Kafka Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Apache Kafka
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 49 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 3 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 0.71% 0.42% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% 4.00% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £120,000 £55,125 £73,500
% change year-on-year +117.69% -25.00% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 65 50 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 15.44% 10.46% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 50 23 59
10th Percentile £27,375 £33,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £61,700 £90,000
East Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -9.57% +4.55%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Northampton -3 3 £120,000 - 1
Kafka
East Midlands

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Kong
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) CRM Architect
1 3 (100.00%) CRM Solutions Architect
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce Architect
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Strategy Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (100.00%) B2B
1 3 (100.00%) CRM
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (100.00%) SAP