Kafka Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Kafka Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Kafka Engineer salary in Manchester is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.020% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 4,601 1,890 4,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 91.97% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,288 1,262 3,714
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,188 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,822 £81,250
North West median annual salary £52,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.10% +9.59% -9.09%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 21 April 2026, Kafka Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL