Kafka Job Trends in Bridgend

Apache Kafka
South Wales > Bridgend

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bridgend requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgend 1.47% - 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% - 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 - £57,500
75th Percentile - - £66,250
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £73,316 £44,344 £65,000
% change year-on-year +65.33% -31.78% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bridgend

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 Bridgend.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 19 0 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bridgend 27.94% - 47.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 0 9
10th Percentile £51,000 - £25,313
25th Percentile £52,500 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.18%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile £58,750 - £69,000
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgend

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Bridgend

Kafka
Salary Trend in Bridgend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CQRS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft