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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 384 251
Rank change year-on-year +63 -133 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 208 231 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.48% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.31% 2.69% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 74 135 311
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £44,738 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -19.24% +0.82%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £91,250 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 3,919 8,596 7,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.65% 17.95% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 4,870 6,011
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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
Scotland +43 78 £60,000 -4.00% 11
North of England +46 49 £70,000 +27.27% 34
South East -12 38 £70,000 +55.56% 76
North West +48 35 £70,000 +27.27% 30
South West +18 24 £76,250 +27.08% 15
Yorkshire +8 11 £73,000 +32.73% 4
Midlands +48 8 £70,000 +16.67% 16
East of England +25 7 £71,500 +14.40% 11
West Midlands +39 4 £70,000 +16.67% 13
East Midlands +22 4 £68,750 +24.72% 3
Northern Ireland +3 4 £45,000 -14.29% 6
North East +9 3 £47,500 -3.60%
Wales +8 2 £73,316 +65.33% 7
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 30 (14.42%) Apache Spark
2 24 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (8.65%) Apache
4 11 (5.29%) Appian
5 6 (2.88%) Confluence
6 4 (1.92%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.44%) Mule
7 3 (1.44%) SAS
8 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.48%) JBoss
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (64.42%) AWS
2 58 (27.88%) Azure
3 37 (17.79%) GCP
4 36 (17.31%) Amazon S3
5 29 (13.94%) GitHub
6 25 (12.02%) Serverless
7 19 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (8.17%) Power Platform
9 14 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.73%) SaaS
10 13 (6.25%) Snowflake
11 12 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (5.29%) MinIO
13 10 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (2.88%) OpenShift
17 5 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.96%) AMQP
3 2 (0.96%) Internet
4 1 (0.48%) MQTT
4 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (26.92%) NoSQL
2 47 (22.60%) MongoDB
3 38 (18.27%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (15.87%) Big Data
5 25 (12.02%) Relational Database
6 20 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (8.17%) DynamoDB
8 16 (7.69%) SQL Server
9 15 (7.21%) Hadoop
9 15 (7.21%) MySQL
10 14 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (6.73%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (4.33%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (4.33%) RDBMS
13 8 (3.85%) KDB
13 8 (3.85%) Kdb+
14 7 (3.37%) Data Lake
14 7 (3.37%) Impala
Development Applications
1 29 (13.94%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.10%) Selenium
3 14 (6.73%) Git
4 13 (6.25%) JIRA
4 13 (6.25%) JUnit
5 11 (5.29%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.29%) Robot Framework
5 11 (5.29%) Snyk
6 7 (3.37%) GitLab
6 7 (3.37%) Maven
7 6 (2.88%) git-flow
8 5 (2.40%) JMeter
8 5 (2.40%) Subversion
9 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.92%) Mockito
10 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.96%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.48%) Ant
12 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 97 (46.63%) Finance
2 82 (39.42%) Law
3 73 (35.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (25.96%) Banking
5 46 (22.12%) Social Skills
6 20 (9.62%) Marketing
7 17 (8.17%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.37%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.88%) Legal
11 5 (2.40%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.92%) Private Banking
12 4 (1.92%) Publishing
13 3 (1.44%) Advertising
13 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.44%) Games
13 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (44.23%) Software Engineer
2 59 (28.37%) Java Engineer
3 51 (24.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 41 (19.71%) Developer
5 36 (17.31%) Lead
6 27 (12.98%) Architect
7 24 (11.54%) Lead Software Engineer
7 24 (11.54%) Senior
8 23 (11.06%) Java Developer
9 21 (10.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 17 (8.17%) Python Engineer
12 16 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
13 14 (6.73%) Data Engineer
14 13 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
14 13 (6.25%) Senior Developer
14 13 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (5.77%) Applications Architect
15 12 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (45.19%) Spring
2 66 (31.73%) Spring Boot
3 64 (30.77%) React
4 31 (14.90%) RESTful
5 22 (10.58%) AngularJS
6 21 (10.10%) RabbitMQ
7 20 (9.62%) .NET
8 18 (8.65%) REST
9 15 (7.21%) Apache NiFi
10 14 (6.73%) CSS
11 12 (5.77%) HTML
12 11 (5.29%) Hibernate
12 11 (5.29%) Web Services
13 10 (4.81%) Node.js
14 8 (3.85%) Django
14 8 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (3.85%) GraphQL
15 7 (3.37%) J2EE
16 6 (2.88%) gRPC
16 6 (2.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (33.65%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.58%) Algorithms
3 20 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (9.13%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.29%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.29%) Low-Code
6 10 (4.81%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.85%) Reference Data
8 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.88%) Wiki
10 4 (1.92%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.92%) Derivative
10 4 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.92%) Equities
10 4 (1.92%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.92%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.37%) Linux
2 4 (1.92%) Unix
3 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (80.29%) Agile
2 119 (57.21%) CI/CD
3 118 (56.73%) Software Engineering
4 93 (44.71%) Microservices
5 70 (33.65%) SDLC
6 68 (32.69%) DevOps
7 65 (31.25%) AI
8 61 (29.33%) Operational Stability
9 57 (27.40%) Machine Learning
10 44 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 42 (20.19%) Community of Practice
12 40 (19.23%) Mentoring
13 36 (17.31%) Data Modelling
13 36 (17.31%) TDD
14 34 (16.35%) Event-Driven
15 33 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (14.90%) Test Automation
17 28 (13.46%) Architectural Patterns
17 28 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
18 27 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 131 (62.98%) Java
2 77 (37.02%) SQL
3 61 (29.33%) Python
4 34 (16.35%) C#
5 27 (12.98%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.02%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.33%) Go
8 6 (2.88%) Bash
9 3 (1.44%) C++
9 3 (1.44%) Groovy
9 3 (1.44%) PROC SQL
9 3 (1.44%) R
9 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Rust
10 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (10.58%) AWS Certification
2 20 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.77%) Degree
5 11 (5.29%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.37%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.29%) GDPR
2 10 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.81%) QA
3 7 (3.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 70 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 32 (15.38%) Terraform
3 16 (7.69%) Ansible
4 7 (3.37%) Kibana
5 4 (1.92%) Grafana
6 3 (1.44%) logstash
6 3 (1.44%) Oozie
7 2 (0.96%) Control-M
7 2 (0.96%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) Istio
8 1 (0.48%) Podman
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (16.35%) Oracle
2 16 (7.69%) Databricks
3 14 (6.73%) VMware
4 13 (6.25%) Google
5 11 (5.29%) BiZZdesign
5 11 (5.29%) Black Duck
5 11 (5.29%) UiPath
6 9 (4.33%) Splunk
7 6 (2.88%) Blue Prism
7 6 (2.88%) Coverity
7 6 (2.88%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.88%) SAP
8 5 (2.40%) Informatica
9 3 (1.44%) IBM
9 3 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.96%) Adobe
11 1 (0.48%) Sybase