Kafka Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Apache Kafka
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 55 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -28
Contract jobs citing Kafka 40 28 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.46% 2.56% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.87% 12.90% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 15
10th Percentile £325 £445 £459
25th Percentile £370 £455 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -10.88% -11.17%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £534
90th Percentile £673 £656 £541
North West median daily rate £435 £483 £533
% change year-on-year -9.84% -9.47% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
North West median hourly rate - £85.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +30.77% -

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 269 217 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.27% 19.82% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 142 319
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £670
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile £52.50 - £60.50
25th Percentile £53.13 - £64.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.78%
75th Percentile £66.75 - £77.81
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Manchester

Kafka
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 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Serverless
3 8 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (15.00%) Azure
6 5 (12.50%) GitHub
6 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (7.50%) Kong
9 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) MongoDB
2 14 (35.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (10.00%) DocumentDB
6 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
7 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (7.50%) MySQL
8 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.50%) Big Data
9 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.50%) Metadata
9 1 (2.50%) Power BI
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Mockito
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 6 (15.00%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Lead
2 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) DBA
4 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) React
1 10 (25.00%) Spring
1 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (12.50%) JAX-RS
3 5 (12.50%) JSON
3 5 (12.50%) XML
4 4 (10.00%) .NET
4 4 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.50%) Spring Batch
5 3 (7.50%) Spring Security
6 2 (5.00%) REST
7 1 (2.50%) JPA
7 1 (2.50%) PySpark
7 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.50%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Microservices
2 15 (37.50%) DevOps
2 15 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 14 (35.00%) Containerisation
4 13 (32.50%) Agile
5 11 (27.50%) Mentoring
6 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 10 (25.00%) TDD
7 9 (22.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) BDD
9 5 (12.50%) Coaching
9 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (12.50%) Database Security
9 5 (12.50%) High Availability
9 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Java
2 13 (32.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Clojure
5 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (27.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Confluent
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.00%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.50%) IBM