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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 117 189
Rank change year-on-year -54 +72 +27
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 12 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.25% 0.96% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 5.72% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 17
10th Percentile £49,725 £61,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £50,063 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £73,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -27.46% +4.50% +12.92%
75th Percentile £60,688 £140,677 £78,750
90th Percentile £67,775 - £80,250
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £81,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +11.11% -10.00%

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 523 367 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.89% 16.81% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 406 288 866
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,723 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Yorkshire

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 24 March 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 -46 11 £53,500 -28.67% 4
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 7 (58.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) Tableau
4 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (8.33%) Looker
5 1 (8.33%) Power BI
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) JMeter
2 3 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
2 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior
4 3 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Backend Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring
2 7 (58.33%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (58.33%) Mustache
2 7 (58.33%) Node.js
2 7 (58.33%) React
2 7 (58.33%) REST
2 7 (58.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
4 3 (25.00%) Middleware
5 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) LangChain
5 1 (8.33%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (8.33%) pgvector
5 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Hackathon
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) Microservices
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 7 (58.33%) TDD
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) SDLC
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 3 (25.00%) AI
6 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
7 2 (16.67%) ERP
8 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
8 1 (8.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) HP Fortify
3 2 (16.67%) Control-M
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Dell