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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 184 278
Rank change year-on-year -267 +94 +62
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 147 549 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 1.80% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 10.94% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 107 156 314
10th Percentile £53,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,875 £91,250
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -15.24%

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 5,719 5,016 14,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.36% 16.41% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,623 3,166 10,620
10th Percentile £36,350 £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 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -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 26 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 26 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 -154 49 £75,000 +7.14% 26
South East -73 42 £67,500 -6.90% 28
North West -85 42 £75,000 +11.11% 19
East of England -21 14 £72,500 +1.40% 4
South West -78 14 £85,000 +25.93% 11
Midlands -79 12 £87,500 +29.63% 8
West Midlands -39 10 £87,500 +34.62% 6
Wales - 10 £70,000 - 3
Scotland -83 7 £65,000 -3.70% 7
North East -45 4 £62,500 +31.58% 3
Yorkshire -48 3 £90,000 -10.00% 4
East Midlands -61 2 £71,500 +5.93% 2
Northern Ireland -48 1 - - 4
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 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (10.88%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.12%) Apache
4 2 (1.36%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (1.36%) CICS
4 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) Camunda
5 1 (0.68%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 99 (67.35%) AWS
2 71 (48.30%) Azure
3 46 (31.29%) GCP
4 31 (21.09%) Serverless
5 21 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (13.61%) GitHub
7 18 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (10.88%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 14 (9.52%) dbt
9 14 (9.52%) Snowflake
10 12 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (6.80%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (6.12%) Power Platform
14 8 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.76%) Datadog
15 7 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.93%) MQTT
2 3 (2.04%) Network Security
3 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 2 (1.36%) SSL
4 1 (0.68%) AMQP
4 1 (0.68%) Broadband
4 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.73%) MongoDB
1 29 (19.73%) NoSQL
2 23 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (11.56%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.56%) SQL Server
4 15 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (6.80%) Looker
7 10 (6.80%) MySQL
8 9 (6.12%) DynamoDB
8 9 (6.12%) Flink
8 9 (6.12%) Power BI
8 9 (6.12%) Redis
8 9 (6.12%) Relational Database
9 8 (5.44%) BigQuery
9 8 (5.44%) Tableau
10 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (21.77%) Git
2 16 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.52%) GitLab
4 7 (4.76%) MLflow
5 6 (4.08%) JIRA
6 4 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.72%) IntelliJ
6 4 (2.72%) JUnit
7 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.04%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.04%) Postman
7 3 (2.04%) Selenium
7 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.68%) Mockito
9 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (15.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Finance
4 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.72%) Advertising
6 3 (2.04%) Banking
6 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.36%) Automotive
7 2 (1.36%) Law
7 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (27.21%) Developer
2 35 (23.81%) Senior
3 29 (19.73%) Data Engineer
4 23 (15.65%) Lead
5 19 (12.93%) Architect
5 19 (12.93%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.48%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.44%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Backend Developer
9 7 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Integration Developer
9 7 (4.76%) Lead Developer
9 7 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.17%) Spring
2 35 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 34 (23.13%) REST
4 28 (19.05%) RESTful
5 23 (15.65%) RabbitMQ
6 19 (12.93%) Node.js
7 14 (9.52%) Hibernate
8 13 (8.84%) .NET
8 13 (8.84%) JPA
8 13 (8.84%) React
9 9 (6.12%) OpenAPI
9 9 (6.12%) PyTorch
9 9 (6.12%) scikit-learn
9 9 (6.12%) Swagger
9 9 (6.12%) TensorFlow
10 8 (5.44%) FastAPI
10 8 (5.44%) PySpark
10 8 (5.44%) SOAP
11 7 (4.76%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.93%) Cloud Native
2 38 (25.85%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.88%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.44%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.76%) Clustering
7 6 (4.08%) Robotics
8 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.40%) Mainframe
9 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.72%) Replication
10 3 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.82%) CI/CD
2 74 (50.34%) Agile
3 68 (46.26%) Microservices
4 55 (37.41%) Event-Driven
5 54 (36.73%) DevOps
6 46 (31.29%) Containerisation
7 45 (30.61%) Observability
8 44 (29.93%) AI
9 41 (27.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (25.17%) Analytics
11 33 (22.45%) Machine Learning
11 33 (22.45%) Mentoring
12 31 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (21.09%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (20.41%) Data Modelling
14 29 (19.73%) Scrum
15 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (15.65%) Test Automation
17 22 (14.97%) ETL
17 22 (14.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (57.14%) Python
2 67 (45.58%) SQL
3 66 (44.90%) Java
4 26 (17.69%) JavaScript
5 20 (13.61%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.52%) Rust
7 10 (6.80%) C#
8 9 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.44%) Scala
10 7 (4.76%) Go
11 6 (4.08%) Groovy
12 5 (3.40%) Bash
12 5 (3.40%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.72%) C++
13 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
14 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
14 3 (2.04%) Ruby
15 2 (1.36%) Bicep
16 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.68%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) Degree
3 20 (13.61%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.36%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.84%) QA
3 7 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (4.76%) GDPR
4 5 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (41.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (51.02%) Kubernetes
2 50 (34.01%) Terraform
3 15 (10.20%) Ansible
4 14 (9.52%) Grafana
5 11 (7.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.08%) Puppet
7 5 (3.40%) Kibana
8 4 (2.72%) Argo
8 4 (2.72%) Podman
9 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.56%) Databricks
3 9 (6.12%) Oracle
4 7 (4.76%) Cloudera
4 7 (4.76%) Dell
4 7 (4.76%) HubSpot
4 7 (4.76%) Splunk
5 5 (3.40%) Google
6 4 (2.72%) Confluent
6 4 (2.72%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.72%) NVIDIA
6 4 (2.72%) Pega
7 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.04%) Tenable
8 2 (1.36%) Adobe
9 1 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.68%) Informatica
9 1 (0.68%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.68%) UiPath