Kafka Job Trends in Manchester

Apache Kafka
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 102 134
Rank change year-on-year -38 +32 +18
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 15 43 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.32% 2.14% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.29% 8.33% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5 31 61
10th Percentile £57,750 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,297 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile - £112,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £95,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.74% +3.85% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 456 516 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.85% 25.66% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 380 425 935
10th Percentile £36,075 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kafka
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Salary 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 2 (13.33%) CICS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) Collibra
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) DB2
3 2 (13.33%) Flink
3 2 (13.33%) Hazelcast
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Pega Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Development Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (40.00%) CSS
1 6 (40.00%) HTML
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 5 (33.33%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) React
4 3 (20.00%) CSS3
4 3 (20.00%) gRPC
4 3 (20.00%) HTML5
4 3 (20.00%) J2EE
4 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (13.33%) Great Expectations
5 2 (13.33%) JMS
5 2 (13.33%) Middleware
5 2 (13.33%) Pandas
5 2 (13.33%) PySpark
6 1 (6.67%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
2 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (40.00%) OOP
5 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 4 (26.67%) AI
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) ETL
7 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Go
7 1 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Pega
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft