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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 207 321
Rank change year-on-year -101 +114 -142
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 562 710 599
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.62% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.81% 9.44% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 346 298 459
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +17.86% -17.65%

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 9,665 7,520 13,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.17% 17.16% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,218 4,997 10,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -25 380 £90,000 -10.00% 104
North of England -124 64 £75,000 +11.88% 26
North West -84 49 £75,000 +11.49% 8
South East -48 46 £67,500 -6.90% 43
South West -67 33 £85,000 +30.77% 16
Midlands -82 21 £85,000 +25.93% 6
West Midlands -34 19 £85,000 +41.67% 3
East of England -29 17 £72,500 +1.40% 4
North East -56 10 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Yorkshire -32 5 £72,653 -3.13% 11
East Midlands -63 2 £71,500 +5.93% 3
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
1 118 (21.00%) Apache Spark
2 82 (14.59%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (9.25%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 348 (61.92%) AWS
2 235 (41.81%) Azure
3 126 (22.42%) GCP
4 78 (13.88%) Serverless
5 71 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (8.54%) Snowflake
7 45 (8.01%) dbt
7 45 (8.01%) Power Platform
8 43 (7.65%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (6.58%) GitHub
11 30 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (5.16%) Datadog
13 28 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (4.27%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.27%) MQTT
2 7 (1.25%) BGP
2 7 (1.25%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) DNS
3 6 (1.07%) IPsec
3 6 (1.07%) VPN
4 5 (0.89%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) ATM
6 1 (0.18%) Broadband
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.18%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (22.78%) NoSQL
2 78 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (11.74%) MongoDB
4 63 (11.21%) Relational Database
5 59 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (10.14%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (9.61%) Data Lake
8 50 (8.90%) Big Data
9 43 (7.65%) Power BI
10 35 (6.23%) MySQL
11 34 (6.05%) Tableau
12 33 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (4.80%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.63%) BigQuery
14 26 (4.63%) DynamoDB
14 26 (4.63%) Hadoop
15 25 (4.45%) Flink
15 25 (4.45%) Looker
15 25 (4.45%) Redis
16 24 (4.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (12.63%) Git
2 68 (12.10%) GitLab
3 42 (7.47%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.76%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.63%) MLflow
6 16 (2.85%) JIRA
7 15 (2.67%) CircleCI
7 15 (2.67%) Selenium
8 8 (1.42%) JUnit
9 7 (1.25%) Maven
10 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.53%) Mockito
13 2 (0.36%) WinDbg
General
1 209 (37.19%) Finance
2 127 (22.60%) Social Skills
3 68 (12.10%) Banking
4 67 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.69%) Front Office
7 19 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.20%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.85%) Retail
10 14 (2.49%) Marketing
11 12 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.14%) Law
12 10 (1.78%) Military
13 6 (1.07%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.53%) Games
15 3 (0.53%) Publishing
15 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (29.72%) Senior
2 123 (21.89%) Developer
3 103 (18.33%) Data Engineer
4 85 (15.12%) Java Engineer
4 85 (15.12%) Software Engineer
5 64 (11.39%) Lead
6 58 (10.32%) Architect
7 42 (7.47%) Principal Engineer
8 33 (5.87%) Senior Developer
8 33 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 32 (5.69%) Java Developer
10 31 (5.52%) Python Engineer
10 31 (5.52%) Senior Java Engineer
11 29 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
12 28 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (4.98%) Principal Java Engineer
13 24 (4.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (4.09%) Lead Developer
14 23 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (25.09%) Spring
2 124 (22.06%) Spring Boot
3 95 (16.90%) RESTful
4 81 (14.41%) REST
5 80 (14.23%) RabbitMQ
6 65 (11.57%) Node.js
7 54 (9.61%) React
8 39 (6.94%) .NET
9 38 (6.76%) PySpark
10 29 (5.16%) PyTorch
10 29 (5.16%) TensorFlow
11 27 (4.80%) GraphQL
12 25 (4.45%) pgvector
12 25 (4.45%) scikit-learn
13 24 (4.27%) LangChain
14 23 (4.09%) gRPC
14 23 (4.09%) LlamaIndex
15 20 (3.56%) Apache NiFi
15 20 (3.56%) Redux
15 20 (3.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 182 (32.38%) Cloud Native
2 128 (22.78%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (10.68%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.94%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.69%) e-Learning
6 25 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (4.09%) Clustering
7 23 (4.09%) Fixed Income
7 23 (4.09%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (2.67%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (2.31%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.78%) Blockchain
14 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.78%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.65%) Linux
2 9 (1.60%) Unix
3 8 (1.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (47.86%) CI/CD
2 240 (42.70%) Microservices
3 219 (38.97%) Agile
4 211 (37.54%) Event-Driven
5 189 (33.63%) DevOps
6 175 (31.14%) Software Engineering
7 172 (30.60%) AI
8 156 (27.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (24.20%) Containerisation
10 133 (23.67%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (22.42%) Mentoring
12 125 (22.24%) Analytics
13 114 (20.28%) Test Automation
14 111 (19.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 105 (18.68%) Data Modelling
15 105 (18.68%) Observability
16 93 (16.55%) Data Engineering
16 93 (16.55%) Machine Learning
17 92 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
18 85 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 275 (48.93%) Python
2 261 (46.44%) Java
3 232 (41.28%) SQL
4 72 (12.81%) JavaScript
5 71 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 60 (10.68%) Go
7 48 (8.54%) C#
8 22 (3.91%) Scala
9 19 (3.38%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.02%) Rust
11 14 (2.49%) Bash
12 11 (1.96%) C++
12 11 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.42%) Groovy
15 8 (1.42%) PHP
16 7 (1.25%) C
17 6 (1.07%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 87 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.28%) Degree
3 62 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.36%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 27 (4.80%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.89%) PhD
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) MBA
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.36%) OCP
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.92%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.94%) GDPR
3 24 (4.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.20%) QA
5 9 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.53%) NIST
8 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.53%) PSD2
8 3 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (29.89%) Docker
2 8 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 208 (37.01%) Kubernetes
2 130 (23.13%) Terraform
3 43 (7.65%) Prometheus
4 32 (5.69%) Grafana
5 29 (5.16%) Ansible
6 11 (1.96%) Istio
7 10 (1.78%) Argo
8 7 (1.25%) Kibana
8 7 (1.25%) Puppet
9 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.89%) Podman
11 4 (0.71%) Cilium
12 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 2 (0.36%) Salt
13 1 (0.18%) Control-M
13 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (12.46%) Databricks
2 56 (9.96%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.27%) Dell
4 23 (4.09%) Cloudera
4 23 (4.09%) Oracle
5 21 (3.74%) IBM
6 17 (3.02%) Google
7 13 (2.31%) Confluent
8 11 (1.96%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.96%) Splunk
9 10 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.25%) Solace
11 7 (1.25%) Talend
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe