Kafka Jobs in Northern Ireland

Apache Kafka
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 69 96
Rank change year-on-year +44 +27 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 13 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.02% 1.27% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.95% 4.31% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £47,000 - £53,750
25th Percentile £50,000 - £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.66% +10.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £87,188
90th Percentile - - £95,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £76,250 £88,480
% change year-on-year +8.20% -13.82% +10.60%

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 42 209 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.22% 29.48% 53.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15 116 292
10th Percentile £44,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £87,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £66,230 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +5.88%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Northern Ireland

Kafka
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Kafka in Northern Ireland

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 23 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
County Antrim +47 13 £55,000 -21.43% 58
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 5 (38.46%) nginx
2 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Apache Hive
1 6 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (38.46%) Big Data
2 5 (38.46%) Hadoop
2 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (30.77%) MySQL
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.69%) HBase
5 1 (7.69%) Impala
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
2 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
2 5 (38.46%) JUnit
2 5 (38.46%) Maven
2 5 (38.46%) Mockito
2 5 (38.46%) Postman
2 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
2 5 (38.46%) TestNG
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Java Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
1 11 (84.62%) Spring Boot
2 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (38.46%) Gherkin
3 5 (38.46%) Guice
3 5 (38.46%) JAX-RS
3 5 (38.46%) Mustache
3 5 (38.46%) OpenAPI
3 5 (38.46%) REST
3 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) Swagger
3 5 (38.46%) WireMock
4 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
4 4 (30.77%) J2EE
4 4 (30.77%) Java EE
5 2 (15.38%) JSON
6 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
6 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Life Science
2 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
1 10 (76.92%) Multithreading
2 9 (69.23%) OO
2 9 (69.23%) OOP
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (38.46%) BDD
4 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
4 5 (38.46%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (38.46%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (38.46%) Low Latency
4 5 (38.46%) MVC
4 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (30.77%) OOD
5 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Kustomize
2 5 (38.46%) Packer
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Control-M
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) Sybase
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) BMC
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk