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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 306 237
Rank change year-on-year +129 -69 -64
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 194 84 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.65% 0.48% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.45% 2.43% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 63 74 105
10th Percentile £53,250 £48,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -12.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £77,715 £90,000
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
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 1,695 3,459 4,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.41% 19.59% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 928 2,773 2,331
10th Percentile £32,495 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +8.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £85,000
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 18 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 18 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 +75 167 £70,996 +13.59% 58
Yorkshire +67 19 £77,500 +9.81% 33
North East +42 8 £62,500 +8.70% 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 43 (22.16%) Confluence
2 7 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.06%) Apache
4 3 (1.55%) GemFire
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 161 (82.99%) AWS
2 139 (71.65%) Azure
3 63 (32.47%) GCP
4 11 (5.67%) SaaS
5 10 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.12%) GitHub
6 8 (4.12%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.09%) dbt
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.06%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.06%) Serverless
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.55%) NuGet
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) HTTP
2 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) MQTT
3 1 (0.52%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (62.89%) SQL Server
2 28 (14.43%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.31%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.67%) BigQuery
6 9 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.64%) MySQL
7 6 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.58%) Big Data
8 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.06%) Power BI
9 4 (2.06%) Redis
9 4 (2.06%) Tableau
10 3 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.55%) Cloud Spanner
10 3 (1.55%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 124 (63.92%) GitLab
2 119 (61.34%) JIRA
3 117 (60.31%) Selenium
4 115 (59.28%) Cucumber
5 114 (58.76%) Bitbucket
6 113 (58.25%) Maven
7 112 (57.73%) SonarQube
7 112 (57.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (6.70%) Git
8 13 (6.70%) Jenkins
9 6 (3.09%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (2.06%) JUnit
11 2 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.03%) JMeter
11 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.03%) NeoLoad
11 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.03%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 142 (73.20%) Finance
2 127 (65.46%) Banking
3 112 (57.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 73 (37.63%) Retail
5 72 (37.11%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (37.11%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.12%) Social Skills
7 6 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Front Office
8 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (66.49%) Software Engineer
2 31 (15.98%) Lead
3 21 (10.82%) Senior
4 17 (8.76%) Developer
5 15 (7.73%) Data Engineer
6 9 (4.64%) Senior Developer
7 8 (4.12%) Technical Leader
8 7 (3.61%) Java Developer
8 7 (3.61%) Java Engineer
8 7 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (2.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (2.06%) .NET Developer
10 4 (2.06%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (2.06%) Lead Developer
10 4 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (1.55%) C# Developer
11 3 (1.55%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (1.55%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (1.55%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (68.56%) React
2 132 (68.04%) Spring
3 130 (67.01%) Spring Boot
4 116 (59.79%) CSS
4 116 (59.79%) HTML
5 113 (58.25%) Redux
6 112 (57.73%) JPA
7 85 (43.81%) REST
8 78 (40.21%) RESTful
9 72 (37.11%) CSS3
9 72 (37.11%) HTML5
9 72 (37.11%) Jest
9 72 (37.11%) Sass
10 40 (20.62%) Hibernate
11 18 (9.28%) .NET
12 15 (7.73%) Node.js
13 11 (5.67%) AngularJS
13 11 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (3.61%) Express.js
15 6 (3.09%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 128 (65.98%) Product Ownership
2 112 (57.73%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.55%) Derivative
7 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Wiki
8 2 (1.03%) Clustering
8 2 (1.03%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.03%) Equities
8 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.12%) Linux
2 4 (2.06%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (80.41%) Software Engineering
2 152 (78.35%) Agile
3 150 (77.32%) Microservices
4 149 (76.80%) CI/CD
5 140 (72.16%) DevOps
6 130 (67.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 129 (66.49%) Containerisation
8 123 (63.40%) SDLC
9 120 (61.86%) Test Automation
10 115 (59.28%) Performance Optimisation
11 112 (57.73%) Front End Development
12 103 (53.09%) Mentoring
13 81 (41.75%) User Experience
14 74 (38.14%) Migration
15 72 (37.11%) Responsive Web Design
15 72 (37.11%) Strategic Thinking
16 51 (26.29%) TDD
17 47 (24.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 42 (21.65%) Clean Code
19 22 (11.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 156 (80.41%) Java
2 141 (72.68%) SQL
3 140 (72.16%) JavaScript
4 95 (48.97%) TypeScript
5 32 (16.49%) Python
6 19 (9.79%) C#
7 6 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.58%) Scala
9 2 (1.03%) Bash
9 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.03%) R
10 1 (0.52%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.06%) Degree
2 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (59.28%) QA
2 74 (38.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.03%) GDPR
4 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 149 (76.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 148 (76.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.34%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Istio
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
4 1 (0.52%) logstash
4 1 (0.52%) Oozie
Vendors
1 115 (59.28%) Solace
2 13 (6.70%) Databricks
3 9 (4.64%) Oracle
4 5 (2.58%) Splunk
5 4 (2.06%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.55%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.03%) Google
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco
8 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.52%) Confluent
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) Juniper
8 1 (0.52%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.52%) SAP