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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 231 267
Rank change year-on-year -85 +36 -142
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 391 527 805
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.34% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.48% 6.02% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 263 362 662
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,297 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -9.58%

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 7,129 8,750 16,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.83% 22.24% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,440 6,072 13,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -8 293 £117,500 +17.50% 103
South East -39 38 £63,750 -8.93% 47
North of England -82 32 £70,000 -2.77% 33
North West -30 19 £95,000 +36.21% 15
Yorkshire -52 12 £53,500 -26.21% 13
South West -39 9 £75,000 +27.66% 16
Midlands -26 7 £72,500 +11.54% 14
East of England -6 6 £62,500 -19.35% 9
West Midlands -2 4 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Midlands -41 3 £120,000 +84.62% 9
North East -16 1 - - 5
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 81 (20.72%) Apache Spark
2 72 (18.41%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (11.25%) Apache
4 8 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.53%) Confluence
6 5 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.28%) IIS
6 5 (1.28%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.02%) Mule
8 3 (0.77%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.51%) Appian
9 2 (0.51%) Camunda
9 2 (0.51%) CICS
9 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.26%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Actimize
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
2 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 261 (66.75%) AWS
2 114 (29.16%) Azure
3 100 (25.58%) GCP
4 48 (12.28%) Serverless
5 45 (11.51%) Amazon S3
6 44 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (9.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 33 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (8.18%) dbt
10 30 (7.67%) Snowflake
11 29 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (7.42%) GitHub
12 24 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (5.37%) Power Platform
14 20 (5.12%) Datadog
15 18 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.05%) Broadband
2 5 (1.28%) MQTT
3 4 (1.02%) AMQP
3 4 (1.02%) DNS
3 4 (1.02%) HTTP
4 2 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) BGP
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) CTI
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.26%) OSPF
5 1 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) VLAN
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.18%) NoSQL
2 49 (12.53%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (8.44%) Big Data
5 32 (8.18%) Relational Database
6 30 (7.67%) MongoDB
7 28 (7.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (6.39%) Redis
8 25 (6.39%) Tableau
9 21 (5.37%) BigQuery
9 21 (5.37%) Data Lake
9 21 (5.37%) DynamoDB
9 21 (5.37%) SQL Server
10 20 (5.12%) Metadata
11 19 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (4.86%) Power BI
12 18 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (4.60%) MySQL
13 17 (4.35%) Flink
14 13 (3.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (14.32%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.53%) Git
3 42 (10.74%) GitLab
4 18 (4.60%) CircleCI
5 15 (3.84%) Cucumber
5 15 (3.84%) JIRA
5 15 (3.84%) MLflow
6 12 (3.07%) JUnit
7 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.79%) JMeter
7 7 (1.79%) Selenium
8 6 (1.53%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.28%) git-flow
9 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.77%) VisualVM
General
1 166 (42.46%) Finance
2 107 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.62%) Front Office
4 49 (12.53%) Banking
5 38 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.39%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.81%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.30%) Law
10 7 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.79%) Retail
11 6 (1.53%) Advertising
11 6 (1.53%) Billing
12 5 (1.28%) Games
13 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.02%) Marketing
14 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.77%) Legal
14 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 137 (35.04%) Developer
2 103 (26.34%) Senior
3 67 (17.14%) Data Engineer
4 62 (15.86%) Lead
5 60 (15.35%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.23%) Java Engineer
7 39 (9.97%) Java Developer
8 34 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (8.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 32 (8.18%) Senior Developer
10 29 (7.42%) Architect
11 27 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (6.14%) Lead Developer
13 23 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (5.63%) Python Developer
15 21 (5.37%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (5.12%) Lead Software Developer
17 19 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 16 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
19 15 (3.84%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (21.48%) Spring
2 74 (18.93%) React
3 66 (16.88%) Spring Boot
4 63 (16.11%) RESTful
5 62 (15.86%) REST
6 56 (14.32%) Node.js
7 52 (13.30%) RabbitMQ
8 46 (11.76%) GraphQL
9 37 (9.46%) Redux
10 33 (8.44%) gRPC
11 27 (6.91%) AngularJS
12 18 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (4.35%) .NET
14 16 (4.09%) Pandas
14 16 (4.09%) PySpark
15 15 (3.84%) OAuth
15 15 (3.84%) OAuth2
16 14 (3.58%) Hibernate
17 13 (3.32%) CSS
18 12 (3.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 75 (19.18%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (10.49%) Fixed Income
4 23 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.09%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 12 (3.07%) Blockchain
9 12 (3.07%) Web3
10 11 (2.81%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.81%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.30%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.30%) Clustering
11 9 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (2.30%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.42%) Linux
2 12 (3.07%) Windows
3 10 (2.56%) Android
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.53%) Unix
5 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (49.36%) CI/CD
2 168 (42.97%) Microservices
3 160 (40.92%) Agile
4 154 (39.39%) DevOps
5 118 (30.18%) Software Engineering
6 94 (24.04%) Event-Driven
7 92 (23.53%) Analytics
8 91 (23.27%) Data Pipeline
9 86 (21.99%) Containerisation
10 85 (21.74%) Data Modelling
11 79 (20.20%) Data Engineering
12 77 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 76 (19.44%) AI
14 68 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 65 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
16 63 (16.11%) Computer Science
17 61 (15.60%) ETL
17 61 (15.60%) Fintech
18 60 (15.35%) Test Automation
19 59 (15.09%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 208 (53.20%) Python
2 195 (49.87%) Java
3 155 (39.64%) SQL
4 86 (21.99%) Go
5 66 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 59 (15.09%) JavaScript
7 27 (6.91%) C#
8 24 (6.14%) Bash
9 21 (5.37%) Scala
10 20 (5.12%) C++
11 12 (3.07%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.79%) Groovy
13 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.51%) PHP
15 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.26%) Perl
16 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (12.02%) Degree
2 40 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.16%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.51%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.88%) GDPR
3 19 (4.86%) QA
4 9 (2.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.79%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (33.76%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.77%) HDFS
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 146 (37.34%) Kubernetes
2 74 (18.93%) Terraform
3 40 (10.23%) Prometheus
4 32 (8.18%) Ansible
5 29 (7.42%) Grafana
6 11 (2.81%) Argo
7 7 (1.79%) Kibana
8 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.02%) Puppet
10 3 (0.77%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.51%) Control-M
11 2 (0.51%) Istio
12 1 (0.26%) Icinga
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (8.95%) Databricks
2 18 (4.60%) Oracle
3 13 (3.32%) Dell
3 13 (3.32%) VMware
4 9 (2.30%) Cloudera
4 9 (2.30%) Splunk
5 7 (1.79%) Confluent
5 7 (1.79%) Google
6 6 (1.53%) Pega
7 5 (1.28%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.28%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.28%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.28%) Nokia
7 5 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.28%) SAP
7 5 (1.28%) Solace
8 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.02%) Informatica
9 3 (0.77%) IBM