Kafka Jobs in the West Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 240 231
Rank change year-on-year +79 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 32 17 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.22% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.49% 1.43% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £71,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +29.17% -21.31%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,375 £68,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 493 1,192 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.00% 15.34% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 340 1,030 709
10th Percentile £39,975 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,250 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -4.82% +3.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,625 £75,772 £79,200
England median annual salary £67,037 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.73% -11.11% +3.85%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
Staffordshire - 16 - - 15
Birmingham +42 5 £60,000 -18.64% 17
Warwickshire -2 4 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 3 £95,000 - 2
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Coventry - 1 - - 2
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 13 (40.63%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (93.75%) Azure
2 25 (78.13%) AWS
3 13 (40.63%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (81.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 24 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 24 (75.00%) GitLab
1 24 (75.00%) JIRA
1 24 (75.00%) Maven
1 24 (75.00%) Selenium
1 24 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 24 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JUnit
2 2 (6.25%) NUnit
General
1 29 (90.63%) Banking
2 26 (81.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (78.13%) Finance
4 13 (40.63%) Retail
5 12 (37.50%) Investment Banking
6 11 (34.38%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (9.38%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (90.63%) Software Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Applications Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
4 2 (6.25%) C# Application Developer
4 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Logic Apps Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.13%) .NET Applications Developer
5 1 (3.13%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.13%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (87.50%) React
2 25 (78.13%) Spring
2 25 (78.13%) Spring Boot
3 24 (75.00%) CSS
3 24 (75.00%) HTML
3 24 (75.00%) JPA
3 24 (75.00%) Redux
4 13 (40.63%) Hibernate
4 13 (40.63%) Jest
5 12 (37.50%) RESTful
6 11 (34.38%) CSS3
6 11 (34.38%) HTML5
6 11 (34.38%) REST
6 11 (34.38%) Sass
7 2 (6.25%) .NET
7 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
7 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.25%) gRPC
7 2 (6.25%) Node.js
8 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Software Engineering
2 28 (87.50%) Microservices
3 26 (81.25%) Agile
3 26 (81.25%) CI/CD
3 26 (81.25%) DevOps
3 26 (81.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (81.25%) Test Automation
4 24 (75.00%) Containerisation
4 24 (75.00%) Front End Development
4 24 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 24 (75.00%) SDLC
5 15 (46.88%) Clean Code
5 15 (46.88%) TDD
6 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (40.63%) Mentoring
7 11 (34.38%) Migration
7 11 (34.38%) Responsive Web Design
7 11 (34.38%) Strategic Thinking
7 11 (34.38%) User Experience
8 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (93.75%) Java
2 25 (78.13%) JavaScript
3 24 (75.00%) SQL
4 12 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 7 (21.88%) C#
6 4 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (75.00%) QA
2 11 (34.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (84.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) Solace
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) Okta
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle