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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 179 308
Rank change year-on-year -133 +129 -155
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 460 761 764
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.95% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 9.86% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 314 364 632
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,625
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8,442 7,720 17,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.21% 19.83% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,402 5,225 14,335
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -24 334 £100,000 - 163
North of England -157 48 £77,500 +10.71% 40
South East -63 42 £67,500 -6.90% 31
North West -94 36 £80,000 +16.36% 26
South West -73 11 £75,000 +11.11% 17
Midlands -100 11 £87,500 +25.00% 5
East of England -35 10 £72,500 +1.40% 5
West Midlands -56 9 £87,500 +12.90% 4
Yorkshire -53 8 £80,000 - 9
North East -38 4 £62,500 - 5
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 98 (21.30%) Apache Spark
2 92 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (10.65%) Apache
4 7 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.09%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.65%) Camunda
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 300 (65.22%) AWS
2 168 (36.52%) Azure
3 110 (23.91%) GCP
4 75 (16.30%) Serverless
5 65 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (12.17%) Amazon S3
6 56 (12.17%) dbt
7 46 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 40 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (8.04%) Datadog
9 37 (8.04%) Power Platform
10 32 (6.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 30 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 28 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (5.00%) GitHub
14 22 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.83%) MQTT
2 7 (1.52%) Broadband
3 6 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) 4G
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (21.96%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (10.65%) Data Lake
3 49 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (9.78%) Relational Database
5 43 (9.35%) MongoDB
6 42 (9.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 42 (9.13%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (8.26%) Tableau
8 35 (7.61%) Big Data
8 35 (7.61%) Power BI
9 34 (7.39%) BigQuery
10 28 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (6.09%) DynamoDB
11 27 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (5.65%) Looker
13 23 (5.00%) MySQL
14 22 (4.78%) Metadata
14 22 (4.78%) SQL Server
15 20 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (12.83%) Git
2 57 (12.39%) GitLab
3 46 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.65%) MLflow
5 24 (5.22%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.22%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.17%) JIRA
7 7 (1.52%) JUnit
7 7 (1.52%) Selenium
8 5 (1.09%) Maven
9 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.65%) JMeter
10 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.65%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 179 (38.91%) Finance
2 102 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.52%) Banking
4 51 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.65%) Front Office
6 12 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.39%) Law
8 10 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.17%) Retail
8 10 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.74%) Advertising
11 7 (1.52%) Billing
11 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Back Office
12 2 (0.43%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (28.91%) Senior
2 129 (28.04%) Developer
3 90 (19.57%) Data Engineer
4 71 (15.43%) Lead
5 64 (13.91%) Software Engineer
6 61 (13.26%) Java Engineer
7 47 (10.22%) Architect
8 38 (8.26%) Java Developer
9 34 (7.39%) Senior Developer
10 33 (7.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 31 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (6.52%) Lead Developer
13 28 (6.09%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (5.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 24 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
16 23 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
17 22 (4.78%) Python Engineer
18 21 (4.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (21.09%) Spring
2 89 (19.35%) Spring Boot
3 71 (15.43%) REST
4 67 (14.57%) React
5 63 (13.70%) RabbitMQ
6 62 (13.48%) Node.js
7 59 (12.83%) RESTful
8 35 (7.61%) GraphQL
9 33 (7.17%) PySpark
9 33 (7.17%) Redux
10 30 (6.52%) .NET
11 29 (6.30%) gRPC
12 25 (5.43%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.43%) TensorFlow
13 24 (5.22%) PyTorch
14 23 (5.00%) LangChain
14 23 (5.00%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (5.00%) pgvector
15 18 (3.91%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 134 (29.13%) Cloud Native
2 88 (19.13%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (9.57%) Public Cloud
4 37 (8.04%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.00%) Clustering
6 20 (4.35%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.70%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.70%) Web3
9 16 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (3.26%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.30%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.09%) Linux
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
3 6 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (46.96%) CI/CD
2 190 (41.30%) Microservices
3 177 (38.48%) Agile
4 150 (32.61%) DevOps
5 147 (31.96%) Event-Driven
6 138 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 118 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (24.78%) Containerisation
9 111 (24.13%) AI
10 110 (23.91%) Analytics
11 108 (23.48%) Data Pipeline
12 101 (21.96%) Data Modelling
13 94 (20.43%) Data Engineering
13 94 (20.43%) Observability
14 88 (19.13%) Test Automation
15 82 (17.83%) Mentoring
16 77 (16.74%) ETL
17 72 (15.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 70 (15.22%) Machine Learning
19 69 (15.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 258 (56.09%) Python
2 209 (45.43%) SQL
3 201 (43.70%) Java
4 80 (17.39%) Go
4 80 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 74 (16.09%) TypeScript
6 36 (7.83%) C#
7 24 (5.22%) Scala
8 20 (4.35%) Rust
9 19 (4.13%) Bash
9 19 (4.13%) C++
10 9 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.52%) Groovy
12 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.87%) Bicep
13 4 (0.87%) RPG
14 3 (0.65%) PHP
14 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 47 (10.22%) Degree
1 47 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 33 (7.17%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 24 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) GIAC
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) SSCP
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.91%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.17%) GDPR
3 23 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.26%) QA
5 10 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (32.83%) Docker
2 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 178 (38.70%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.39%) Terraform
3 47 (10.22%) Prometheus
4 32 (6.96%) Grafana
5 27 (5.87%) Ansible
6 9 (1.96%) Istio
7 8 (1.74%) Argo
8 7 (1.52%) Kibana
9 6 (1.30%) Puppet
10 4 (0.87%) Podman
11 2 (0.43%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) Cilium
12 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (12.61%) Databricks
2 36 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.00%) Cloudera
3 23 (5.00%) Dell
4 13 (2.83%) Confluent
5 10 (2.17%) Oracle
6 9 (1.96%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.74%) Solace
8 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) Google
9 6 (1.30%) Pega
10 5 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.09%) Talend
11 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.87%) IBM
11 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) WSO2