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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 168 279
Rank change year-on-year -80 +111 -54
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 22 71 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 1.22% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 8.52% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 4
10th Percentile £59,500 £52,625 £55,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £57,500 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -8.47% +22.92%
75th Percentile £93,750 £76,875 £80,000
90th Percentile - £97,500 £84,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £70,750
% change year-on-year +3.03% +16.61% -16.76%

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 1,090 833 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.43% 14.33% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 808 584 1,149
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Kafka job vacancy trend 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 23 August 2026.

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 23 August 2026. 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
West Midlands -39 20 £85,000 +41.67% 7
East Midlands -67 2 £71,500 +5.93% 3
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (36.36%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.55%) Datadog
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.55%) Big Data
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Billing
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Data Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 9 (40.91%) Senior Data Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Kafka Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Python Data Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Java Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Rust Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Keycloak
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) .NET
3 5 (22.73%) .NET Framework
3 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET
3 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (22.73%) Entity Framework
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Cloud Native
1 10 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile Wallet
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Analytics
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (45.45%) Decision-Making
3 10 (45.45%) ETL
4 9 (40.91%) Agile
4 9 (40.91%) Microservices
4 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (36.36%) AI
5 8 (36.36%) Data Security
5 8 (36.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 8 (36.36%) ETL Development
5 8 (36.36%) High Availability
5 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 8 (36.36%) Observability
5 8 (36.36%) Workflow
6 7 (31.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 7 (31.82%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) C#
2 8 (36.36%) Go
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) Rust
6 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica