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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 316 194
Rank change year-on-year +51 -122 -67
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 422 496 782
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 0.87% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 4.10% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 251 316 660
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £52,375
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £136,250 £105,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £97,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -5.88%

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 6,267 12,107 11,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.13% 21.31% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,754 7,335 9,733
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,028
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.56% +1.58%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +52 314 £110,000 +15.79% 69
North of England +38 43 £70,500 +28.18% 27
South East -1 28 £70,000 +27.27% 35
North West +46 27 £82,500 +50.00% 19
Yorkshire +4 14 £71,000 +29.09% 7
South West +1 14 £76,250 +27.08% 13
Midlands +48 10 £72,500 +20.83% 8
West Midlands +46 6 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East of England +20 6 £80,000 +3.23% 1
East Midlands +16 4 £93,750 +70.07% 1
North East +14 2 £45,000 -26.09% 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 85 (20.14%) Apache Spark
2 56 (13.27%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (9.95%) Apache
4 10 (2.37%) Confluence
5 6 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 6 (1.42%) Appian
5 6 (1.42%) Mule
5 6 (1.42%) nginx
6 5 (1.18%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (1.18%) IIS
6 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.95%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.71%) JBoss
8 3 (0.71%) Luigi
8 3 (0.71%) SAS
8 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.47%) Traefik
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.24%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) Endur
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 282 (66.82%) AWS
2 132 (31.28%) Azure
3 98 (23.22%) GCP
4 41 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (9.48%) Serverless
6 35 (8.29%) GitHub
7 31 (7.35%) Amazon S3
8 30 (7.11%) Amazon Kinesis
9 27 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (6.16%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (4.98%) Power Platform
12 21 (4.98%) Snowflake
13 18 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (3.79%) SaaS
15 14 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (3.08%) OpenShift
17 10 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.42%) DNS
2 4 (0.95%) AMQP
2 4 (0.95%) HTTP
2 4 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.95%) VPN
3 3 (0.71%) FTP
3 3 (0.71%) MQTT
4 2 (0.47%) BGP
4 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.47%) DHCP
4 2 (0.47%) Firewall
4 2 (0.47%) ICMP
4 2 (0.47%) OSPF
4 2 (0.47%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.47%) RTMP
4 2 (0.47%) VLAN
4 2 (0.47%) WAN
4 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (20.62%) NoSQL
2 63 (14.93%) MongoDB
3 58 (13.74%) Big Data
3 58 (13.74%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (9.24%) Hadoop
6 33 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (7.58%) Relational Database
8 27 (6.40%) SQL Server
9 25 (5.92%) Metadata
10 21 (4.98%) DynamoDB
10 21 (4.98%) Redis
11 20 (4.74%) MySQL
12 15 (3.55%) Power BI
13 13 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (3.08%) Flink
14 12 (2.84%) Apache Hive
14 12 (2.84%) BigQuery
14 12 (2.84%) Oracle Database
14 12 (2.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (12.09%) Jenkins
2 37 (8.77%) Git
3 21 (4.98%) JIRA
4 18 (4.27%) GitLab
5 15 (3.55%) Selenium
6 12 (2.84%) JUnit
7 11 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.61%) MLflow
8 10 (2.37%) JMeter
9 9 (2.13%) Cypress.io
9 9 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.66%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.66%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.66%) git-flow
10 7 (1.66%) LoadRunner
11 6 (1.42%) Robot Framework
11 6 (1.42%) Snyk
12 5 (1.18%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 206 (48.82%) Finance
2 115 (27.25%) Social Skills
3 57 (13.51%) Front Office
4 56 (13.27%) Banking
5 53 (12.56%) Law
6 48 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (10.66%) Financial Institution
8 42 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.79%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.32%) Marketing
10 14 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.37%) Games
12 7 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Legal
14 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Billing
15 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 122 (28.91%) Developer
2 106 (25.12%) Software Engineer
3 72 (17.06%) Lead
4 69 (16.35%) Senior
5 51 (12.09%) Data Engineer
6 50 (11.85%) Java Engineer
7 40 (9.48%) Java Developer
8 37 (8.77%) Architect
9 34 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 31 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (6.40%) Kafka Engineer
12 26 (6.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 26 (6.16%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (5.45%) Lead Developer
14 21 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
16 17 (4.03%) Python Engineer
17 16 (3.79%) Kafka Developer
17 16 (3.79%) Lead Software Developer
18 15 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (25.83%) Spring
2 86 (20.38%) React
2 86 (20.38%) Spring Boot
3 68 (16.11%) RESTful
4 54 (12.80%) RabbitMQ
5 52 (12.32%) Node.js
6 51 (12.09%) GraphQL
7 50 (11.85%) REST
8 37 (8.77%) AngularJS
9 29 (6.87%) Redux
10 27 (6.40%) gRPC
11 24 (5.69%) .NET
12 20 (4.74%) Akka
13 18 (4.27%) RxJava
13 18 (4.27%) Spring WebFlux
14 16 (3.79%) JMS
15 15 (3.55%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (3.55%) Middleware
15 15 (3.55%) Pandas
16 14 (3.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 108 (25.59%) Cloud Native
2 95 (22.51%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.11%) Fixed Income
5 28 (6.64%) Algorithms
6 27 (6.40%) Data Structures
7 21 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (4.03%) Management Information System
10 15 (3.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (3.32%) FMCG
11 14 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (3.08%) e-Learning
12 13 (3.08%) Hedge funds
12 13 (3.08%) Public Cloud
13 12 (2.84%) Reference Data
14 9 (2.13%) Equities
15 8 (1.90%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.66%) AI Agents
16 7 (1.66%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.40%) Linux
2 11 (2.61%) Windows
3 9 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.66%) Android
5 6 (1.42%) Unix
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (46.21%) CI/CD
2 186 (44.08%) Microservices
3 182 (43.13%) Agile
4 158 (37.44%) Software Engineering
5 151 (35.78%) DevOps
6 90 (21.33%) Data Pipeline
7 78 (18.48%) Data Modelling
8 77 (18.25%) Event-Driven
9 75 (17.77%) Fintech
10 73 (17.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 72 (17.06%) AI
11 72 (17.06%) Analytics
11 72 (17.06%) Data Engineering
12 68 (16.11%) Containerisation
12 68 (16.11%) Machine Learning
12 68 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (15.88%) ETL
14 64 (15.17%) Test Automation
15 62 (14.69%) Computer Science
16 56 (13.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 234 (55.45%) Java
2 175 (41.47%) Python
3 135 (31.99%) SQL
4 67 (15.88%) TypeScript
5 62 (14.69%) Go
6 51 (12.09%) JavaScript
7 36 (8.53%) C#
8 25 (5.92%) Scala
9 20 (4.74%) Bash
10 18 (4.27%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.08%) C++
12 8 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.42%) Groovy
14 3 (0.71%) R
15 2 (0.47%) Perl
15 2 (0.47%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Rust
15 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.24%) Korn
16 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (11.14%) Degree
2 33 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.21%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.55%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.61%) PhD
8 5 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.58%) QA
3 18 (4.27%) GDPR
4 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) SEPA
7 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 121 (28.67%) Docker
2 10 (2.37%) HDFS
3 7 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 163 (38.63%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.14%) Terraform
3 28 (6.64%) Ansible
4 18 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.79%) Grafana
6 12 (2.84%) Argo
7 9 (2.13%) Kibana
7 9 (2.13%) Puppet
8 8 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.18%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.95%) logstash
11 3 (0.71%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.71%) Podman
12 2 (0.47%) Control-M
12 2 (0.47%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.47%) Mesos
12 2 (0.47%) Oozie
13 1 (0.24%) Icinga
13 1 (0.24%) Nagios
13 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 48 (11.37%) Databricks
2 33 (7.82%) Oracle
3 21 (4.98%) SAP
4 17 (4.03%) VMware
5 13 (3.08%) Google
6 12 (2.84%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.13%) Splunk
8 6 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.42%) Black Duck
8 6 (1.42%) Confluent
8 6 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.42%) UiPath
9 5 (1.18%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.18%) Coverity
9 5 (1.18%) Informatica
10 4 (0.95%) Dell
10 4 (0.95%) Ericsson
10 4 (0.95%) Mavenir
10 4 (0.95%) Nokia
10 4 (0.95%) Salesforce