Kafka Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Apache Kafka
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.39% - 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.00% - 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.74% -6.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 50 90 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.86% 22.73% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 30 25 72
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,713 £38,250
25th Percentile £68,813 £50,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,500 £82,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Kafka
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 8
County Armagh - 1 - -
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI