Kafka Jobs in the Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 294 262
Rank change year-on-year +108 -32 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 74 26 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 0.20% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.61% 1.29% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 25
10th Percentile - £45,625 £47,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,625 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,375 £94,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +11.11%

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 770 2,015 2,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.30% 15.88% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 512 1,655 1,055
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,350 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.58% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Midlands

Kafka
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Kafka in the Midlands

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 May 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 +66 42 £67,500 +12.50% 7
West Midlands +71 32 £77,500 - 36
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (63.51%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 70 (94.59%) Azure
2 67 (90.54%) AWS
3 47 (63.51%) GCP
4 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (87.84%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.70%) Big Data
3 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (85.14%) Bitbucket
1 63 (85.14%) Cucumber
1 63 (85.14%) GitLab
1 63 (85.14%) JIRA
1 63 (85.14%) Maven
1 63 (85.14%) Selenium
1 63 (85.14%) SonarQube
1 63 (85.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) JUnit
2 2 (2.70%) NUnit
General
1 68 (91.89%) Banking
2 65 (87.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (86.49%) Finance
4 18 (24.32%) Retail
5 17 (22.97%) Investment Banking
6 16 (21.62%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.05%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (91.89%) Software Engineer
2 5 (6.76%) Lead
3 4 (5.41%) Developer
4 3 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Applications Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Developer
5 2 (2.70%) C# Application Developer
5 2 (2.70%) C# Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Lead Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Logic Apps Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Senior
5 2 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (91.89%) React
2 65 (87.84%) Spring
2 65 (87.84%) Spring Boot
3 63 (85.14%) CSS
3 63 (85.14%) HTML
3 63 (85.14%) JPA
3 63 (85.14%) Redux
4 47 (63.51%) Hibernate
5 18 (24.32%) Jest
6 17 (22.97%) RESTful
7 16 (21.62%) CSS3
7 16 (21.62%) HTML5
7 16 (21.62%) REST
7 16 (21.62%) Sass
8 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.70%) .NET
9 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.70%) gRPC
9 2 (2.70%) Node.js
9 2 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (85.14%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (85.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (94.59%) Microservices
1 70 (94.59%) Software Engineering
2 67 (90.54%) Agile
3 66 (89.19%) DevOps
3 66 (89.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (87.84%) CI/CD
4 65 (87.84%) Test Automation
5 63 (85.14%) Containerisation
5 63 (85.14%) Front End Development
5 63 (85.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 63 (85.14%) SDLC
6 49 (66.22%) Clean Code
6 49 (66.22%) TDD
7 47 (63.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (25.68%) Mentoring
9 16 (21.62%) Migration
9 16 (21.62%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (21.62%) Strategic Thinking
9 16 (21.62%) User Experience
10 5 (6.76%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (94.59%) Java
2 65 (87.84%) JavaScript
3 64 (86.49%) SQL
4 18 (24.32%) TypeScript
5 7 (9.46%) C#
5 7 (9.46%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (85.14%) QA
2 16 (21.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (87.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (90.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (85.14%) Solace
2 3 (4.05%) Databricks
3 2 (2.70%) Okta
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle