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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 90 165
Rank change year-on-year -56 +75 -41
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 34 81 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.53% 3.25% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.18% 13.06% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 21 36 45
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -16.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £95,000 £74,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -18.37%

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 657 620 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.22% 24.91% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 545 367 867
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,024 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £94,267 £80,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.03% -1.72%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +15 1 £35,000 -
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 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) CICS
3 1 (2.94%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Azure
3 12 (35.29%) GCP
4 8 (23.53%) Amazon S3
5 7 (20.59%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (20.59%) Serverless
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
2 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.76%) Flink
3 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.88%) Big Data
4 2 (5.88%) Db2
4 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.88%) Hazelcast
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) Eclipse
2 3 (8.82%) IntelliJ
2 3 (8.82%) Postman
2 3 (8.82%) Selenium
3 2 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Architect
1 12 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Senior
3 8 (23.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Java Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Technical Architect
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Pega Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Junior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) PySpark
2 7 (20.59%) Spring
2 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
3 6 (17.65%) RESTful
4 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 4 (11.76%) Great Expectations
4 4 (11.76%) Pandas
5 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.82%) CSS
5 3 (8.82%) CSS3
5 3 (8.82%) HTML
5 3 (8.82%) HTML5
5 3 (8.82%) J2EE
5 3 (8.82%) JPA
5 3 (8.82%) OpenAPI
5 3 (8.82%) React
5 3 (8.82%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) SOAP
5 3 (8.82%) Spring MVC
5 3 (8.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Agile
1 15 (44.12%) Event-Driven
2 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) AI
3 11 (32.35%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 8 (23.53%) Microservices
6 7 (20.59%) Data Transformation
6 7 (20.59%) Decision-Making
6 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.59%) Scrum
7 6 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (17.65%) OOP
8 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) Python
2 19 (55.88%) Java
3 18 (52.94%) SQL
4 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) Scala
6 3 (8.82%) Bash
6 3 (8.82%) Kotlin
6 3 (8.82%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
1 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
1 4 (11.76%) MBA
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Argo
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Databricks
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Adobe
3 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.82%) Pega
3 3 (8.82%) Splunk