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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 199 318
Rank change year-on-year -98 +119 -140
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 566 745 617
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.70% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.93% 9.53% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 365 322 486
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% -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 9,547 7,821 13,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.38% 17.89% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7,223 5,266 10,381
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 £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 3 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 3 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 -31 391 £95,000 -5.00% 326
North of England -138 60 £75,000 +11.49% 45
South East -44 48 £67,500 -6.90% 51
North West -87 47 £75,000 +11.11% 17
South West -71 30 £85,000 +30.77% 26
Midlands -78 19 £85,000 +25.93% 9
West Midlands -43 17 £85,000 +41.67% 8
East of England -25 16 £72,500 +1.40% 7
North East -51 9 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Yorkshire -39 4 £66,805 -10.93% 19
East Midlands -59 2 £71,500 +5.93% 1
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
1 127 (22.44%) Apache Spark
2 92 (16.25%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (8.83%) Apache
4 14 (2.47%) 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 (1.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 360 (63.60%) AWS
2 228 (40.28%) Azure
3 135 (23.85%) GCP
4 82 (14.49%) Serverless
5 70 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (9.89%) dbt
7 52 (9.19%) Snowflake
8 44 (7.77%) Amazon S3
9 43 (7.60%) Power Platform
10 39 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (6.01%) Datadog
13 30 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (5.30%) GitHub
14 29 (5.12%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (4.42%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (3.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.24%) 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
1 125 (22.08%) NoSQL
2 72 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (10.95%) MongoDB
4 60 (10.60%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (10.25%) Relational Database
6 56 (9.89%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.54%) Data Lake
8 51 (9.01%) Big Data
9 41 (7.24%) Power BI
10 34 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (5.65%) BigQuery
11 32 (5.65%) Tableau
12 30 (5.30%) MySQL
13 26 (4.59%) Looker
13 26 (4.59%) Redis
14 24 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (4.24%) DynamoDB
14 24 (4.24%) Flink
14 24 (4.24%) Hadoop
14 24 (4.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (12.37%) Git
1 70 (12.37%) GitLab
2 42 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 33 (5.83%) Cucumber
4 26 (4.59%) MLflow
5 19 (3.36%) CircleCI
6 15 (2.65%) Selenium
7 14 (2.47%) 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
1 216 (38.16%) Finance
2 127 (22.44%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.31%) Banking
5 48 (8.48%) Front Office
6 31 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.65%) Retail
8 14 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.47%) Law
9 12 (2.12%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.94%) Marketing
11 9 (1.59%) Advertising
11 9 (1.59%) Military
12 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.88%) Billing
14 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 161 (28.45%) Senior
2 142 (25.09%) Developer
3 110 (19.43%) Data Engineer
4 86 (15.19%) Software Engineer
5 82 (14.49%) Java Engineer
6 74 (13.07%) Lead
7 58 (10.25%) Architect
8 40 (7.07%) Java Developer
8 40 (7.07%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 36 (6.36%) Senior Developer
11 34 (6.01%) Senior Data Engineer
12 32 (5.65%) Lead Developer
13 31 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (5.30%) Python Engineer
15 27 (4.77%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
16 26 (4.59%) Principal Java Engineer
17 25 (4.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 24 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (22.79%) Spring
2 119 (21.02%) Spring Boot
3 85 (15.02%) RESTful
4 79 (13.96%) Node.js
5 78 (13.78%) REST
6 75 (13.25%) RabbitMQ
7 70 (12.37%) React
8 41 (7.24%) GraphQL
9 38 (6.71%) PySpark
10 36 (6.36%) Redux
11 35 (6.18%) .NET
12 28 (4.95%) PyTorch
12 28 (4.95%) TensorFlow
13 25 (4.42%) gRPC
13 25 (4.42%) scikit-learn
14 24 (4.24%) pgvector
15 23 (4.06%) LangChain
15 23 (4.06%) LlamaIndex
16 22 (3.89%) AngularJS
17 20 (3.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 171 (30.21%) Cloud Native
2 114 (20.14%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (9.89%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.07%) Fixed Income
5 37 (6.54%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.95%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.24%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.06%) Clustering
8 23 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (3.36%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (2.12%) Blockchain
12 12 (2.12%) Web3
13 11 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (1.94%) 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 41 (7.24%) Linux
2 10 (1.77%) Windows
3 8 (1.41%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (46.29%) CI/CD
2 230 (40.64%) Microservices
3 226 (39.93%) Agile
4 194 (34.28%) Event-Driven
5 189 (33.39%) DevOps
6 178 (31.45%) Software Engineering
7 171 (30.21%) AI
8 148 (26.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 138 (24.38%) Containerisation
10 136 (24.03%) Data Pipeline
11 129 (22.79%) Analytics
12 120 (21.20%) Mentoring
13 113 (19.96%) Data Modelling
13 113 (19.96%) Test Automation
14 107 (18.90%) Observability
15 102 (18.02%) Data Engineering
15 102 (18.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 92 (16.25%) Machine Learning
17 87 (15.37%) ETL
18 86 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 299 (52.83%) Python
2 269 (47.53%) Java
3 244 (43.11%) SQL
4 90 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 86 (15.19%) TypeScript
6 75 (13.25%) Go
7 46 (8.13%) C#
8 27 (4.77%) Scala
9 20 (3.53%) Rust
10 19 (3.36%) C++
11 14 (2.47%) Bash
12 11 (1.94%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.94%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.77%) RPG
14 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.41%) Groovy
15 8 (1.41%) PHP
16 7 (1.24%) C
17 6 (1.06%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 81 (14.31%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.37%) Degree
3 58 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.42%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (4.77%) DV Cleared
8 24 (4.24%) 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 (12.19%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.07%) GDPR
3 23 (4.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 19 (3.36%) QA
5 11 (1.94%) 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
1 164 (28.98%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 206 (36.40%) Kubernetes
2 133 (23.50%) Terraform
3 49 (8.66%) Prometheus
4 36 (6.36%) Grafana
5 31 (5.48%) Ansible
6 10 (1.77%) Istio
7 8 (1.41%) 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 (12.37%) Databricks
2 54 (9.54%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.24%) Dell
4 23 (4.06%) Cloudera
5 21 (3.71%) IBM
5 21 (3.71%) Oracle
6 16 (2.83%) Google
7 15 (2.65%) Confluent
8 12 (2.12%) Splunk
9 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.59%) Solace
11 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.24%) Talend
13 6 (1.06%) HP
13 6 (1.06%) SAP
14 5 (0.88%) Informatica
15 4 (0.71%) Adobe