Kafka Job Trends in the South West

Apache Kafka
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 145 186
Rank change year-on-year -41 +41 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 7 24 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.11% 0.84% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 4.27% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 69
10th Percentile £52,700 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -6.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £104,750 £91,934
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 582 562 1,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.07% 19.64% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 420 410 1,501
10th Percentile £37,200 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in the South West

Kafka
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South West over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the South West

Kafka
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Gloucestershire +1 3 £75,000 -25.00% 3
Dorset -23 3 £54,000 +8.00% 1
Bristol -17 1 £80,000 +11.11% 3
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) CockroachDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
3 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) JWT
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Redux
3 1 (14.29%) Spring WebFlux
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Epics
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Python
4 3 (42.86%) Groovy
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk