Kafka Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 145 207
Rank change year-on-year -40 +62 +8
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 5 15 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.074% 0.50% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 4.44% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 16
10th Percentile - £63,000 £43,125
25th Percentile - £65,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £67,788
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +18.02% -9.62%
75th Percentile - £140,677 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £78,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.46% +8.06% -13.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 567 338 1,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.39% 11.35% 17.95%
Number of salaries quoted 432 267 995
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £31,875
25th Percentile £48,289 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £76,920 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,774 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
West Yorkshire -34 4 £90,000 -10.00% 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Games
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Mustache
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) LangChain
3 1 (20.00%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (20.00%) pgvector
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Presales
4 1 (20.00%) Semantic Search
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Dell