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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 159 101
Rank change year-on-year +64 -58 +62
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 60 22 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.63% 0.58% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.79% 2.71% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 55
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 - £60,590
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £63,125 £84,056
90th Percentile £99,275 £72,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +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 509 813 843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 22.29% 21.58% 32.96%
Number of salaries quoted 284 452 673
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,900 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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
Salford +13 3 - -
Stockport - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - -
Altrincham - 3 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 2
Bolton - 3 - - 4
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
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 15 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) AWS
2 30 (50.00%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) GCP
4 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.00%) Serverless
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.67%) Kong
7 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 18 (30.00%) MongoDB
3 13 (21.67%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (60.00%) JIRA
2 33 (55.00%) Cucumber
2 33 (55.00%) GitLab
2 33 (55.00%) Selenium
3 28 (46.67%) Maven
3 28 (46.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 27 (45.00%) Bitbucket
4 27 (45.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.00%) Git
6 2 (3.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.67%) Ant
7 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (70.00%) Finance
2 28 (46.67%) Banking
2 28 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (30.00%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (30.00%) Investment Banking
3 18 (30.00%) Retail
4 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Billing
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (61.67%) Software Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Java Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 5 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (3.33%) Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Associate Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (71.67%) Spring
1 43 (71.67%) Spring Boot
2 35 (58.33%) React
3 29 (48.33%) CSS
3 29 (48.33%) HTML
4 27 (45.00%) JPA
4 27 (45.00%) Redux
5 21 (35.00%) REST
6 20 (33.33%) RESTful
7 18 (30.00%) CSS3
7 18 (30.00%) HTML5
7 18 (30.00%) Jest
7 18 (30.00%) Sass
8 10 (16.67%) Hibernate
9 9 (15.00%) .NET
10 5 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
12 2 (3.33%) gRPC
12 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (3.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (55.00%) Product Ownership
2 27 (45.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (10.00%) Wiki
4 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (86.67%) Agile
2 46 (76.67%) Microservices
3 44 (73.33%) Software Engineering
4 40 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 40 (66.67%) DevOps
4 40 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (63.33%) Containerisation
6 36 (60.00%) Test Automation
7 32 (53.33%) Performance Optimisation
8 31 (51.67%) SDLC
9 29 (48.33%) Front End Development
10 27 (45.00%) Mentoring
11 25 (41.67%) User Experience
12 18 (30.00%) Migration
12 18 (30.00%) Responsive Web Design
12 18 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
13 17 (28.33%) TDD
14 13 (21.67%) Code Quality
15 11 (18.33%) Clean Code
16 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (75.00%) Java
2 34 (56.67%) SQL
3 30 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 22 (36.67%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.67%) C#
6 3 (5.00%) Python
7 2 (3.33%) Go
8 1 (1.67%) Bash
8 1 (1.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (46.67%) QA
2 18 (30.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (63.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Podman
4 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (45.00%) Solace
2 5 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle
3 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.67%) SAP