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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 150 85
Rank change year-on-year +41 -65 +93
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 28 22 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.17% 0.62% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.47% 2.86% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 58
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £75,335
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.99% +5.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £62,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £98,000 £64,750 £88,687
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 375 770 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.61% 21.53% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 306 434 609
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,150
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 £84,000 £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 19 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Kong
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (32.14%) NoSQL
3 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) DocumentDB
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (10.71%) Selenium
3 2 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) Ant
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.57%) JUnit
4 1 (3.57%) Maven
4 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Billing
3 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Python Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Spring
1 10 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 9 (32.14%) .NET
3 8 (28.57%) React
4 5 (17.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (7.14%) REST
7 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.57%) CSS
7 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.57%) gRPC
7 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.57%) HTML
7 1 (3.57%) Middleware
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (3.57%) SOAP
7 1 (3.57%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Wiki
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) Microservices
3 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 9 (32.14%) Code Quality
4 9 (32.14%) DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
5 8 (28.57%) Design Patterns
6 7 (25.00%) Kanban
6 7 (25.00%) OOP
7 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (17.86%) TDD
8 5 (17.86%) User Experience
9 4 (14.29%) AI
9 4 (14.29%) Prototyping
9 4 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Go
4 3 (10.71%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Podman
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) SAP