Kafka Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Kafka skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 272 203
Rank change year-on-year +104 -69 +55
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 69 14 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.23% 0.14% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.96% 0.93% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 25
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,500 £45,200
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -22.58%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £90,500 £90,550
England median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 693 1,500 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.36% 14.89% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 484 877 909
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,100 £36,900
25th Percentile £43,497 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,175 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Midlands

Kafka
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the Midlands

Kafka
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
East Midlands +74 42 £67,500 - 3
West Midlands +60 27 £56,250 -6.25% 6
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 47 (68.12%) Confluence
2 5 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.80%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 68 (98.55%) AWS
2 64 (92.75%) Azure
3 48 (69.57%) GCP
4 4 (5.80%) SaaS
4 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.45%) dbt
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (92.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.45%) HBase
5 1 (1.45%) Impala
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.45%) QlikView
5 1 (1.45%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.45%) SQLite
5 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (91.30%) Bitbucket
1 63 (91.30%) Cucumber
1 63 (91.30%) GitLab
1 63 (91.30%) JIRA
1 63 (91.30%) Maven
1 63 (91.30%) Selenium
1 63 (91.30%) SonarQube
1 63 (91.30%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.45%) Git
General
1 63 (91.30%) Banking
1 63 (91.30%) Finance
1 63 (91.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (23.19%) Corporate Banking
2 16 (23.19%) Investment Banking
2 16 (23.19%) Retail
3 4 (5.80%) Law
4 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (91.30%) Software Engineer
2 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
3 4 (5.80%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (5.80%) Python Engineer
3 4 (5.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (5.80%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (1.45%) Consultant
4 1 (1.45%) Kafka Engineer
4 1 (1.45%) Sales Consultant
4 1 (1.45%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (1.45%) Technical Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (91.30%) CSS
1 63 (91.30%) HTML
1 63 (91.30%) JPA
1 63 (91.30%) React
1 63 (91.30%) Redux
1 63 (91.30%) Spring
1 63 (91.30%) Spring Boot
2 47 (68.12%) Hibernate
3 16 (23.19%) CSS3
3 16 (23.19%) HTML5
3 16 (23.19%) Jest
3 16 (23.19%) REST
3 16 (23.19%) RESTful
3 16 (23.19%) Sass
4 1 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.45%) Plotly
4 1 (1.45%) PySpark
4 1 (1.45%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.45%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 63 (91.30%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (91.30%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.80%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (98.55%) Agile
2 67 (97.10%) Microservices
3 64 (92.75%) Software Engineering
4 63 (91.30%) CI/CD
4 63 (91.30%) Containerisation
4 63 (91.30%) DevOps
4 63 (91.30%) Front End Development
4 63 (91.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (91.30%) Performance Optimisation
4 63 (91.30%) SDLC
4 63 (91.30%) Test Automation
5 47 (68.12%) Clean Code
5 47 (68.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (68.12%) TDD
6 17 (24.64%) Mentoring
7 16 (23.19%) Migration
7 16 (23.19%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (23.19%) Strategic Thinking
7 16 (23.19%) User Experience
8 5 (7.25%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 68 (98.55%) SQL
2 64 (92.75%) Java
3 63 (91.30%) JavaScript
4 16 (23.19%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (1.45%) Bash
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (92.75%) QA
2 16 (23.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 64 (92.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 64 (92.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Kibana
2 1 (1.45%) logstash
2 1 (1.45%) Oozie
Vendors
1 63 (91.30%) Solace
2 1 (1.45%) Databricks
2 1 (1.45%) Informatica
2 1 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (1.45%) SAP