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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 234 303
Rank change year-on-year -89 +69 -177
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 423 523 789
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.38% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 7.01% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 284 385 660
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,625
25th Percentile £74,688 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £97,500 £82,500 £76,585
% change year-on-year +18.18% +7.72% -14.91%

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 7,777 7,463 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 19.75% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,875 5,758 14,132
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,249 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +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 £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 2 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 2 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 -15 325 £105,000 +5.00% 122
North of England -100 36 £95,000 +31.50% 30
South East -67 33 £60,000 -14.29% 37
North West -52 23 £95,000 +35.71% 19
Yorkshire -70 10 £61,750 -17.67% 5
East of England -16 9 £62,500 -19.35% 7
South West -62 8 £75,000 +50.00% 18
Midlands -34 7 £72,500 +7.41% 13
West Midlands -23 5 £72,500 -6.45% 6
North East -39 3 - - 6
East Midlands -42 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 99 (23.40%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (22.70%) Apache Spark
3 49 (11.58%) Apache
4 8 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.18%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.18%) Confluence
6 4 (0.95%) IIS
6 4 (0.95%) 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%) NServiceBus
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 (67.14%) AWS
2 145 (34.28%) Azure
3 117 (27.66%) GCP
4 62 (14.66%) Serverless
5 55 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (13.00%) dbt
6 46 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 46 (10.87%) Snowflake
7 36 (8.51%) Amazon Kinesis
7 36 (8.51%) Datadog
8 35 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (8.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (8.27%) Power Platform
9 34 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (4.73%) GitHub
13 19 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
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 90 (21.28%) NoSQL
2 56 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (9.69%) 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 32 (7.57%) MongoDB
11 29 (6.86%) Big Data
12 28 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (6.62%) DynamoDB
13 27 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 27 (6.38%) SQL Server
14 26 (6.15%) Looker
15 22 (5.20%) Flink
15 22 (5.20%) Metadata
15 22 (5.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (12.06%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.58%) Git
3 48 (11.35%) GitLab
4 28 (6.62%) MLflow
5 24 (5.67%) CircleCI
6 16 (3.78%) JIRA
7 15 (3.55%) 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%) JMeter
13 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.47%) Mockito
13 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 172 (40.66%) Finance
2 103 (24.35%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.24%) Front Office
4 53 (12.53%) Banking
5 52 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.44%) 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%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (30.26%) Developer
1 128 (30.26%) Senior
2 83 (19.62%) Data Engineer
3 73 (17.26%) Lead
4 53 (12.53%) Software Engineer
5 49 (11.58%) Java Engineer
6 35 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (7.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 33 (7.80%) Java Developer
8 31 (7.33%) Architect
9 30 (7.09%) Senior Developer
10 29 (6.86%) Lead Developer
11 26 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (5.44%) Python Engineer
13 23 (5.44%) Systems Engineer
14 21 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (4.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (4.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.49%) Spring
2 69 (16.31%) REST
3 67 (15.84%) React
3 67 (15.84%) RESTful
3 67 (15.84%) Spring Boot
4 62 (14.66%) RabbitMQ
5 59 (13.95%) Node.js
6 36 (8.51%) GraphQL
7 35 (8.27%) 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 17 (4.02%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 116 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 76 (17.97%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.69%) Fixed Income
4 35 (8.27%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.44%) Clustering
6 17 (4.02%) Blockchain
6 17 (4.02%) Web3
7 15 (3.55%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.07%) Distributed Architecture
8 13 (3.07%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.84%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.84%) e-Learning
9 12 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.42%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.73%) Linux
2 9 (2.13%) Android
2 9 (2.13%) Windows
3 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.95%) Unix
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (45.63%) CI/CD
2 165 (39.01%) Microservices
3 153 (36.17%) Agile
4 152 (35.93%) DevOps
5 125 (29.55%) Software Engineering
6 124 (29.31%) Event-Driven
7 116 (27.42%) Analytics
8 112 (26.48%) Data Pipeline
9 107 (25.30%) Containerisation
10 102 (24.11%) Data Modelling
11 99 (23.40%) Data Engineering
12 92 (21.75%) AI
12 92 (21.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 80 (18.91%) ETL
14 76 (17.97%) Observability
15 73 (17.26%) Test Automation
16 69 (16.31%) Data Governance
17 66 (15.60%) Machine Learning
18 64 (15.13%) Computer Science
19 63 (14.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 242 (57.21%) Python
2 192 (45.39%) SQL
3 179 (42.32%) Java
4 89 (21.04%) Go
5 64 (15.13%) TypeScript
6 63 (14.89%) JavaScript
7 29 (6.86%) C#
8 23 (5.44%) Bash
9 21 (4.96%) C++
10 19 (4.49%) 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 48 (11.35%) Degree
2 36 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.78%) 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 34 (8.04%) 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
Systems Management
1 168 (39.72%) Kubernetes
2 103 (24.35%) Terraform
3 44 (10.40%) Prometheus
4 30 (7.09%) 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 49 (11.58%) 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%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) Talend
7 5 (1.18%) VMware
8 4 (0.95%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.95%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.95%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.95%) Nokia
8 4 (0.95%) Red Hat