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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 228 266
Rank change year-on-year -85 +38 -141
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 397 505 798
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.37% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 6.27% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 266 359 654
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £84,115 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.89% +5.14% -9.58%

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 7,162 8,048 16,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 21.86% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,452 5,950 13,789
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,975 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 25 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 25 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 -18 306 £115,000 +15.00% 123
South East -66 33 £60,000 -7.69% 31
North of England -92 29 £63,750 -11.45% 33
North West -56 15 £83,750 +24.07% 22
Yorkshire -49 12 £53,500 -27.46% 6
East of England -18 9 £62,500 -19.35% 9
Midlands -39 8 £72,500 +11.54% 5
South West -56 7 £75,000 +36.36% 16
West Midlands -6 4 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Midlands -42 4 £120,000 +84.62% 1
North East -27 2 - - 5
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 95 (23.93%) Apache Spark
2 86 (21.66%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (10.83%) Apache
4 8 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.26%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.26%) Confluence
5 5 (1.26%) IIS
5 5 (1.26%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.50%) Camunda
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Actimize
2 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 268 (67.51%) AWS
2 136 (34.26%) Azure
3 119 (29.97%) GCP
4 50 (12.59%) Serverless
5 48 (12.09%) dbt
6 44 (11.08%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (11.08%) Amazon S3
6 44 (11.08%) Snowflake
7 37 (9.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 36 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (8.82%) Power Platform
10 30 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (7.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (6.55%) GitHub
12 23 (5.79%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (5.54%) Datadog
14 18 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (4.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.02%) Broadband
2 4 (1.01%) DNS
2 4 (1.01%) HTTP
2 4 (1.01%) MQTT
3 3 (0.76%) AMQP
4 2 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) 5G
5 1 (0.25%) BGP
5 1 (0.25%) CTI
5 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (20.40%) NoSQL
2 64 (16.12%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (10.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (9.82%) Tableau
6 35 (8.82%) BigQuery
7 34 (8.56%) Big Data
7 34 (8.56%) Power BI
8 33 (8.31%) Data Lake
8 33 (8.31%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (7.81%) Relational Database
10 27 (6.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (6.55%) Looker
11 26 (6.55%) MongoDB
11 26 (6.55%) Redis
12 22 (5.54%) DynamoDB
12 22 (5.54%) SQL Server
13 20 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (4.79%) Metadata
15 18 (4.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (12.85%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.09%) Git
3 42 (10.58%) GitLab
4 28 (7.05%) MLflow
5 20 (5.04%) CircleCI
6 14 (3.53%) JIRA
7 13 (3.27%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.52%) JUnit
9 8 (2.02%) Selenium
10 6 (1.51%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.26%) git-flow
11 5 (1.26%) JMeter
12 4 (1.01%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.76%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (41.31%) Finance
2 107 (26.95%) Social Skills
3 62 (15.62%) Front Office
4 51 (12.85%) Banking
5 50 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.30%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.02%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.27%) Law
10 7 (1.76%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.76%) Retail
11 5 (1.26%) Advertising
11 5 (1.26%) Games
11 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.01%) Billing
12 4 (1.01%) Marketing
13 3 (0.76%) Legal
13 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 133 (33.50%) Developer
2 118 (29.72%) Senior
3 71 (17.88%) Data Engineer
4 63 (15.87%) Lead
5 54 (13.60%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.57%) Java Engineer
7 36 (9.07%) Java Developer
8 34 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (8.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 32 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (8.06%) Senior Developer
10 29 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (7.05%) Architect
12 25 (6.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (5.79%) Lead Developer
13 23 (5.79%) Python Developer
13 23 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
14 21 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (5.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (18.64%) Spring
2 71 (17.88%) React
3 62 (15.62%) REST
4 61 (15.37%) RESTful
5 60 (15.11%) Spring Boot
6 55 (13.85%) Node.js
6 55 (13.85%) RabbitMQ
7 43 (10.83%) GraphQL
8 35 (8.82%) Redux
9 34 (8.56%) gRPC
10 25 (6.30%) scikit-learn
10 25 (6.30%) TensorFlow
11 24 (6.05%) AngularJS
11 24 (6.05%) LangChain
11 24 (6.05%) PyTorch
12 23 (5.79%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (5.79%) pgvector
13 19 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (4.53%) .NET
15 16 (4.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 110 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 73 (18.39%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (10.33%) Fixed Income
4 31 (7.81%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.79%) Clustering
6 21 (5.29%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.78%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (3.27%) Blockchain
9 13 (3.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 13 (3.27%) Web3
10 12 (3.02%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.77%) e-Learning
11 11 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (2.02%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (2.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.05%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Windows
3 10 (2.52%) Android
4 6 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.51%) Unix
5 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (48.11%) CI/CD
2 163 (41.06%) Microservices
3 156 (39.29%) DevOps
4 152 (38.29%) Agile
5 116 (29.22%) Software Engineering
6 110 (27.71%) Analytics
7 103 (25.94%) Data Pipeline
8 100 (25.19%) Data Modelling
9 94 (23.68%) AI
9 94 (23.68%) Containerisation
9 94 (23.68%) Event-Driven
10 93 (23.43%) Data Engineering
11 77 (19.40%) ETL
12 74 (18.64%) Data Governance
13 71 (17.88%) Machine Learning
14 70 (17.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (17.38%) Full-Stack Development
16 65 (16.37%) Computer Science
16 65 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
17 60 (15.11%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 230 (57.93%) Python
2 180 (45.34%) Java
3 171 (43.07%) SQL
4 94 (23.68%) Go
5 64 (16.12%) TypeScript
6 59 (14.86%) JavaScript
7 28 (7.05%) C#
8 25 (6.30%) Bash
9 21 (5.29%) Scala
10 20 (5.04%) C++
11 13 (3.27%) Rust
12 8 (2.02%) Groovy
13 7 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.76%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.50%) PHP
15 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.25%) Perl
16 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 49 (12.34%) Degree
2 40 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.55%) Security Cleared
4 19 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.34%) Data Quality
2 38 (9.57%) GDPR
3 23 (5.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 19 (4.79%) QA
5 10 (2.52%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.02%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 131 (33.00%) Docker
2 8 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 149 (37.53%) Kubernetes
2 80 (20.15%) Terraform
3 41 (10.33%) Prometheus
4 30 (7.56%) Ansible
5 29 (7.30%) Grafana
6 11 (2.77%) Argo
7 9 (2.27%) Istio
8 5 (1.26%) Kibana
8 5 (1.26%) Puppet
9 4 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.76%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.50%) Control-M
12 1 (0.25%) Cilium
12 1 (0.25%) Icinga
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 48 (12.09%) Databricks
2 27 (6.80%) Dell
3 23 (5.79%) Cloudera
4 14 (3.53%) Oracle
5 13 (3.27%) Confluent
6 9 (2.27%) VMware
7 8 (2.02%) Splunk
8 6 (1.51%) Google
8 6 (1.51%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.51%) Pega
9 5 (1.26%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.26%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.26%) Nokia
9 5 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.26%) SAP
10 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.01%) Informatica
10 4 (1.01%) Solace
11 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft