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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 169 145
Rank change year-on-year +84 -24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 88 52 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.57% 0.89% 2.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.79% 3.90% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 41 46 58
10th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £52,125
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £73,750 £90,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -12.50%

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 638 1,332 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.86% 22.71% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 382 955 824
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £83,964
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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
Salford +17 3 - -
Stockport - 3 - - 5
Wigan - 3 - -
Altrincham - 3 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 3
Bolton - 3 - - 10
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Kafka
North West

Kafka
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 15 (17.05%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) Apache
2 3 (3.41%) GemFire
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 58 (65.91%) AWS
2 37 (42.05%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) GitHub
4 9 (10.23%) GCP
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.55%) Serverless
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.27%) SaaS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (46.59%) SQL Server
2 38 (43.18%) MongoDB
3 23 (26.14%) NoSQL
4 11 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.41%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (3.41%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (3.41%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.41%) Redis
6 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.27%) Big Data
7 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.27%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (45.45%) GitLab
2 37 (42.05%) JIRA
3 35 (39.77%) Selenium
4 33 (37.50%) Cucumber
5 29 (32.95%) Bitbucket
6 27 (30.68%) Maven
6 27 (30.68%) SonarQube
6 27 (30.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (9.09%) Jenkins
8 7 (7.95%) Git
9 4 (4.55%) JUnit
10 2 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.27%) JMeter
10 2 (2.27%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.27%) NeoLoad
10 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (59.09%) Finance
2 31 (35.23%) Banking
3 27 (30.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (20.45%) Corporate Banking
4 18 (20.45%) Investment Banking
4 18 (20.45%) Retail
5 9 (10.23%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Front Office
7 2 (2.27%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.14%) Automotive
8 1 (1.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 21 (23.86%) Lead
3 19 (21.59%) Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Java Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) .NET Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Senior
6 8 (9.09%) Technical Leader
7 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Java Server Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Server Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Associate Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Software Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (52.27%) Spring
2 43 (48.86%) Spring Boot
3 38 (43.18%) React
4 31 (35.23%) CSS
4 31 (35.23%) HTML
5 27 (30.68%) JPA
5 27 (30.68%) Redux
6 24 (27.27%) REST
7 22 (25.00%) RESTful
8 18 (20.45%) CSS3
8 18 (20.45%) HTML5
8 18 (20.45%) Jest
8 18 (20.45%) Sass
9 15 (17.05%) .NET
10 10 (11.36%) AngularJS
11 9 (10.23%) Hibernate
12 8 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (6.82%) gRPC
14 4 (4.55%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (43.18%) Product Ownership
2 27 (30.68%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.95%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.82%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.82%) Wiki
6 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.41%) Derivative
7 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.27%) Clustering
8 2 (2.27%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (2.27%) Equities
8 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.27%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.27%) Replication
9 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (71.59%) Agile
2 60 (68.18%) Microservices
3 58 (65.91%) Software Engineering
4 54 (61.36%) DevOps
5 49 (55.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (54.55%) CI/CD
7 42 (47.73%) Containerisation
8 39 (44.32%) Test Automation
9 36 (40.91%) Mentoring
10 35 (39.77%) Performance Optimisation
11 31 (35.23%) SDLC
12 29 (32.95%) User Experience
13 27 (30.68%) Front End Development
14 22 (25.00%) TDD
15 20 (22.73%) Code Quality
15 20 (22.73%) Event-Driven
16 18 (20.45%) Migration
16 18 (20.45%) Responsive Web Design
16 18 (20.45%) Strategic Thinking
17 15 (17.05%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 63 (71.59%) Java
2 41 (46.59%) JavaScript
3 35 (39.77%) SQL
4 28 (31.82%) TypeScript
5 16 (18.18%) C#
5 16 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (5.68%) Degree
2 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (34.09%) QA
2 20 (22.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (60.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.05%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (34.09%) Solace
2 8 (9.09%) Splunk
3 4 (4.55%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) SAP