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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 225 290
Rank change year-on-year -99 +65 -169
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 424 535 796
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.43% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.47% 7.03% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 283 387 659
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £74,375 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.23% -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 7,758 7,615 16,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 20.37% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,870 5,860 14,094
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,544
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 24 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 24 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 -13 325 £115,000 +15.00% 87
North of England -99 35 £87,500 +23.25% 14
South East -88 33 £60,000 -14.29% 31
North West -59 22 £95,000 +40.74% 10
Yorkshire -70 10 £61,750 -17.67%
East of England -40 9 £62,500 -19.35% 5
Midlands -38 8 £72,500 +7.41% 4
South West -71 7 £75,000 +57.89% 13
West Midlands -19 4 £72,500 -6.45% 4
East Midlands -56 4 £120,000 +84.62%
North East -36 3 - - 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
1 100 (23.58%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (22.88%) Apache Spark
3 51 (12.03%) Apache
4 8 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 6 (1.42%) Confluence
6 5 (1.18%) IIS
6 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
7 2 (0.47%) CICS
7 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 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
1 284 (66.98%) AWS
2 145 (34.20%) Azure
3 117 (27.59%) GCP
4 60 (14.15%) Serverless
5 55 (12.97%) dbt
6 48 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (11.08%) Snowflake
8 43 (10.14%) Amazon S3
9 38 (8.96%) Amazon Kinesis
10 37 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (8.25%) Power Platform
12 34 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (7.55%) Datadog
14 23 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (4.48%) GitHub
17 17 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.89%) Broadband
2 4 (0.94%) DNS
2 4 (0.94%) MQTT
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 86 (20.28%) NoSQL
2 58 (13.68%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (9.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (9.43%) Relational Database
6 38 (8.96%) Tableau
7 36 (8.49%) Data Lake
7 36 (8.49%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (8.25%) BigQuery
9 34 (8.02%) Power BI
10 33 (7.78%) Big Data
11 31 (7.31%) MongoDB
12 28 (6.60%) SQL Server
13 27 (6.37%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (6.13%) DynamoDB
14 26 (6.13%) Looker
15 23 (5.42%) Redis
16 22 (5.19%) Flink
16 22 (5.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (11.79%) Git
1 50 (11.79%) Jenkins
2 45 (10.61%) GitLab
3 28 (6.60%) MLflow
4 22 (5.19%) CircleCI
5 17 (4.01%) JIRA
6 13 (3.07%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.12%) JUnit
8 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.42%) Selenium
9 5 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.94%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.71%) Maven
11 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.71%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.47%) JMeter
12 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.47%) Mockito
12 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 169 (39.86%) Finance
2 104 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 58 (13.68%) Front Office
4 53 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (12.03%) Banking
6 26 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.59%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.36%) Law
9 9 (2.12%) Retail
10 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.18%) Billing
12 4 (0.94%) Advertising
12 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.94%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
14 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 129 (30.42%) Developer
2 127 (29.95%) Senior
3 84 (19.81%) Data Engineer
4 74 (17.45%) Lead
5 53 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 44 (10.38%) Java Engineer
7 36 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (8.25%) Java Developer
9 32 (7.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (7.08%) Architect
11 29 (6.84%) Lead Developer
11 29 (6.84%) Senior Developer
12 26 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.66%) Python Engineer
15 23 (5.42%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (4.95%) Python Developer
17 21 (4.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.69%) Spring
2 70 (16.51%) REST
3 69 (16.27%) React
4 67 (15.80%) RESTful
5 66 (15.57%) Spring Boot
6 61 (14.39%) Node.js
7 57 (13.44%) RabbitMQ
8 39 (9.20%) GraphQL
9 35 (8.25%) gRPC
10 33 (7.78%) Redux
11 24 (5.66%) scikit-learn
11 24 (5.66%) TensorFlow
12 23 (5.42%) LangChain
12 23 (5.42%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.42%) pgvector
12 23 (5.42%) PyTorch
13 20 (4.72%) AngularJS
13 20 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (4.72%) PySpark
14 17 (4.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (26.89%) Cloud Native
2 78 (18.40%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.67%) Fixed Income
4 33 (7.78%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.42%) Clustering
6 15 (3.54%) Blockchain
6 15 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.54%) Distributed Architecture
6 15 (3.54%) Web3
7 14 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.07%) AI Agents
8 13 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.59%) e-Learning
9 11 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.19%) Linux
2 11 (2.59%) Windows
3 10 (2.36%) Android
4 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.94%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 164 (38.68%) Microservices
3 153 (36.08%) Agile
3 153 (36.08%) DevOps
4 122 (28.77%) Software Engineering
5 118 (27.83%) Event-Driven
6 115 (27.12%) Analytics
7 113 (26.65%) Data Pipeline
8 106 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 102 (24.06%) Data Engineering
10 100 (23.58%) Data Modelling
11 93 (21.93%) AI
12 84 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 80 (18.87%) ETL
14 72 (16.98%) Observability
15 69 (16.27%) Data Governance
15 69 (16.27%) Machine Learning
16 68 (16.04%) Computer Science
16 68 (16.04%) Test Automation
17 62 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 245 (57.78%) Python
2 192 (45.28%) SQL
3 182 (42.92%) Java
4 92 (21.70%) Go
5 63 (14.86%) TypeScript
6 62 (14.62%) JavaScript
7 29 (6.84%) C#
8 25 (5.90%) Bash
9 21 (4.95%) C++
9 21 (4.95%) Scala
10 14 (3.30%) Rust
11 7 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.42%) Groovy
12 6 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.71%) PHP
13 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.47%) Bicep
15 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (12.03%) Degree
2 39 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.90%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.39%) Data Quality
2 36 (8.49%) GDPR
3 23 (5.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.54%) QA
5 10 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.94%) 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
1 149 (35.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 98 (23.11%) Terraform
3 43 (10.14%) Prometheus
4 30 (7.08%) Grafana
5 28 (6.60%) Ansible
6 11 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (2.12%) Istio
8 6 (1.42%) Puppet
9 5 (1.18%) Kibana
10 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.47%) Salt
12 1 (0.24%) Cilium
12 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.24%) Icinga
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (11.08%) Databricks
2 23 (5.42%) Cloudera
2 23 (5.42%) Dell
3 14 (3.30%) Confluent
4 12 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.36%) Oracle
6 6 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.42%) Google
6 6 (1.42%) Pega
6 6 (1.42%) Solace
6 6 (1.42%) VMware
7 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.18%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.18%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.18%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.18%) Nokia
7 5 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.18%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) Talend