Kafka Jobs in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 319 158
Rank change year-on-year +100 -161 -66
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 772 776 1,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.55% 0.84% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.87% 4.28% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 363 635 1,203
10th Percentile £56,250 £45,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £122,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +12.50%

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 8,703 18,146 24,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.46% 19.55% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,352 14,448 15,851
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,340 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £109,865
UK median annual salary £66,228 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in England.

Salary trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

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 7 June 2025. 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 +66 363 £100,000 +11.11% 509
North of England +157 199 £70,000 +12.00% 88
North West +86 176 £67,500 +10.20% 63
South East +33 83 £72,500 +31.82% 251
Midlands +115 74 £70,000 +16.67% 44
East Midlands +73 42 £67,500 +12.50% 8
South West +100 32 £67,500 - 41
West Midlands +87 32 £77,500 - 31
East of England +41 21 £71,500 -15.88% 11
Yorkshire +54 17 £80,000 +13.35% 17
North East +50 6 £62,500 +8.70% 8
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 136 (17.62%) Apache Spark
2 126 (16.32%) Confluence
3 96 (12.44%) Apache Airflow
4 81 (10.49%) Apache
5 6 (0.78%) GemFire
5 6 (0.78%) nginx
5 6 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.65%) Appian
7 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.39%) JBoss
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.39%) Traefik
8 2 (0.26%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Maya
2 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Endur
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 582 (75.39%) AWS
2 370 (47.93%) Azure
3 217 (28.11%) GCP
4 117 (15.16%) Serverless
5 97 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (10.36%) OpenShift
7 68 (8.81%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (8.81%) dbt
8 44 (5.70%) Amazon S3
9 38 (4.92%) GitHub
9 38 (4.92%) Snowflake
10 30 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (3.63%) SaaS
12 26 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.24%) Power Platform
14 21 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (2.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.98%) HTTP
2 13 (1.68%) Network Security
3 7 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.52%) Internet
5 3 (0.39%) DHCP
5 3 (0.39%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) ICMP
5 3 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.39%) VPN
6 2 (0.26%) Broadband
7 1 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) MQTT
7 1 (0.13%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (30.96%) SQL Server
2 115 (14.90%) NoSQL
3 103 (13.34%) MongoDB
4 71 (9.20%) Amazon Athena
5 67 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
6 66 (8.55%) Apache Iceberg
7 62 (8.03%) Apache Ignite
8 57 (7.38%) Dremio
9 55 (7.12%) Apache Arrow
10 47 (6.09%) Relational Database
11 44 (5.70%) Big Data
12 41 (5.31%) Hadoop
13 39 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (4.40%) MySQL
15 27 (3.50%) Data Lake
16 26 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (3.24%) BigQuery
18 22 (2.85%) Redis
19 19 (2.46%) DynamoDB
20 18 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 234 (30.31%) GitLab
2 227 (29.40%) JIRA
3 217 (28.11%) Selenium
4 213 (27.59%) Maven
5 211 (27.33%) Bitbucket
5 211 (27.33%) Cucumber
6 205 (26.55%) SonarQube
7 199 (25.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 60 (7.77%) Jenkins
9 59 (7.64%) Git
10 57 (7.38%) Artifactory
11 31 (4.02%) JUnit
12 18 (2.33%) CircleCI
13 15 (1.94%) Mockito
14 10 (1.30%) Postman
15 7 (0.91%) Gradle
15 7 (0.91%) NUnit
15 7 (0.91%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
General
1 483 (62.56%) Finance
2 327 (42.36%) Banking
3 293 (37.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (17.75%) Social Skills
5 119 (15.41%) Retail
6 106 (13.73%) Investment Banking
7 96 (12.44%) Law
8 90 (11.66%) Corporate Banking
9 70 (9.07%) Front Office
10 47 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
11 33 (4.27%) Games
12 29 (3.76%) Financial Institution
13 22 (2.85%) Public Sector
14 18 (2.33%) Advertising
15 16 (2.07%) Marketing
16 14 (1.81%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.68%) Retail Banking
18 10 (1.30%) Telecoms
19 6 (0.78%) Back Office
19 6 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 364 (47.15%) Software Engineer
2 130 (16.84%) Senior
3 116 (15.03%) Lead
4 103 (13.34%) Data Engineer
5 100 (12.95%) Developer
6 87 (11.27%) Python Engineer
7 76 (9.84%) Java Engineer
8 73 (9.46%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 66 (8.55%) AWS DevOps
10 66 (8.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 60 (7.77%) Java Software Engineer
12 52 (6.74%) Architect
13 50 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
14 43 (5.57%) Lead Software Engineer
15 42 (5.44%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.37%) Senior Developer
17 21 (2.72%) Senior Java Engineer
18 19 (2.46%) Technical Leader
19 18 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (43.13%) Spring
1 333 (43.13%) Spring Boot
2 292 (37.82%) React
3 213 (27.59%) CSS
4 212 (27.46%) HTML
5 204 (26.42%) JPA
6 201 (26.04%) Redux
7 163 (21.11%) RESTful
8 155 (20.08%) REST
9 119 (15.41%) Hibernate
10 103 (13.34%) Jest
11 96 (12.44%) HTML5
12 93 (12.05%) CSS3
13 90 (11.66%) Sass
14 77 (9.97%) RabbitMQ
15 76 (9.84%) PySpark
16 62 (8.03%) AngularJS
17 61 (7.90%) J2EE
18 44 (5.70%) .NET
19 35 (4.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 245 (31.74%) Product Ownership
2 201 (26.04%) Enterprise Software
3 123 (15.93%) Cloud Native
4 69 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (5.83%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.89%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.37%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.59%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.81%) Reference Data
12 13 (1.68%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
13 12 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.30%) Mobile Games
14 10 (1.30%) Replication
15 9 (1.17%) Blockchain
15 9 (1.17%) Web3
16 8 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.98%) Linux
2 17 (2.20%) Unix
3 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (67.23%) Software Engineering
2 499 (64.64%) Agile
3 476 (61.66%) CI/CD
4 437 (56.61%) Microservices
5 422 (54.66%) DevOps
6 295 (38.21%) Containerisation
7 282 (36.53%) Test Automation
8 277 (35.88%) SDLC
9 256 (33.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 227 (29.40%) Performance Optimisation
11 216 (27.98%) Front End Development
12 194 (25.13%) TDD
13 177 (22.93%) Mentoring
14 142 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 131 (16.97%) Clean Code
16 120 (15.54%) Data Engineering
17 118 (15.28%) Migration
18 116 (15.03%) User Experience
19 106 (13.73%) Event-Driven
20 99 (12.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 540 (69.95%) Java
2 355 (45.98%) SQL
3 261 (33.81%) JavaScript
4 220 (28.50%) Python
5 144 (18.65%) TypeScript
6 98 (12.69%) Go
7 67 (8.68%) C#
8 40 (5.18%) Scala
9 19 (2.46%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.30%) C++
11 8 (1.04%) Bash
12 7 (0.91%) Groovy
12 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.78%) R
14 5 (0.65%) Rust
15 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.13%) JCL
Qualifications
1 84 (10.88%) Degree
2 54 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 49 (6.35%) AWS Certification
4 48 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 44 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.91%) CISSP
10 7 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.39%) PhD
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) OCP
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (27.33%) QA
2 101 (13.08%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.53%) GDPR
4 21 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 18 (2.33%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.68%) Def Stans
7 11 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 457 (59.20%) Docker
2 9 (1.17%) HDFS
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Flume
3 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 526 (68.13%) Kubernetes
2 159 (20.60%) Terraform
3 47 (6.09%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.66%) Grafana
5 19 (2.46%) Ansible
6 15 (1.94%) Argo
7 7 (0.91%) Istio
7 7 (0.91%) Mesos
8 6 (0.78%) Oozie
9 5 (0.65%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.39%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.39%) Packer
12 2 (0.26%) Kibana
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.26%) logstash
13 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 205 (26.55%) Solace
2 61 (7.90%) Databricks
3 60 (7.77%) Google
4 44 (5.70%) Oracle
5 41 (5.31%) Microsoft
6 21 (2.72%) VMware
7 16 (2.07%) Splunk
8 15 (1.94%) Apple
9 12 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.30%) Confluent
11 8 (1.04%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.91%) Okta
13 6 (0.78%) New Relic
13 6 (0.78%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (0.65%) Black Duck
14 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
14 5 (0.65%) UiPath
15 4 (0.52%) Informatica