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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 151 288
Rank change year-on-year -98 +137 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 10 73 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.076% 1.50% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 10.01% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 16
10th Percentile £58,600 - £45,625
25th Percentile £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.11% +19.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £78,625
90th Percentile - £97,500 £84,375
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%

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 797 729 1,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.03% 14.97% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 601 507 1,631
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,150 £75,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,359 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.21% +10.60% -11.11%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -52 9 £87,500 +12.90% 3
East Midlands -66 1 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Rust Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (50.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) EDI
4 1 (10.00%) Flutter
4 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) gRPC
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) React Native
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) Observability
3 7 (70.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 6 (60.00%) AI
4 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Generative AI
4 6 (60.00%) High Availability
4 6 (60.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (60.00%) Software Architecture
4 6 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Bicep
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Rust
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks