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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 204 313
Rank change year-on-year -103 +109 -143
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 572 717 607
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.64% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.94% 9.42% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 352 305 470
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,500 £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 £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £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 9,628 7,612 13,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.25% 17.43% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,214 5,078 10,213
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,213 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
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 £112,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

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 12 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 12 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 -27 392 £90,000 -7.69% 678
North of England -141 63 £75,000 +11.88% 83
North West -98 49 £75,000 +11.11% 40
South East -54 47 £67,500 -6.90% 71
South West -63 32 £85,000 +30.77% 40
Midlands -71 20 £85,000 +25.93% 27
West Midlands -32 18 £85,000 +41.67% 20
East of England -31 17 £72,500 +1.40% 8
North East -51 10 £65,000 +36.84% 15
Yorkshire -30 4 £66,805 -10.93% 28
East Midlands -60 2 £71,500 +5.93% 7
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
1 125 (21.85%) Apache Spark
2 90 (15.73%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (9.27%) Apache
4 15 (2.62%) Confluence
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.70%) Camunda
7 3 (0.52%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) Tornado
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 359 (62.76%) AWS
2 232 (40.56%) Azure
3 134 (23.43%) GCP
4 80 (13.99%) Serverless
5 71 (12.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (9.09%) dbt
7 50 (8.74%) Snowflake
8 45 (7.87%) Amazon S3
8 45 (7.87%) Power Platform
9 40 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (5.94%) GitHub
12 30 (5.24%) Amazon Kinesis
12 30 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
12 30 (5.24%) Datadog
13 29 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (4.37%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
17 21 (3.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.20%) MQTT
2 7 (1.22%) BGP
2 7 (1.22%) Network Security
3 6 (1.05%) Broadband
3 6 (1.05%) DNS
3 6 (1.05%) IPsec
3 6 (1.05%) VPN
4 5 (0.87%) Internet
5 2 (0.35%) 4G
5 2 (0.35%) 5G
5 2 (0.35%) AMQP
5 2 (0.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.17%) ATM
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.17%) HTTP
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) LTE
6 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (22.38%) NoSQL
2 74 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (11.19%) MongoDB
4 62 (10.84%) Relational Database
5 60 (10.49%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (9.97%) Elasticsearch
7 55 (9.62%) Data Lake
8 50 (8.74%) Big Data
9 43 (7.52%) Power BI
10 34 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 34 (5.94%) Tableau
11 32 (5.59%) MySQL
12 31 (5.42%) BigQuery
13 27 (4.72%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.55%) Flink
14 26 (4.55%) Hadoop
14 26 (4.55%) Looker
14 26 (4.55%) Redis
15 25 (4.37%) DynamoDB
16 24 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 73 (12.76%) Git
2 71 (12.41%) GitLab
3 41 (7.17%) Jenkins
4 37 (6.47%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.55%) MLflow
6 16 (2.80%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.80%) JIRA
7 15 (2.62%) Selenium
8 8 (1.40%) JUnit
9 7 (1.22%) Maven
10 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.87%) Postman
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.70%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.52%) Mockito
13 2 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 216 (37.76%) Finance
2 130 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 69 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.89%) Banking
5 42 (7.34%) Front Office
6 34 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.97%) Law
9 16 (2.80%) Retail
10 14 (2.45%) Marketing
11 13 (2.27%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.75%) Military
13 8 (1.40%) Advertising
14 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Billing
16 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.52%) Publishing
17 3 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (29.02%) Senior
2 133 (23.25%) Developer
3 109 (19.06%) Data Engineer
4 88 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 86 (15.03%) Java Engineer
6 70 (12.24%) Lead
7 58 (10.14%) Architect
8 42 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.47%) Java Developer
10 34 (5.94%) Senior Developer
11 33 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.42%) Python Engineer
13 30 (5.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 30 (5.24%) Senior Java Engineer
14 29 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (4.90%) Lead Developer
15 28 (4.90%) Principal Java Engineer
15 28 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 23 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.48%) Spring
2 125 (21.85%) Spring Boot
3 91 (15.91%) RESTful
4 80 (13.99%) REST
5 77 (13.46%) RabbitMQ
6 71 (12.41%) Node.js
7 61 (10.66%) React
8 38 (6.64%) .NET
8 38 (6.64%) PySpark
9 35 (6.12%) GraphQL
10 29 (5.07%) PyTorch
10 29 (5.07%) TensorFlow
11 28 (4.90%) Redux
12 25 (4.37%) pgvector
12 25 (4.37%) scikit-learn
13 24 (4.20%) gRPC
13 24 (4.20%) LangChain
14 23 (4.02%) LlamaIndex
15 20 (3.50%) Apache NiFi
15 20 (3.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 180 (31.47%) Cloud Native
2 123 (21.50%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.31%) Public Cloud
4 39 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 33 (5.77%) Fixed Income
6 31 (5.42%) e-Learning
7 25 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (4.37%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.02%) Clustering
9 21 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (3.15%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.27%) AI Agents
12 13 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.92%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.92%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.92%) Web3
15 10 (1.75%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.69%) Linux
2 10 (1.75%) Windows
3 9 (1.57%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (47.03%) CI/CD
2 239 (41.78%) Microservices
3 229 (40.03%) Agile
4 206 (36.01%) Event-Driven
5 190 (33.22%) DevOps
6 178 (31.12%) Software Engineering
7 173 (30.24%) AI
8 152 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 140 (24.48%) Data Pipeline
10 139 (24.30%) Containerisation
11 131 (22.90%) Analytics
12 122 (21.33%) Mentoring
13 115 (20.10%) Test Automation
14 114 (19.93%) Data Modelling
15 108 (18.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 106 (18.53%) Observability
17 101 (17.66%) Data Engineering
18 95 (16.61%) Machine Learning
19 91 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
20 89 (15.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 289 (50.52%) Python
2 273 (47.73%) Java
3 242 (42.31%) SQL
4 81 (14.16%) JavaScript
5 77 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 68 (11.89%) Go
7 48 (8.39%) C#
8 27 (4.72%) Scala
9 19 (3.32%) Rust
10 18 (3.15%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.97%) C++
12 13 (2.27%) Bash
13 11 (1.92%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.75%) RPG
15 9 (1.57%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.40%) Groovy
16 8 (1.40%) PHP
17 7 (1.22%) C
18 6 (1.05%) Ruby
19 4 (0.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 87 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.59%) Degree
3 62 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 46 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 34 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (5.07%) DV Cleared
8 26 (4.55%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.87%) PhD
10 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.70%) MBA
10 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.35%) OCP
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) GIAC
13 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.82%) GDPR
3 24 (4.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 19 (3.32%) QA
5 9 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.52%) NIST
8 3 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.52%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) SEPA
9 1 (0.17%) SLA
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (29.20%) Docker
2 8 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 208 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 130 (22.73%) Terraform
3 45 (7.87%) Prometheus
4 33 (5.77%) Grafana
5 29 (5.07%) Ansible
6 10 (1.75%) Istio
7 9 (1.57%) Argo
8 7 (1.22%) Kibana
8 7 (1.22%) Puppet
9 6 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.87%) Podman
11 3 (0.52%) Cilium
12 2 (0.35%) kaniko
12 2 (0.35%) Salt
13 1 (0.17%) Control-M
13 1 (0.17%) logstash
13 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (12.41%) Databricks
2 55 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.20%) Dell
4 23 (4.02%) Cloudera
4 23 (4.02%) Oracle
5 21 (3.67%) IBM
6 17 (2.97%) Google
7 14 (2.45%) Confluent
8 11 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.92%) Splunk
9 9 (1.57%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.22%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.22%) Solace
10 7 (1.22%) Talend
11 6 (1.05%) HP
11 6 (1.05%) SAP
12 5 (0.87%) Informatica
13 4 (0.70%) Adobe