Kafka Jobs in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 321 184
Rank change year-on-year +101 -137 -89
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 776 750 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.48% 0.83% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.69% 4.32% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 345 608 1,105
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £58,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £120,750 £141,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £73,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +11.86% -15.71% +6.06%

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 8,926 17,362 20,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.05% 19.30% 27.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,494 13,546 15,080
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £103,750 £108,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.77% +2.31%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in England.

Salary trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 14 July 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 14 July 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 +72 387 £100,000 +8.11% 220
North of England +123 188 £67,500 +12.50% 45
North West +90 172 £67,500 +12.50% 27
South East -1 80 £71,500 +30.00% 54
Midlands +139 73 £67,500 +12.50% 18
East Midlands +81 42 £67,500 +12.50% 3
South West +98 32 £65,000 - 15
West Midlands +72 31 £60,000 -20.00% 14
East of England +33 19 £71,500 -15.88% 6
Yorkshire +33 10 £111,386 +71.36% 17
North East +45 6 £47,500 -3.60% 1
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 126 (16.24%) Confluence
2 121 (15.59%) Apache Spark
3 80 (10.31%) Apache Airflow
4 60 (7.73%) Apache
5 7 (0.90%) Appian
5 7 (0.90%) nginx
5 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.77%) GemFire
7 4 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (0.52%) JBoss
7 4 (0.52%) Traefik
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.39%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Maya
1 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) Endur
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 584 (75.26%) AWS
2 370 (47.68%) Azure
3 226 (29.12%) GCP
4 93 (11.98%) Serverless
5 69 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (6.83%) OpenShift
7 43 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (5.54%) GitHub
8 42 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 35 (4.51%) dbt
10 32 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.87%) Power Platform
12 29 (3.74%) Snowflake
13 26 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (2.45%) SaaS
17 18 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.32%) HTTP
2 12 (1.55%) Network Security
3 8 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.52%) DHCP
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
4 4 (0.52%) ICMP
4 4 (0.52%) Internet
4 4 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.52%) VPN
5 3 (0.39%) FTP
5 3 (0.39%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.26%) Broadband
7 1 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (31.44%) SQL Server
2 130 (16.75%) NoSQL
3 108 (13.92%) MongoDB
4 64 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (7.60%) Big Data
6 53 (6.83%) Relational Database
7 48 (6.19%) Hadoop
8 45 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (4.90%) Apache Iceberg
11 36 (4.64%) Apache Ignite
12 30 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (3.87%) Apache Arrow
12 30 (3.87%) Dremio
13 29 (3.74%) MySQL
14 24 (3.09%) Data Lake
14 24 (3.09%) Redis
15 23 (2.96%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.71%) Power BI
17 20 (2.58%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 236 (30.41%) GitLab
2 229 (29.51%) JIRA
3 220 (28.35%) Selenium
4 213 (27.45%) Cucumber
5 209 (26.93%) Bitbucket
5 209 (26.93%) Maven
6 205 (26.42%) SonarQube
7 200 (25.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 66 (8.51%) Jenkins
9 62 (7.99%) Git
10 33 (4.25%) Artifactory
11 32 (4.12%) JUnit
12 20 (2.58%) CircleCI
13 16 (2.06%) Mockito
14 10 (1.29%) Postman
15 8 (1.03%) NUnit
15 8 (1.03%) Vite
16 7 (0.90%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.90%) Robot Framework
16 7 (0.90%) Snyk
General
1 495 (63.79%) Finance
2 323 (41.62%) Banking
3 312 (40.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (18.69%) Social Skills
5 122 (15.72%) Law
6 109 (14.05%) Retail
7 99 (12.76%) Investment Banking
8 90 (11.60%) Corporate Banking
9 64 (8.25%) Front Office
10 59 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
11 35 (4.51%) Financial Institution
12 23 (2.96%) Marketing
12 23 (2.96%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.84%) Games
14 14 (1.80%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.68%) Advertising
16 10 (1.29%) Retail Banking
16 10 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 399 (51.42%) Software Engineer
2 127 (16.37%) Lead
3 121 (15.59%) Developer
4 120 (15.46%) Senior
5 92 (11.86%) Java Engineer
6 77 (9.92%) Data Engineer
7 75 (9.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 64 (8.25%) Python Engineer
9 59 (7.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 52 (6.70%) Architect
11 48 (6.19%) Java Developer
12 47 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
13 46 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 41 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
15 39 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
15 39 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 25 (3.22%) Senior Java Engineer
18 24 (3.09%) Lead Developer
19 21 (2.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (44.33%) Spring Boot
2 342 (44.07%) Spring
3 314 (40.46%) React
4 225 (28.99%) Redux
5 213 (27.45%) CSS
6 212 (27.32%) HTML
7 205 (26.42%) JPA
8 164 (21.13%) RESTful
9 160 (20.62%) REST
10 120 (15.46%) Hibernate
11 105 (13.53%) Jest
12 96 (12.37%) HTML5
13 93 (11.98%) CSS3
14 90 (11.60%) Sass
15 73 (9.41%) RabbitMQ
16 66 (8.51%) AngularJS
17 59 (7.60%) Node.js
18 51 (6.57%) PySpark
19 49 (6.31%) GraphQL
20 46 (5.93%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 252 (32.47%) Product Ownership
2 204 (26.29%) Enterprise Software
3 127 (16.37%) Cloud Native
4 79 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (7.09%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.38%) Algorithms
6 34 (4.38%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.12%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.61%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.32%) Distributed Applications
10 18 (2.32%) Mobile App
11 16 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.93%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.93%) Reference Data
13 12 (1.55%) FMCG
14 11 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (1.29%) Replication
16 9 (1.16%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.61%) Linux
2 17 (2.19%) Unix
3 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (67.14%) Software Engineering
2 509 (65.59%) Agile
3 466 (60.05%) CI/CD
4 441 (56.83%) Microservices
5 408 (52.58%) DevOps
6 293 (37.76%) Test Automation
7 292 (37.63%) Containerisation
8 291 (37.50%) SDLC
9 266 (34.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 226 (29.12%) Performance Optimisation
11 210 (27.06%) Front End Development
12 198 (25.52%) TDD
13 169 (21.78%) Mentoring
14 143 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 127 (16.37%) Clean Code
16 119 (15.34%) User Experience
17 110 (14.18%) Migration
18 101 (13.02%) Analytics
19 99 (12.76%) Data Engineering
20 94 (12.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 542 (69.85%) Java
2 364 (46.91%) SQL
3 278 (35.82%) JavaScript
4 211 (27.19%) Python
5 166 (21.39%) TypeScript
6 104 (13.40%) Go
7 65 (8.38%) C#
8 34 (4.38%) Scala
9 24 (3.09%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.68%) Bash
11 12 (1.55%) C++
12 8 (1.03%) Groovy
13 7 (0.90%) R
13 7 (0.90%) Rust
14 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.39%) PROC SQL
17 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 73 (9.41%) Degree
2 50 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 47 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 44 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 34 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.16%) PhD
9 7 (0.90%) CISSP
9 7 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (27.58%) QA
2 99 (12.76%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.51%) GDPR
4 28 (3.61%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.19%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.68%) Def Stans
7 9 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 424 (54.64%) Docker
2 9 (1.16%) HDFS
3 8 (1.03%) Apache Flume
4 7 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 503 (64.82%) Kubernetes
2 140 (18.04%) Terraform
3 38 (4.90%) Prometheus
4 32 (4.12%) Grafana
5 21 (2.71%) Ansible
6 13 (1.68%) Argo
7 8 (1.03%) Mesos
7 8 (1.03%) Oozie
8 7 (0.90%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
9 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.64%) Kibana
11 4 (0.52%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.52%) logstash
11 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.39%) Packer
13 2 (0.26%) Podman
13 2 (0.26%) Puppet
14 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 203 (26.16%) Solace
2 55 (7.09%) Databricks
3 48 (6.19%) Oracle
4 45 (5.80%) Google
5 39 (5.03%) Microsoft
6 23 (2.96%) VMware
7 16 (2.06%) Splunk
8 12 (1.55%) Confluent
9 10 (1.29%) Apple
9 10 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.29%) SAP
10 7 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
10 7 (0.90%) Black Duck
10 7 (0.90%) Cloudera
10 7 (0.90%) Okta
10 7 (0.90%) UiPath
11 6 (0.77%) Informatica
11 6 (0.77%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.64%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.64%) CA Agile Central