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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 281 342
Rank change year-on-year +60 +61 -115
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 553 676 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 0.86% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.09% 4.60% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 155 308 300
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.60% -10.39%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,750 £84,292
90th Percentile £107,250 £91,250 £100,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +6.06%

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 5,482 14,704 14,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.24% 18.68% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,299 10,576 8,448
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 £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,400 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +4.69%

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 30 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 30 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 +136 197 £70,000 +14.29% 195
North West +90 178 £67,500 +12.50% 125
Scotland 0 137 £67,500 +3.85% 97
South East -3 80 £72,500 +31.82% 222
Midlands +138 74 £67,500 +12.50% 101
East Midlands +82 42 £67,500 +12.50% 35
South West +102 34 £67,500 - 91
West Midlands +84 32 £65,000 -14.75% 66
East of England +32 19 £71,500 -15.88% 66
Northern Ireland +46 14 £55,000 -21.43% 43
Yorkshire +50 13 £100,000 +47.52% 63
North East +54 6 £47,500 -17.39% 7
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 (29.48%) Confluence
2 45 (8.14%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.52%) Apache
4 21 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.90%) Appian
6 5 (0.90%) nginx
6 5 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.72%) GemFire
8 3 (0.54%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 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
1 410 (74.14%) AWS
2 329 (59.49%) Azure
3 205 (37.07%) GCP
4 30 (5.42%) Amazon S3
5 27 (4.88%) Serverless
6 26 (4.70%) GitHub
7 24 (4.34%) Snowflake
8 20 (3.62%) SaaS
9 18 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.17%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.81%) OpenShift
15 9 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
17 6 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 5 (0.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
18 5 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.45%) HTTP
2 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.54%) Internet
3 3 (0.54%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (51.90%) SQL Server
2 100 (18.08%) MongoDB
3 66 (11.93%) NoSQL
4 50 (9.04%) Big Data
5 47 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (7.23%) Relational Database
7 26 (4.70%) Hadoop
7 26 (4.70%) MySQL
8 21 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.71%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (2.35%) Apache Hive
12 13 (2.35%) Apache Iceberg
13 12 (2.17%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.99%) DynamoDB
15 10 (1.81%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 269 (48.64%) GitLab
2 266 (48.10%) Selenium
3 262 (47.38%) JIRA
4 260 (47.02%) Maven
5 257 (46.47%) Bitbucket
5 257 (46.47%) Cucumber
6 251 (45.39%) SonarQube
7 246 (44.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 47 (8.50%) Jenkins
9 37 (6.69%) Git
10 30 (5.42%) JUnit
11 13 (2.35%) Mockito
12 6 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (1.08%) Postman
13 5 (0.90%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.90%) Snyk
13 5 (0.90%) Subversion
13 5 (0.90%) TestNG
14 4 (0.72%) Gradle
15 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 378 (68.35%) Finance
2 330 (59.67%) Banking
3 323 (58.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (20.25%) Investment Banking
5 96 (17.36%) Retail
6 93 (16.82%) Law
7 90 (16.27%) Corporate Banking
8 59 (10.67%) Social Skills
9 23 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (3.98%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.62%) Marketing
12 14 (2.53%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.45%) Games
13 8 (1.45%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.08%) Legal
15 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 367 (66.37%) Software Engineer
2 80 (14.47%) Lead
3 73 (13.20%) Developer
3 73 (13.20%) Java Engineer
4 59 (10.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 49 (8.86%) Java Developer
6 46 (8.32%) Senior
7 37 (6.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 22 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (3.80%) Data Engineer
9 21 (3.80%) Senior Developer
10 20 (3.62%) Python Engineer
11 17 (3.07%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 17 (3.07%) Lead Java Engineer
12 16 (2.89%) Architect
12 16 (2.89%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (2.71%) Technical Leader
14 14 (2.53%) Python Software Engineer
15 12 (2.17%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (66.55%) Spring
2 345 (62.39%) Spring Boot
3 333 (60.22%) React
4 257 (46.47%) CSS
5 256 (46.29%) HTML
6 249 (45.03%) Redux
7 248 (44.85%) JPA
8 175 (31.65%) Hibernate
9 136 (24.59%) REST
10 132 (23.87%) RESTful
11 93 (16.82%) HTML5
12 92 (16.64%) Jest
13 90 (16.27%) CSS3
13 90 (16.27%) Sass
14 38 (6.87%) .NET
14 38 (6.87%) AngularJS
15 32 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (4.34%) Node.js
17 16 (2.89%) gRPC
18 14 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 275 (49.73%) Product Ownership
2 251 (45.39%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (13.20%) Cloud Native
4 43 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.70%) Algorithms
6 24 (4.34%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.62%) Public Cloud
8 18 (3.25%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.81%) Replication
10 8 (1.45%) Derivative
11 7 (1.27%) Equities
11 7 (1.27%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.08%) Wiki
13 5 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.90%) Life Science
13 5 (0.90%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.72%) Legacy Code
14 4 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.44%) Linux
2 13 (2.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (80.29%) Agile
2 418 (75.59%) Software Engineering
3 393 (71.07%) CI/CD
4 370 (66.91%) Microservices
5 331 (59.86%) SDLC
6 327 (59.13%) DevOps
7 301 (54.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 293 (52.98%) Test Automation
9 281 (50.81%) Containerisation
10 256 (46.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 254 (45.93%) Front End Development
12 210 (37.97%) TDD
13 196 (35.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 168 (30.38%) Clean Code
15 147 (26.58%) Mentoring
16 112 (20.25%) User Experience
17 91 (16.46%) Migration
17 91 (16.46%) Responsive Web Design
17 91 (16.46%) Strategic Thinking
18 67 (12.12%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 447 (80.83%) Java
2 342 (61.84%) SQL
3 300 (54.25%) JavaScript
4 129 (23.33%) TypeScript
5 81 (14.65%) Python
6 63 (11.39%) C#
7 7 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.08%) Bash
8 6 (1.08%) R
9 5 (0.90%) C++
9 5 (0.90%) Go
10 3 (0.54%) Groovy
10 3 (0.54%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.36%) Scala
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (5.79%) Degree
2 31 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.27%) CISSP
9 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (46.65%) QA
2 99 (17.90%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.71%) GDPR
4 13 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.35%) Def Stans
5 9 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.36%) SEPA
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) RMADS
System Software
1 348 (62.93%) Docker
2 10 (1.81%) HDFS
3 6 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.54%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 371 (67.09%) Kubernetes
2 52 (9.40%) Terraform
3 16 (2.89%) Ansible
3 16 (2.89%) Grafana
4 11 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.90%) Kibana
5 5 (0.90%) Kustomize
5 5 (0.90%) Packer
6 3 (0.54%) logstash
6 3 (0.54%) Oozie
7 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 250 (45.21%) Solace
2 48 (8.68%) Oracle
3 32 (5.79%) Databricks
4 21 (3.80%) VMware
5 16 (2.89%) Google
6 13 (2.35%) Splunk
7 10 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.27%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.08%) Sybase
10 5 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (0.90%) Black Duck
10 5 (0.90%) UiPath
11 4 (0.72%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.72%) SAP
11 4 (0.72%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.54%) Informatica
12 3 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.36%) IBM
13 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.36%) WSO2