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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 92 157
Rank change year-on-year -61 +65 -58
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 52 66 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.68% 2.78% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.60% 12.15% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24 23 18
10th Percentile £49,375 £43,750 £47,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £64,688
90th Percentile £130,000 £98,000 £68,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -26.67%

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 788 543 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.35% 22.83% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 608 313 524
10th Percentile £43,675 £40,008 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,625 £90,000 £84,700
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +17.12% -7.50%

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 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Manchester

Kafka
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. 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
Altrincham +6 1 - - 1
Bolton +3 1 £35,000 -
Wigan 0 1 - - 1
Kafka
North West

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 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 40 (76.92%) AWS
2 13 (25.00%) Azure
3 10 (19.23%) Amazon S3
4 9 (17.31%) GCP
5 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (15.38%) Serverless
6 6 (11.54%) GitHub
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.85%) SaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Flink
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.85%) Big Data
6 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.92%) MySQL
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.77%) Postman
3 3 (5.77%) Selenium
4 2 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.92%) GitLab
5 1 (1.92%) Maven
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Publishing
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) iGaming
5 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Senior
2 12 (23.08%) Architect
2 12 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 11 (21.15%) Data Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Lead
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Java Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Java Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (53.85%) Spring
2 24 (46.15%) Spring Boot
3 14 (26.92%) React
4 7 (13.46%) PySpark
4 7 (13.46%) Terraform
5 5 (9.62%) .NET
5 5 (9.62%) REST
6 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
7 3 (5.77%) Great Expectations
7 3 (5.77%) JPA
7 3 (5.77%) OpenAPI
7 3 (5.77%) Pandas
7 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.77%) RESTful
7 3 (5.77%) Spring MVC
7 3 (5.77%) Swagger
8 1 (1.92%) JMS
8 1 (1.92%) WinForms
8 1 (1.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Media Streaming
1 12 (23.08%) Podcast
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) Event-Driven
2 30 (57.69%) Agile
3 27 (51.92%) CI/CD
4 22 (42.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (42.31%) Microservices
5 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
6 20 (38.46%) DevOps
6 20 (38.46%) Observability
7 19 (36.54%) AI
7 19 (36.54%) Mentoring
8 16 (30.77%) Software Engineering
9 14 (26.92%) Incident Management
10 13 (25.00%) Code Quality
11 12 (23.08%) Software Delivery
12 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (21.15%) Test Strategy
13 9 (17.31%) Roadmaps
14 8 (15.38%) Domain-Driven Design
14 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (15.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (69.23%) Java
2 21 (40.38%) Python
3 15 (28.85%) SQL
4 13 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) Scala
6 3 (5.77%) Bash
6 3 (5.77%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 4 (7.69%) MBA
3 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Argo
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Databricks
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Adobe
4 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.77%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) YouTube