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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 155 114
Rank change year-on-year +70 -41 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 68 26 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.87% 0.64% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.88% 2.95% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 58
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £62,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £98,000 £73,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £68,750 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -26.67% -6.25%

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 528 881 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 22.28% 21.68% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 294 510 706
10th Percentile £38,225 £41,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,743 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,875 £80,125 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +16 3 - - 1
Stockport - 3 - - 1
Wigan - 3 - -
Altrincham - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Bolton - 3 - - 1
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Kafka
North West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (22.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (67.65%) AWS
2 31 (45.59%) Azure
3 10 (14.71%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
5 3 (4.41%) Serverless
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.47%) Kong
7 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 26 (38.24%) MongoDB
3 18 (26.47%) NoSQL
4 10 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.47%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (57.35%) JIRA
2 33 (48.53%) Cucumber
2 33 (48.53%) GitLab
2 33 (48.53%) Selenium
3 28 (41.18%) Maven
3 28 (41.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 27 (39.71%) Bitbucket
4 27 (39.71%) SonarQube
5 6 (8.82%) Git
6 5 (7.35%) JUnit
7 1 (1.47%) Ant
7 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (66.18%) Finance
2 28 (41.18%) Banking
2 28 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (26.47%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (26.47%) Investment Banking
3 18 (26.47%) Retail
4 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Billing
6 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (54.41%) Software Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 8 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Java Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Associate Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Architect
9 2 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Principal Java Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (64.71%) Spring
1 44 (64.71%) Spring Boot
2 37 (54.41%) React
3 32 (47.06%) CSS
3 32 (47.06%) HTML
4 27 (39.71%) JPA
4 27 (39.71%) Redux
5 24 (35.29%) REST
6 23 (33.82%) RESTful
7 18 (26.47%) CSS3
7 18 (26.47%) HTML5
7 18 (26.47%) Jest
7 18 (26.47%) Sass
8 11 (16.18%) .NET
9 10 (14.71%) AngularJS
10 9 (13.24%) Hibernate
11 7 (10.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (7.35%) gRPC
12 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (7.35%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 39 (57.35%) Product Ownership
2 27 (39.71%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (8.82%) Wiki
5 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.94%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.47%) IoT
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (79.41%) Agile
2 48 (70.59%) Microservices
3 44 (64.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (64.71%) Software Engineering
4 42 (61.76%) CI/CD
4 42 (61.76%) DevOps
5 41 (60.29%) Containerisation
6 35 (51.47%) Test Automation
7 34 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 33 (48.53%) SDLC
9 31 (45.59%) User Experience
10 29 (42.65%) Mentoring
11 27 (39.71%) Front End Development
12 18 (26.47%) Migration
12 18 (26.47%) Responsive Web Design
12 18 (26.47%) Strategic Thinking
13 17 (25.00%) Code Quality
13 17 (25.00%) TDD
14 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (17.65%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 49 (72.06%) Java
2 37 (54.41%) JavaScript
3 31 (45.59%) SQL
4 28 (41.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (20.59%) C#
6 7 (10.29%) Python
7 1 (1.47%) Bash
7 1 (1.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (41.18%) QA
2 18 (26.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (58.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (61.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (1.47%) Podman
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Solace
2 7 (10.29%) Splunk
3 4 (5.88%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) SAP