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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 255 196
Rank change year-on-year +81 -59 +75
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 40 12 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.71% 0.14% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.12% 0.88% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 27
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,138 £45,300
25th Percentile £66,250 £54,156 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -16.13%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £87,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +26.67% -9.09% -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 654 1,356 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.69% 15.31% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 468 755 862
10th Percentile £33,527 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £77,500
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

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 +48 23 £67,500 +49.17% 9
West Midlands +53 17 £56,250 -6.25% 5
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 22 (55.00%) Confluence
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (97.50%) AWS
2 35 (87.50%) Azure
3 23 (57.50%) GCP
4 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.00%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Kong
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (82.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) HBase
5 1 (2.50%) Impala
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
5 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.50%) QlikView
5 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.50%) SQLite
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 32 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 32 (80.00%) GitLab
1 32 (80.00%) JIRA
1 32 (80.00%) Maven
1 32 (80.00%) Selenium
1 32 (80.00%) SonarQube
1 32 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 32 (80.00%) Banking
1 32 (80.00%) Finance
1 32 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
2 10 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 10 (25.00%) Retail
3 4 (10.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Architect
4 2 (5.00%) CRM Architect
4 2 (5.00%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) E-Commerce Architect
4 2 (5.00%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Principal Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Strategy Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Supply Chain Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (85.00%) React
2 32 (80.00%) CSS
2 32 (80.00%) HTML
2 32 (80.00%) JPA
2 32 (80.00%) Redux
2 32 (80.00%) Spring
2 32 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 22 (55.00%) Hibernate
4 10 (25.00%) CSS3
4 10 (25.00%) HTML5
4 10 (25.00%) Jest
4 10 (25.00%) REST
4 10 (25.00%) RESTful
4 10 (25.00%) Sass
5 2 (5.00%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.00%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) PySpark
6 1 (2.50%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.50%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 32 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
1 32 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.00%) Legacy Code
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Microservices
2 37 (92.50%) Agile
3 33 (82.50%) Software Engineering
4 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 32 (80.00%) Containerisation
4 32 (80.00%) DevOps
4 32 (80.00%) Front End Development
4 32 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 32 (80.00%) SDLC
4 32 (80.00%) Test Automation
5 22 (55.00%) Clean Code
5 22 (55.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (55.00%) TDD
6 11 (27.50%) Mentoring
7 10 (25.00%) Migration
7 10 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 10 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 10 (25.00%) User Experience
8 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 37 (92.50%) SQL
2 35 (87.50%) Java
3 32 (80.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (15.00%) Python
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) PROC SQL
6 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (82.50%) QA
2 10 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 33 (82.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (82.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Kibana
3 1 (2.50%) logstash
3 1 (2.50%) Oozie
Vendors
1 32 (80.00%) Solace
2 3 (7.50%) Informatica
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Adobe
3 2 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) MicroStrategy