Kafka Jobs in Cheshire

Apache Kafka
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 96 86
Rank change year-on-year +53 -10 +21
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 58 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.42% 0.19% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 32.04% 1.01% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £97,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.14% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,996 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.59% -10.71% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 181 298 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.15% 19.15% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 39 246 97
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £91,592 £88,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.65% -0.87% +4.55%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Crewe - 6 £60,000 - 1
Chester +23 3 - - 4
Ellesmere Port - 3 - -
Macclesfield - 3 - -
Northwich - 3 - -
Runcorn - 3 - -
Warrington - 3 - - 2
Widnes - 3 - -
Wilmslow - 3 - -
Knutsford +13 2 - - 1
Congleton - 2 - -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Winsford - 1 - -
Kafka
North West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 21 (36.21%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (98.28%) Azure
3 22 (37.93%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (94.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (94.83%) Bitbucket
1 55 (94.83%) Cucumber
1 55 (94.83%) GitLab
1 55 (94.83%) JIRA
1 55 (94.83%) Maven
1 55 (94.83%) Selenium
1 55 (94.83%) SonarQube
1 55 (94.83%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.45%) Git
General
1 55 (94.83%) Banking
1 55 (94.83%) Finance
1 55 (94.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (58.62%) Corporate Banking
2 34 (58.62%) Investment Banking
2 34 (58.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (94.83%) Software Engineer
2 3 (5.17%) C# Developer
2 3 (5.17%) Developer
2 3 (5.17%) Senior
2 3 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
2 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (94.83%) CSS
1 55 (94.83%) HTML
1 55 (94.83%) JPA
1 55 (94.83%) React
1 55 (94.83%) Redux
1 55 (94.83%) Spring
1 55 (94.83%) Spring Boot
2 36 (62.07%) REST
3 35 (60.34%) RESTful
4 34 (58.62%) CSS3
4 34 (58.62%) HTML5
4 34 (58.62%) Jest
4 34 (58.62%) Sass
5 21 (36.21%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.17%) .NET
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.17%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 55 (94.83%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (94.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Agile
1 58 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 58 (100.00%) DevOps
1 58 (100.00%) Microservices
2 57 (98.28%) Containerisation
3 55 (94.83%) Front End Development
3 55 (94.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (94.83%) Performance Optimisation
3 55 (94.83%) SDLC
3 55 (94.83%) Software Engineering
3 55 (94.83%) Test Automation
4 34 (58.62%) Mentoring
4 34 (58.62%) Migration
4 34 (58.62%) Responsive Web Design
4 34 (58.62%) Strategic Thinking
4 34 (58.62%) User Experience
5 23 (39.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (36.21%) Clean Code
6 21 (36.21%) TDD
7 3 (5.17%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 57 (98.28%) JavaScript
2 56 (96.55%) SQL
3 55 (94.83%) Java
4 34 (58.62%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.17%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (94.83%) QA
2 34 (58.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (94.83%) Solace
2 1 (1.72%) Google