Kafka Job Trends in Wales

Apache Kafka
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 75 87
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.28% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.90% 1.47% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £62,805 - £48,750
25th Percentile £72,066 £41,594 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £44,344 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +102.96% -38.84% +23.93%
75th Percentile £95,000 £47,094 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,500 - £78,750
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +15.15% +3.60% -6.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 77 204 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.31% 22.90% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 70 127 151
10th Percentile £38,750 £23,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,487 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Wales

Kafka
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Wales over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Wales

Kafka
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
South Wales -2 3 £90,000 +102.96% 7
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) git-flow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) CQRS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft