Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Kafka Engineer
North West > Manchester

As of 21 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Manchester.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.060% 0.11% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.11% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £585 -
North West median daily rate - £585 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,526 874 1,461
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 93.88% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 626 1,023
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £579
90th Percentile £650 £678 £694
North West median daily rate £465 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -2.11% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 43 82
10th Percentile £19.75 £13.00 £12.02
25th Percentile £28.23 £15.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.50 £25.10
Median % change year-on-year +74.60% +25.52% -33.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.75 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £30.40 £26.39
% change year-on-year +49.54% +15.20% -14.17%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 21 April 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Python

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality