Apache Kafka
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 198 250 168
Rank change year-on-year +52 -82 -69
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 951 1,196 2,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.09% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 5.42% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 393 690 1,278
10th Percentile £53,250 £43,675 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £112,500 £98,681 £115,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £120,250 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +16.67% -13.60% -7.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,713 22,074 26,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 16,295 17,588
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the UK 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
England +107 790 £82,500 +6.45% 926
UK excluding London +61 561 £70,000 +16.67% 534
Work from Home +149 494 £75,000 +3.45% 501
London +61 378 £99,250 +10.28% 591
North of England +162 200 £70,000 +12.00% 96
North West +109 177 £67,500 +12.50% 63
Scotland -2 136 £67,500 +3.85% 71
South East +26 83 £72,500 +31.82% 232
Midlands +128 74 £70,000 +16.67% 40
East Midlands +87 42 £67,500 +12.50% 8
South West +103 34 £67,500 +3.85% 42
West Midlands +74 32 £77,500 - 29
East of England +45 21 £71,500 -15.88% 12
Yorkshire +61 16 £80,000 +18.02% 27
Northern Ireland +45 14 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North East +58 7 £55,000 -4.35% 6

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 173 (18.19%) Confluence
2 157 (16.51%) Apache Spark
3 100 (10.52%) Apache Airflow
4 89 (9.36%) Apache
5 12 (1.26%) nginx
6 8 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.63%) GemFire
7 6 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.53%) Appian
9 4 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.42%) Traefik
10 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 3 (0.32%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Maya
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Endur
2 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 703 (73.92%) AWS
2 448 (47.11%) Azure
3 289 (30.39%) GCP
4 121 (12.72%) Serverless
5 100 (10.52%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (8.20%) OpenShift
7 68 (7.15%) Amazon ECS
8 62 (6.52%) dbt
9 55 (5.78%) Amazon S3
10 52 (5.47%) GitHub
11 46 (4.84%) Snowflake
12 33 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (3.36%) SaaS
14 25 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (2.52%) Power Platform
16 21 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (2.00%) Datadog
18 18 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.52%) HTTP
2 12 (1.26%) Network Security
3 8 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.63%) Internet
5 4 (0.42%) DHCP
5 4 (0.42%) DNS
5 4 (0.42%) ICMP
5 4 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.42%) VPN
6 2 (0.21%) Broadband
6 2 (0.21%) FTP
6 2 (0.21%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.11%) AMQP
7 1 (0.11%) Firewall
7 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (32.07%) SQL Server
2 142 (14.93%) NoSQL
3 127 (13.35%) MongoDB
4 84 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
5 77 (8.10%) Amazon Athena
6 75 (7.89%) Relational Database
7 71 (7.47%) Big Data
8 70 (7.36%) Apache Iceberg
9 58 (6.10%) Apache Ignite
10 52 (5.47%) Hadoop
11 51 (5.36%) Apache Arrow
11 51 (5.36%) Dremio
12 42 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
12 42 (4.42%) MySQL
13 40 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (3.05%) BigQuery
15 29 (3.05%) Data Lake
16 26 (2.73%) DynamoDB
16 26 (2.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 289 (30.39%) GitLab
2 278 (29.23%) JIRA
3 274 (28.81%) Maven
4 271 (28.50%) Selenium
5 266 (27.97%) Cucumber
6 265 (27.87%) Bitbucket
7 259 (27.23%) SonarQube
8 248 (26.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 82 (8.62%) Jenkins
10 71 (7.47%) Git
11 53 (5.57%) Artifactory
12 49 (5.15%) JUnit
13 24 (2.52%) Mockito
14 22 (2.31%) CircleCI
15 15 (1.58%) Postman
16 9 (0.95%) Gradle
16 9 (0.95%) TestNG
17 8 (0.84%) NUnit
17 8 (0.84%) Subversion
17 8 (0.84%) Vite
General
1 632 (66.46%) Finance
2 431 (45.32%) Banking
3 422 (44.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 175 (18.40%) Law
5 166 (17.46%) Social Skills
6 127 (13.35%) Investment Banking
7 119 (12.51%) Retail
8 90 (9.46%) Corporate Banking
9 66 (6.94%) Front Office
10 65 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (4.42%) Marketing
12 37 (3.89%) Games
13 34 (3.58%) Financial Institution
14 29 (3.05%) Public Sector
15 18 (1.89%) Advertising
16 15 (1.58%) Retail Banking
17 14 (1.47%) Aerospace
18 10 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 9 (0.95%) Manufacturing
20 6 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 501 (52.68%) Software Engineer
2 152 (15.98%) Senior
3 151 (15.88%) Lead
4 132 (13.88%) Java Engineer
5 131 (13.77%) Developer
6 109 (11.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 106 (11.15%) Data Engineer
8 98 (10.30%) Python Engineer
9 77 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
10 74 (7.78%) Lead Software Engineer
11 68 (7.15%) Java Developer
12 66 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 65 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
14 60 (6.31%) AWS DevOps
14 60 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 53 (5.57%) Architect
16 35 (3.68%) Senior Developer
17 30 (3.15%) Python Software Engineer
18 28 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 28 (2.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (49.00%) Spring
2 436 (45.85%) Spring Boot
3 382 (40.17%) React
4 267 (28.08%) CSS
5 265 (27.87%) HTML
6 256 (26.92%) JPA
7 250 (26.29%) Redux
8 198 (20.82%) RESTful
9 183 (19.24%) Hibernate
10 172 (18.09%) REST
11 105 (11.04%) Jest
12 96 (10.09%) HTML5
13 93 (9.78%) CSS3
14 90 (9.46%) Sass
15 85 (8.94%) AngularJS
16 84 (8.83%) RabbitMQ
17 72 (7.57%) PySpark
18 67 (7.05%) J2EE
19 52 (5.47%) .NET
20 39 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 302 (31.76%) Product Ownership
2 259 (27.23%) Enterprise Software
3 169 (17.77%) Cloud Native
4 85 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (5.57%) Data Structures
6 50 (5.26%) Algorithms
7 38 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 33 (3.47%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.31%) Distributed Applications
11 21 (2.21%) Mobile App
11 21 (2.21%) Reference Data
12 20 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.58%) Client/Server
14 12 (1.26%) Equities
14 12 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.26%) Replication
15 11 (1.16%) Derivative
16 9 (0.95%) Mobile Banking
16 9 (0.95%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.47%) Linux
2 21 (2.21%) Unix
3 4 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (69.30%) Software Engineering
2 644 (67.72%) Agile
3 597 (62.78%) CI/CD
4 525 (55.21%) Microservices
5 484 (50.89%) DevOps
6 397 (41.75%) SDLC
7 355 (37.33%) Containerisation
8 352 (37.01%) Test Automation
9 330 (34.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 279 (29.34%) Performance Optimisation
11 268 (28.18%) TDD
12 267 (28.08%) Front End Development
13 219 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 194 (20.40%) Mentoring
15 188 (19.77%) Clean Code
16 126 (13.25%) Data Engineering
17 121 (12.72%) Migration
18 120 (12.62%) User Experience
19 117 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
20 114 (11.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 696 (73.19%) Java
2 454 (47.74%) SQL
3 321 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 249 (26.18%) Python
5 159 (16.72%) TypeScript
6 99 (10.41%) Go
7 87 (9.15%) C#
8 41 (4.31%) Scala
9 24 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.37%) Bash
10 13 (1.37%) C++
11 8 (0.84%) Groovy
12 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.74%) Rust
13 6 (0.63%) R
14 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.21%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.21%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (8.94%) Degree
2 55 (5.78%) AWS Certification
2 55 (5.78%) Security Cleared
3 49 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 44 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.74%) CISSP
9 7 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.42%) PhD
11 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.11%) OCP
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (27.87%) QA
2 101 (10.62%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.58%) GDPR
4 31 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.79%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.37%) Def Stans
7 9 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.32%) SEPA
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
10 1 (0.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 530 (55.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.16%) HDFS
3 7 (0.74%) Apache Flume
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 630 (66.25%) Kubernetes
2 178 (18.72%) Terraform
3 50 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 44 (4.63%) Grafana
5 24 (2.52%) Ansible
6 17 (1.79%) Argo
7 10 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.84%) Mesos
8 8 (0.84%) Packer
9 7 (0.74%) Istio
9 7 (0.74%) Oozie
10 4 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.42%) Kibana
10 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.32%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.11%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 254 (26.71%) Solace
2 75 (7.89%) Databricks
3 70 (7.36%) Oracle
4 63 (6.62%) Google
5 45 (4.73%) Microsoft
6 21 (2.21%) VMware
7 20 (2.10%) Splunk
8 17 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.47%) Apple
10 11 (1.16%) Confluent
11 8 (0.84%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.74%) Informatica
12 7 (0.74%) Okta
12 7 (0.74%) SAP
12 7 (0.74%) Sybase
13 6 (0.63%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (0.53%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.53%) IBM
14 5 (0.53%) UiPath