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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 85 164
Rank change year-on-year -63 +79 -28
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 33 89 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.54% 3.91% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.27% 14.17% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 22 43 50
10th Percentile £48,125 £45,500 £48,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,297 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £94,375 £81,875 £70,625
90th Percentile £130,000 £109,900 £77,521
North West median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -14.29%

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 626 628 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.17% 27.57% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 531 376 1,020
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -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 June 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 21 June 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
Bolton +14 1 £35,000 - 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 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.06%) CICS
4 1 (3.03%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Azure
3 10 (30.30%) GCP
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
5 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.21%) Serverless
6 5 (15.15%) GitHub
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (6.06%) SaaS
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (3.03%) Collibra
10 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Data Lake
1 7 (21.21%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (12.12%) Flink
3 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.06%) Big Data
4 2 (6.06%) Db2
4 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.06%) Hazelcast
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
3 3 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.06%) Postman
4 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) JUnit
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Architect
3 10 (30.30%) Senior
4 8 (24.24%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Java Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Technical Architect
7 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Pega Developer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Kafka Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) PySpark
2 7 (21.21%) Spring
2 7 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 6 (18.18%) RESTful
4 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.12%) CSS
4 4 (12.12%) Great Expectations
4 4 (12.12%) HTML
4 4 (12.12%) Pandas
4 4 (12.12%) REST
5 3 (9.09%) CSS3
5 3 (9.09%) HTML5
5 3 (9.09%) J2EE
5 3 (9.09%) React
5 3 (9.09%) SOAP
6 2 (6.06%) JMS
6 2 (6.06%) JPA
6 2 (6.06%) OpenAPI
6 2 (6.06%) Spring MVC
6 2 (6.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.06%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.06%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Agile
1 15 (45.45%) Event-Driven
2 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 10 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (27.27%) AI
4 9 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (27.27%) DevOps
5 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
5 8 (24.24%) Decision-Making
5 8 (24.24%) Machine Learning
5 8 (24.24%) Scrum
6 7 (21.21%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (21.21%) Data Transformation
6 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (21.21%) Microservices
7 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 6 (18.18%) ETL
7 6 (18.18%) OOP
8 5 (15.15%) Analytics
8 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 19 (57.58%) SQL
3 18 (54.55%) Java
4 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.12%) Scala
6 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
6 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.03%) Groovy
8 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.06%) MBA
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Argo
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) Databricks
3 3 (9.09%) Pega
4 2 (6.06%) Adobe
4 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Informatica