Kafka Jobs in the North West

Apache Kafka
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 233 194
Rank change year-on-year +88 -39 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 175 61 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.25% 0.59% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.03% 2.91% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44 54 52
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,625 £72,500 £77,723
90th Percentile £108,600 £77,715 £90,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,164 2,093 2,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 20.38% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 481 1,597 1,110
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,350 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.58% -11.11% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North West.

Salary trend for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the North West

Kafka
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Manchester +92 87 £70,000 +12.00% 36
Cheshire +62 59 £60,000 -38.14% 7
Lancashire - 18 - - 13
Merseyside +52 11 £56,250 - 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 45 (25.71%) Confluence
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.71%) Apache
3 3 (1.71%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 145 (82.86%) AWS
2 125 (71.43%) Azure
3 46 (26.29%) GCP
4 9 (5.14%) GitHub
5 7 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.86%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.29%) NuGet
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.71%) dbt
8 3 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.14%) SaaS
9 2 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) HTTP
1 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (68.57%) SQL Server
2 32 (18.29%) MongoDB
3 21 (12.00%) NoSQL
4 14 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.29%) Big Data
7 3 (1.71%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (1.71%) Cloud Spanner
7 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.71%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (1.71%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.71%) Redis
7 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.71%) Tableau
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 122 (69.71%) GitLab
2 119 (68.00%) JIRA
3 117 (66.86%) Selenium
4 115 (65.71%) Cucumber
5 111 (63.43%) Bitbucket
6 109 (62.29%) Maven
6 109 (62.29%) SonarQube
6 109 (62.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (5.71%) Jenkins
8 9 (5.14%) Git
9 4 (2.29%) JUnit
10 2 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.14%) JMeter
10 2 (1.14%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.14%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.14%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 134 (76.57%) Finance
2 116 (66.29%) Banking
3 109 (62.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 70 (40.00%) Retail
5 11 (6.29%) Social Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Front Office
7 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.57%) Automotive
8 1 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 120 (68.57%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.71%) Lead
3 19 (10.86%) Developer
4 13 (7.43%) Senior
5 10 (5.71%) Java Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Senior Developer
7 8 (4.57%) Technical Leader
8 7 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.43%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (2.29%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.29%) Lead Developer
11 4 (2.29%) Senior C# Developer
11 4 (2.29%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (1.71%) Architect
12 3 (1.71%) Java Server Engineer
12 3 (1.71%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (1.71%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (72.00%) Spring
2 123 (70.29%) Spring Boot
3 117 (66.86%) React
4 113 (64.57%) CSS
4 113 (64.57%) HTML
5 109 (62.29%) JPA
5 109 (62.29%) Redux
6 78 (44.57%) REST
7 76 (43.43%) RESTful
8 70 (40.00%) CSS3
8 70 (40.00%) HTML5
8 70 (40.00%) Jest
8 70 (40.00%) Sass
9 39 (22.29%) Hibernate
10 14 (8.00%) .NET
11 11 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (5.71%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.43%) gRPC
14 5 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
15 4 (2.29%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 120 (68.57%) Product Ownership
2 109 (62.29%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.43%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.43%) Wiki
5 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.71%) Derivative
7 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.14%) Equities
8 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.14%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.14%) Replication
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (1.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (83.43%) Agile
2 144 (82.29%) Microservices
3 141 (80.57%) DevOps
4 138 (78.86%) Software Engineering
5 134 (76.57%) CI/CD
6 129 (73.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 127 (72.57%) Containerisation
8 119 (68.00%) Test Automation
9 114 (65.14%) Performance Optimisation
10 113 (64.57%) SDLC
11 109 (62.29%) Front End Development
12 90 (51.43%) Mentoring
13 80 (45.71%) User Experience
14 71 (40.57%) Migration
15 70 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
15 70 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
16 52 (29.71%) TDD
17 44 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (22.86%) Clean Code
19 18 (10.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 144 (82.29%) Java
2 124 (70.86%) JavaScript
2 124 (70.86%) SQL
3 80 (45.71%) TypeScript
4 22 (12.57%) Python
5 15 (8.57%) C#
6 1 (0.57%) Bash
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (2.86%) Degree
2 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (63.43%) QA
2 72 (41.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.14%) GDPR
3 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 139 (79.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 138 (78.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 112 (64.00%) Solace
2 7 (4.00%) Splunk
3 4 (2.29%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.29%) Databricks
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle
4 3 (1.71%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.57%) Confluent
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) SAP