Kafka Job Trends in the North East

Apache Kafka
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	117	72	88
Rank change year-on-year	-45	+16	-29
Permanent jobs citing Kafka	26	6	2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East	0.71%	0.61%	0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	5.50%	5.17%	0.66%
Number of salaries quoted	19	3	2
10^th Percentile	£38,100	£42,250	-
25^th Percentile	£50,625	£43,750	£44,738
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£47,500	£49,274
Median % change year-on-year	+26.32%	-3.60%	-47.58%
75^th Percentile	£68,750	£48,750	£53,811
90^th Percentile	£75,000	-	-
England median annual salary	£75,000	£90,000	£75,000
% change year-on-year	-16.67%	+20.00%	-9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 North East.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills	473	116	301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East	12.92%	11.86%	22.55%
Number of salaries quoted	404	98	163
10^th Percentile	£45,000	£28,138	£41,400
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£32,500	£48,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£47,500	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+26.32%	-20.83%	+9.09%
75^th Percentile	£80,625	£65,000	£72,245
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£77,500	£84,750
England median annual salary	£67,500	£70,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-3.57%	+7.69%	-3.70%

Kafka Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Kafka Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Kafka.

Kafka Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North East over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the North East

Kafka Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Tyne and Wear	-46	26	£60,000	+26.32%	11
Kafka England

Kafka Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing Kafka also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region with a requirement for Kafka.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	96.2%	25
2	DevOps	88.5%	23
2	Security Cleared	88.5%	23
4	Agile	80.8%	21
4	AWS	80.8%	21
6	SC Cleared	73.1%	19
7	Docker	65.4%	17
7	Kubernetes	65.4%	17
9	Java	61.5%	16
9	Test Automation	61.5%	16
11	GitLab	53.8%	14
12	Digital Transformation Programme	46.2%	12
12	REST	46.2%	12
14	Microservices	42.3%	11
14	Terraform	42.3%	11
16	Amazon ECS	38.5%	10
16	Amazon S3	38.5%	10
16	Amazon SQS	38.5%	10
16	AWS KMS	38.5%	10
16	Clean Code	38.5%	10
16	Collaborative Working	38.5%	10
16	Data Pipeline	38.5%	10
16	Infrastructure as Code	38.5%	10
16	MongoDB	38.5%	10
16	Scrum	38.5%	10
16	Spring	38.5%	10
16	Spring Boot	38.5%	10
16	TDD	38.5%	10
29	Containerisation	34.6%	9
29	Continuous Improvement	34.6%	9

Kafka Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	REST	46.2%	12
2	Terraform	42.3%	11
3	Spring	38.5%	10
3	Spring Boot	38.5%	10
5	AngularJS	23.1%	6
5	Express.js	23.1%	6
5	Jest	23.1%	6
5	MEAN Stack	23.1%	6
5	Node.js	23.1%	6
5	Nunjucks	23.1%	6
11	RESTful	19.2%	5
12	Gherkin	15.4%	4