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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 195 319
Rank change year-on-year -113 +124 -144
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 547 760 662
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.76% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.90% 9.63% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 363 332 527
10th Percentile £55,780 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +17.24% -18.99%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 9,265 7,892 15,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.24% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 5,334 11,816
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £88,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -27 378 £95,000 -5.00% 211
North of England -143 56 £75,000 +11.11% 39
South East -50 48 £67,500 -6.90% 51
North West -92 47 £75,000 +11.11% 14
South West -65 27 £85,000 +30.77% 20
Midlands -86 19 £85,000 +25.93% 7
West Midlands -46 17 £85,000 +41.67% 6
East of England -15 16 £72,500 +1.40% 4
North East -48 5 £65,000 +36.84% 12
Yorkshire -37 4 £66,805 -10.93% 13
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
1 120 (21.94%) Apache Spark
2 90 (16.45%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (8.23%) Apache
4 13 (2.38%) Confluence
5 5 (0.91%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.91%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.55%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.55%) Camunda
8 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (2.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 354 (64.72%) AWS
2 221 (40.40%) Azure
3 129 (23.58%) GCP
4 84 (15.36%) Serverless
5 71 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (10.42%) dbt
7 51 (9.32%) Snowflake
8 46 (8.41%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (7.50%) Power Platform
10 37 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (6.58%) Datadog
12 32 (5.85%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (5.30%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (5.30%) GitHub
15 27 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (3.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.20%) MQTT
2 7 (1.28%) BGP
3 6 (1.10%) Broadband
3 6 (1.10%) DNS
3 6 (1.10%) IPsec
3 6 (1.10%) Network Security
3 6 (1.10%) VPN
4 5 (0.91%) Internet
5 3 (0.55%) AMQP
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) 5G
7 1 (0.18%) ATM
7 1 (0.18%) CTI
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.18%) HTTP
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (22.49%) NoSQL
2 68 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (10.97%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (10.97%) MongoDB
4 55 (10.05%) Elasticsearch
5 52 (9.51%) Data Lake
6 51 (9.32%) Relational Database
7 50 (9.14%) Big Data
8 39 (7.13%) Power BI
9 36 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (5.85%) Tableau
11 31 (5.67%) BigQuery
12 27 (4.94%) MySQL
13 26 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (4.75%) Looker
14 25 (4.57%) DynamoDB
14 25 (4.57%) Redis
14 25 (4.57%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (4.20%) SQL Server
16 22 (4.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (12.61%) GitLab
2 65 (11.88%) Git
3 44 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.67%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.75%) MLflow
6 21 (3.84%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.56%) Selenium
8 12 (2.19%) JIRA
9 7 (1.28%) JUnit
10 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.91%) Maven
11 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.73%) Postman
11 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.55%) WinDbg
General
1 208 (38.03%) Finance
2 119 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 62 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.97%) Banking
5 46 (8.41%) Front Office
6 25 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.74%) Retail
8 12 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.19%) Law
9 11 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.83%) Marketing
11 9 (1.65%) Advertising
11 9 (1.65%) Military
12 6 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Billing
13 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 156 (28.52%) Senior
2 141 (25.78%) Developer
3 102 (18.65%) Data Engineer
4 81 (14.81%) Java Engineer
5 76 (13.89%) Software Engineer
6 71 (12.98%) Lead
7 59 (10.79%) Architect
8 40 (7.31%) Java Developer
9 39 (7.13%) Principal Engineer
10 38 (6.95%) Senior Developer
11 35 (6.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 33 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
13 32 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (5.48%) Lead Developer
15 29 (5.30%) Python Engineer
16 27 (4.94%) Senior Java Engineer
17 25 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
17 25 (4.57%) Principal Java Engineer
17 25 (4.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 24 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (22.30%) Spring
2 118 (21.57%) Spring Boot
3 82 (14.99%) RESTful
4 78 (14.26%) Node.js
5 77 (14.08%) REST
6 74 (13.53%) RabbitMQ
7 70 (12.80%) React
8 38 (6.95%) PySpark
9 37 (6.76%) GraphQL
10 36 (6.58%) Redux
11 35 (6.40%) .NET
12 27 (4.94%) PyTorch
12 27 (4.94%) TensorFlow
13 25 (4.57%) gRPC
13 25 (4.57%) scikit-learn
14 23 (4.20%) LangChain
14 23 (4.20%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (4.20%) pgvector
15 20 (3.66%) AngularJS
16 19 (3.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 169 (30.90%) Cloud Native
2 107 (19.56%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.87%) Public Cloud
4 40 (7.31%) Fixed Income
5 34 (6.22%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.94%) e-Learning
7 23 (4.20%) Clustering
8 22 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (4.02%) Product Ownership
9 19 (3.47%) Data Structures
9 19 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.38%) Blockchain
10 13 (2.38%) Web3
11 12 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.83%) EPoS
13 10 (1.83%) iSeries
14 9 (1.65%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.50%) Linux
2 9 (1.65%) Windows
3 8 (1.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (46.44%) CI/CD
2 223 (40.77%) Microservices
3 213 (38.94%) Agile
4 183 (33.46%) DevOps
5 181 (33.09%) Event-Driven
6 169 (30.90%) Software Engineering
7 161 (29.43%) AI
8 139 (25.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 133 (24.31%) Containerisation
10 126 (23.03%) Data Pipeline
11 124 (22.67%) Analytics
12 115 (21.02%) Mentoring
13 110 (20.11%) Test Automation
14 109 (19.93%) Data Modelling
15 105 (19.20%) Observability
16 97 (17.73%) Data Engineering
17 94 (17.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 88 (16.09%) Machine Learning
19 84 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
19 84 (15.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 292 (53.38%) Python
2 254 (46.44%) Java
3 244 (44.61%) SQL
4 87 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 86 (15.72%) TypeScript
6 76 (13.89%) Go
7 46 (8.41%) C#
8 27 (4.94%) Scala
9 20 (3.66%) Rust
10 19 (3.47%) C++
11 16 (2.93%) Bash
12 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.83%) RPG
14 9 (1.65%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.65%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.46%) PHP
16 7 (1.28%) C
16 7 (1.28%) Groovy
17 6 (1.10%) Ruby
18 4 (0.73%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 73 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.25%) Degree
3 53 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.13%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (4.57%) DV Cleared
8 22 (4.02%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.91%) PhD
10 4 (0.73%) MBA
10 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) GIAC
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.18%) OCP
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.18%) SSCP
11 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.70%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.31%) GDPR
3 23 (4.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.29%) QA
5 12 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.55%) PSD2
9 2 (0.37%) NIST
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 159 (29.07%) Docker
2 8 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 202 (36.93%) Kubernetes
2 133 (24.31%) Terraform
3 52 (9.51%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.95%) Grafana
5 32 (5.85%) Ansible
6 10 (1.83%) Istio
7 7 (1.28%) Argo
7 7 (1.28%) Kibana
8 6 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (1.10%) Puppet
9 4 (0.73%) Podman
10 2 (0.37%) Cilium
10 2 (0.37%) Salt
11 1 (0.18%) Control-M
11 1 (0.18%) kaniko
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 67 (12.25%) Databricks
2 52 (9.51%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.39%) Dell
4 23 (4.20%) Cloudera
5 21 (3.84%) IBM
5 21 (3.84%) Oracle
6 14 (2.56%) Confluent
7 12 (2.19%) Google
7 12 (2.19%) Splunk
8 10 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.65%) Solace
10 8 (1.46%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.28%) Talend
12 6 (1.10%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.10%) HP
12 6 (1.10%) SAP
13 5 (0.91%) Informatica
13 5 (0.91%) Pega