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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 186 272
Rank change year-on-year -282 +86 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 130 540 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 1.82% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.42% 10.80% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 90 158 314
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,938 £57,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -12.82%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,875 £91,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 5,367 5,002 14,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.06% 16.84% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,285 3,194 10,663
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £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 £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -158 47 £77,500 +10.71% 32
South East -68 41 £67,500 -6.90% 27
North West -100 36 £80,000 +18.52% 19
South West -72 12 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands -93 11 £87,500 +25.00% 3
East of England -38 10 £72,500 +1.40% 4
West Midlands -53 9 £87,500 +12.90% 1
Yorkshire -47 7 £80,000 - 8
Scotland -85 5 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Wales - 5 £63,750 - 5
North East -43 4 £62,500 - 5
East Midlands -71 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
Northern Ireland -47 1 - - 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 17 (13.08%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (13.08%) Apache Spark
2 10 (7.69%) Apache
3 6 (4.62%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (1.54%) CICS
5 1 (0.77%) Camunda
5 1 (0.77%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 89 (68.46%) AWS
2 55 (42.31%) Azure
3 36 (27.69%) GCP
4 30 (23.08%) Serverless
5 17 (13.08%) Amazon S3
5 17 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (12.31%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (10.77%) dbt
8 14 (10.77%) GitHub
8 14 (10.77%) Snowflake
9 11 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (6.92%) Power Platform
11 8 (6.15%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (5.38%) Datadog
13 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.77%) MQTT
2 3 (2.31%) Network Security
3 2 (1.54%) Firewall
3 2 (1.54%) SSL
4 1 (0.77%) AMQP
4 1 (0.77%) Broadband
4 1 (0.77%) HTTP
4 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.54%) NoSQL
2 23 (17.69%) MongoDB
3 20 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (13.85%) Data Lake
5 15 (11.54%) SQL Server
6 14 (10.77%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (7.69%) Looker
9 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
10 9 (6.92%) BigQuery
10 9 (6.92%) DynamoDB
10 9 (6.92%) Power BI
11 8 (6.15%) Flink
11 8 (6.15%) Redis
11 8 (6.15%) Tableau
12 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (5.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (3.85%) Big Data
13 5 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (23.08%) Git
2 16 (12.31%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.23%) GitLab
4 7 (5.38%) JIRA
4 7 (5.38%) MLflow
5 5 (3.85%) JUnit
6 4 (3.08%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.31%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.31%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.54%) JMeter
9 1 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.77%) Mockito
9 1 (0.77%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.77%) Selenium
9 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Finance
3 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.08%) Advertising
6 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.54%) Banking
7 2 (1.54%) Games
7 2 (1.54%) Law
8 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.77%) Automotive
8 1 (0.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) Developer
2 31 (23.85%) Senior
3 29 (22.31%) Data Engineer
4 18 (13.85%) Architect
4 18 (13.85%) Lead
5 17 (13.08%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Backend Developer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Integration Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Lead Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.15%) REST
2 31 (23.85%) Spring
3 28 (21.54%) Spring Boot
4 19 (14.62%) Node.js
5 18 (13.85%) RESTful
6 14 (10.77%) RabbitMQ
6 14 (10.77%) React
7 11 (8.46%) .NET
8 9 (6.92%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.15%) PySpark
9 8 (6.15%) PyTorch
9 8 (6.15%) scikit-learn
9 8 (6.15%) SOAP
9 8 (6.15%) TensorFlow
10 7 (5.38%) JWT
10 7 (5.38%) LangChain
10 7 (5.38%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (5.38%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 38 (29.23%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (25.38%) Cloud Native
3 14 (10.77%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.15%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.38%) Clustering
5 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.85%) Robotics
7 4 (3.08%) Replication
8 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.31%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.77%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.77%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.77%) Social Media
10 1 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Android
2 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (56.15%) CI/CD
2 69 (53.08%) Agile
3 64 (49.23%) Microservices
4 47 (36.15%) Event-Driven
5 43 (33.08%) DevOps
6 39 (30.00%) AI
6 39 (30.00%) Observability
7 37 (28.46%) Containerisation
8 35 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (25.38%) Analytics
10 31 (23.85%) Data Modelling
10 31 (23.85%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (22.31%) Machine Learning
12 28 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (20.77%) Mentoring
14 26 (20.00%) Scrum
15 22 (16.92%) Data Engineering
15 22 (16.92%) Test Automation
16 21 (16.15%) ETL
17 20 (15.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.69%) Python
2 63 (48.46%) SQL
3 56 (43.08%) Java
4 28 (21.54%) JavaScript
5 21 (16.15%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.00%) Rust
7 10 (7.69%) C#
8 7 (5.38%) Groovy
8 7 (5.38%) Scala
9 5 (3.85%) Go
9 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.85%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.31%) C++
10 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.54%) Bash
11 2 (1.54%) Bicep
11 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.77%) C
12 1 (0.77%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.77%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 25 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.85%) Degree
3 17 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.69%) QA
3 7 (5.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (5.38%) GDPR
4 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (39.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 42 (32.31%) Terraform
3 14 (10.77%) Ansible
4 11 (8.46%) Grafana
5 9 (6.92%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.62%) Puppet
7 5 (3.85%) Kibana
8 4 (3.08%) Podman
9 2 (1.54%) Argo
9 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (13.85%) Databricks
2 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.92%) Oracle
4 7 (5.38%) Cloudera
4 7 (5.38%) Dell
4 7 (5.38%) HubSpot
5 5 (3.85%) Pega
6 4 (3.08%) Confluent
6 4 (3.08%) Google
6 4 (3.08%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.31%) Splunk
7 3 (2.31%) Tenable
8 2 (1.54%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.77%) Informatica
9 1 (0.77%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.77%) UiPath