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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 187 310
Rank change year-on-year -133 +123 -153
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 472 780 787
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.95% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.32% 9.99% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 320 360 645
10th Percentile £55,725 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +8.06% -13.89%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -15.24%

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 8,867 7,807 18,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.52% 19.50% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6,769 5,268 14,791
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,871 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -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 23 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 23 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 -37 337 £100,000 - 81
North of England -148 49 £75,000 +9.09% 20
South East -60 43 £67,500 -6.90% 23
North West -84 41 £75,000 +11.11% 14
East of England -22 14 £72,500 +1.40% 3
South West -76 13 £85,000 +25.93% 10
Midlands -97 12 £87,500 +29.63% 4
West Midlands -43 10 £87,500 +34.62% 2
Yorkshire -43 4 £90,000 +12.50% 3
North East -54 4 £62,500 +31.58% 3
East Midlands -64 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
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
1 100 (21.19%) Apache Spark
2 95 (20.13%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (10.17%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) Confluence
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.64%) Camunda
6 3 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.42%) CICS
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 306 (64.83%) AWS
2 182 (38.56%) Azure
3 117 (24.79%) GCP
4 75 (15.89%) Serverless
5 67 (14.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (12.29%) dbt
7 53 (11.23%) Amazon S3
8 47 (9.96%) Snowflake
9 41 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (8.05%) Power Platform
11 36 (7.63%) Datadog
12 33 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (5.51%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
16 23 (4.87%) GitHub
17 20 (4.24%) Amazon EMR
17 20 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.60%) MQTT
2 7 (1.48%) Broadband
3 6 (1.27%) Network Security
4 3 (0.64%) BGP
5 2 (0.42%) 4G
5 2 (0.42%) 5G
5 2 (0.42%) DNS
5 2 (0.42%) IPsec
5 2 (0.42%) VPN
6 1 (0.21%) AMQP
6 1 (0.21%) CTI
6 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (21.82%) NoSQL
2 59 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (10.81%) Data Lake
5 48 (10.17%) MongoDB
6 45 (9.53%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (9.53%) Relational Database
7 41 (8.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.84%) Tableau
9 36 (7.63%) Power BI
10 35 (7.42%) Big Data
11 34 (7.20%) BigQuery
12 28 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (5.72%) DynamoDB
14 26 (5.51%) Looker
14 26 (5.51%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (4.87%) Metadata
15 23 (4.87%) MySQL
16 21 (4.45%) SQL Server
17 20 (4.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (13.14%) GitLab
2 61 (12.92%) Git
3 43 (9.11%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.72%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.51%) MLflow
6 24 (5.08%) CircleCI
7 11 (2.33%) JIRA
8 8 (1.69%) Selenium
9 7 (1.48%) JUnit
10 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.06%) Maven
11 4 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.85%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.85%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.64%) Postman
12 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.64%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
General
1 180 (38.14%) Finance
2 102 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (10.81%) Banking
4 43 (9.11%) Front Office
5 15 (3.18%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.33%) Law
7 9 (1.91%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.69%) Advertising
8 8 (1.69%) Retail
8 8 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.48%) Billing
9 7 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.85%) Marketing
10 4 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.42%) Back Office
11 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Games
12 1 (0.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (28.81%) Senior
2 127 (26.91%) Developer
3 93 (19.70%) Data Engineer
4 67 (14.19%) Lead
5 64 (13.56%) Software Engineer
6 62 (13.14%) Java Engineer
7 53 (11.23%) Architect
8 36 (7.63%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.63%) Senior Developer
9 34 (7.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.36%) Lead Developer
11 30 (6.36%) Principal Engineer
12 25 (5.30%) Python Engineer
12 25 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (5.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 24 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
15 21 (4.45%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (21.61%) Spring
2 97 (20.55%) Spring Boot
3 69 (14.62%) REST
4 68 (14.41%) RabbitMQ
5 64 (13.56%) Node.js
6 61 (12.92%) RESTful
7 60 (12.71%) React
8 34 (7.20%) GraphQL
9 33 (6.99%) Redux
10 32 (6.78%) .NET
10 32 (6.78%) PySpark
11 26 (5.51%) gRPC
12 25 (5.30%) PyTorch
12 25 (5.30%) scikit-learn
12 25 (5.30%) TensorFlow
13 23 (4.87%) LangChain
13 23 (4.87%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (4.87%) pgvector
14 18 (3.81%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.60%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 144 (30.51%) Cloud Native
2 82 (17.37%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (9.96%) Public Cloud
4 37 (7.84%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.87%) Clustering
6 22 (4.66%) e-Learning
7 20 (4.24%) Onboarding
8 19 (4.03%) Product Ownership
9 18 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.60%) Blockchain
10 17 (3.60%) Web3
11 14 (2.97%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.27%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.63%) Linux
2 8 (1.69%) Windows
3 7 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (46.19%) CI/CD
2 189 (40.04%) Microservices
3 181 (38.35%) Agile
4 156 (33.05%) Event-Driven
5 153 (32.42%) DevOps
6 142 (30.08%) Software Engineering
7 123 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 121 (25.64%) Containerisation
9 120 (25.42%) AI
10 113 (23.94%) Analytics
11 108 (22.88%) Data Pipeline
12 101 (21.40%) Data Modelling
13 98 (20.76%) Observability
14 90 (19.07%) Data Engineering
14 90 (19.07%) Test Automation
15 88 (18.64%) Mentoring
16 78 (16.53%) ETL
17 77 (16.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 72 (15.25%) Data Governance
19 69 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 262 (55.51%) Python
2 216 (45.76%) SQL
3 205 (43.43%) Java
4 78 (16.53%) JavaScript
5 74 (15.68%) Go
6 73 (15.47%) TypeScript
7 38 (8.05%) C#
8 22 (4.66%) Bash
9 21 (4.45%) Rust
10 20 (4.24%) Scala
11 18 (3.81%) C++
12 10 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.91%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.27%) Groovy
14 6 (1.27%) RPG
15 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.06%) PHP
16 4 (0.85%) Bicep
17 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.17%) Degree
3 38 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) MBA
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) GIAC
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) SSCP
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.20%) GDPR
3 23 (4.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (3.81%) QA
5 10 (2.12%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.91%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (31.78%) Docker
2 8 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 185 (39.19%) Kubernetes
2 128 (27.12%) Terraform
3 49 (10.38%) Prometheus
4 34 (7.20%) Grafana
5 29 (6.14%) Ansible
6 10 (2.12%) Istio
7 7 (1.48%) Argo
8 6 (1.27%) Kibana
8 6 (1.27%) Puppet
9 4 (0.85%) Podman
10 2 (0.42%) Cilium
10 2 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.42%) Salt
11 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (12.29%) Databricks
2 42 (8.90%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.87%) Cloudera
3 23 (4.87%) Dell
4 13 (2.75%) Confluent
4 13 (2.75%) Oracle
5 10 (2.12%) Splunk
6 9 (1.91%) IBM
7 8 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.69%) Solace
8 7 (1.48%) Google
8 7 (1.48%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.27%) Talend
10 5 (1.06%) Pega
10 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.85%) WSO2
12 3 (0.64%) AppDynamics