Kafka Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Apache Kafka
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.24% 2.56% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 42.86% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15 7 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 3.65% 5.98% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 56
10th Percentile - £34,600 £30,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,625 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £80,625 £62,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £68,400 £65,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £62,500 £53,688 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.41% +19.31% -10.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Kafka
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft