Kafka Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 277 351
Rank change year-on-year +61 +74 -128
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 561 714 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 0.89% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.30% 4.74% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 159 318 309
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.60% -7.40%
75th Percentile £92,500 £76,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £91,250 £102,500
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,448 15,053 14,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.75% 18.79% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,275 10,759 8,641
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +162 200 £70,000 +12.00% 89
North West +109 177 £67,500 +12.50% 64
Scotland -2 136 £67,500 +3.85% 71
South East +26 83 £72,500 +31.82% 219
Midlands +128 74 £70,000 +16.67% 45
East Midlands +87 42 £67,500 +12.50% 8
South West +103 34 £67,500 +3.85% 41
West Midlands +74 32 £77,500 - 34
East of England +45 21 £71,500 -15.88% 12
Yorkshire +61 16 £80,000 +18.02% 19
Northern Ireland +45 14 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North East +58 7 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 163 (29.06%) Confluence
2 48 (8.56%) Apache Spark
3 26 (4.63%) Apache
4 23 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.89%) Appian
5 5 (0.89%) nginx
5 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.71%) GemFire
7 2 (0.36%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 414 (73.80%) AWS
2 333 (59.36%) Azure
3 206 (36.72%) GCP
4 31 (5.53%) Amazon S3
5 25 (4.46%) Serverless
5 25 (4.46%) Snowflake
6 23 (4.10%) GitHub
7 19 (3.39%) SaaS
8 18 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (2.14%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.43%) dbt
14 7 (1.25%) Datadog
15 6 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (0.89%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.43%) HTTP
2 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.53%) Internet
4 2 (0.36%) Broadband
4 2 (0.36%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (51.16%) SQL Server
2 96 (17.11%) MongoDB
3 65 (11.59%) NoSQL
4 51 (9.09%) Big Data
5 49 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (7.31%) Relational Database
7 27 (4.81%) Hadoop
8 26 (4.63%) MySQL
9 23 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (3.03%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (2.67%) Apache Iceberg
14 14 (2.50%) Apache Hive
14 14 (2.50%) Data Lake
15 12 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (1.96%) Apache Hudi
17 10 (1.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 269 (47.95%) GitLab
2 266 (47.42%) Selenium
3 261 (46.52%) JIRA
4 260 (46.35%) Maven
5 259 (46.17%) Bitbucket
6 257 (45.81%) Cucumber
7 251 (44.74%) SonarQube
8 246 (43.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 48 (8.56%) Jenkins
10 36 (6.42%) Git
11 31 (5.53%) JUnit
12 14 (2.50%) Mockito
13 6 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (1.07%) Postman
14 5 (0.89%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.89%) Snyk
14 5 (0.89%) Subversion
14 5 (0.89%) TestNG
15 4 (0.71%) Gradle
16 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 385 (68.63%) Finance
2 337 (60.07%) Banking
3 323 (57.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (20.32%) Investment Banking
5 99 (17.65%) Retail
6 94 (16.76%) Law
7 90 (16.04%) Corporate Banking
8 58 (10.34%) Social Skills
9 25 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (3.74%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.57%) Marketing
12 14 (2.50%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.78%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.25%) Games
15 6 (1.07%) Legal
16 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.71%) Advertising
17 4 (0.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 369 (65.78%) Software Engineer
2 86 (15.33%) Lead
3 73 (13.01%) Java Engineer
4 70 (12.48%) Developer
5 59 (10.52%) Java Software Engineer
6 50 (8.91%) Senior
7 46 (8.20%) Java Developer
8 39 (6.95%) Lead Software Engineer
9 23 (4.10%) Data Engineer
9 23 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 22 (3.92%) Python Engineer
11 21 (3.74%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.03%) Architect
12 17 (3.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 17 (3.03%) Lead Java Engineer
13 16 (2.85%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (2.67%) Technical Leader
15 14 (2.50%) Python Software Engineer
16 11 (1.96%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (65.78%) Spring
2 345 (61.50%) Spring Boot
3 336 (59.89%) React
4 258 (45.99%) CSS
5 257 (45.81%) HTML
6 249 (44.39%) Redux
7 248 (44.21%) JPA
8 175 (31.19%) Hibernate
9 137 (24.42%) REST
10 135 (24.06%) RESTful
11 93 (16.58%) HTML5
12 92 (16.40%) Jest
13 90 (16.04%) CSS3
13 90 (16.04%) Sass
14 43 (7.66%) AngularJS
15 36 (6.42%) .NET
16 31 (5.53%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (4.46%) Node.js
18 16 (2.85%) gRPC
19 13 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 275 (49.02%) Product Ownership
2 251 (44.74%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (13.01%) Cloud Native
4 40 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.63%) Algorithms
6 23 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.74%) Public Cloud
8 18 (3.21%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.78%) Replication
10 8 (1.43%) Derivative
11 7 (1.25%) Equities
11 7 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.07%) Wiki
13 5 (0.89%) Life Science
13 5 (0.89%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.71%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.21%) Linux
2 14 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (78.61%) Agile
2 419 (74.69%) Software Engineering
3 392 (69.88%) CI/CD
4 372 (66.31%) Microservices
5 332 (59.18%) SDLC
6 328 (58.47%) DevOps
7 303 (54.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 294 (52.41%) Test Automation
9 283 (50.45%) Containerisation
10 255 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
11 253 (45.10%) Front End Development
12 208 (37.08%) TDD
13 197 (35.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 168 (29.95%) Clean Code
15 153 (27.27%) Mentoring
16 111 (19.79%) User Experience
17 93 (16.58%) Migration
18 91 (16.22%) Responsive Web Design
18 91 (16.22%) Strategic Thinking
19 66 (11.76%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 452 (80.57%) Java
2 345 (61.50%) SQL
3 303 (54.01%) JavaScript
4 132 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 88 (15.69%) Python
6 64 (11.41%) C#
7 7 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.07%) Bash
9 5 (0.89%) C++
9 5 (0.89%) Go
9 5 (0.89%) R
9 5 (0.89%) Scala
10 3 (0.53%) Groovy
11 2 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.36%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) Rust
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (5.88%) Degree
1 33 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (4.99%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.25%) CISSP
8 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) OCP
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (45.63%) QA
2 101 (18.00%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.67%) GDPR
5 13 (2.32%) Def Stans
6 9 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.36%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) RMADS
System Software
1 348 (62.03%) Docker
2 11 (1.96%) HDFS
3 6 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 376 (67.02%) Kubernetes
2 54 (9.63%) Terraform
3 18 (3.21%) Grafana
4 17 (3.03%) Ansible
5 13 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.89%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.89%) Packer
7 3 (0.53%) Kibana
8 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.36%) logstash
8 2 (0.36%) Oozie
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 250 (44.56%) Solace
2 47 (8.38%) Oracle
3 37 (6.60%) Databricks
4 21 (3.74%) VMware
5 17 (3.03%) Google
6 13 (2.32%) Splunk
7 12 (2.14%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.25%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.07%) Sybase
10 5 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (0.89%) Black Duck
10 5 (0.89%) UiPath
11 4 (0.71%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.71%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.53%) Confluent
12 3 (0.53%) SAP
13 2 (0.36%) IBM
13 2 (0.36%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.36%) Okta
13 2 (0.36%) Salesforce