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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 305 188
Rank change year-on-year 0 -117 -63
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 368 474 759
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.94% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.94% 4.33% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 243 300 628
10th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £136,250 £115,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -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 6,197 10,942 11,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.96% 21.66% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,776 6,574 9,315
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,700 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,158
% change year-on-year - -0.24% -1.28%

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 21 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 21 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 +17 267 £110,000 +15.79% 70
North of England +16 39 £75,000 +25.00% 18
South East +9 30 £70,000 +16.67% 30
North West +39 22 £95,000 +58.33% 11
Yorkshire -3 17 £70,500 +28.18% 5
South West -9 12 £72,500 +31.82% 10
Midlands +9 8 £72,500 +16.00% 3
East of England +12 6 £80,000 +3.23% 3
West Midlands +28 5 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands -13 3 £120,000 +117.69%
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 77 (20.92%) Apache Spark
2 47 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (11.14%) Apache
4 9 (2.45%) Confluence
5 8 (2.17%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.63%) Appian
6 6 (1.63%) Mule
7 5 (1.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (1.36%) IIS
7 5 (1.36%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.09%) nginx
9 3 (0.82%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.82%) JBoss
9 3 (0.82%) Luigi
9 3 (0.82%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.27%) SAS
10 1 (0.27%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.54%) Endur
2 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Actimize
3 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 240 (65.22%) AWS
2 115 (31.25%) Azure
3 75 (20.38%) GCP
4 46 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (10.87%) Serverless
6 35 (9.51%) Amazon Kinesis
7 34 (9.24%) Amazon S3
8 29 (7.88%) GitHub
9 28 (7.61%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (5.16%) Power Platform
13 18 (4.89%) Snowflake
14 16 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (4.35%) SaaS
15 14 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (3.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) AMQP
1 4 (1.09%) DNS
1 4 (1.09%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) MQTT
3 2 (0.54%) BGP
3 2 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
3 2 (0.54%) FTP
3 2 (0.54%) OSPF
3 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.54%) RTMP
3 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.54%) VLAN
3 2 (0.54%) VPN
3 2 (0.54%) WAN
3 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.54%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 56 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (14.67%) Big Data
4 52 (14.13%) MongoDB
5 49 (13.32%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (9.78%) Hadoop
7 29 (7.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (6.52%) SQL Server
9 23 (6.25%) Relational Database
10 21 (5.71%) Metadata
11 20 (5.43%) DynamoDB
11 20 (5.43%) Redis
12 16 (4.35%) MySQL
13 13 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (3.53%) Flink
13 13 (3.53%) Power BI
14 12 (3.26%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.72%) Apache Hive
15 10 (2.72%) Data Lake
15 10 (2.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (14.95%) Jenkins
2 31 (8.42%) Git
3 21 (5.71%) JIRA
4 17 (4.62%) GitLab
5 15 (4.08%) Selenium
6 11 (2.99%) JUnit
7 10 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.72%) JMeter
8 9 (2.45%) MLflow
8 9 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.90%) LoadRunner
10 6 (1.63%) Robot Framework
10 6 (1.63%) Snyk
11 5 (1.36%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.36%) git-flow
12 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.09%) VisualVM
General
1 153 (41.58%) Finance
2 102 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.67%) Front Office
4 42 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.41%) Financial Institution
5 35 (9.51%) Banking
6 19 (5.16%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.35%) Law
8 12 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.36%) Games
9 5 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Legal
10 4 (1.09%) Marketing
10 4 (1.09%) Retail
11 3 (0.82%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 108 (29.35%) Developer
2 67 (18.21%) Senior
3 62 (16.85%) Software Engineer
4 57 (15.49%) Lead
5 47 (12.77%) Data Engineer
6 37 (10.05%) Java Developer
7 36 (9.78%) Java Engineer
8 35 (9.51%) Architect
9 31 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (6.52%) Kafka Engineer
11 22 (5.98%) Java Software Engineer
12 20 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.62%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 16 (4.35%) Kafka Developer
15 16 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 15 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 15 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (23.37%) Spring
2 67 (18.21%) Spring Boot
3 66 (17.93%) React
4 54 (14.67%) RESTful
5 49 (13.32%) RabbitMQ
6 48 (13.04%) REST
7 43 (11.68%) Node.js
8 40 (10.87%) GraphQL
9 30 (8.15%) AngularJS
10 28 (7.61%) gRPC
11 21 (5.71%) Redux
12 18 (4.89%) Akka
13 17 (4.62%) .NET
14 16 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (4.35%) RxJava
14 16 (4.35%) Spring WebFlux
15 15 (4.08%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (4.08%) Pandas
16 14 (3.80%) JMS
16 14 (3.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 94 (25.54%) Distributed Systems
2 85 (23.10%) Cloud Native
3 34 (9.24%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.98%) Algorithms
4 22 (5.98%) Fixed Income
5 19 (5.16%) Data Structures
6 18 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.53%) e-Learning
8 13 (3.53%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.26%) FMCG
9 12 (3.26%) Hedge funds
10 11 (2.99%) Equities
11 10 (2.72%) Reference Data
12 9 (2.45%) AI Agents
13 8 (2.17%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.63%) Derivative
14 6 (1.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.52%) Linux
2 11 (2.99%) Windows
3 9 (2.45%) Android
3 9 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 168 (45.65%) Microservices
3 149 (40.49%) DevOps
4 140 (38.04%) Agile
5 100 (27.17%) Software Engineering
6 86 (23.37%) Data Pipeline
7 75 (20.38%) Data Modelling
8 74 (20.11%) Event-Driven
9 72 (19.57%) Data Engineering
10 67 (18.21%) Analytics
11 66 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 65 (17.66%) Containerisation
12 65 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (17.39%) AI
14 63 (17.12%) Computer Science
14 63 (17.12%) Machine Learning
15 60 (16.30%) ETL
16 55 (14.95%) Fintech
17 51 (13.86%) Low Latency
17 51 (13.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 194 (52.72%) Java
2 164 (44.57%) Python
3 111 (30.16%) SQL
4 53 (14.40%) Go
5 50 (13.59%) TypeScript
6 44 (11.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (7.88%) C#
8 26 (7.07%) Scala
9 17 (4.62%) Bash
10 10 (2.72%) C++
10 10 (2.72%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.17%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.90%) Groovy
13 2 (0.54%) Perl
13 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) Korn
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (13.32%) Degree
2 40 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.17%) PhD
7 7 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.54%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.34%) QA
3 17 (4.62%) GDPR
4 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
7 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 121 (32.88%) Docker
2 8 (2.17%) HDFS
3 7 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) NFS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 138 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.41%) Terraform
3 29 (7.88%) Ansible
4 16 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.80%) Grafana
6 12 (3.26%) Argo
7 9 (2.45%) Puppet
8 8 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.90%) Kibana
10 3 (0.82%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.82%) Podman
11 2 (0.54%) Control-M
11 2 (0.54%) logstash
12 1 (0.27%) Icinga
12 1 (0.27%) Istio
12 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.27%) Nagios
12 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 44 (11.96%) Databricks
2 26 (7.07%) Oracle
3 17 (4.62%) SAP
3 17 (4.62%) VMware
4 10 (2.72%) Google
5 8 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.90%) Splunk
7 6 (1.63%) BiZZdesign
7 6 (1.63%) Black Duck
7 6 (1.63%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.63%) UiPath
8 5 (1.36%) Blue Prism
8 5 (1.36%) Coverity
8 5 (1.36%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.36%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.36%) Nokia
8 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.09%) Dell
10 3 (0.82%) IBM