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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 150 133
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 +60
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 17 16 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.48% 0.45% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.99% 3.06% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 31
10th Percentile £50,025 - £68,718
25th Percentile £50,250 £44,738 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £55,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% -30.93% +27.41%
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,625 £84,056
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 -
England median annual salary £100,000 £84,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +18.34% +2.42% -2.94%

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 426 523 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.11% 14.63% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 320 317 638
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +0.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,883 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.36% -3.70% -

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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
West Yorkshire -1 17 £70,500 +22.61% 18
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 5 (29.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Serverless
3 7 (41.18%) GCP
4 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
4 6 (35.29%) Azure
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
3 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
4 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (17.65%) Big Data
6 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (11.76%) Tableau
7 1 (5.88%) ClickHouse
7 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) JMeter
3 3 (17.65%) LoadRunner
3 3 (17.65%) Selenium
3 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (29.41%) Mustache
1 5 (29.41%) Node.js
1 5 (29.41%) React
1 5 (29.41%) REST
1 5 (29.41%) Spring
1 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) Celery
2 4 (23.53%) Django
2 4 (23.53%) FastAPI
2 4 (23.53%) Flask
2 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
2 4 (23.53%) gRPC
2 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 4 (23.53%) WebSockets
3 3 (17.65%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
1 12 (70.59%) Microservices
2 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) TDD
6 6 (35.29%) AI
7 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
7 5 (29.41%) Scrum
8 4 (23.53%) Asynchronous Programming
8 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (23.53%) SDLC
9 3 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Security Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
10 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
10 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
10 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) HP Fortify
3 2 (11.76%) Control-M
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
1 3 (17.65%) IBM
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle