Kafka Jobs in West Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 148 157
Rank change year-on-year +49 +9 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 13 10 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.95% 0.33% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.02% 1.64% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 35
10th Percentile £63,750 £55,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £140,677 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £74,000 £89,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £70,576 £68,823
% change year-on-year +13.35% +2.55% -11.20%

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 216 610 1,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.80% 19.89% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 157 482 724
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -10.10% +11.24%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £90,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in West Yorkshire

Kafka
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
Leeds +56 13 £100,000 +37.93% 12
Kafka
Yorkshire

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (7.69%) Jupyter
1 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) SaaS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.69%) CouchDB
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 6 (46.15%) Lead Software Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Node.js
1 11 (84.62%) React
2 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) Express.js
3 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
4 4 (30.77%) REST
4 4 (30.77%) Spring
5 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.69%) MERN Stack
6 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (7.69%) Redux
6 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Mentoring
4 7 (53.85%) Low Latency
4 7 (53.85%) SDLC
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (46.15%) Operational Stability
5 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Agile
6 5 (38.46%) Microservices
7 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (23.08%) Coaching
8 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (7.69%) Analytics
9 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
9 1 (7.69%) High Availability
9 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) TypeScript
2 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
3 8 (61.54%) SQL
4 7 (53.85%) C#
5 6 (46.15%) PL/SQL
6 5 (38.46%) Java
7 2 (15.38%) Python
8 1 (7.69%) Go
8 1 (7.69%) R
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft