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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 178 321
Rank change year-on-year -147 +143 -163
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 472 782 793
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.96% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 10.02% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 322 360 651
10th Percentile £55,725 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +8.06% -13.89%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -15.24%

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 8,806 7,807 18,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.50% 19.58% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,729 5,262 14,843
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -42 337 £100,000 - 71
North of England -149 51 £75,000 +9.09% 18
South East -63 43 £67,500 -6.90% 21
North West -89 42 £75,000 +11.11% 12
East of England -20 13 £72,500 +1.40% 4
South West -79 12 £85,000 +25.93% 13
Midlands -80 11 £87,500 +29.63% 4
West Midlands -44 9 £87,500 +34.62% 3
Yorkshire -46 5 £90,000 +12.50% 3
North East -50 4 £62,500 +31.58% 3
East Midlands -65 2 £71,500 +5.93% 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 99 (20.97%) Apache Spark
2 95 (20.13%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (10.17%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) Confluence
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.64%) Camunda
6 3 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.42%) CICS
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (64.62%) AWS
2 181 (38.35%) Azure
3 117 (24.79%) GCP
4 74 (15.68%) Serverless
5 66 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (12.29%) dbt
7 53 (11.23%) Amazon S3
8 47 (9.96%) Snowflake
9 41 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.05%) Power Platform
11 37 (7.84%) Datadog
12 33 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
16 23 (4.87%) GitHub
17 20 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (4.03%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.39%) MQTT
2 7 (1.48%) Broadband
3 6 (1.27%) Network Security
4 2 (0.42%) 4G
4 2 (0.42%) 5G
4 2 (0.42%) BGP
4 2 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) AMQP
5 1 (0.21%) CTI
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.21%) IPsec
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (21.61%) NoSQL
2 60 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (11.23%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (10.59%) Data Lake
5 49 (10.38%) MongoDB
6 45 (9.53%) Relational Database
7 43 (9.11%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (8.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (7.84%) Tableau
10 36 (7.63%) Power BI
11 35 (7.42%) Big Data
12 34 (7.20%) BigQuery
13 28 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
14 27 (5.72%) Snowflake Schema
15 26 (5.51%) DynamoDB
15 26 (5.51%) Looker
16 23 (4.87%) MySQL
17 22 (4.66%) Metadata
18 21 (4.45%) SQL Server
19 20 (4.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (13.14%) Git
2 61 (12.92%) GitLab
3 44 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.51%) Cucumber
4 26 (5.51%) MLflow
5 24 (5.08%) CircleCI
6 12 (2.54%) JIRA
7 8 (1.69%) JUnit
7 8 (1.69%) Selenium
8 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.06%) Maven
9 4 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.85%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.64%) JMeter
10 3 (0.64%) Postman
10 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.64%) WinDbg
General
1 181 (38.35%) Finance
2 102 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (10.81%) Banking
4 43 (9.11%) Front Office
5 15 (3.18%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.33%) Law
7 9 (1.91%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.91%) Retail
8 8 (1.69%) Advertising
9 7 (1.48%) Billing
9 7 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 2 (0.42%) Back Office
11 2 (0.42%) Games
11 2 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (28.60%) Senior
2 128 (27.12%) Developer
3 92 (19.49%) Data Engineer
4 67 (14.19%) Lead
5 65 (13.77%) Software Engineer
6 61 (12.92%) Java Engineer
7 53 (11.23%) Architect
8 36 (7.63%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.63%) Senior Developer
9 34 (7.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.36%) Lead Developer
12 29 (6.14%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (5.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 24 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (4.87%) Python Engineer
15 23 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
16 21 (4.45%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (21.82%) Spring
2 97 (20.55%) Spring Boot
3 71 (15.04%) REST
4 69 (14.62%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (13.35%) Node.js
6 61 (12.92%) RESTful
7 60 (12.71%) React
8 35 (7.42%) GraphQL
9 33 (6.99%) .NET
9 33 (6.99%) Redux
10 32 (6.78%) PySpark
11 27 (5.72%) gRPC
12 25 (5.30%) PyTorch
12 25 (5.30%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.30%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.87%) LangChain
13 23 (4.87%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.87%) pgvector
14 19 (4.03%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.60%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 143 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 83 (17.58%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.75%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.84%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.87%) Clustering
6 21 (4.45%) e-Learning
7 20 (4.24%) Product Ownership
8 19 (4.03%) Onboarding
9 17 (3.60%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.60%) Web3
10 14 (2.97%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.27%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.27%) EPoS
15 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.42%) Linux
2 8 (1.69%) Windows
3 7 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (46.40%) CI/CD
2 193 (40.89%) Microservices
3 182 (38.56%) Agile
4 155 (32.84%) Event-Driven
5 153 (32.42%) DevOps
6 144 (30.51%) Software Engineering
7 122 (25.85%) Containerisation
7 122 (25.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (25.21%) AI
9 111 (23.52%) Analytics
10 107 (22.67%) Data Pipeline
11 102 (21.61%) Data Modelling
12 98 (20.76%) Observability
13 91 (19.28%) Test Automation
14 90 (19.07%) Data Engineering
15 85 (18.01%) Mentoring
16 78 (16.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (16.31%) ETL
18 71 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 71 (15.04%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 261 (55.30%) Python
2 215 (45.55%) SQL
3 206 (43.64%) Java
4 79 (16.74%) JavaScript
5 75 (15.89%) TypeScript
6 73 (15.47%) Go
7 38 (8.05%) C#
8 22 (4.66%) Bash
9 21 (4.45%) Rust
9 21 (4.45%) Scala
10 18 (3.81%) C++
11 10 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.91%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.27%) Groovy
13 6 (1.27%) RPG
14 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.85%) Bicep
15 4 (0.85%) PHP
16 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 46 (9.75%) Degree
3 37 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.72%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) MBA
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) GIAC
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) SSCP
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.20%) GDPR
3 23 (4.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.81%) QA
5 10 (2.12%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.91%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (31.78%) Docker
2 8 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 184 (38.98%) Kubernetes
2 127 (26.91%) Terraform
3 49 (10.38%) Prometheus
4 35 (7.42%) Grafana
5 29 (6.14%) Ansible
6 10 (2.12%) Istio
7 7 (1.48%) Argo
7 7 (1.48%) Kibana
8 6 (1.27%) Puppet
9 4 (0.85%) Podman
10 2 (0.42%) Cilium
10 2 (0.42%) Salt
11 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (12.29%) Databricks
2 41 (8.69%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.87%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.87%) Dell
4 13 (2.75%) Confluent
5 12 (2.54%) Oracle
6 11 (2.33%) Splunk
7 9 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.69%) IBM
8 8 (1.69%) Solace
9 7 (1.48%) Google
9 7 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.27%) Talend
11 5 (1.06%) Pega
11 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.85%) WSO2