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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 268 321
Rank change year-on-year +30 +53 -97
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 516 591 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.96% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.45% 5.49% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 130 250 296
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,738 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% -9.68%
75th Percentile £78,438 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £94,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +17.86% -17.65% -

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 5,461 10,759 11,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.40% 17.49% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,234 7,348 7,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £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 £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% +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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +92 179 £67,269 +12.11% 50
North West +82 166 £67,500 +12.50% 37
Scotland -1 131 £62,500 -3.85% 22
South East -16 74 £72,500 +38.10% 63
Midlands +105 71 £67,500 -8.47% 20
East Midlands - 42 £67,500 - 3
South West +72 32 £65,000 +8.33% 26
West Midlands +62 29 £60,000 -18.64% 17
East of England -2 17 £71,500 -15.88% 8
Northern Ireland +29 14 £55,000 -10.20% 17
Yorkshire -1 7 £75,000 +36.36% 12
North East +20 6 £47,500 -3.60% 1
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 (31.59%) Confluence
2 44 (8.53%) Apache Spark
3 26 (5.04%) Apache
4 23 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.55%) Appian
6 5 (0.97%) nginx
6 5 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.97%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.78%) GemFire
8 3 (0.58%) SAS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 398 (77.13%) AWS
2 315 (61.05%) Azure
3 194 (37.60%) GCP
4 27 (5.23%) Amazon S3
5 26 (5.04%) Serverless
6 25 (4.84%) GitHub
7 17 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (3.29%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.13%) SaaS
11 10 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (1.55%) MinIO
13 6 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.16%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.55%) HTTP
2 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.58%) Internet
3 3 (0.58%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) AMQP
5 1 (0.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (55.43%) SQL Server
2 94 (18.22%) MongoDB
3 65 (12.60%) NoSQL
4 50 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (7.75%) Big Data
6 38 (7.36%) Relational Database
7 25 (4.84%) MySQL
8 24 (4.65%) Hadoop
9 20 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.91%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (2.52%) Apache Hive
13 12 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.94%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.94%) DynamoDB
15 10 (1.94%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 268 (51.94%) GitLab
1 268 (51.94%) Selenium
2 261 (50.58%) JIRA
3 260 (50.39%) Maven
4 257 (49.81%) Cucumber
5 254 (49.22%) Bitbucket
6 251 (48.64%) SonarQube
7 246 (47.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 49 (9.50%) Jenkins
9 33 (6.40%) Git
10 29 (5.62%) JUnit
11 13 (2.52%) Mockito
12 8 (1.55%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.55%) Snyk
13 6 (1.16%) Postman
14 5 (0.97%) Subversion
14 5 (0.97%) TestNG
15 4 (0.78%) Gradle
16 3 (0.58%) TeamCity
17 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 362 (70.16%) Finance
2 323 (62.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 310 (60.08%) Banking
4 109 (21.12%) Investment Banking
5 94 (18.22%) Retail
6 92 (17.83%) Law
7 90 (17.44%) Corporate Banking
8 55 (10.66%) Social Skills
9 22 (4.26%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (3.88%) Marketing
11 14 (2.71%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.16%) Games
12 6 (1.16%) Legal
13 5 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.78%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 346 (67.05%) Software Engineer
2 73 (14.15%) Java Engineer
3 68 (13.18%) Developer
4 61 (11.82%) Lead
5 59 (11.43%) Java Software Engineer
6 47 (9.11%) Java Developer
7 45 (8.72%) Senior
8 30 (5.81%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (4.07%) Architect
9 21 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (4.07%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (3.68%) Python Engineer
11 17 (3.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 17 (3.29%) Lead Java Engineer
12 16 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (2.91%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Technical Leader
15 11 (2.13%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (69.57%) Spring
2 339 (65.70%) Spring Boot
3 318 (61.63%) React
4 255 (49.42%) CSS
5 254 (49.22%) HTML
6 249 (48.26%) Redux
7 248 (48.06%) JPA
8 175 (33.91%) Hibernate
9 131 (25.39%) RESTful
10 130 (25.19%) REST
11 93 (18.02%) HTML5
12 92 (17.83%) Jest
13 90 (17.44%) CSS3
13 90 (17.44%) Sass
14 36 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (6.40%) AngularJS
16 28 (5.43%) .NET
17 16 (3.10%) Node.js
18 13 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 272 (52.71%) Product Ownership
2 251 (48.64%) Enterprise Software
3 64 (12.40%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 24 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.55%) Derivative
8 8 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.55%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.36%) Equities
9 7 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.16%) Wiki
11 5 (0.97%) Legacy Code
11 5 (0.97%) Life Science
11 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.68%) Linux
2 11 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (83.91%) Agile
2 384 (74.42%) CI/CD
2 384 (74.42%) Software Engineering
3 355 (68.80%) Microservices
4 323 (62.60%) SDLC
5 320 (62.02%) DevOps
6 290 (56.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 283 (54.84%) Test Automation
8 280 (54.26%) Containerisation
9 256 (49.61%) Performance Optimisation
10 254 (49.22%) Front End Development
11 195 (37.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 194 (37.60%) TDD
13 168 (32.56%) Clean Code
14 136 (26.36%) Mentoring
15 112 (21.71%) User Experience
16 91 (17.64%) Migration
16 91 (17.64%) Responsive Web Design
16 91 (17.64%) Strategic Thinking
17 61 (11.82%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 422 (81.78%) Java
2 327 (63.37%) SQL
3 286 (55.43%) JavaScript
4 118 (22.87%) TypeScript
5 70 (13.57%) Python
6 41 (7.95%) C#
7 6 (1.16%) Bash
7 6 (1.16%) R
8 5 (0.97%) C++
8 5 (0.97%) Go
9 3 (0.58%) Groovy
9 3 (0.58%) PROC SQL
10 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.39%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.19%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) Rust
11 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (6.40%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.20%) Degree
3 27 (5.23%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.36%) CISSP
9 6 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (49.22%) QA
2 97 (18.80%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.52%) Def Stans
3 13 (2.52%) GDPR
4 11 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 333 (64.53%) Docker
2 8 (1.55%) HDFS
3 7 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 345 (66.86%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.33%) Terraform
3 19 (3.68%) Ansible
4 11 (2.13%) Grafana
5 8 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.97%) Kibana
6 5 (0.97%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.97%) Packer
7 3 (0.58%) logstash
7 3 (0.58%) Oozie
8 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 250 (48.45%) Solace
2 42 (8.14%) Oracle
3 24 (4.65%) VMware
4 22 (4.26%) Databricks
5 14 (2.71%) Google
6 12 (2.33%) Splunk
7 8 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
7 8 (1.55%) Black Duck
7 8 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.55%) UiPath
8 7 (1.36%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.16%) Sybase
10 4 (0.78%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.78%) SAP
10 4 (0.78%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.58%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.58%) Coverity
11 3 (0.58%) Informatica
11 3 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.39%) WSO2