Kafka Jobs in the East Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 187 154
Rank change year-on-year +69 -33 +4
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 41 9 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.49% 0.20% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.19% 1.17% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £58,375 £41,500 £56,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £55,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £71,563 £77,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £72,125 - £93,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 289 770 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.52% 17.13% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 189 583 361
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East Midlands

Kafka
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Kafka in the East Midlands

Kafka
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 25 - - 7
Derbyshire - 6 - - 5
Leicestershire - 6 - - 3
Nottinghamshire +22 2 £66,250 +10.42% 5
Lincolnshire +14 2 - - 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (82.93%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (97.56%) Azure
3 34 (82.93%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) dbt
4 1 (2.44%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (95.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (95.12%) Bitbucket
1 39 (95.12%) Cucumber
1 39 (95.12%) GitLab
1 39 (95.12%) JIRA
1 39 (95.12%) Maven
1 39 (95.12%) Selenium
1 39 (95.12%) SonarQube
1 39 (95.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (95.12%) Banking
1 39 (95.12%) Finance
1 39 (95.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (12.20%) Corporate Banking
2 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
2 5 (12.20%) Retail
3 1 (2.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (95.12%) Software Engineer
2 1 (2.44%) Data Engineer
2 1 (2.44%) Developer
2 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (2.44%) Lead
2 1 (2.44%) Lead Developer
2 1 (2.44%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (2.44%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
2 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (97.56%) React
1 40 (97.56%) Spring
1 40 (97.56%) Spring Boot
2 39 (95.12%) CSS
2 39 (95.12%) HTML
2 39 (95.12%) JPA
2 39 (95.12%) Redux
3 34 (82.93%) Hibernate
4 5 (12.20%) CSS3
4 5 (12.20%) HTML5
4 5 (12.20%) Jest
4 5 (12.20%) REST
4 5 (12.20%) RESTful
4 5 (12.20%) Sass
5 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (95.12%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (95.12%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Microservices
2 40 (97.56%) Agile
2 40 (97.56%) DevOps
2 40 (97.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 40 (97.56%) Software Engineering
3 39 (95.12%) CI/CD
3 39 (95.12%) Containerisation
3 39 (95.12%) Front End Development
3 39 (95.12%) Performance Optimisation
3 39 (95.12%) SDLC
3 39 (95.12%) Test Automation
4 34 (82.93%) Clean Code
4 34 (82.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (82.93%) TDD
5 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 5 (12.20%) Responsive Web Design
6 5 (12.20%) Strategic Thinking
6 5 (12.20%) User Experience
7 1 (2.44%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 40 (97.56%) Java
1 40 (97.56%) JavaScript
2 39 (95.12%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (95.12%) QA
2 5 (12.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (97.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (97.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (95.12%) Solace