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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 135 87
Rank change year-on-year +23 -48 +100
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 20 21 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.69% 0.79% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 3.56% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 60
10th Percentile £65,125 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £70,938 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +8.00% +2.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £82,925
90th Percentile £104,250 £109,695 £85,379
North West median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +26.67% +8.00% +15.75%

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 373 590 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.79% 22.12% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 321 360 637
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +2.92% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,013
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.56% +2.63%

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 14 January 2026.

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 (15.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Collibra
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) Kong
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (30.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Ant
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Billing
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Spring
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (25.00%) React
4 4 (20.00%) CSS
4 4 (20.00%) gRPC
4 4 (20.00%) HTML
4 4 (20.00%) REST
4 4 (20.00%) RESTful
4 4 (20.00%) Spring Batch
5 2 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.00%) Middleware
6 1 (5.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) Microservices
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (35.00%) AI
4 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (30.00%) User Experience
6 5 (25.00%) OOP
6 5 (25.00%) Scrum
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (20.00%) OO
7 4 (20.00%) SDLC
8 3 (15.00%) Coaching
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) Go
5 2 (10.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Podman
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Informatica
1 1 (5.00%) Pega