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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 236 189
Rank change year-on-year +15 -47 +59
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 8 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.10% 0.20% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 1.26% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 19
10th Percentile £70,500 £50,813 £53,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -11.44% -2.65%
75th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £77,750
90th Percentile £124,500 £92,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%

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 620 1,112 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.01% 16.22% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 512 627 798
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,900 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year - -2.26% -1.48%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the Midlands

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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 20 December 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
West Midlands +28 5 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands -5 3 £120,000 +117.69%
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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (37.50%) Kong
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) CRM Architect
2 3 (37.50%) CRM Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce Architect
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Principal Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Strategy Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Supply Chain Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Apollo GraphQL
1 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (37.50%) B2B
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) IT Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) API Design
3 2 (25.00%) Case Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe
1 3 (37.50%) Informatica
1 3 (37.50%) MuleSoft
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
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