Kafka Jobs in Manchester

Apache Kafka
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 162 157
Rank change year-on-year +67 -5 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 68 56 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.09% 1.09% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.04% 4.59% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 37 53 49
10th Percentile £58,500 £47,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% -7.41% -15.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £112,500 £77,715 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £68,474
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.72% -14.41%

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 565 1,219 1,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.71% 23.63% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 410 940 873
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,433 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,125 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.62% -1.74% +4.55%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Manchester.

Salary trend for Kafka in Manchester

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 May 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 8 May 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 2 - - 1
Stockport - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 2
Bolton - 2 - - 2
Oldham - 2 - -
Sale - 2 - -
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 9 (13.24%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.41%) Apache
3 3 (4.41%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 44 (64.71%) AWS
2 30 (44.12%) Azure
3 13 (19.12%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (7.35%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.41%) GitHub
6 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.94%) dbt
7 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) SQL Server
2 23 (33.82%) MongoDB
3 13 (19.12%) NoSQL
4 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.88%) Tableau
6 3 (4.41%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (4.41%) Big Data
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (4.41%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (4.41%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.41%) Redis
6 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Power BI
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (36.76%) GitLab
2 21 (30.88%) JIRA
3 20 (29.41%) Bitbucket
3 20 (29.41%) Selenium
4 18 (26.47%) Cucumber
4 18 (26.47%) Maven
4 18 (26.47%) SonarQube
4 18 (26.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
6 6 (8.82%) Git
7 3 (4.41%) JUnit
8 2 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.94%) JMeter
8 2 (2.94%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.94%) NeoLoad
8 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (54.41%) Finance
2 25 (36.76%) Banking
3 18 (26.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (13.24%) Corporate Banking
4 9 (13.24%) Investment Banking
4 9 (13.24%) Retail
5 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Front Office
8 2 (2.94%) Law
9 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.47%) Automotive
9 1 (1.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 25 (36.76%) Software Engineer
2 24 (35.29%) Lead
3 13 (19.12%) Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Senior
4 8 (11.76%) Technical Leader
5 6 (8.82%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Java Server Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Server Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Data Science Leader
9 2 (2.94%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.18%) Spring
2 26 (38.24%) React
3 25 (36.76%) Spring Boot
4 21 (30.88%) CSS
4 21 (30.88%) HTML
5 18 (26.47%) JPA
5 18 (26.47%) Redux
6 13 (19.12%) REST
7 12 (17.65%) RESTful
8 9 (13.24%) AngularJS
8 9 (13.24%) CSS3
8 9 (13.24%) Hibernate
8 9 (13.24%) HTML5
8 9 (13.24%) Jest
8 9 (13.24%) Sass
9 8 (11.76%) .NET
10 6 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (7.35%) gRPC
12 3 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (4.41%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (38.24%) Product Ownership
2 18 (26.47%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
3 6 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.41%) Derivative
6 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.94%) Clustering
7 2 (2.94%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (2.94%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.94%) Equities
7 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.94%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.94%) Replication
8 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) Microservices
2 41 (60.29%) Agile
3 39 (57.35%) Software Engineering
4 38 (55.88%) DevOps
5 33 (48.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
7 27 (39.71%) Mentoring
8 26 (38.24%) Containerisation
9 24 (35.29%) Test Automation
10 22 (32.35%) SDLC
11 21 (30.88%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (26.47%) Front End Development
13 16 (23.53%) TDD
13 16 (23.53%) User Experience
14 13 (19.12%) Roadmaps
15 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (17.65%) Event-Driven
15 12 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
16 10 (14.71%) Clean Code
16 10 (14.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) Java
2 30 (44.12%) JavaScript
3 28 (41.18%) SQL
4 20 (29.41%) Python
5 18 (26.47%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.76%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) Bash
7 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.41%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (29.41%) QA
2 11 (16.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (55.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (54.41%) Kubernetes
2 13 (19.12%) Terraform
3 1 (1.47%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Solace
2 5 (7.35%) Splunk
3 3 (4.41%) Bloomberg
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle
3 3 (4.41%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.47%) Confluent
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) StreamSets