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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 145 85
Rank change year-on-year +23 -60 +89
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 18 17 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.65% 0.61% 2.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.06% 2.82% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 58
10th Percentile £70,625 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £76,563 £55,000 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -10.00% +2.88%
75th Percentile £96,875 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £108,750 £82,695 £88,026
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 356 603 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.77% 21.73% 31.96%
Number of salaries quoted 303 366 575
10th Percentile £30,200 £41,250 £38,950
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 £56,379 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.42% -6.03% +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 27 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 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Collibra
4 1 (5.56%) Kong
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (27.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Ant
3 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Billing
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Spring
1 8 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 5 (27.78%) React
4 4 (22.22%) CSS
4 4 (22.22%) gRPC
4 4 (22.22%) HTML
4 4 (22.22%) REST
4 4 (22.22%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Batch
5 2 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.56%) Middleware
6 1 (5.56%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
1 13 (72.22%) Microservices
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (38.89%) AI
4 6 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 6 (33.33%) User Experience
5 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) OOP
5 5 (27.78%) Scrum
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (22.22%) OO
6 4 (22.22%) SDLC
7 3 (16.67%) Coaching
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (16.67%) Python
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Podman
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Pega