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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 189 311
Rank change year-on-year -131 +122 -176
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 433 706 768
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.82% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 8.99% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 296 382 643
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,297 £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 £140,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% +6.45% -12.41%

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 8,082 7,850 16,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 20.20% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,115 5,562 14,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £66,230 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +10.38% -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 14 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 14 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 -12 321 £100,000 - 122
North of England -141 42 £80,000 +10.34% 36
South East -56 40 £67,000 -7.59% 36
North West -97 29 £95,000 +35.71% 19
Yorkshire -71 10 £61,750 -20.32% 8
East of England -29 9 £62,500 -19.35% 1
Midlands -96 9 £80,000 +16.36% 8
South West -57 8 £75,000 +15.38% 13
West Midlands -47 7 £72,500 -6.45% 4
North East -39 3 - - 9
East Midlands -64 2 £120,000 +81.13% 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 96 (22.17%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (21.71%) Apache Spark
3 50 (11.55%) Apache
4 9 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.92%) Confluence
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.46%) Camunda
7 2 (0.46%) CICS
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Actimize
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 290 (66.97%) AWS
2 156 (36.03%) Azure
3 114 (26.33%) GCP
4 70 (16.17%) Serverless
5 57 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (12.93%) dbt
7 52 (12.01%) Amazon S3
8 48 (11.09%) Snowflake
9 36 (8.31%) Datadog
10 34 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 34 (7.85%) Power Platform
11 33 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (7.62%) Amazon Kinesis
12 25 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (4.16%) GitHub
16 17 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.08%) MQTT
2 7 (1.62%) Broadband
3 6 (1.39%) Network Security
4 3 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.46%) 4G
5 2 (0.46%) 5G
5 2 (0.46%) AMQP
6 1 (0.23%) BGP
6 1 (0.23%) CTI
6 1 (0.23%) DNS
6 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.23%) LTE
6 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (19.86%) NoSQL
2 54 (12.47%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (10.16%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 42 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (9.24%) Elasticsearch
6 39 (9.01%) Relational Database
7 37 (8.55%) Tableau
8 35 (8.08%) BigQuery
9 34 (7.85%) MongoDB
10 33 (7.62%) Big Data
11 32 (7.39%) Power BI
12 28 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (6.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 27 (6.24%) SQL Server
14 26 (6.00%) DynamoDB
14 26 (6.00%) Looker
15 21 (4.85%) Metadata
16 20 (4.62%) MySQL
17 19 (4.39%) Flink
Development Applications
1 55 (12.70%) Git
2 51 (11.78%) GitLab
3 48 (11.09%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.24%) MLflow
5 24 (5.54%) CircleCI
6 17 (3.93%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.00%) JIRA
8 9 (2.08%) JUnit
9 7 (1.62%) Selenium
10 5 (1.15%) Maven
10 5 (1.15%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.92%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.69%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.46%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.46%) Mockito
13 2 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 176 (40.65%) Finance
2 101 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 52 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (12.01%) Banking
3 52 (12.01%) Front Office
4 15 (3.46%) Telecoms
5 11 (2.54%) Law
6 9 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.08%) Retail
7 7 (1.62%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.15%) Billing
9 4 (0.92%) Advertising
10 3 (0.69%) Games
11 2 (0.46%) Back Office
11 2 (0.46%) Legal
11 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Digital Economy
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (29.33%) Developer
2 123 (28.41%) Senior
3 82 (18.94%) Data Engineer
4 73 (16.86%) Lead
5 56 (12.93%) Software Engineer
6 51 (11.78%) Java Engineer
7 40 (9.24%) Architect
8 36 (8.31%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (7.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 29 (6.70%) Lead Developer
10 29 (6.70%) Senior Developer
11 25 (5.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 24 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (5.31%) Python Engineer
13 23 (5.31%) Systems Engineer
14 21 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (4.62%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (18.48%) Spring
2 74 (17.09%) Spring Boot
3 72 (16.63%) REST
4 71 (16.40%) React
5 62 (14.32%) RESTful
6 61 (14.09%) RabbitMQ
7 58 (13.39%) Node.js
8 36 (8.31%) GraphQL
8 36 (8.31%) gRPC
9 33 (7.62%) Redux
10 25 (5.77%) PySpark
11 24 (5.54%) scikit-learn
11 24 (5.54%) TensorFlow
12 23 (5.31%) .NET
12 23 (5.31%) LangChain
12 23 (5.31%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.31%) pgvector
12 23 (5.31%) PyTorch
13 21 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.39%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 119 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 77 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (9.01%) Fixed Income
4 37 (8.55%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.31%) Clustering
6 18 (4.16%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.93%) Blockchain
7 17 (3.93%) Web3
8 15 (3.46%) Onboarding
9 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.23%) e-Learning
10 12 (2.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (2.08%) AI Agents
13 9 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.39%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.54%) Linux
2 8 (1.85%) Windows
3 6 (1.39%) Android
4 4 (0.92%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (45.27%) CI/CD
2 172 (39.72%) Microservices
3 154 (35.57%) Agile
4 146 (33.72%) DevOps
5 130 (30.02%) Event-Driven
5 130 (30.02%) Software Engineering
6 111 (25.64%) Analytics
7 107 (24.71%) Containerisation
7 107 (24.71%) Data Pipeline
8 101 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 99 (22.86%) Data Modelling
10 98 (22.63%) AI
11 93 (21.48%) Data Engineering
12 82 (18.94%) Observability
13 78 (18.01%) ETL
14 77 (17.78%) Test Automation
15 68 (15.70%) Mentoring
16 67 (15.47%) Data Governance
16 67 (15.47%) Machine Learning
17 62 (14.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 250 (57.74%) Python
2 196 (45.27%) SQL
3 185 (42.73%) Java
4 81 (18.71%) Go
5 74 (17.09%) JavaScript
6 67 (15.47%) TypeScript
7 32 (7.39%) C#
8 20 (4.62%) Bash
8 20 (4.62%) C++
9 19 (4.39%) Rust
10 18 (4.16%) Scala
11 8 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.39%) Groovy
12 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.92%) Bicep
13 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (10.85%) Degree
2 37 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.24%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.16%) AWS Certification
5 18 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) GIAC
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) SSCP
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.32%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.62%) GDPR
3 23 (5.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 16 (3.70%) QA
5 10 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.85%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 146 (33.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 168 (38.80%) Kubernetes
2 117 (27.02%) Terraform
3 45 (10.39%) Prometheus
4 30 (6.93%) Grafana
5 27 (6.24%) Ansible
6 9 (2.08%) Istio
7 8 (1.85%) Argo
8 7 (1.62%) Puppet
9 5 (1.15%) Kibana
10 4 (0.92%) Podman
11 2 (0.46%) Salt
12 1 (0.23%) Cilium
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (12.24%) Databricks
2 27 (6.24%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.31%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.31%) Dell
4 13 (3.00%) Confluent
5 9 (2.08%) Oracle
6 7 (1.62%) Solace
7 6 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.39%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.39%) Pega
7 6 (1.39%) Splunk
8 5 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.15%) Talend
9 4 (0.92%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.92%) Google
9 4 (0.92%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.92%) WSO2
10 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.69%) Tenable