Kafka Job Trends in Bolton

Apache Kafka
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 22 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 0.88% 2.91% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 37.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - -
75th Percentile £37,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bolton

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5 8 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 4.39% 7.77% 22.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £27,900 £93,000 £33,125
25th Percentile £28,500 £93,750 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £100,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +142.42% -34.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £107,500 £49,688
90th Percentile £61,250 £109,000 £50,625
Manchester median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Bolton

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes