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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 198 322
Rank change year-on-year -130 +124 -127
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 561 671 518
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.58% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 9.14% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 334 259 349
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.14% -12.12%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £114,250 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £87,000 £70,750
% change year-on-year -13.79% +22.97% -12.65%

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 10,782 7,338 13,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.28% 17.24% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,733 4,854 8,657
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -60 321 £85,000 -19.05% 58
North of England -113 98 £67,500 -3.57% 25
North West -83 69 £75,000 +7.14% 19
South East -57 52 £70,000 - 23
South West -60 40 £85,000 +6.25% 18
Midlands -82 32 £85,000 +25.93% 5
West Midlands -40 31 £85,000 +51.11% 4
North East -51 26 £60,000 +26.32% 2
East of England -44 25 £72,500 +1.40% 3
Yorkshire -38 9 £66,805 -10.93% 4
East Midlands -78 1 £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 82 (14.62%) Apache Spark
2 40 (7.13%) Apache
3 32 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.85%) Confluence
5 8 (1.43%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.89%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.89%) Camunda
8 3 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Luigi
9 2 (0.36%) Tornado
10 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 336 (59.89%) AWS
2 214 (38.15%) Azure
3 76 (13.55%) GCP
4 75 (13.37%) Serverless
5 68 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 53 (9.45%) GitHub
8 46 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (6.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 34 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (5.35%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.06%) MQTT
2 11 (1.96%) Internet
3 9 (1.60%) DNS
4 7 (1.25%) Network Security
5 6 (1.07%) BGP
5 6 (1.07%) IPsec
5 6 (1.07%) VPN
6 5 (0.89%) 4G
6 5 (0.89%) 5G
7 4 (0.71%) HTTP
8 3 (0.53%) AMQP
8 3 (0.53%) SSH
8 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) ATM
10 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.18%) Broadband
10 1 (0.18%) LAN
10 1 (0.18%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (23.71%) NoSQL
2 93 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (13.90%) MongoDB
4 53 (9.45%) Relational Database
5 39 (6.95%) Big Data
6 33 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (5.88%) Redis
7 31 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (5.35%) Data Lake
9 28 (4.99%) Power BI
10 27 (4.81%) MySQL
11 26 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (3.92%) Hadoop
13 21 (3.74%) SQL Server
14 20 (3.57%) Flink
15 17 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (3.03%) Metadata
16 16 (2.85%) DynamoDB
17 15 (2.67%) Tableau
18 14 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 94 (16.76%) GitLab
2 93 (16.58%) Git
3 57 (10.16%) Jenkins
4 56 (9.98%) Cucumber
5 13 (2.32%) JIRA
5 13 (2.32%) Selenium
6 11 (1.96%) JUnit
7 9 (1.60%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.43%) Mockito
9 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.07%) Maven
10 5 (0.89%) Gatling
10 5 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.36%) git-flow
13 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 176 (31.37%) Finance
2 124 (22.10%) Social Skills
3 67 (11.94%) Banking
4 49 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (4.99%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.85%) Retail
9 15 (2.67%) Front Office
9 15 (2.67%) Marketing
9 15 (2.67%) Publishing
10 11 (1.96%) Law
11 10 (1.78%) Military
12 7 (1.25%) Aviation
12 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.07%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Games
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.89%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 182 (32.44%) Senior
2 119 (21.21%) Developer
3 93 (16.58%) Java Engineer
3 93 (16.58%) Software Engineer
4 90 (16.04%) Data Engineer
5 59 (10.52%) Architect
6 56 (9.98%) Lead
7 52 (9.27%) Principal Engineer
8 48 (8.56%) Senior Developer
9 41 (7.31%) Senior Java Engineer
9 41 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (6.77%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.88%) Principal Java Engineer
11 33 (5.88%) Python Engineer
12 32 (5.70%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (4.28%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.92%) Kafka Engineer
14 22 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (33.69%) Spring
2 170 (30.30%) Spring Boot
3 106 (18.89%) Terraform
4 102 (18.18%) REST
5 98 (17.47%) RESTful
6 93 (16.58%) RabbitMQ
7 61 (10.87%) Node.js
8 49 (8.73%) React
9 39 (6.95%) .NET
10 36 (6.42%) PySpark
11 35 (6.24%) OpenAPI
11 35 (6.24%) Swagger
12 32 (5.70%) FastAPI
13 27 (4.81%) Keycloak
14 20 (3.57%) gRPC
15 19 (3.39%) Middleware
16 18 (3.21%) AngularJS
16 18 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (3.03%) Hibernate
18 15 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 182 (32.44%) Cloud Native
2 154 (27.45%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (9.27%) Public Cloud
4 46 (8.20%) e-Learning
5 37 (6.60%) Product Ownership
6 36 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (6.24%) Onboarding
8 23 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.67%) AI Agents
10 15 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.32%) Data Structures
13 12 (2.14%) Media Streaming
13 12 (2.14%) Podcast
13 12 (2.14%) Replication
14 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.96%) IoT
15 10 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.02%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Unix
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.36%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (55.08%) CI/CD
2 270 (48.13%) Microservices
3 265 (47.24%) Event-Driven
4 264 (47.06%) Agile
5 215 (38.32%) DevOps
6 177 (31.55%) Software Engineering
7 167 (29.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 160 (28.52%) AI
9 153 (27.27%) Mentoring
10 143 (25.49%) Test Automation
11 139 (24.78%) Containerisation
12 130 (23.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 118 (21.03%) Observability
14 106 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (18.89%) Data Pipeline
15 101 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
16 94 (16.76%) Analytics
17 92 (16.40%) Roadmaps
18 81 (14.44%) Data Modelling
19 66 (11.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 288 (51.34%) Java
2 211 (37.61%) Python
3 183 (32.62%) SQL
4 74 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 58 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.31%) C#
7 38 (6.77%) Go
8 28 (4.99%) Scala
9 21 (3.74%) Bash
10 20 (3.57%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.67%) Groovy
12 13 (2.32%) PHP
12 13 (2.32%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
13 10 (1.78%) Rust
14 7 (1.25%) C
15 6 (1.07%) Ruby
15 6 (1.07%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.89%) C++
16 5 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 107 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 62 (11.05%) Degree
5 46 (8.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.42%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.70%) DV Cleared
8 31 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.89%) PhD
12 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.71%) MBA
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.36%) OCP
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.46%) QA
3 12 (2.14%) GDPR
4 7 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.53%) NIST
6 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.53%) PSD2
7 2 (0.36%) Basel III
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 189 (33.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 231 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.77%) Prometheus
3 32 (5.70%) Grafana
4 19 (3.39%) Ansible
5 11 (1.96%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Rancher
7 6 (1.07%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.89%) Podman
8 5 (0.89%) Puppet
9 4 (0.71%) Kibana
10 3 (0.53%) Cilium
11 2 (0.36%) Control-M
11 2 (0.36%) Istio
11 2 (0.36%) kaniko
12 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.18%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.45%) Databricks
3 32 (5.70%) Oracle
4 25 (4.46%) IBM
5 19 (3.39%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.67%) Google
7 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.96%) Splunk
8 10 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.25%) Confluent
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe
14 4 (0.71%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.71%) Solace
15 3 (0.53%) Talend
15 3 (0.53%) webMethods