Kafka Jobs in the West Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 246 207
Rank change year-on-year +9 -39 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 23 33 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.49% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 2.13% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13 24 47
10th Percentile £52,744 £47,750 £53,500
25th Percentile £68,718 £55,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,900 £95,000
England median annual salary £79,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.22% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,164 1,549 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.08% 22.93% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 757 1,413
10th Percentile £33,550 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the West Midlands

Kafka
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Kafka in the West Midlands

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the West Midlands

Kafka
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Birmingham -14 11 £73,750 +18.95% 4
Warwickshire +56 10 £85,000 -5.03%
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) IIS
1 2 (8.70%) Liferay
1 2 (8.70%) Magnolia
1 2 (8.70%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) npm
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (26.09%) MySQL
3 6 (26.09%) Redis
3 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.70%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (8.70%) DB2
4 2 (8.70%) DTS
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.35%) HBase
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Postman
4 2 (8.70%) Bower
4 2 (8.70%) gulp
4 2 (8.70%) Moq
4 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Automotive
2 6 (26.09%) Manufacturing
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Full Stack Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Backend Developer
4 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Backend Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Development Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) AngularJS
2 8 (34.78%) .NET
2 8 (34.78%) ASP.NET
2 8 (34.78%) Node.js
3 7 (30.43%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (30.43%) React
4 6 (26.09%) GraphQL
4 6 (26.09%) OAuth
4 6 (26.09%) REST
4 6 (26.09%) RESTful
4 6 (26.09%) Web Services
5 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (21.74%) CSS
5 5 (21.74%) Entity Framework
5 5 (21.74%) HTML
6 4 (17.39%) Spring
6 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
7 3 (13.04%) Blazor
7 3 (13.04%) JWT
7 3 (13.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Microservices
3 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (47.83%) Software Engineering
4 9 (39.13%) Analytics
4 9 (39.13%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (39.13%) DevOps
5 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 8 (34.78%) Computer Science
5 8 (34.78%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (30.43%) Data Analytics
7 6 (26.09%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
7 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (26.09%) Front End Development
7 6 (26.09%) Telematics
7 6 (26.09%) User Experience
7 6 (26.09%) UX Design
8 5 (21.74%) MVC
8 5 (21.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) TypeScript
3 10 (43.48%) SQL
4 8 (34.78%) C#
5 7 (30.43%) Java
5 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
6 3 (13.04%) Go
7 2 (8.70%) C
7 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
7 2 (8.70%) PHP
7 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (8.70%) VB
7 2 (8.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.70%) SEPA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) MuleSoft
2 2 (8.70%) OpenText
2 2 (8.70%) Pega
2 2 (8.70%) Sitecore
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica