Kafka Contracts in Manchester

Apache Kafka
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 66 95
Rank change year-on-year +33 +29 -15
Contract jobs citing Kafka 48 30 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.18% 1.98% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.08% 8.31% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 19 19
10th Percentile £406 £481 £424
25th Percentile £447 £511 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -7.13% -6.12%
75th Percentile £545 £539 £675
90th Percentile £668 £595 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -4.08% -3.02% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Manchester

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) Serverless
3 8 (16.67%) GitHub
3 8 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.25%) Azure
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.17%) Apigee
7 2 (4.17%) dbt
7 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.08%) Kong
8 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (39.58%) Relational Database
3 15 (31.25%) MongoDB
4 14 (29.17%) NoSQL
5 9 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (18.75%) RDBMS
6 7 (14.58%) Big Data
6 7 (14.58%) MySQL
7 6 (12.50%) Hadoop
8 5 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
10 2 (4.17%) Data Vault
10 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
11 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
11 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 16 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.92%) GitLab
2 11 (22.92%) Gradle
2 11 (22.92%) JUnit
2 11 (22.92%) Mockito
3 10 (20.83%) Liquibase
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
5 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.17%) Git
5 2 (4.17%) Maven
6 1 (2.08%) Appium
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.08%) gulp
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) Selenium
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (27.08%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Electronics
3 10 (20.83%) Manufacturing
3 10 (20.83%) Marketing
3 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Aviation
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Java Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) DBA
3 9 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Architect
5 7 (14.58%) Data Architect
6 6 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 6 (12.50%) React Developer
6 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Administrator
8 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) Spring Boot
2 12 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 12 (25.00%) Spring
2 12 (25.00%) Swagger
3 11 (22.92%) React
4 9 (18.75%) JSON
4 9 (18.75%) XML
5 6 (12.50%) OAuth
6 5 (10.42%) RESTful
7 4 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 4 (8.33%) OpenID
7 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.33%) SAML
8 1 (2.08%) cloud-init
8 1 (2.08%) Keycloak
8 1 (2.08%) MEAN Stack
8 1 (2.08%) MERN Stack
8 1 (2.08%) Mongoose
8 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) CentOS
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 25 (52.08%) DevOps
3 23 (47.92%) Agile
4 20 (41.67%) Containerisation
5 19 (39.58%) Microservices
5 19 (39.58%) Software Engineering
6 14 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 13 (27.08%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (25.00%) Migration
8 12 (25.00%) TDD
9 10 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (20.83%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (20.83%) Event-Driven
9 10 (20.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (20.83%) Programme Management
10 9 (18.75%) Database Security
10 9 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) Java
2 18 (37.50%) SQL
3 15 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 13 (27.08%) Python
5 3 (6.25%) Clojure
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Go
6 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Kibana
4 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) Consul
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Istio
5 1 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.08%) linkerd
5 1 (2.08%) Packer
5 1 (2.08%) Rancher
5 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Oracle
2 10 (20.83%) SAP
3 4 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (6.25%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.08%) Confluent
6 1 (2.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) New Relic
6 1 (2.08%) Okta