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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 155 84
Rank change year-on-year +47 -71 +90
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 32 22 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.31% 0.61% 2.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.88% 2.83% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 62
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 - £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £62,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £98,000 £64,625 £85,000
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 406 777 799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.64% 21.55% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 306 433 634
10th Percentile £36,875 £40,000 £39,825
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,950 £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 12 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) GitHub
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.13%) Kong
5 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) MongoDB
2 13 (40.63%) NoSQL
3 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.13%) DocumentDB
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
2 6 (18.75%) Selenium
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Ant
5 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Billing
3 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Developer
1 9 (28.13%) Software Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Principal Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) Spring
1 14 (43.75%) Spring Boot
2 9 (28.13%) .NET
3 8 (25.00%) React
4 5 (15.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (9.38%) REST
7 2 (6.25%) CSS
7 2 (6.25%) gRPC
7 2 (6.25%) HTML
7 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (6.25%) RESTful
7 2 (6.25%) Spring Batch
8 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
8 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.13%) Middleware
8 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 6 (18.75%) Wiki
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Agile
2 18 (56.25%) Microservices
3 16 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
4 13 (40.63%) Code Quality
5 12 (37.50%) DevOps
5 12 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
7 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
8 8 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 8 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 8 (25.00%) OOP
8 8 (25.00%) TDD
8 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (21.88%) Kanban
9 7 (21.88%) User Experience
10 6 (18.75%) API Development
10 6 (18.75%) Information Security
10 6 (18.75%) Prototyping
10 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (34.38%) C#
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.38%) Go
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) Python
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Podman
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.13%) SAP