Kafka Job Trends in South Wales

Apache Kafka
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 66 71
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +30
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.14% 0.63% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 3.00% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87,500 £41,594 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £44,344 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +102.96% -38.84% +17.41%
75th Percentile £92,500 £63,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - £66,750 -
Wales median annual salary £90,000 £44,344 £72,500
% change year-on-year +102.96% -38.84% +23.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 74 200 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 10.66% 21.14% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 69 138 146
10th Percentile £48,427 £23,750 £35,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £31,875 £43,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,309 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,018 £74,375
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £51,404 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.72% +2.81% -4.76%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in South Wales

Kafka
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Cardiff +21 1 £90,000 +102.96% 3
Kafka
Wales

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap