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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 69 93
Rank change year-on-year -46 +24 -18
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 11 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.36% 0.65% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 5.66% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £45,150 £42,250 -
25th Percentile £55,500 £43,750 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -3.60% -24.19%
75th Percentile £68,750 £48,750 £56,280
90th Percentile - - £57,762
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +15.38% -18.27%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 389 106 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.73% 11.55% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 340 87 214
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,425 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £38,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -16.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £79,488
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 job vacancy trend in the North East

Kafka
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -61 11 £65,000 +36.84% 10
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (54.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (27.27%) Kong
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Flink
2 3 (27.27%) DocumentDB
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Angular Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) Express.js
3 3 (27.27%) Jest
3 3 (27.27%) MEAN Stack
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js
3 3 (27.27%) Nunjucks
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
4 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (54.55%) Design Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Event-Driven
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) ETL
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
6 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (27.27%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (27.27%) QA
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Confluent
1 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks