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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 199 321
Rank change year-on-year -122 +122 -135
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 566 693 577
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.60% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 9.05% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 333 278 410
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,563 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +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 10,827 7,655 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.57% 17.72% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,913 5,073 9,652
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -36 360 £85,000 -19.05% 737
North of England -134 80 £75,000 +7.14% 146
North West -75 61 £75,000 +9.09% 95
South East -62 45 £67,500 -6.25% 73
South West -77 35 £85,000 +25.93% 53
Midlands -85 30 £85,000 +25.93% 31
West Midlands -43 29 £85,000 +51.11% 25
East of England -26 21 £72,500 -4.29% 21
North East -59 15 £62,500 +31.58% 15
Yorkshire -47 6 £72,653 -3.13% 36
East Midlands -77 1 £71,500 +5.93% 6
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
1 101 (17.84%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.54%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.77%) Apache
4 15 (2.65%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) Tornado
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 332 (58.66%) AWS
2 225 (39.75%) Azure
3 91 (16.08%) GCP
4 79 (13.96%) Serverless
5 69 (12.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (7.95%) Amazon S3
6 45 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (7.42%) GitHub
8 36 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (6.36%) Power Platform
9 34 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (5.12%) Snowflake
11 28 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (4.77%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (4.59%) Amazon Kinesis
13 26 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (4.06%) dbt
15 22 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.95%) MQTT
2 9 (1.59%) DNS
3 7 (1.24%) BGP
3 7 (1.24%) Internet
4 6 (1.06%) IPsec
4 6 (1.06%) Network Security
4 6 (1.06%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) 4G
5 4 (0.71%) 5G
5 4 (0.71%) HTTP
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) ATM
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (24.03%) NoSQL
2 91 (16.08%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (14.31%) MongoDB
4 58 (10.25%) Relational Database
5 49 (8.66%) Big Data
6 44 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (7.77%) Elasticsearch
7 42 (7.42%) Data Lake
8 34 (6.01%) Power BI
9 33 (5.83%) Redis
10 31 (5.48%) MySQL
11 29 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (4.59%) Hadoop
12 26 (4.59%) SQL Server
12 26 (4.59%) Tableau
13 25 (4.42%) Flink
14 23 (4.06%) DynamoDB
15 19 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (3.18%) Metadata
17 17 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 87 (15.37%) Git
2 77 (13.60%) GitLab
3 55 (9.72%) Jenkins
4 48 (8.48%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.00%) Selenium
6 15 (2.65%) JIRA
7 11 (1.94%) MLflow
8 8 (1.41%) Maven
9 7 (1.24%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.24%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.06%) JUnit
11 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.88%) Postman
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.35%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.35%) JMeter
13 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 187 (33.04%) Finance
2 125 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.60%) Banking
4 53 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.89%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.00%) Front Office
8 17 (3.00%) Retail
9 15 (2.65%) Marketing
10 12 (2.12%) Law
11 10 (1.77%) Military
11 10 (1.77%) Publishing
12 7 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.06%) Advertising
13 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.88%) Aviation
14 5 (0.88%) Games
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 184 (32.51%) Senior
2 118 (20.85%) Developer
3 99 (17.49%) Data Engineer
4 89 (15.72%) Java Engineer
5 81 (14.31%) Software Engineer
6 58 (10.25%) Architect
6 58 (10.25%) Lead
7 50 (8.83%) Senior Developer
8 47 (8.30%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.54%) Senior Java Engineer
9 37 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 36 (6.36%) Java Developer
11 34 (6.01%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.48%) Principal Java Engineer
13 30 (5.30%) Python Engineer
14 24 (4.24%) Backend Developer
15 23 (4.06%) Python Developer
16 21 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (3.53%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (30.39%) Spring
2 153 (27.03%) Spring Boot
3 116 (20.49%) Terraform
4 100 (17.67%) RESTful
5 93 (16.43%) REST
6 84 (14.84%) RabbitMQ
7 59 (10.42%) Node.js
8 46 (8.13%) React
9 39 (6.89%) .NET
9 39 (6.89%) PySpark
10 28 (4.95%) Swagger
11 27 (4.77%) OpenAPI
12 25 (4.42%) FastAPI
12 25 (4.42%) Keycloak
13 21 (3.71%) gRPC
14 19 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (3.36%) Middleware
15 17 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
15 17 (3.00%) Hibernate
16 16 (2.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.69%) Cloud Native
2 151 (26.68%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.72%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.07%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.89%) Onboarding
6 34 (6.01%) Product Ownership
7 30 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.65%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.47%) Replication
12 13 (2.30%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.94%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.77%) EPoS
14 10 (1.77%) Equities
14 10 (1.77%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.60%) Linux
2 7 (1.24%) Unix
2 7 (1.24%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (51.06%) CI/CD
2 258 (45.58%) Microservices
3 256 (45.23%) Event-Driven
4 243 (42.93%) Agile
5 200 (35.34%) DevOps
6 171 (30.21%) Software Engineering
7 168 (29.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 166 (29.33%) AI
9 147 (25.97%) Mentoring
10 131 (23.14%) Test Automation
11 130 (22.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 129 (22.79%) Containerisation
13 121 (21.38%) Data Pipeline
13 121 (21.38%) Observability
14 105 (18.55%) Analytics
15 96 (16.96%) Data Modelling
16 95 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (15.90%) Roadmaps
19 80 (14.13%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (48.76%) Java
2 238 (42.05%) Python
3 211 (37.28%) SQL
4 69 (12.19%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.95%) JavaScript
6 43 (7.60%) C#
7 34 (6.01%) Go
8 28 (4.95%) Scala
9 21 (3.71%) Bash
10 19 (3.36%) Kotlin
11 16 (2.83%) Groovy
12 12 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.94%) Rust
14 10 (1.77%) RPG
15 9 (1.59%) PHP
16 7 (1.24%) C
16 7 (1.24%) C++
16 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 6 (1.06%) Ruby
17 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 89 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.66%) Degree
4 56 (9.89%) AWS Certification
5 40 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (6.01%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (5.48%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.88%) PhD
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) MBA
11 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.35%) OCP
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.31%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.24%) QA
3 22 (3.89%) GDPR
4 11 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
8 2 (0.35%) Basel III
8 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (30.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 222 (39.22%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.60%) Prometheus
3 36 (6.36%) Grafana
4 20 (3.53%) Ansible
5 12 (2.12%) Argo
6 9 (1.59%) Rancher
7 7 (1.24%) Kibana
8 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.06%) Puppet
9 5 (0.88%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 3 (0.53%) Istio
12 2 (0.35%) Control-M
12 2 (0.35%) kaniko
13 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
13 1 (0.18%) Salt
13 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (10.95%) Databricks
2 57 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.77%) Oracle
4 25 (4.42%) IBM
5 22 (3.89%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.65%) Google
7 12 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.94%) Dell
8 11 (1.94%) Splunk
9 10 (1.77%) Cloudera
9 10 (1.77%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.24%) Confluent
11 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.06%) HP
12 6 (1.06%) SAP
12 6 (1.06%) Solace
13 5 (0.88%) Informatica
13 5 (0.88%) Talend