Kafka Job Trends in Coventry

Apache Kafka
West Midlands > Coventry

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 0.30% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +18.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 30 35 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 9.09% 23.18% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 25 20 43
10th Percentile £41,925 £51,875 £40,100
25th Percentile £42,000 £56,563 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £55,625 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £74,250 -
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £59,430 £53,500
% change year-on-year -11.66% +11.08% -4.46%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Coventry

Kafka
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
1 1 (100.00%) Flutter
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform