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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 135 193
Rank change year-on-year -48 +58 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 11 17 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% 0.66% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 5.25% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 15
10th Percentile £53,700 £62,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £58,875 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.35% +12.92%
75th Percentile £81,250 £140,677 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,500 - £79,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -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 575 324 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.83% 12.53% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 431 249 939
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £69,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,297 £77,500
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.56% +10.58% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -36 10 £70,000 -30.00% 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 (63.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (9.09%) Looker
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Games
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
6 2 (18.18%) Backend Developer
6 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
7 1 (9.09%) Lead
7 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
2 7 (63.64%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (63.64%) Mustache
2 7 (63.64%) Node.js
2 7 (63.64%) React
2 7 (63.64%) REST
2 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
3 6 (54.55%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) LangChain
4 1 (9.09%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) pgvector
4 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
4 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
4 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) Microservices
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 7 (63.64%) TDD
4 6 (54.55%) SDLC
5 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
7 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Feature Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
8 1 (9.09%) Prompt Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) RBAC
8 1 (9.09%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Dell
1 1 (9.09%) IBM