Kafka Jobs in Leeds

Apache Kafka
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 66 127 136
Rank change year-on-year +61 +9 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 13 10 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.64% 0.44% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.30% 2.08% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 32
10th Percentile £63,750 £55,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £140,677 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £74,000 £90,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £100,000 £72,500 £69,412
% change year-on-year +37.93% +4.45% -13.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 178 480 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.45% 20.98% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 131 370 556
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,875 £40,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.10% +11.24%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Leeds

Kafka
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Leeds.

Salary trend for Kafka in Leeds

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Leeds over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (7.69%) Jupyter
1 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) SaaS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.69%) CouchDB
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 6 (46.15%) Lead Software Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Node.js
1 11 (84.62%) React
2 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) Express.js
3 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
4 4 (30.77%) REST
4 4 (30.77%) Spring
5 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.69%) MERN Stack
6 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (7.69%) Redux
6 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Mentoring
4 7 (53.85%) Low Latency
4 7 (53.85%) SDLC
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (46.15%) Operational Stability
5 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Agile
6 5 (38.46%) Microservices
7 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (23.08%) Coaching
8 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
9 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
9 1 (7.69%) DataOps
9 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
9 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) TypeScript
2 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
3 8 (61.54%) SQL
4 7 (53.85%) C#
5 6 (46.15%) PL/SQL
6 5 (38.46%) Java
7 2 (15.38%) Python
8 1 (7.69%) Go
8 1 (7.69%) R
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft