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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 231 293
Rank change year-on-year -88 +62 -167
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 423 527 788
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.39% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.43% 7.02% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 286 384 662
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +7.59% -12.22%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% +6.45% -13.89%

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 7,785 7,502 16,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.75% 19.78% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 5,789 14,105
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +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 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -5 325 £110,000 +10.00% 100
North of England -108 36 £95,000 +31.50% 19
South East -77 33 £60,000 -14.29% 26
North West -64 23 £95,000 +35.71% 14
Yorkshire -71 10 £61,750 -17.67% 1
East of England -22 9 £62,500 -19.35% 1
South West -60 8 £75,000 +50.00% 10
Midlands -36 7 £72,500 +7.41% 4
West Midlands -24 5 £72,500 -6.45% 3
North East -33 3 - - 4
East Midlands -47 2 £120,000 +84.62% 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 98 (23.17%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (22.93%) Apache Spark
3 49 (11.58%) Apache
4 8 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.18%) Confluence
7 4 (0.95%) IIS
7 4 (0.95%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.47%) Camunda
8 2 (0.47%) CICS
8 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.24%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 286 (67.61%) AWS
2 147 (34.75%) Azure
3 120 (28.37%) GCP
4 62 (14.66%) Serverless
5 55 (13.00%) dbt
6 53 (12.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (10.87%) Snowflake
8 45 (10.64%) Amazon S3
9 37 (8.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 36 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (8.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (8.27%) Datadog
11 35 (8.27%) Power Platform
12 34 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (4.73%) GitHub
16 19 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.89%) Broadband
2 4 (0.95%) MQTT
3 3 (0.71%) DNS
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) 5G
4 2 (0.47%) AMQP
4 2 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) CTI
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (20.80%) NoSQL
2 57 (13.48%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (9.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (9.22%) Relational Database
6 38 (8.98%) Data Lake
6 38 (8.98%) Tableau
7 37 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (8.27%) BigQuery
9 34 (8.04%) Power BI
10 31 (7.33%) MongoDB
11 30 (7.09%) Big Data
12 28 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (6.38%) DynamoDB
13 27 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (6.15%) Looker
14 26 (6.15%) SQL Server
15 22 (5.20%) Flink
15 22 (5.20%) Metadata
15 22 (5.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (11.82%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.58%) Git
3 46 (10.87%) GitLab
4 28 (6.62%) MLflow
5 23 (5.44%) CircleCI
6 16 (3.78%) JIRA
7 14 (3.31%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.13%) JUnit
9 6 (1.42%) Selenium
10 5 (1.18%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.95%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.71%) Maven
12 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.71%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.47%) Mockito
13 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 169 (39.95%) Finance
2 103 (24.35%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.24%) Front Office
4 52 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (12.06%) Banking
6 26 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.36%) Law
9 9 (2.13%) Retail
10 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.18%) Billing
11 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (30.50%) Senior
2 127 (30.02%) Developer
3 84 (19.86%) Data Engineer
4 74 (17.49%) Lead
5 52 (12.29%) Software Engineer
6 47 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 35 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 32 (7.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (7.33%) Architect
11 30 (7.09%) Lead Developer
12 29 (6.86%) Senior Developer
13 26 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
14 25 (5.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 23 (5.44%) Python Engineer
15 23 (5.44%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (5.20%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
18 20 (4.73%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.26%) Spring
2 70 (16.55%) REST
3 68 (16.08%) RESTful
4 67 (15.84%) React
5 66 (15.60%) Spring Boot
6 60 (14.18%) Node.js
6 60 (14.18%) RabbitMQ
7 36 (8.51%) GraphQL
7 36 (8.51%) gRPC
8 33 (7.80%) Redux
9 24 (5.67%) scikit-learn
9 24 (5.67%) TensorFlow
10 23 (5.44%) LangChain
10 23 (5.44%) LlamaIndex
10 23 (5.44%) pgvector
10 23 (5.44%) PyTorch
11 22 (5.20%) PySpark
12 20 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.49%) AngularJS
14 18 (4.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (26.95%) Cloud Native
2 80 (18.91%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.69%) Fixed Income
4 34 (8.04%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.44%) Clustering
6 16 (3.78%) Blockchain
6 16 (3.78%) Web3
7 15 (3.55%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.07%) AI Agents
8 13 (3.07%) Distributed Architecture
8 13 (3.07%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.84%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.42%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.73%) Linux
2 10 (2.36%) Android
3 9 (2.13%) Windows
4 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.95%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (45.63%) CI/CD
2 165 (39.01%) Microservices
3 153 (36.17%) DevOps
4 152 (35.93%) Agile
5 123 (29.08%) Software Engineering
6 122 (28.84%) Event-Driven
7 116 (27.42%) Analytics
8 113 (26.71%) Data Pipeline
9 108 (25.53%) Containerisation
10 103 (24.35%) Data Modelling
11 100 (23.64%) Data Engineering
12 94 (22.22%) AI
13 89 (21.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 80 (18.91%) ETL
15 77 (18.20%) Observability
16 70 (16.55%) Data Governance
16 70 (16.55%) Test Automation
17 68 (16.08%) Machine Learning
18 67 (15.84%) Computer Science
19 62 (14.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 244 (57.68%) Python
2 191 (45.15%) SQL
3 179 (42.32%) Java
4 91 (21.51%) Go
5 64 (15.13%) TypeScript
6 63 (14.89%) JavaScript
7 28 (6.62%) C#
8 23 (5.44%) Bash
9 21 (4.96%) C++
10 20 (4.73%) Scala
11 14 (3.31%) Rust
12 6 (1.42%) Groovy
12 6 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.71%) Bicep
14 3 (0.71%) PHP
14 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (12.06%) Degree
2 39 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.55%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (15.13%) Data Quality
2 36 (8.51%) GDPR
3 23 (5.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.55%) QA
5 10 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 148 (34.99%) Docker
2 8 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (39.72%) Kubernetes
2 102 (24.11%) Terraform
3 44 (10.40%) Prometheus
4 31 (7.33%) Grafana
5 26 (6.15%) Ansible
6 10 (2.36%) Argo
7 9 (2.13%) Istio
8 5 (1.18%) Kibana
8 5 (1.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) Salt
11 1 (0.24%) Cilium
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Icinga
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (11.82%) Databricks
2 23 (5.44%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.44%) Dell
3 14 (3.31%) Confluent
3 14 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.13%) Oracle
5 7 (1.65%) Solace
6 6 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.42%) Google
6 6 (1.42%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.42%) Pega
7 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.18%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.18%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.18%) Nokia
7 5 (1.18%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) Talend
7 5 (1.18%) VMware
8 4 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.71%) Salesforce