Kafka Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 97 112
Rank change year-on-year -36 +15 +1
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 8 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.19% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 5.14% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 10
10th Percentile - £58,750 £44,738
25th Percentile £57,500 £69,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +36.36% -30.93%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £84,150 £88,750 £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £66,805 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.93% +36.36% -30.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 382 214 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.13% 13.58% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 271 161 372
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £31,825
25th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,114 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.19% +9.09% -8.33%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Leeds -44 8 £66,805 -10.93% 26
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Mustache
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) SFIA
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Debt
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
26 Kafka jobs in West Yorkshire