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 25 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 138 170
Rank change year-on-year +35 +32 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 41 67 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.97% 1.42% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.93% 5.65% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 42
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,297 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +1.92% -18.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,715 £77,318
90th Percentile £112,500 £82,548 £84,025
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -17.01%

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 517 1,186 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.87% 25.18% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 425 920 970
10th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £48,114
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £58,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.30% - +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 25 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Manchester

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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 6 (14.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) Apache
2 3 (7.32%) GemFire
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 8 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.63%) GCP
5 5 (12.20%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.88%) dbt
8 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
1 1 (2.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) MongoDB
2 9 (21.95%) NoSQL
3 8 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.20%) BigQuery
4 5 (12.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.76%) Big Data
5 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
5 4 (9.76%) Redis
5 4 (9.76%) Tableau
6 3 (7.32%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (7.32%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.88%) MySQL
7 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) GitLab
3 4 (9.76%) Git
4 2 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.88%) JMeter
4 2 (4.88%) LoadRunner
4 2 (4.88%) NeoLoad
4 2 (4.88%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Automotive
6 2 (4.88%) Front Office
6 2 (4.88%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Lead
2 8 (19.51%) Technical Leader
3 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Data Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Senior
7 3 (7.32%) Java Server Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Data Science Leader
8 2 (4.88%) Development Team Leader
8 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) Spring
2 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.76%) .NET
3 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.76%) React
4 3 (7.32%) gRPC
4 3 (7.32%) Middleware
4 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.88%) Node.js
5 2 (4.88%) NumPy
5 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.88%) Pandas
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.44%) CSS
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) J2EE
6 1 (2.44%) PySpark
6 1 (2.44%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.32%) Derivative
3 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (4.88%) Data Fabric
4 2 (4.88%) Equities
4 2 (4.88%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.88%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.88%) Replication
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Agile
2 20 (48.78%) Microservices
2 20 (48.78%) Software Engineering
3 19 (46.34%) DevOps
4 15 (36.59%) Mentoring
5 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
6 11 (26.83%) Roadmaps
7 10 (24.39%) Event-Driven
8 9 (21.95%) Coaching
8 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (19.51%) TDD
9 8 (19.51%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (17.07%) Software Architecture
11 6 (14.63%) Code Quality
11 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (12.20%) Personalization
12 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Java
2 20 (48.78%) Python
3 12 (29.27%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.32%) C#
5 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.88%) Bash
6 2 (4.88%) Scala
7 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (43.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (36.59%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Istio
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle
1 3 (7.32%) Solace
1 3 (7.32%) Splunk
1 3 (7.32%) TIBCO
2 2 (4.88%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.44%) Confluent
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) StreamSets