Kafka Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Apache Kafka
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 95 83
Rank change year-on-year +40 -12 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 5 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.07% 0.15% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 1.00% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £63,375 - -
25th Percentile £66,563 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.96% -8.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £86,563 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,125 - -
North East median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% +56.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 102 200 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.79% 14.90% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 187 114
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,634
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,173 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -1.91% +18.42%
75th Percentile £72,014 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £73,450 £74,250
North East median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% - +24.29%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Tyne and Wear

Kafka
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Kafka in Tyne and Wear

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Tyne and Wear

Kafka
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +42 5 £78,750 +36.96% 8
Kafka
North East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Maven
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Debian
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Solace
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper