Kafka Jobs in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 197 200
Rank change year-on-year +34 +3 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 11 23 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.37% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 2.08% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 44
10th Percentile £60,625 £44,014 £41,250
25th Percentile £70,938 £44,738 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £111,386 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.36% -13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £140,677 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £75,750 £91,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +5.88%

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 352 1,107 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.71% 17.93% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 276 897 979
10th Percentile £25,313 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,855 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £74,164 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 +24 11 £111,386 +71.36% 12
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (9.09%) Jupyter
1 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) GCP
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) CouchDB
4 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Gradle
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 5 (45.45%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 4 (36.36%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Node.js
1 7 (63.64%) React
2 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) Express.js
2 5 (45.45%) GraphQL
3 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (36.36%) RESTful
4 3 (27.27%) Celery
4 3 (27.27%) Django
4 3 (27.27%) FastAPI
4 3 (27.27%) Flask
4 3 (27.27%) gRPC
4 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
4 3 (27.27%) WebSockets
5 2 (18.18%) REST
5 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
6 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) MERN Stack
6 1 (9.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
3 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
4 6 (54.55%) Microservices
5 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) Low Latency
5 5 (45.45%) SDLC
6 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
6 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (36.36%) Operational Stability
6 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
6 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) Asynchronous Programming
7 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
8 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (9.09%) High Availability
9 1 (9.09%) TDD
9 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Python
5 3 (27.27%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (9.09%) R
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft