Kafka Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 91 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 -24 +47
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 2 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 2.76% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile - £69,375 £84,000
25th Percentile - £76,250 £91,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £77,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -29.55% +79.59%
75th Percentile - £98,438 £116,875
90th Percentile - £116,250 £118,000
East of England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -18.42% +26.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 88 217 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.33% 17.96% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59 103 126
10th Percentile £40,500 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +13.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £95,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £100,000 - 3
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI