Kafka Job Trends in England
Apache Kafka
UK > England
The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England citing Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 31 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 340 | 195 | 318 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -145 | +123 | -116 |
| Permanent jobs citing Kafka | 555 | 675 | 495 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in England | 0.52% | 1.54% | 0.81% |
| As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category | 5.16% | 9.00% | 3.63% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 326 | 249 | 317 |
| 10th Percentile | £55,000 | £55,000 | £44,738 |
| 25th Percentile | £62,563 | £69,750 | £56,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £75,000 | £95,000 | £76,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -21.05% | +24.18% | -7.27% |
| 75th Percentile | £93,750 | £122,250 | £102,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £108,875 | £142,500 | £122,900 |
| UK median annual salary | £75,000 | £92,500 | £72,500 |
| % change year-on-year | -18.92% | +27.59% | -9.71% |
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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.
| 6 months to 31 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills | 10,757 | 7,502 | 13,626 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England | 10.05% | 17.14% | 22.35% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 7,585 | 5,000 | 8,307 |
| 10th Percentile | £42,500 | £37,500 | £40,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £51,250 | £50,000 | £50,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £67,500 | £70,000 | £66,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -3.57% | +6.06% | -2.22% |
| 75th Percentile | £87,500 | £87,500 | £87,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £115,000 | £112,500 |
| UK median annual salary | £67,500 | £68,250 | £65,000 |
| % change year-on-year | -1.10% | +5.00% | -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 Salary Trend in England
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 31 October 2026.
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 31 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | -73 | 309 | £83,750 | -22.09% | 58 |
| North of England | -118 | 95 | £67,500 | -3.57% | 26 |
| North West | -97 | 66 | £75,000 | +7.14% | 22 |
| South East | -65 | 56 | £70,000 | -1.06% | 16 |
| South West | -64 | 40 | £85,000 | +6.25% | 21 |
| Midlands | -105 | 31 | £85,000 | +25.93% | 7 |
| East of England | -39 | 30 | £72,500 | +1.40% | 1 |
| West Midlands | -47 | 30 | £85,000 | +51.11% | 3 |
| North East | -51 | 26 | £60,000 | +26.32% | 3 |
| Yorkshire | -47 | 9 | £66,805 | -10.93% | 1 |
| East Midlands | -83 | 1 | £71,500 | +5.93% | 4 |
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Kafka Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring | 35.3% | 196 |
| 2 | Spring Boot | 31.9% | 177 |
| 3 | REST | 18.7% | 104 |
| 4 | Terraform | 17.5% | 97 |
| 5 | RESTful | 16.8% | 93 |
| 6 | RabbitMQ | 15.5% | 86 |
| 7 | Node.js | 10.8% | 60 |
| 8 | React | 10.3% | 57 |
| 9 | .NET | 7.6% | 42 |
| 10 | OpenAPI | 6.7% | 37 |
| 10 | Swagger | 6.7% | 37 |
| 12 | PySpark | 6.3% | 35 |
| 13 | FastAPI | 6.1% | 34 |
| 14 | Keycloak | 5.2% | 29 |
| 15 | AngularJS | 3.8% | 21 |
| 16 | gRPC | 3.2% | 18 |
| 17 | Elastic Stack | 3.1% | 17 |
| 17 | Hibernate | 3.1% | 17 |
| 19 | Middleware | 2.9% | 16 |
| 20 | Apache NiFi | 2.7% | 15 |