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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 156 81
Rank change year-on-year +43 -75 +113
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 23 22 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.97% 0.61% 2.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 2.81% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 59
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +3.79%
75th Percentile £95,000 £62,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £98,750 £64,750 £87,458
North West median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +11.11%

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 374 784 754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.83% 21.66% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 312 455 600
10th Percentile £35,575 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +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 26 November 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 (8.70%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) Kong
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) MongoDB
2 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Ant
3 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Billing
3 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Architect
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Development Team Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) .NET
1 8 (34.78%) React
1 8 (34.78%) Spring
1 8 (34.78%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (17.39%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) gRPC
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) REST
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
5 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
5 7 (30.43%) OOP
6 6 (26.09%) Code Quality
6 6 (26.09%) Design Patterns
6 6 (26.09%) Kanban
7 5 (21.74%) AI
7 5 (21.74%) User Experience
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (17.39%) DevOps
8 4 (17.39%) OO
8 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (17.39%) SDLC
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) C#
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.04%) Go
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Podman
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Splunk