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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 316 189
Rank change year-on-year +51 -127 -64
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 416 489 797
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 0.85% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.75% 4.05% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 247 310 674
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £51,625
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £136,250 £105,000 £98,438
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £97,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -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 6,164 12,079 11,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.07% 21.09% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,305 9,919
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,556 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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 2 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 2 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 +55 308 £110,000 +15.79% 103
North of England +39 43 £70,500 +28.18% 29
South East -10 28 £70,000 +25.00% 71
North West +48 27 £82,500 +50.00% 21
South West +1 14 £76,250 +27.08% 15
Yorkshire +1 14 £71,000 +29.09% 6
Midlands +45 10 £72,500 +20.83% 8
West Midlands +50 6 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East of England +25 6 £80,000 +3.23% 2
East Midlands +21 4 £93,750 +70.07% 1
North East +10 2 £45,000 -26.09% 2
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 85 (20.43%) Apache Spark
2 55 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (9.86%) Apache
4 9 (2.16%) Confluence
5 6 (1.44%) Apache Pulsar
5 6 (1.44%) Appian
5 6 (1.44%) Mule
5 6 (1.44%) nginx
6 5 (1.20%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (1.20%) IIS
6 5 (1.20%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.96%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.72%) JBoss
8 3 (0.72%) Luigi
8 3 (0.72%) SAS
8 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.48%) Traefik
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.24%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.24%) Endur
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 278 (66.83%) AWS
2 130 (31.25%) Azure
3 98 (23.56%) GCP
4 41 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (9.38%) Serverless
6 33 (7.93%) GitHub
7 29 (6.97%) Amazon Kinesis
7 29 (6.97%) Amazon S3
8 26 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
8 26 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (5.05%) Power Platform
10 21 (5.05%) Snowflake
11 17 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.85%) SaaS
13 15 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (3.13%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.44%) DNS
2 4 (0.96%) AMQP
2 4 (0.96%) HTTP
2 4 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.96%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.96%) VPN
3 3 (0.72%) FTP
3 3 (0.72%) MQTT
4 2 (0.48%) BGP
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.48%) DHCP
4 2 (0.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.48%) ICMP
4 2 (0.48%) OSPF
4 2 (0.48%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.48%) RTMP
4 2 (0.48%) VLAN
4 2 (0.48%) WAN
4 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (20.43%) NoSQL
2 61 (14.66%) MongoDB
3 58 (13.94%) Big Data
3 58 (13.94%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (12.02%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (9.38%) Hadoop
6 32 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (7.69%) Relational Database
7 24 (5.77%) Metadata
7 24 (5.77%) SQL Server
8 20 (4.81%) DynamoDB
8 20 (4.81%) MySQL
8 20 (4.81%) Redis
9 15 (3.61%) Power BI
10 13 (3.13%) Flink
11 12 (2.88%) Apache Hive
11 12 (2.88%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.88%) Oracle Database
11 12 (2.88%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 49 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.65%) Git
3 20 (4.81%) JIRA
4 17 (4.09%) GitLab
5 15 (3.61%) Selenium
6 12 (2.88%) JUnit
7 11 (2.64%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.64%) MLflow
8 10 (2.40%) JMeter
9 9 (2.16%) Cypress.io
9 9 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.68%) git-flow
10 7 (1.68%) LoadRunner
11 6 (1.44%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.44%) Robot Framework
11 6 (1.44%) Snyk
12 5 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.96%) VisualVM
General
1 204 (49.04%) Finance
2 113 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.46%) Front Office
4 54 (12.98%) Banking
5 53 (12.74%) Law
6 48 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (10.82%) Financial Institution
8 42 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.37%) Marketing
10 14 (3.37%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.40%) Games
12 7 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.96%) Legal
14 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Billing
15 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 119 (28.61%) Developer
2 106 (25.48%) Software Engineer
3 71 (17.07%) Lead
4 69 (16.59%) Senior
5 50 (12.02%) Data Engineer
5 50 (12.02%) Java Engineer
6 40 (9.62%) Java Developer
7 36 (8.65%) Architect
8 34 (8.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 30 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (6.49%) Kafka Engineer
11 26 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 26 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (5.53%) Lead Developer
13 21 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
15 17 (4.09%) Python Engineer
16 16 (3.85%) Kafka Developer
16 16 (3.85%) Lead Software Developer
17 15 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (26.20%) Spring
2 86 (20.67%) Spring Boot
3 85 (20.43%) React
4 66 (15.87%) RESTful
5 52 (12.50%) Node.js
6 51 (12.26%) GraphQL
6 51 (12.26%) RabbitMQ
7 49 (11.78%) REST
8 37 (8.89%) AngularJS
9 29 (6.97%) Redux
10 25 (6.01%) gRPC
11 22 (5.29%) .NET
12 20 (4.81%) Akka
13 18 (4.33%) RxJava
13 18 (4.33%) Spring WebFlux
14 16 (3.85%) JMS
15 15 (3.61%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (3.61%) Middleware
15 15 (3.61%) Pandas
16 14 (3.37%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 106 (25.48%) Cloud Native
2 94 (22.60%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.86%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.21%) Fixed Income
5 27 (6.49%) Algorithms
5 27 (6.49%) Data Structures
6 21 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (4.09%) Management Information System
9 14 (3.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.37%) FMCG
10 13 (3.13%) e-Learning
10 13 (3.13%) Hedge funds
10 13 (3.13%) Public Cloud
10 13 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.88%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.92%) Equities
12 8 (1.92%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.68%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.49%) Linux
2 11 (2.64%) Windows
3 9 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.68%) Android
5 6 (1.44%) Unix
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (45.67%) CI/CD
2 182 (43.75%) Microservices
3 180 (43.27%) Agile
4 157 (37.74%) Software Engineering
5 147 (35.34%) DevOps
6 87 (20.91%) Data Pipeline
7 77 (18.51%) Data Modelling
8 75 (18.03%) Event-Driven
8 75 (18.03%) Fintech
9 72 (17.31%) AI
9 72 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (17.07%) Data Engineering
11 68 (16.35%) Analytics
11 68 (16.35%) Machine Learning
12 67 (16.11%) Containerisation
12 67 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (15.63%) ETL
14 63 (15.14%) Test Automation
15 61 (14.66%) Computer Science
16 56 (13.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 233 (56.01%) Java
2 172 (41.35%) Python
3 132 (31.73%) SQL
4 66 (15.87%) TypeScript
5 61 (14.66%) Go
6 51 (12.26%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.17%) C#
8 25 (6.01%) Scala
9 19 (4.57%) Bash
10 18 (4.33%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.13%) C++
12 7 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.44%) Groovy
14 3 (0.72%) R
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.48%) Rust
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.24%) PHP
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (11.06%) Degree
2 32 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.64%) PhD
8 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.48%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.41%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.69%) QA
3 18 (4.33%) GDPR
4 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) SEPA
7 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 119 (28.61%) Docker
2 10 (2.40%) HDFS
3 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.48%) NFS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 160 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.06%) Terraform
3 28 (6.73%) Ansible
4 17 (4.09%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.85%) Grafana
6 12 (2.88%) Argo
7 9 (2.16%) Kibana
7 9 (2.16%) Puppet
8 8 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.20%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.96%) logstash
11 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.72%) Podman
12 2 (0.48%) Control-M
12 2 (0.48%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.48%) Mesos
12 2 (0.48%) Oozie
13 1 (0.24%) Icinga
13 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (11.54%) Databricks
2 33 (7.93%) Oracle
3 21 (5.05%) SAP
4 17 (4.09%) VMware
5 13 (3.13%) Google
6 11 (2.64%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.16%) Splunk
8 6 (1.44%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.44%) Black Duck
8 6 (1.44%) Confluent
8 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.44%) UiPath
9 5 (1.20%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.20%) Coverity
9 5 (1.20%) Informatica
10 4 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.96%) Dell
10 4 (0.96%) Ericsson
10 4 (0.96%) Nokia
10 4 (0.96%) Salesforce