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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 192 304
Rank change year-on-year -126 +112 -169
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 452 712 762
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.81% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.51% 9.10% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 305 377 641
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £135,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% +10.00% -16.20%

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 8,202 7,827 17,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 19.93% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,203 5,497 14,124
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,561 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -10 331 £100,000 - 106
North of England -144 48 £80,000 +8.47% 29
South East -62 41 £65,000 -10.34% 35
North West -93 34 £87,500 +23.25% 16
Yorkshire -46 11 £70,000 -12.50% 7
East of England -25 10 £67,500 -9.40% 3
Midlands -89 10 £87,500 +27.27% 4
West Midlands -62 9 £87,500 +12.90% 3
South West -70 9 £75,000 +11.11% 11
North East -43 3 - - 6
East Midlands -62 1 - - 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 97 (21.46%) Apache Spark
2 95 (21.02%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (11.28%) Apache
4 9 (1.99%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.88%) Confluence
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.44%) Camunda
6 2 (0.44%) CICS
6 2 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Actimize
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 296 (65.49%) AWS
2 162 (35.84%) Azure
3 111 (24.56%) GCP
4 75 (16.59%) Serverless
5 61 (13.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (12.83%) Amazon S3
7 56 (12.39%) dbt
8 47 (10.40%) Snowflake
9 38 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.41%) Datadog
10 37 (8.19%) Power Platform
11 34 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 33 (7.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (4.65%) GitHub
16 20 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.43%) MQTT
2 7 (1.55%) Broadband
3 6 (1.33%) Network Security
4 3 (0.66%) HTTP
5 2 (0.44%) 4G
5 2 (0.44%) 5G
5 2 (0.44%) AMQP
6 1 (0.22%) BGP
6 1 (0.22%) CTI
6 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.22%) LTE
6 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (21.24%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (10.40%) Data Lake
4 44 (9.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 44 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.51%) Relational Database
6 42 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (8.85%) MongoDB
7 40 (8.85%) Tableau
8 36 (7.96%) Big Data
9 35 (7.74%) BigQuery
9 35 (7.74%) Power BI
10 30 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (6.19%) DynamoDB
12 27 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (5.75%) Looker
14 25 (5.53%) SQL Server
15 24 (5.31%) Metadata
16 23 (5.09%) MySQL
17 20 (4.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (13.50%) Git
2 54 (11.95%) GitLab
3 52 (11.50%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.97%) MLflow
5 25 (5.53%) CircleCI
6 20 (4.42%) Cucumber
7 14 (3.10%) JIRA
8 10 (2.21%) JUnit
9 7 (1.55%) Selenium
10 5 (1.11%) Maven
10 5 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.66%) JMeter
12 3 (0.66%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.66%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.44%) Mockito
13 2 (0.44%) Postman
13 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 180 (39.82%) Finance
2 102 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.73%) Banking
4 52 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.50%) Front Office
5 12 (2.65%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.43%) Law
7 10 (2.21%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.99%) Retail
9 8 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.55%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.33%) Advertising
12 5 (1.11%) Billing
13 2 (0.44%) Back Office
13 2 (0.44%) Games
13 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 130 (28.76%) Developer
2 127 (28.10%) Senior
3 88 (19.47%) Data Engineer
4 72 (15.93%) Lead
5 61 (13.50%) Software Engineer
6 56 (12.39%) Java Engineer
7 43 (9.51%) Architect
8 38 (8.41%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (7.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (6.86%) Senior Developer
11 30 (6.64%) Lead Developer
12 25 (5.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 24 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (5.31%) Python Engineer
14 23 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (5.09%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (5.09%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (4.87%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (19.25%) Spring
2 81 (17.92%) Spring Boot
3 70 (15.49%) REST
4 69 (15.27%) React
5 63 (13.94%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (13.94%) RESTful
6 58 (12.83%) Node.js
7 35 (7.74%) GraphQL
7 35 (7.74%) gRPC
8 33 (7.30%) Redux
9 31 (6.86%) PySpark
10 29 (6.42%) .NET
11 24 (5.31%) scikit-learn
11 24 (5.31%) TensorFlow
12 23 (5.09%) LangChain
12 23 (5.09%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.09%) pgvector
12 23 (5.09%) PyTorch
13 21 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.20%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (27.88%) Cloud Native
2 86 (19.03%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (8.85%) Public Cloud
4 39 (8.63%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.09%) Clustering
6 20 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.98%) Blockchain
7 18 (3.98%) Web3
8 16 (3.54%) e-Learning
9 15 (3.32%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.10%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.77%) AI Agents
16 7 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (1.33%) Anti-Piracy
17 6 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.75%) Linux
2 7 (1.55%) Windows
3 5 (1.11%) Android
3 5 (1.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (46.68%) CI/CD
2 185 (40.93%) Microservices
3 168 (37.17%) Agile
4 155 (34.29%) DevOps
5 135 (29.87%) Event-Driven
6 134 (29.65%) Software Engineering
7 113 (25.00%) Analytics
8 111 (24.56%) Containerisation
8 111 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
9 110 (24.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 104 (23.01%) AI
11 102 (22.57%) Data Modelling
12 94 (20.80%) Data Engineering
13 90 (19.91%) Observability
14 82 (18.14%) Test Automation
15 79 (17.48%) ETL
16 76 (16.81%) Mentoring
17 70 (15.49%) Data Governance
18 69 (15.27%) Machine Learning
19 64 (14.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 260 (57.52%) Python
2 204 (45.13%) SQL
3 194 (42.92%) Java
4 82 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 81 (17.92%) Go
6 72 (15.93%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.19%) C#
8 23 (5.09%) Scala
9 20 (4.42%) C++
9 20 (4.42%) Rust
10 19 (4.20%) Bash
11 8 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.33%) Groovy
13 5 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.11%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.88%) Bicep
15 3 (0.66%) PHP
15 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 49 (10.84%) Degree
2 43 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 20 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) GIAC
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) SSCP
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.60%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.08%) GDPR
3 23 (5.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 16 (3.54%) QA
5 10 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.77%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (33.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 178 (39.38%) Kubernetes
2 124 (27.43%) Terraform
3 46 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 30 (6.64%) Grafana
5 27 (5.97%) Ansible
6 9 (1.99%) Istio
7 8 (1.77%) Argo
8 6 (1.33%) Kibana
8 6 (1.33%) Puppet
9 4 (0.88%) Podman
10 2 (0.44%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) Cilium
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (12.61%) Databricks
2 34 (7.52%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.09%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.09%) Dell
4 13 (2.88%) Confluent
5 10 (2.21%) Oracle
6 9 (1.99%) Splunk
7 7 (1.55%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.55%) Solace
8 6 (1.33%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.33%) Pega
9 5 (1.11%) Google
9 5 (1.11%) Talend
10 4 (0.88%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.88%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.88%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.88%) WSO2
11 3 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.66%) Tenable