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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 195 307
Rank change year-on-year -124 +112 -172
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 446 709 762
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.80% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 8.99% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 301 377 641
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% +10.00% -16.20%

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 8,173 7,887 17,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.94% 20.02% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 5,548 14,129
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,531 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -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 20 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 20 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 -7 330 £100,000 - 123
North of England -149 45 £85,000 +15.25% 36
South East -60 39 £62,500 -13.79% 37
North West -94 31 £95,000 +33.81% 20
Yorkshire -52 11 £70,000 -12.50% 10
East of England -29 10 £67,500 -12.90% 2
Midlands -93 10 £87,500 +27.27% 5
West Midlands -54 9 £87,500 +12.90% 4
South West -76 9 £75,000 +11.11% 11
North East -43 3 - - 6
East Midlands -70 1 - - 1
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 97 (21.75%) Apache Spark
2 95 (21.30%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (11.21%) Apache
4 9 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.90%) Confluence
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
6 2 (0.45%) CICS
6 2 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Actimize
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 291 (65.25%) AWS
2 162 (36.32%) Azure
3 111 (24.89%) GCP
4 72 (16.14%) Serverless
5 59 (13.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (12.56%) Amazon S3
6 56 (12.56%) dbt
7 47 (10.54%) Snowflake
8 37 (8.30%) Datadog
8 37 (8.30%) Power Platform
9 35 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (7.40%) Amazon Kinesis
10 33 (7.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 32 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (4.71%) GitHub
14 20 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.47%) MQTT
2 7 (1.57%) Broadband
3 6 (1.35%) Network Security
4 3 (0.67%) HTTP
5 2 (0.45%) 4G
5 2 (0.45%) 5G
5 2 (0.45%) AMQP
6 1 (0.22%) BGP
6 1 (0.22%) CTI
6 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.22%) LTE
6 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (20.85%) NoSQL
2 58 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (10.54%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (9.64%) Relational Database
5 42 (9.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 41 (9.19%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (8.97%) Tableau
8 39 (8.74%) MongoDB
9 36 (8.07%) Big Data
10 35 (7.85%) BigQuery
10 35 (7.85%) Power BI
11 29 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (6.05%) DynamoDB
12 27 (6.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (5.83%) Looker
14 24 (5.38%) Metadata
14 24 (5.38%) SQL Server
15 23 (5.16%) MySQL
16 20 (4.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (13.00%) Git
2 53 (11.88%) GitLab
3 51 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.05%) MLflow
5 25 (5.61%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.04%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.91%) JIRA
8 9 (2.02%) JUnit
9 7 (1.57%) Selenium
10 5 (1.12%) Maven
10 5 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.67%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.67%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.45%) Mockito
13 2 (0.45%) Postman
13 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 180 (40.36%) Finance
2 103 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.88%) Banking
4 52 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.66%) Front Office
5 12 (2.69%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.47%) Law
7 9 (2.02%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.02%) Retail
8 8 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.12%) Billing
11 4 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.45%) Back Office
12 2 (0.45%) Games
12 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Digital Economy
13 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (28.70%) Developer
2 125 (28.03%) Senior
3 86 (19.28%) Data Engineer
4 71 (15.92%) Lead
5 61 (13.68%) Software Engineer
6 55 (12.33%) Java Engineer
7 43 (9.64%) Architect
8 36 (8.07%) Java Developer
9 33 (7.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (7.17%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (6.95%) Senior Developer
12 29 (6.50%) Lead Developer
13 25 (5.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (5.38%) Python Engineer
15 23 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (5.16%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
17 21 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (18.83%) Spring
2 78 (17.49%) Spring Boot
3 71 (15.92%) REST
4 69 (15.47%) React
5 63 (14.13%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (14.13%) RESTful
6 57 (12.78%) Node.js
7 35 (7.85%) GraphQL
7 35 (7.85%) gRPC
8 33 (7.40%) Redux
9 31 (6.95%) PySpark
10 29 (6.50%) .NET
11 24 (5.38%) scikit-learn
11 24 (5.38%) TensorFlow
12 23 (5.16%) LangChain
12 23 (5.16%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.16%) pgvector
12 23 (5.16%) PyTorch
13 21 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 125 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 83 (18.61%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (8.74%) Fixed Income
3 39 (8.74%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.16%) Clustering
5 20 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 18 (4.04%) Blockchain
6 18 (4.04%) Web3
7 15 (3.36%) e-Learning
7 15 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.14%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.79%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.35%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.61%) Linux
2 7 (1.57%) Windows
3 5 (1.12%) Android
4 4 (0.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (46.64%) CI/CD
2 182 (40.81%) Microservices
3 164 (36.77%) Agile
4 153 (34.30%) DevOps
5 135 (30.27%) Software Engineering
6 132 (29.60%) Event-Driven
7 111 (24.89%) Analytics
8 110 (24.66%) Containerisation
8 110 (24.66%) Data Pipeline
9 107 (23.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 104 (23.32%) AI
11 101 (22.65%) Data Modelling
12 94 (21.08%) Data Engineering
13 89 (19.96%) Observability
14 80 (17.94%) Test Automation
15 78 (17.49%) ETL
16 73 (16.37%) Mentoring
17 70 (15.70%) Data Governance
18 67 (15.02%) Machine Learning
19 63 (14.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 257 (57.62%) Python
2 199 (44.62%) SQL
3 190 (42.60%) Java
4 80 (17.94%) JavaScript
5 79 (17.71%) Go
6 71 (15.92%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.30%) C#
8 22 (4.93%) Scala
9 20 (4.48%) C++
9 20 (4.48%) Rust
10 19 (4.26%) Bash
11 8 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.35%) Groovy
13 5 (1.12%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.90%) Bicep
15 3 (0.67%) PHP
15 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 47 (10.54%) Degree
2 42 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.95%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) GIAC
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) SSCP
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.17%) GDPR
3 23 (5.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 16 (3.59%) QA
5 10 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (33.41%) Docker
2 8 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 176 (39.46%) Kubernetes
2 123 (27.58%) Terraform
3 45 (10.09%) Prometheus
4 28 (6.28%) Grafana
5 26 (5.83%) Ansible
6 9 (2.02%) Istio
7 8 (1.79%) Argo
8 6 (1.35%) Puppet
9 5 (1.12%) Kibana
10 4 (0.90%) Podman
11 2 (0.45%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) Cilium
12 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (12.78%) Databricks
2 34 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.16%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.16%) Dell
4 13 (2.91%) Confluent
5 9 (2.02%) Oracle
6 7 (1.57%) Solace
6 7 (1.57%) Splunk
7 6 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.35%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.35%) Pega
8 5 (1.12%) Google
8 5 (1.12%) Talend
9 4 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.90%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.90%) WSO2
10 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.67%) Tenable