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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 358 280
Rank change year-on-year +155 -78 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 465 254 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.35% 0.52% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.90% 2.89% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 87 155 281
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,875 £43,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -22.07% -2.03%
75th Percentile £91,125 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £99,050 £97,300 £90,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £72,500 £81,000
% change year-on-year +24.14% -10.49% -4.71%

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 4,268 8,801 8,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.39% 18.11% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 5,044 6,290
10th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,738 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +3.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +108 163 £70,000 +27.27% 51
North West +97 145 £70,000 +27.27% 31
Scotland +59 127 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Midlands +99 69 £67,500 +12.50% 13
South East -7 52 £70,000 +55.56% 220
East Midlands +49 42 £67,500 +49.17% 6
South West +50 29 £80,000 +10.34% 11
West Midlands +64 27 £56,250 -6.25% 7
East of England +34 22 £71,500 +19.17% 5
Yorkshire +16 12 £75,000 +36.36% 14
North East +19 6 £47,500 -3.60% 6
Northern Ireland +7 4 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Wales +10 2 £73,316 +65.33% 3
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
1 162 (34.84%) Confluence
2 30 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 25 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (4.09%) Apache
5 11 (2.37%) Appian
6 4 (0.86%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.65%) Mule
7 3 (0.65%) SAS
8 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 383 (82.37%) AWS
2 303 (65.16%) Azure
3 194 (41.72%) GCP
4 35 (7.53%) Amazon S3
5 30 (6.45%) GitHub
6 27 (5.81%) Serverless
7 20 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.87%) Power Platform
9 15 (3.23%) SaaS
10 13 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.58%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (2.37%) MinIO
13 10 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.29%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.08%) HTTP
2 3 (0.65%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.43%) AMQP
3 2 (0.43%) Broadband
3 2 (0.43%) Internet
3 2 (0.43%) MQTT
4 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (57.20%) SQL Server
2 60 (12.90%) MongoDB
3 57 (12.26%) NoSQL
4 40 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (6.88%) Big Data
6 25 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 20 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.44%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 15 (3.23%) Hadoop
9 15 (3.23%) MySQL
10 14 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.94%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (1.94%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.72%) KDB
14 8 (1.72%) Kdb+
15 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.51%) Impala
Development Applications
1 267 (57.42%) Selenium
2 259 (55.70%) JIRA
3 257 (55.27%) Cucumber
4 253 (54.41%) GitLab
4 253 (54.41%) Maven
5 249 (53.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 248 (53.33%) SonarQube
7 246 (52.90%) Bitbucket
8 32 (6.88%) Jenkins
9 17 (3.66%) Git
10 14 (3.01%) JUnit
11 11 (2.37%) Robot Framework
11 11 (2.37%) Snyk
12 5 (1.08%) git-flow
12 5 (1.08%) JMeter
12 5 (1.08%) Subversion
13 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.86%) Mockito
14 3 (0.65%) TeamCity
15 2 (0.43%) LoadRunner
General
1 344 (73.98%) Finance
2 319 (68.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 301 (64.73%) Banking
4 107 (23.01%) Investment Banking
5 90 (19.35%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (19.35%) Retail
6 83 (17.85%) Law
7 47 (10.11%) Social Skills
8 20 (4.30%) Marketing
9 9 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.94%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.29%) Legal
11 5 (1.08%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.86%) Advertising
12 4 (0.86%) Private Banking
12 4 (0.86%) Publishing
13 3 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.65%) Games
13 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 342 (73.55%) Software Engineer
2 63 (13.55%) Java Engineer
3 54 (11.61%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (8.60%) Developer
5 39 (8.39%) Lead
6 29 (6.24%) Architect
7 26 (5.59%) Senior
8 25 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 23 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 23 (4.95%) Java Developer
10 19 (4.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 19 (4.09%) Python Engineer
11 17 (3.66%) Lead Java Engineer
12 14 (3.01%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.01%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.58%) Applications Architect
14 12 (2.58%) Kafka Developer
14 12 (2.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (73.76%) Spring
2 316 (67.96%) Spring Boot
3 311 (66.88%) React
4 260 (55.91%) CSS
5 258 (55.48%) HTML
6 251 (53.98%) Redux
7 246 (52.90%) JPA
8 167 (35.91%) Hibernate
9 121 (26.02%) RESTful
10 112 (24.09%) REST
11 93 (20.00%) HTML5
11 93 (20.00%) Jest
12 90 (19.35%) CSS3
12 90 (19.35%) Sass
13 23 (4.95%) AngularJS
14 22 (4.73%) .NET
14 22 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
16 11 (2.37%) Node.js
16 11 (2.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 267 (57.42%) Product Ownership
2 253 (54.41%) Enterprise Software
3 70 (15.05%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.73%) Algorithms
5 21 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.58%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.37%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.72%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.29%) Wiki
12 5 (1.08%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.86%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.86%) Derivative
13 4 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (0.86%) Equities
13 4 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.86%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.29%) Linux
2 4 (0.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (89.46%) Agile
2 371 (79.78%) Software Engineering
3 370 (79.57%) CI/CD
4 341 (73.33%) Microservices
5 318 (68.39%) SDLC
6 313 (67.31%) DevOps
7 291 (62.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 281 (60.43%) Test Automation
9 269 (57.85%) Containerisation
10 254 (54.62%) Front End Development
11 251 (53.98%) Performance Optimisation
12 193 (41.51%) TDD
13 188 (40.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 165 (35.48%) Clean Code
15 131 (28.17%) Mentoring
16 106 (22.80%) User Experience
17 93 (20.00%) Migration
18 91 (19.57%) Responsive Web Design
18 91 (19.57%) Strategic Thinking
19 65 (13.98%) AI
Programming Languages
1 383 (82.37%) Java
2 322 (69.25%) SQL
3 277 (59.57%) JavaScript
4 117 (25.16%) TypeScript
5 64 (13.76%) Python
6 35 (7.53%) C#
7 8 (1.72%) Go
8 5 (1.08%) Bash
8 5 (1.08%) Groovy
9 4 (0.86%) C++
9 4 (0.86%) R
10 3 (0.65%) PROC SQL
10 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) Rust
11 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (5.81%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.16%) AWS Certification
3 20 (4.30%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.01%) Degree
5 13 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (55.05%) QA
2 90 (19.35%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.80%) GDPR
4 10 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.65%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 299 (64.30%) Docker
2 7 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 321 (69.03%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.67%) Terraform
3 16 (3.44%) Ansible
4 7 (1.51%) Grafana
4 7 (1.51%) Kibana
5 3 (0.65%) logstash
5 3 (0.65%) Oozie
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Control-M
6 2 (0.43%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Istio
7 1 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (52.90%) Solace
2 36 (7.74%) Oracle
3 20 (4.30%) VMware
4 17 (3.66%) Databricks
5 13 (2.80%) Google
6 11 (2.37%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (2.37%) Black Duck
6 11 (2.37%) UiPath
7 9 (1.94%) Splunk
8 8 (1.72%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.29%) Blue Prism
9 6 (1.29%) Coverity
10 4 (0.86%) SAP
11 3 (0.65%) IBM
11 3 (0.65%) Informatica
11 3 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.22%) Sybase