Kafka Job Trends in Lancaster

Apache Kafka
Lancashire > Lancaster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancaster 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 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancaster 1.32% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.76% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £47,875 - -
25th Percentile £48,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 - -
75th Percentile £60,938 - -
90th Percentile £62,625 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £58,750 - £49,274

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Lancaster

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 Lancaster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancaster 11.26% 13.64% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,125
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,655 £38,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,384 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -15.23% -3.85%
75th Percentile £52,500 £49,412 -
90th Percentile £66,000 £52,375 £61,247
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 Lancaster

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Lancaster

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancaster 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 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes