Kafka Jobs in the North West

Apache Kafka
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 201 149
Rank change year-on-year -26 -52 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 65 106 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.67% 1.33% 2.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.22% 4.30% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 59 50 78
10th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £43,650
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,474 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -14.41% +68.42%
75th Percentile £73,125 £77,741 £87,500
90th Percentile £78,422 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,019 2,465 2,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.74% 31.03% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 1,178 1,835
10th Percentile £35,950 £37,500 £36,637
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North West.

Salary trend for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Manchester -2 58 £62,500 -7.41% 11
Cumbria -4 4 £55,000 -
Cheshire -15 2 - -
Merseyside +6 1 - - 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (13.85%) Apache
3 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (7.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.54%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) AWS
2 17 (26.15%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) GCP
3 13 (20.00%) Serverless
4 12 (18.46%) GitHub
5 9 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (10.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.69%) dbt
7 5 (7.69%) Google Analytics
7 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.08%) Datadog
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.77%) MySQL
4 6 (9.23%) DocumentDB
5 5 (7.69%) Airbyte
5 5 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 5 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 5 (7.69%) Looker
5 5 (7.69%) Power BI
5 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.69%) Tableau
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.62%) Flink
8 2 (3.08%) DataStage
8 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.08%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) GitLab
1 8 (12.31%) Jenkins
1 8 (12.31%) Spinnaker
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) JIRA
3 5 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.08%) Maven
5 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (36.92%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Banking
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Retail
4 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.69%) Retail Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Games
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Developer
1 30 (46.15%) Senior
2 18 (27.69%) Software Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) Senior Developer
4 15 (23.08%) .NET Developer
5 12 (18.46%) Senior .NET Developer
6 11 (16.92%) Lead
7 10 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (13.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) Full Stack Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) Java Developer
9 8 (12.31%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (10.77%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
10 7 (10.77%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (10.77%) GCP Software Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) .NET
2 16 (24.62%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (21.54%) Spring
4 11 (16.92%) MSMQ
5 10 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 8 (12.31%) React
6 8 (12.31%) RESTful
7 7 (10.77%) AWS CDK
8 6 (9.23%) JSON
8 6 (9.23%) Node.js
9 5 (7.69%) Apache Beam
9 5 (7.69%) AWS SAM
9 5 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.69%) Jest
9 5 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (7.69%) Serverless Framework
10 4 (6.15%) Web Services
11 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (4.62%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.69%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.08%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (76.92%) Agile
2 25 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 23 (35.38%) TDD
4 20 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 17 (26.15%) Design Patterns
6 16 (24.62%) Event-Driven
7 15 (23.08%) Clean Code
7 15 (23.08%) Microservices
8 14 (21.54%) DevOps
8 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (18.46%) Data Management
9 12 (18.46%) Kanban
9 12 (18.46%) Scrum
10 11 (16.92%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (16.92%) Functional Testing
10 11 (16.92%) OOP
10 11 (16.92%) Software Testing
11 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
12 9 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
13 8 (12.31%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) Java
2 18 (27.69%) JavaScript
2 18 (27.69%) Python
2 18 (27.69%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) C#
4 8 (12.31%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.62%) Go
6 2 (3.08%) Bash
6 2 (3.08%) VB
6 2 (3.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) Kiali
4 1 (1.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Confluent
2 5 (7.69%) Google
2 5 (7.69%) Teradata
3 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle