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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 120 121
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 18 33 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.47% 1.42% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.34% 5.76% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 65
10th Percentile £60,750 £57,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £61,297 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.96% +10.76% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,737 £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 415 573 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.77% 24.72% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 350 411 900
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,438 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,450
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.96% -1.30%

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 8 March 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 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Collibra
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) Kong
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) DB2
3 2 (11.11%) Hazelcast
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 3 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Billing
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Pega Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Software Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) AngularJS
1 7 (38.89%) React
2 6 (33.33%) CSS
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 6 (33.33%) RESTful
2 6 (33.33%) Spring
2 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 5 (27.78%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) CSS3
4 3 (16.67%) gRPC
4 3 (16.67%) HTML5
4 3 (16.67%) J2EE
4 3 (16.67%) SOAP
4 3 (16.67%) Spring Batch
5 2 (11.11%) .NET
5 2 (11.11%) JMS
5 2 (11.11%) Middleware
6 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.56%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (50.00%) Microservices
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 7 (38.89%) OOP
5 6 (33.33%) Scrum
6 5 (27.78%) AI
6 5 (27.78%) Code Quality
6 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
6 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
7 4 (22.22%) DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) OO
7 4 (22.22%) User Experience
8 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) SDLC
8 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.11%) C#
6 2 (11.11%) Python
7 1 (5.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Pega
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica