Kafka Job Trends in Blackpool

Apache Kafka
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Blackpool 0.68% - 2.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% - 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £57,988 - -
25th Percentile £58,719 - £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,403 - £49,274
75th Percentile £69,051 - £53,811
90th Percentile £70,361 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £58,750 - £49,274

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 32 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackpool 10.92% 1.45% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31 0 4
10th Percentile £44,447 - -
25th Percentile £59,005 - £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 - £46,774
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.64%
75th Percentile £82,786 - £53,811
90th Percentile £88,148 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £47,988 £42,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.22% -22.94% +10.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Kafka
Salary Trend in Blackpool

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica