Kafka Job Trends in West Malling

Apache Kafka
Kent > West Malling

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Malling requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Malling 4.26% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
Kent median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Malling

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 West Malling.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Malling 31.91% 33.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile - £57,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.53% -22.73% -4.35%

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Malling 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS IoT
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (50.00%) UWB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aviation
2 1 (50.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GNSS
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes