%) Cloud Native
2 152 (27.39%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (9.19%) Public Cloud
4 45 (8.11%) e-Learning
5 36 (6.49%) Onboarding
6 35 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (6.13%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.52%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.34%) Replication
13 12 (2.16%) Data Structures
13 12 (2.16%) Media Streaming
13 12 (2.16%) Podcast
14 11 (1.98%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.80%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.11%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Unix
2 7 (1.26%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (55.14%) CI/CD
2 265 (47.75%) Microservices
3 260 (46.85%) Agile
4 259 (46.67%) Event-Driven
5 212 (38.20%) DevOps
6 171 (30.81%) Software Engineering
7 165 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 158 (28.47%) AI
9 151 (27.21%) Mentoring
10 140 (25.23%) Test Automation
11 138 (24.86%) Containerisation
12 127 (22.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 118 (21.26%) Observability
14 107 (19.28%) Data Pipeline
15 103 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (17.12%) Analytics
18 91 (16.40%) Roadmaps
19 83 (14.95%) Data Modelling
20 67 (12.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 280 (50.45%) Java
2 214 (38.56%) Python
3 185 (33.33%) SQL
4 72 (12.97%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.63%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.39%) C#
7 37 (6.67%) Go
8 28 (5.05%) Scala
9 21 (3.78%) Bash
10 20 (3.60%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.70%) Groovy
12 13 (2.34%) PHP
12 13 (2.34%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.80%) RPG
13 10 (1.80%) Rust
14 7 (1.26%) C
15 6 (1.08%) Ruby
15 6 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 127 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 105 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.53%) AWS Certification
4 62 (11.17%) Degree
5 45 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.49%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.77%) DV Cleared
8 30 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.90%) PhD
10 5 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.72%) MBA
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.36%) OCP
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CISSP
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.32%) QA
3 12 (2.16%) GDPR
4 7 (1.26%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.54%) NIST
6 3 (0.54%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.54%) PSD2
6 3 (0.54%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) Basel III
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 228 (41.08%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.03%) Prometheus
3 33 (5.95%) Grafana
4 19 (3.42%) Ansible
5 11 (1.98%) Argo
6 9 (1.62%) Rancher
7 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.90%) Kibana
8 5 (0.90%) Podman
8 5 (0.90%) Puppet
9 3 (0.54%) Cilium
10 2 (0.36%) Control-M
10 2 (0.36%) Istio
10 2 (0.36%) kaniko
11 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (9.73%) Databricks
1 54 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.59%) Oracle
3 25 (4.50%) IBM
4 19 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.70%) Google
6 11 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.98%) Splunk
7 10 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.80%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.44%) Confluent
8 8 (1.44%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.08%) HP
9 6 (1.08%) SAP
10 5 (0.90%) Informatica
10 5 (0.90%) Solace
11 4 (0.72%) Adobe
11 4 (0.72%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.72%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.72%) Talend