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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 211 317
Rank change year-on-year -99 +106 -134
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 555 672 577
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.57% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 8.80% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 336 270 422
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -17.65%

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 10,673 7,634 14,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.95% 17.78% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,933 5,045 10,133
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -23 364 £87,500 -12.50% 662
North of England -130 70 £75,000 +11.11% 100
North West -86 53 £75,000 +9.09% 53
South East -61 43 £67,500 -5.59% 69
South West -72 35 £85,000 +30.77% 48
Midlands -79 27 £85,000 +25.93% 23
West Midlands -30 25 £85,000 +41.67% 17
East of England -24 19 £72,500 -15.45% 10
North East -57 11 £65,000 +36.84% 14
Yorkshire -41 6 £78,500 -10.29% 33
East Midlands -72 2 £71,500 +5.93% 6
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
1 107 (19.28%) Apache Spark
2 66 (11.89%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (8.83%) Apache
4 15 (2.70%) Confluence
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.90%) Camunda
6 4 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.36%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 329 (59.28%) AWS
2 234 (42.16%) Azure
3 108 (19.46%) GCP
4 77 (13.87%) Serverless
5 72 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (7.75%) Amazon S3
7 40 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (7.03%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.85%) GitHub
10 33 (5.95%) Snowflake
11 30 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 30 (5.41%) dbt
12 27 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
12 27 (4.86%) Datadog
13 26 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.68%) MQTT
2 7 (1.26%) BGP
2 7 (1.26%) DNS
3 6 (1.08%) IPsec
3 6 (1.08%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) VPN
4 5 (0.90%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) 4G
5 2 (0.36%) 5G
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) Broadband
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (23.96%) NoSQL
2 85 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (12.79%) MongoDB
4 58 (10.45%) Relational Database
5 50 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (9.01%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (8.83%) Big Data
7 44 (7.93%) Data Lake
8 37 (6.67%) Power BI
9 34 (6.13%) MySQL
10 27 (4.86%) SQL Server
10 27 (4.86%) Tableau
11 26 (4.68%) Flink
11 26 (4.68%) Hadoop
12 25 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (4.50%) DynamoDB
12 25 (4.50%) Redis
13 24 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (3.24%) BigQuery
15 16 (2.88%) Looker
Development Applications
1 73 (13.15%) Git
2 71 (12.79%) GitLab
3 46 (8.29%) Jenkins
4 43 (7.75%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.06%) MLflow
6 16 (2.88%) Selenium
7 15 (2.70%) JIRA
8 12 (2.16%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.44%) JUnit
9 8 (1.44%) Maven
10 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.90%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.90%) Postman
11 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.72%) Mockito
11 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.36%) Gradle
12 2 (0.36%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 190 (34.23%) Finance
2 126 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 65 (11.71%) Banking
4 56 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.88%) Retail
9 15 (2.70%) Front Office
9 15 (2.70%) Marketing
10 12 (2.16%) Law
11 10 (1.80%) Military
12 9 (1.62%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.08%) Advertising
13 6 (1.08%) Games
13 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.08%) Publishing
14 5 (0.90%) Aviation
15 4 (0.72%) Billing
15 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (32.25%) Senior
2 115 (20.72%) Developer
3 100 (18.02%) Data Engineer
4 86 (15.50%) Java Engineer
5 75 (13.51%) Software Engineer
6 59 (10.63%) Architect
7 56 (10.09%) Lead
8 46 (8.29%) Senior Developer
9 44 (7.93%) Principal Engineer
10 35 (6.31%) Senior Java Engineer
11 34 (6.13%) Java Developer
11 34 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (5.59%) Python Engineer
12 31 (5.59%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (5.41%) Principal Java Engineer
14 23 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (4.14%) Backend Developer
14 23 (4.14%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (28.29%) Spring
2 140 (25.23%) Spring Boot
3 118 (21.26%) Terraform
4 96 (17.30%) RESTful
5 89 (16.04%) REST
6 85 (15.32%) RabbitMQ
7 53 (9.55%) Node.js
8 39 (7.03%) .NET
9 38 (6.85%) React
10 37 (6.67%) PySpark
11 28 (5.05%) Swagger
12 27 (4.86%) OpenAPI
13 22 (3.96%) gRPC
14 21 (3.78%) FastAPI
14 21 (3.78%) PyTorch
14 21 (3.78%) TensorFlow
15 19 (3.42%) Apache NiFi
15 19 (3.42%) Hibernate
16 18 (3.24%) Middleware
16 18 (3.24%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 186 (33.51%) Cloud Native
2 140 (25.23%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (10.09%) Public Cloud
4 39 (7.03%) Onboarding
5 36 (6.49%) e-Learning
6 29 (5.23%) Product Ownership
7 26 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.88%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (2.70%) Clustering
10 15 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (2.52%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.98%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.80%) EPoS
14 10 (1.80%) iSeries
15 9 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.39%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Unix
2 7 (1.26%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (49.37%) CI/CD
2 256 (46.13%) Microservices
3 236 (42.52%) Event-Driven
4 215 (38.74%) Agile
5 192 (34.59%) DevOps
6 169 (30.45%) AI
6 169 (30.45%) Software Engineering
7 162 (29.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 135 (24.32%) Containerisation
9 134 (24.14%) Mentoring
10 122 (21.98%) Data Pipeline
11 121 (21.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 120 (21.62%) Test Automation
13 115 (20.72%) Analytics
14 110 (19.82%) Observability
15 98 (17.66%) Data Modelling
16 90 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
17 88 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 84 (15.14%) Data Engineering
19 83 (14.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 263 (47.39%) Java
2 247 (44.50%) Python
3 217 (39.10%) SQL
4 60 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 53 (9.55%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.93%) C#
7 42 (7.57%) Go
8 24 (4.32%) Scala
9 19 (3.42%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.88%) Bash
11 12 (2.16%) Rust
12 11 (1.98%) Groovy
12 11 (1.98%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.80%) RPG
14 8 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.26%) C
15 7 (1.26%) C++
15 7 (1.26%) PHP
16 6 (1.08%) Ruby
17 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 68 (12.25%) Degree
4 51 (9.19%) AWS Certification
5 36 (6.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (5.59%) DV Cleared
8 29 (5.23%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.90%) PhD
10 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.72%) MBA
10 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.36%) OCP
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.89%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.23%) GDPR
3 20 (3.60%) QA
4 16 (2.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.54%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.54%) PSD2
8 3 (0.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (30.09%) Docker
2 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 212 (38.20%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.39%) Prometheus
3 31 (5.59%) Grafana
4 25 (4.50%) Ansible
5 12 (2.16%) Argo
6 9 (1.62%) Istio
7 7 (1.26%) Kibana
7 7 (1.26%) Puppet
8 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.90%) Podman
10 4 (0.72%) Cilium
11 3 (0.54%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 2 (0.36%) Salt
13 1 (0.18%) Control-M
13 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
13 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (10.81%) Databricks
2 57 (10.27%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.68%) Oracle
4 24 (4.32%) IBM
5 16 (2.88%) Dell
6 15 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 15 (2.70%) Google
7 14 (2.52%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.98%) Splunk
9 10 (1.80%) Confluent
9 10 (1.80%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.80%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.26%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.26%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.26%) Talend
11 6 (1.08%) HP
11 6 (1.08%) SAP
12 5 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.90%) Solace