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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 142 85
Rank change year-on-year +33 -57 +99
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 20 15 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.74% 0.53% 3.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.60% 2.39% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 57
10th Percentile £70,875 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -13.60% +2.88%
75th Percentile £97,813 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,125 £78,000 £89,349
North West median annual salary £95,000 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +58.33% -13.60% +2.88%

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 357 628 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.13% 22.36% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 303 375 530
10th Percentile £30,200 £41,250 £38,683
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +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 23 December 2025.

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 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Collibra
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Kong
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) DocumentDB
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Ant
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Billing
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Spring
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (30.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (20.00%) gRPC
3 4 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) RESTful
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Microservices
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (35.00%) AI
5 7 (35.00%) Code Quality
5 7 (35.00%) User Experience
6 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) OOP
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (20.00%) OO
8 4 (20.00%) SDLC
9 3 (15.00%) Coaching
9 3 (15.00%) DevOps
9 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) C#
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (15.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Podman
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Pega