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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 223 299
Rank change year-on-year -98 +76 -170
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 431 582 773
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.51% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 7.72% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 292 384 647
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £149,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% +6.45% -12.91%

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 7,833 7,540 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.68% 19.62% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,918 5,744 14,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 5 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 5 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 -8 328 £105,000 +5.00% 118
North of England -126 37 £87,500 +21.11% 34
South East -72 36 £60,000 -14.29% 37
North West -78 24 £95,000 +35.71% 19
Yorkshire -69 10 £61,750 -17.67% 7
East of England -12 9 £62,500 -19.35% 7
South West -59 8 £75,000 +50.00% 19
Midlands -67 8 £72,500 +7.41% 13
West Midlands -35 6 £72,500 -6.45% 6
North East -32 3 - - 8
East Midlands -63 2 £120,000 +84.62% 7
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
1 100 (23.20%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (22.51%) Apache Spark
3 50 (11.60%) Apache
4 8 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.16%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.16%) Confluence
6 4 (0.93%) IIS
6 4 (0.93%) Tomcat
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%) Palantir Foundry
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
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Actimize
2 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 289 (67.05%) AWS
2 152 (35.27%) Azure
3 118 (27.38%) GCP
4 64 (14.85%) Serverless
5 55 (12.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (12.76%) dbt
6 47 (10.90%) Amazon S3
6 47 (10.90%) Snowflake
7 36 (8.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 36 (8.35%) Datadog
8 35 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (8.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (8.12%) Power Platform
9 25 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (4.64%) GitHub
12 19 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.86%) Broadband
2 5 (1.16%) MQTT
3 3 (0.70%) DNS
3 3 (0.70%) HTTP
3 3 (0.70%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) 4G
4 2 (0.46%) 5G
4 2 (0.46%) AMQP
5 1 (0.23%) BGP
5 1 (0.23%) CTI
5 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.23%) LTE
5 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (20.88%) NoSQL
2 57 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (9.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (9.05%) Relational Database
6 38 (8.82%) Data Lake
6 38 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (8.82%) Tableau
7 35 (8.12%) BigQuery
8 34 (7.89%) MongoDB
8 34 (7.89%) Power BI
9 30 (6.96%) Big Data
10 29 (6.73%) SQL Server
11 28 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (6.50%) DynamoDB
12 27 (6.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (6.03%) Looker
14 22 (5.10%) Flink
14 22 (5.10%) Metadata
14 22 (5.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (11.83%) Jenkins
2 50 (11.60%) Git
3 49 (11.37%) GitLab
4 28 (6.50%) MLflow
5 24 (5.57%) CircleCI
6 16 (3.71%) JIRA
7 15 (3.48%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.09%) JUnit
9 7 (1.62%) Selenium
10 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.93%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.70%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.70%) Maven
12 3 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.70%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.46%) Mockito
13 2 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 172 (39.91%) Finance
2 106 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 56 (12.99%) Front Office
4 54 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (12.30%) Banking
6 23 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.32%) Law
9 9 (2.09%) Retail
10 7 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.16%) Billing
11 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.93%) Advertising
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
13 3 (0.70%) Games
13 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 131 (30.39%) Senior
2 128 (29.70%) Developer
3 84 (19.49%) Data Engineer
4 74 (17.17%) Lead
5 53 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 49 (11.37%) Java Engineer
7 35 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (7.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 33 (7.66%) Java Developer
9 32 (7.42%) Architect
10 30 (6.96%) Senior Developer
11 29 (6.73%) Lead Developer
12 26 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (5.34%) Python Engineer
14 23 (5.34%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
17 20 (4.64%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.17%) Spring
2 72 (16.71%) REST
3 69 (16.01%) RESTful
4 67 (15.55%) React
4 67 (15.55%) Spring Boot
5 64 (14.85%) RabbitMQ
6 59 (13.69%) Node.js
7 36 (8.35%) GraphQL
7 36 (8.35%) gRPC
8 33 (7.66%) Redux
9 24 (5.57%) scikit-learn
9 24 (5.57%) TensorFlow
10 23 (5.34%) LangChain
10 23 (5.34%) LlamaIndex
10 23 (5.34%) pgvector
10 23 (5.34%) PyTorch
11 22 (5.10%) PySpark
12 20 (4.64%) .NET
12 20 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.41%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 120 (27.84%) Cloud Native
2 80 (18.56%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.51%) Fixed Income
4 35 (8.12%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.34%) Clustering
6 17 (3.94%) Blockchain
6 17 (3.94%) Web3
7 16 (3.71%) Product Ownership
8 15 (3.48%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.25%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.02%) Distributed Architecture
11 12 (2.78%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.78%) e-Learning
11 12 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.39%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.87%) Linux
2 9 (2.09%) Android
2 9 (2.09%) Windows
3 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.93%) Unix
3 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (45.94%) CI/CD
2 170 (39.44%) Microservices
3 157 (36.43%) Agile
4 155 (35.96%) DevOps
5 127 (29.47%) Event-Driven
6 126 (29.23%) Software Engineering
7 117 (27.15%) Analytics
8 113 (26.22%) Data Pipeline
9 109 (25.29%) Containerisation
10 103 (23.90%) Data Modelling
11 99 (22.97%) Data Engineering
12 96 (22.27%) AI
13 95 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 81 (18.79%) ETL
15 79 (18.33%) Observability
16 75 (17.40%) Test Automation
17 69 (16.01%) Data Governance
18 67 (15.55%) Machine Learning
19 65 (15.08%) Computer Science
20 64 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 244 (56.61%) Python
2 196 (45.48%) SQL
3 180 (41.76%) Java
4 89 (20.65%) Go
5 66 (15.31%) TypeScript
6 65 (15.08%) JavaScript
7 31 (7.19%) C#
8 23 (5.34%) Bash
9 21 (4.87%) C++
10 20 (4.64%) Scala
11 15 (3.48%) Rust
12 7 (1.62%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.39%) Groovy
13 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.70%) Bicep
15 3 (0.70%) PHP
15 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 50 (11.60%) Degree
2 37 (8.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.26%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.18%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.71%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.89%) GDPR
3 23 (5.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (3.94%) QA
5 10 (2.32%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.86%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.93%) 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
1 150 (34.80%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 172 (39.91%) Kubernetes
2 106 (24.59%) Terraform
3 45 (10.44%) Prometheus
4 31 (7.19%) Grafana
5 27 (6.26%) Ansible
6 10 (2.32%) Argo
7 9 (2.09%) Istio
8 6 (1.39%) Puppet
9 5 (1.16%) Kibana
10 3 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.46%) Salt
12 1 (0.23%) Cilium
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) Icinga
12 1 (0.23%) Nagios
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (11.37%) Databricks
2 23 (5.34%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.34%) Dell
3 18 (4.18%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.25%) Confluent
5 9 (2.09%) Oracle
6 7 (1.62%) Solace
7 6 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.39%) Google
7 6 (1.39%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.39%) Pega
8 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.16%) Splunk
8 5 (1.16%) Talend
8 5 (1.16%) VMware
9 4 (0.93%) Ericsson
9 4 (0.93%) Nokia
9 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.93%) WSO2