Kafka Jobs in Belfast

Apache Kafka
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 55 94
Rank change year-on-year +37 +39 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 14 11 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 7.69% 2.02% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.15% 7.53% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £47,000 - £59,500
25th Percentile £50,000 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +33.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £91,250
90th Percentile - - £96,500
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% -3.45% +21.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 146 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 22.53% 26.79% 53.72%
Number of salaries quoted 16 76 272
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,188 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £65,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -0.99%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Belfast

Kafka
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Belfast.

Salary trend for Kafka in Belfast

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 6 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 5 (35.71%) Apache
2 5 (35.71%) nginx
2 5 (35.71%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Apache Hive
1 6 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) Big Data
2 5 (35.71%) Hadoop
2 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (28.57%) MySQL
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.14%) HBase
5 1 (7.14%) Impala
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (42.86%) Maven
3 5 (35.71%) Bitbucket
3 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
3 5 (35.71%) JUnit
3 5 (35.71%) Mockito
3 5 (35.71%) Postman
3 5 (35.71%) Selenium
3 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 5 (35.71%) TestNG
4 2 (14.29%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) Gradle
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
1 8 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Java Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) Spring
1 12 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 6 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (42.86%) REST
3 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
3 5 (35.71%) Guice
3 5 (35.71%) JAX-RS
3 5 (35.71%) Mustache
3 5 (35.71%) OpenAPI
3 5 (35.71%) RESTful
3 5 (35.71%) Swagger
3 5 (35.71%) WireMock
4 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 4 (28.57%) J2EE
4 4 (28.57%) Java EE
5 2 (14.29%) JSON
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
6 1 (7.14%) Grails
6 1 (7.14%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Life Science
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Multithreading
3 9 (64.29%) OO
3 9 (64.29%) OOP
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Auto-Scaling
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
5 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
5 5 (35.71%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (35.71%) Innovative Thinking
5 5 (35.71%) Low Latency
5 5 (35.71%) MVC
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (28.57%) OOD
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Groovy
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Kustomize
2 5 (35.71%) Packer
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Control-M
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Sybase
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) BMC
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk