Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Kafka Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Kafka Developer daily rate in Manchester is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% - 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £675
75th Percentile £545 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £530 - £675

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 931 1,115 1,609
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 95.30% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 696 1,175
10th Percentile £300 £336 £288
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £656 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.60 £15.19
25th Percentile £14.20 £20.63 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.71 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% +63.16% +7.62%
75th Percentile £33.00 £61.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £72.88 £78.20 £67.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -32.04% +21.15% +31.07%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Kafka Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in Manchester

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Kafka Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Swagger
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Clean Code
2 5 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Liquibase
2 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Mockito
2 5 (83.33%) Build Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) TypeScript
2 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Marketing

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) Gradle
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Liquibase
1 5 (83.33%) Mockito
General
1 5 (83.33%) Electronics
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
1 5 (83.33%) Marketing
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Build Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Clean Code
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Programme Management
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP