Kafka Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 278 250
Rank change year-on-year -192 -28 +10
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 97 246 760
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.91% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 5.31% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 49 159 341
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,261 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% +6.45% -13.89%

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 4,896 4,635 13,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.62% 17.23% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 3,607 10,274
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 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
North of England -88 35 £87,500 +23.25% 17
South East -88 33 £60,000 -14.29% 31
North West -68 22 £95,000 +40.74% 13
Yorkshire -67 10 £61,750 -17.67%
East of England -31 9 £62,500 -19.35% 5
Midlands -45 8 £72,500 +7.41% 4
Scotland -49 7 £65,000 - 7
South West -69 7 £75,000 +53.85% 13
West Midlands -29 4 £72,500 -6.45% 4
East Midlands -56 4 £120,000 +84.62%
North East -44 3 - - 4
Wales - 3 £55,000 -
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (17.53%) Apache Spark
3 8 (8.25%) Apache
3 8 (8.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (2.06%) CICS
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (1.03%) Camunda
5 1 (1.03%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 67 (69.07%) AWS
2 42 (43.30%) Azure
3 30 (30.93%) GCP
4 18 (18.56%) Serverless
5 16 (16.49%) Snowflake
6 15 (15.46%) dbt
7 13 (13.40%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (13.40%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (11.34%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (8.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
12 6 (6.19%) GitHub
13 5 (5.15%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (5.15%) Datadog
13 5 (5.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) MQTT
2 3 (3.09%) HTTP
3 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) SSL
4 1 (1.03%) AMQP
4 1 (1.03%) Broadband
4 1 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.80%) NoSQL
2 16 (16.49%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (15.46%) MongoDB
4 12 (12.37%) Data Lake
4 12 (12.37%) Relational Database
5 11 (11.34%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (11.34%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (10.31%) BigQuery
6 10 (10.31%) Looker
6 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (8.25%) DynamoDB
8 8 (8.25%) Power BI
8 8 (8.25%) Tableau
9 7 (7.22%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (6.19%) Flink
11 5 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (5.15%) Redis
12 4 (4.12%) Big Data
12 4 (4.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Git
2 17 (17.53%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.31%) JIRA
4 7 (7.22%) MLflow
5 6 (6.19%) JUnit
6 5 (5.15%) GitLab
7 3 (3.09%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.09%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.03%) git-flow
9 1 (1.03%) Mockito
9 1 (1.03%) Postman
9 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.03%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
9 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.03%) TestNG
General
1 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.06%) Games
6 2 (2.06%) Law
7 1 (1.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Data Engineer
1 24 (24.74%) Developer
2 21 (21.65%) Senior
3 19 (19.59%) Lead
4 15 (15.46%) Architect
5 12 (12.37%) Java Developer
6 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.22%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Integration Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Analyst
11 4 (4.12%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.90%) REST
2 21 (21.65%) Spring
3 18 (18.56%) Node.js
3 18 (18.56%) React
3 18 (18.56%) Spring Boot
4 13 (13.40%) RESTful
5 12 (12.37%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (11.34%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (8.25%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.25%) Mustache
8 7 (7.22%) CSS
8 7 (7.22%) HTML
8 7 (7.22%) LangChain
8 7 (7.22%) LlamaIndex
8 7 (7.22%) pgvector
8 7 (7.22%) PyTorch
8 7 (7.22%) scikit-learn
8 7 (7.22%) TensorFlow
8 7 (7.22%) Web Services
9 6 (6.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.77%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (19.59%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.34%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.22%) Clustering
4 7 (7.22%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.06%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.03%) IoT
8 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.03%) NHS
8 1 (1.03%) Replication
8 1 (1.03%) Robotics
8 1 (1.03%) Social Media
8 1 (1.03%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Android
2 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.70%) Agile
2 45 (46.39%) CI/CD
3 43 (44.33%) Microservices
4 32 (32.99%) Analytics
4 32 (32.99%) Event-Driven
5 30 (30.93%) Data Modelling
6 26 (26.80%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (26.80%) DevOps
6 26 (26.80%) Scrum
7 25 (25.77%) Data Engineering
8 22 (22.68%) Observability
9 21 (21.65%) ETL
10 20 (20.62%) AI
10 20 (20.62%) Containerisation
11 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (19.59%) Machine Learning
12 17 (17.53%) Data Science
12 17 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (16.49%) Data Governance
13 16 (16.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.61%) Python
2 49 (50.52%) SQL
3 44 (45.36%) Java
4 23 (23.71%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.22%) Rust
7 6 (6.19%) C#
7 6 (6.19%) Groovy
8 4 (4.12%) Scala
9 3 (3.09%) Go
9 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.06%) C++
10 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.03%) Bash
11 1 (1.03%) C
11 1 (1.03%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.03%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.25%) Degree
3 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.28%) QA
3 7 (7.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (7.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (37.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 39 (40.21%) Kubernetes
2 24 (24.74%) Terraform
3 8 (8.25%) Ansible
4 6 (6.19%) Grafana
4 6 (6.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.09%) Kibana
6 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.03%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Databricks
2 7 (7.22%) Cloudera
2 7 (7.22%) Dell
3 5 (5.15%) HubSpot
3 5 (5.15%) Pega
4 4 (4.12%) Informatica
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) Adobe
5 3 (3.09%) Confluent
5 3 (3.09%) Google
5 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.03%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Splunk