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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 239 249
Rank change year-on-year -69 +10 -121
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 411 519 816
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.26% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.92% 5.68% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 273 348 673
10th Percentile £56,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £73,750 £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% -8.57%

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 6,947 9,143 15,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.90% 22.19% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,318 5,924 13,152
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,606 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +9.00% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -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 6 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 6 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 +1 302 £115,000 +9.52% 111
North of England -52 40 £72,500 - 34
South East -46 38 £63,750 +6.25% 40
North West -20 24 £95,000 +26.67% 18
Yorkshire -44 15 £70,000 -3.45% 12
East of England -4 8 £62,500 -19.35% 1
South West -36 8 £80,000 +45.45% 16
Midlands -20 7 £72,500 +11.54% 9
West Midlands -5 4 £72,500 +11.54% 6
East Midlands -32 3 £120,000 +84.62% 3
North East -14 1 - - 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 82 (19.95%) Apache Spark
2 72 (17.52%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (12.17%) Apache
4 8 (1.95%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.46%) Confluence
5 6 (1.46%) Mule
6 5 (1.22%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.22%) IIS
6 5 (1.22%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.97%) nginx
8 3 (0.73%) Appian
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.49%) CICS
9 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.24%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) TPMS
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.24%) Endur
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 273 (66.42%) AWS
2 115 (27.98%) Azure
3 102 (24.82%) GCP
4 51 (12.41%) Serverless
5 46 (11.19%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (11.19%) Amazon S3
6 38 (9.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 33 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (7.54%) dbt
10 29 (7.06%) GitHub
10 29 (7.06%) Snowflake
11 27 (6.57%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (4.87%) Power Platform
13 18 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (4.14%) Datadog
15 16 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.95%) Broadband
2 6 (1.46%) MQTT
3 5 (1.22%) HTTP
4 4 (0.97%) AMQP
4 4 (0.97%) DNS
5 2 (0.49%) BGP
5 2 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.49%) Firewall
5 2 (0.49%) Network Security
5 2 (0.49%) OSPF
5 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.49%) RTMP
5 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.49%) VLAN
5 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) WAN
5 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.49%) Wireless
6 1 (0.24%) 5G
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (18.49%) NoSQL
2 50 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (11.44%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (9.98%) MongoDB
5 37 (9.00%) Big Data
6 30 (7.30%) Relational Database
7 28 (6.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (6.33%) Redis
9 24 (5.84%) Tableau
10 22 (5.35%) DynamoDB
11 21 (5.11%) Data Lake
11 21 (5.11%) Metadata
11 21 (5.11%) SQL Server
12 20 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (4.87%) BigQuery
13 17 (4.14%) Power BI
14 16 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (3.89%) Flink
14 16 (3.89%) MySQL
15 13 (3.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (13.87%) Jenkins
2 50 (12.17%) Git
3 41 (9.98%) GitLab
4 18 (4.38%) JIRA
5 15 (3.65%) CircleCI
5 15 (3.65%) Cucumber
5 15 (3.65%) MLflow
6 11 (2.68%) JUnit
7 10 (2.43%) Selenium
8 9 (2.19%) JMeter
9 8 (1.95%) LoadRunner
10 7 (1.70%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.70%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.22%) git-flow
12 4 (0.97%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.97%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.97%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.97%) VisualVM
General
1 176 (42.82%) Finance
2 108 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 66 (16.06%) Front Office
4 50 (12.17%) Banking
5 36 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.08%) Telecoms
7 24 (5.84%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.68%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.19%) Law
10 8 (1.95%) Retail
11 7 (1.70%) Billing
11 7 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.46%) Advertising
13 4 (0.97%) Games
13 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.97%) Legal
13 4 (0.97%) Marketing
14 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (33.33%) Developer
2 102 (24.82%) Senior
3 67 (16.30%) Software Engineer
4 65 (15.82%) Data Engineer
5 62 (15.09%) Lead
6 44 (10.71%) Java Engineer
7 39 (9.49%) Java Developer
8 34 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (7.79%) Architect
9 32 (7.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (7.54%) Senior Developer
11 28 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (6.08%) Lead Developer
13 23 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (4.87%) Java Software Engineer
15 20 (4.87%) Lead Software Developer
15 20 (4.87%) Python Developer
16 18 (4.38%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (22.63%) Spring
2 77 (18.73%) React
3 76 (18.49%) Spring Boot
4 64 (15.57%) RESTful
5 63 (15.33%) REST
6 57 (13.87%) Node.js
7 55 (13.38%) RabbitMQ
8 47 (11.44%) GraphQL
9 37 (9.00%) Redux
10 34 (8.27%) gRPC
11 28 (6.81%) AngularJS
12 18 (4.38%) Pandas
13 17 (4.14%) .NET
13 17 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (3.65%) PySpark
15 14 (3.41%) CSS
15 14 (3.41%) Hibernate
15 14 (3.41%) JMS
16 13 (3.16%) OAuth
16 13 (3.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.06%) Cloud Native
2 84 (20.44%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.98%) Fixed Income
4 25 (6.08%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.38%) Data Structures
6 17 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 16 (3.89%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.16%) e-Learning
9 12 (2.92%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.68%) Blockchain
10 11 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (2.68%) Web3
11 10 (2.43%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.95%) Clustering
12 8 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.27%) Linux
2 13 (3.16%) Windows
3 10 (2.43%) Android
4 8 (1.95%) Unix
5 7 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (48.66%) CI/CD
2 181 (44.04%) Microservices
3 165 (40.15%) Agile
4 163 (39.66%) DevOps
5 121 (29.44%) Software Engineering
6 98 (23.84%) Data Pipeline
7 96 (23.36%) Event-Driven
8 87 (21.17%) Analytics
8 87 (21.17%) Containerisation
8 87 (21.17%) Data Modelling
9 85 (20.68%) Data Engineering
10 80 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 73 (17.76%) AI
12 69 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (15.57%) Computer Science
14 64 (15.57%) Fintech
15 61 (14.84%) ETL
15 61 (14.84%) Test Automation
16 59 (14.36%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 216 (52.55%) Java
2 213 (51.82%) Python
3 150 (36.50%) SQL
4 84 (20.44%) Go
5 71 (17.27%) TypeScript
6 64 (15.57%) JavaScript
7 32 (7.79%) C#
8 25 (6.08%) Bash
8 25 (6.08%) Scala
9 20 (4.87%) C++
10 11 (2.68%) Rust
11 8 (1.95%) Groovy
11 8 (1.95%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.70%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.73%) PHP
13 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.49%) Perl
15 1 (0.24%) R
15 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 49 (11.92%) Degree
2 42 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.06%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.49%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.35%) GDPR
3 20 (4.87%) QA
4 8 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.49%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (34.55%) Docker
2 7 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.22%) HDFS
5 2 (0.49%) NFS
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 155 (37.71%) Kubernetes
2 73 (17.76%) Terraform
3 38 (9.25%) Prometheus
4 32 (7.79%) Ansible
5 29 (7.06%) Grafana
6 12 (2.92%) Argo
7 7 (1.70%) Kibana
8 6 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.22%) Puppet
10 3 (0.73%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.73%) Istio
11 2 (0.49%) Control-M
11 2 (0.49%) logstash
12 1 (0.24%) Icinga
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (9.25%) Databricks
2 24 (5.84%) Oracle
3 14 (3.41%) VMware
4 12 (2.92%) Dell
4 12 (2.92%) Google
5 9 (2.19%) Splunk
6 8 (1.95%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.70%) Confluent
8 6 (1.46%) Pega
8 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.46%) SAP
8 6 (1.46%) Solace
9 5 (1.22%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.22%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.22%) Nokia
9 5 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.97%) Informatica
10 4 (0.97%) UiPath