Kafka Jobs in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 302 232
Rank change year-on-year +72 -70 -70
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 78 92 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.71% 0.53% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.64% 2.70% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 62 82 106
10th Percentile £52,875 £47,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,246 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% - -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,125 £74,688 £79,438
90th Percentile £112,500 £81,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,174 3,406 5,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.72% 19.71% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 964 2,725 2,440
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £80,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North of England.

Salary trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +18 56 £70,000 +12.00% 63
Yorkshire +73 18 £75,000 +3.45% 31
North East +52 4 £67,500 +17.39% 13
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.13%) Apache
3 3 (3.85%) GemFire
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (57.69%) AWS
2 25 (32.05%) Azure
3 22 (28.21%) GCP
4 11 (14.10%) SaaS
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
6 9 (11.54%) Snowflake
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (7.69%) dbt
9 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.13%) GitHub
9 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.13%) Serverless
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.85%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) HTTP
1 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 16 (20.51%) NoSQL
3 12 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (12.82%) BigQuery
5 9 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (11.54%) SQL Server
6 8 (10.26%) MySQL
7 6 (7.69%) Data Lake
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (6.41%) DynamoDB
9 4 (5.13%) Big Data
9 4 (5.13%) Power BI
9 4 (5.13%) Tableau
10 3 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (3.85%) Cloud Spanner
10 3 (3.85%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (3.85%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.85%) Redis
10 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.82%) Git
3 9 (11.54%) GitLab
4 6 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (3.85%) JIRA
5 3 (3.85%) JUnit
6 2 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.56%) JMeter
6 2 (2.56%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.56%) NeoLoad
6 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.56%) Selenium
6 2 (2.56%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.28%) Gradle
7 1 (1.28%) Maven
General
1 27 (34.62%) Finance
2 15 (19.23%) Banking
3 7 (8.97%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Front Office
6 2 (2.56%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.28%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.28%) Automotive
7 1 (1.28%) Games
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Lead
2 19 (24.36%) Senior
3 17 (21.79%) Developer
4 16 (20.51%) Software Engineer
5 14 (17.95%) Data Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.26%) Technical Leader
8 7 (8.97%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.13%) .NET Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.64%) React
2 18 (23.08%) .NET
3 16 (20.51%) Spring
4 14 (17.95%) Node.js
4 14 (17.95%) Spring Boot
5 12 (15.38%) REST
6 10 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 10 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (7.69%) Express.js
7 6 (7.69%) RESTful
8 5 (6.41%) gRPC
9 4 (5.13%) CSS
9 4 (5.13%) HTML
10 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.85%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.85%) Entity Framework
10 3 (3.85%) Middleware
10 3 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (3.85%) PySpark
10 3 (3.85%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 13 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (14.10%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.85%) Derivative
6 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Clustering
7 2 (2.56%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (2.56%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.56%) Equities
7 2 (2.56%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.56%) Replication
8 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.28%) Software Engineering
2 37 (47.44%) Agile
3 34 (43.59%) Microservices
4 33 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 30 (38.46%) Mentoring
6 25 (32.05%) DevOps
7 19 (24.36%) Event-Driven
7 19 (24.36%) Roadmaps
8 16 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.67%) Coaching
10 13 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 13 (16.67%) ETL
11 12 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (14.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (14.10%) SDLC
13 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (12.82%) Low Latency
13 10 (12.82%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.00%) Java
2 30 (38.46%) Python
3 28 (35.90%) JavaScript
3 28 (35.90%) SQL
4 21 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 19 (24.36%) C#
6 6 (7.69%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.41%) Scala
8 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (42.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 21 (26.92%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Databricks
2 9 (11.54%) Oracle
3 5 (6.41%) Splunk
4 3 (3.85%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.85%) Solace
4 3 (3.85%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (1.28%) Cisco
6 1 (1.28%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.28%) Confluent
6 1 (1.28%) Juniper
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.28%) StreamSets