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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 91 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 -33 +17
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 6 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.56% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 0.73% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £42,250 - -
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,738 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,274 £94,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -47.58% +34.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,811 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
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 129 273 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.04% 21.18% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 110 146 88
10th Percentile £28,213 £42,238 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,938 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £53,461
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +12.23% +1.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,144 £67,313
90th Percentile £77,629 £89,375 £73,625
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 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
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 4 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
Tyne and Wear +19 6 £47,500 -3.60% 5
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 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (50.00%) SAS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (50.00%) HBase
2 3 (50.00%) Impala
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (50.00%) QlikView
2 3 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQLite
2 3 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) Maven
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) JPA
1 3 (50.00%) Plotly
1 3 (50.00%) PySpark
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) Redux
1 3 (50.00%) Regular Expression
1 3 (50.00%) Shiny
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) Jest
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Sass
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) AI
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) PROC SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) R
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
1 3 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) logstash
1 3 (50.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) MicroStrategy
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
1 3 (50.00%) Solace