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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 253 195
Rank change year-on-year +48 -58 +59
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 10 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.16% 0.16% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 1.01% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 20
10th Percentile £56,250 £49,475 £44,875
25th Percentile £68,125 £57,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.64% -6.90%
75th Percentile £96,875 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £123,000 £85,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 621 1,292 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.89% 15.94% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 501 724 800
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 4 December 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 4 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 +46 6 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East Midlands +16 4 £93,750 +70.07% 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (30.00%) Kong
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) HBase
3 1 (10.00%) Impala
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (10.00%) QlikView
3 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQLite
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) CRM Architect
2 3 (30.00%) CRM Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce Architect
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Strategy Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Supply Chain Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
1 3 (30.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (10.00%) Plotly
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (10.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
5 3 (30.00%) B2B
5 3 (30.00%) CRM
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) ERP
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PROC SQL
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Informatica
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 3 (30.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy