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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 226 190
Rank change year-on-year +73 -36 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 173 61 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.23% 0.60% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.94% 2.91% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 42 54 53
10th Percentile £52,875 £53,750 £49,850
25th Percentile £61,297 £55,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £86,875 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £111,200 £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 1,158 2,094 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.91% 20.48% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 475 1,600 1,116
10th Percentile £34,400 £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 £93,767 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,037 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.73% -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 28 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 28 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 +95 86 £70,000 +12.00% 126
Cheshire +57 58 £60,000 -38.14% 71
Lancashire - 18 - - 35
Merseyside +50 11 £56,250 - 27
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 (26.01%) Confluence
2 5 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.73%) Apache
3 3 (1.73%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 144 (83.24%) AWS
2 124 (71.68%) Azure
3 45 (26.01%) GCP
4 9 (5.20%) GitHub
5 7 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.89%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.73%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.73%) dbt
7 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.73%) NuGet
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.16%) SaaS
8 2 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) HTTP
2 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (68.79%) SQL Server
2 31 (17.92%) MongoDB
3 21 (12.14%) NoSQL
4 14 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.89%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.31%) Big Data
7 3 (1.73%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (1.73%) Cloud Spanner
7 3 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.73%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (1.73%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.73%) Redis
7 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.73%) Tableau
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 122 (70.52%) GitLab
2 119 (68.79%) JIRA
3 117 (67.63%) Selenium
4 115 (66.47%) Cucumber
5 111 (64.16%) Bitbucket
6 109 (63.01%) Maven
6 109 (63.01%) SonarQube
6 109 (63.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (5.78%) Jenkins
8 9 (5.20%) Git
9 4 (2.31%) JUnit
10 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.16%) JMeter
10 2 (1.16%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.16%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 134 (77.46%) Finance
2 116 (67.05%) Banking
3 109 (63.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (40.46%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (40.46%) Investment Banking
4 70 (40.46%) Retail
5 11 (6.36%) Social Skills
6 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Front Office
7 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.58%) Automotive
8 1 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 120 (69.36%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.87%) Lead
3 17 (9.83%) Developer
4 12 (6.94%) Senior
5 10 (5.78%) Java Engineer
6 8 (4.62%) Senior Developer
6 8 (4.62%) Technical Leader
7 7 (4.05%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.47%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.89%) .NET Developer
9 5 (2.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (2.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (2.31%) Lead Developer
10 4 (2.31%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (1.73%) Architect
11 3 (1.73%) C# Developer
11 3 (1.73%) Java Server Engineer
11 3 (1.73%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (1.73%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (1.73%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (72.83%) Spring
2 123 (71.10%) Spring Boot
3 117 (67.63%) React
4 113 (65.32%) CSS
4 113 (65.32%) HTML
5 109 (63.01%) JPA
5 109 (63.01%) Redux
6 78 (45.09%) REST
7 75 (43.35%) RESTful
8 70 (40.46%) CSS3
8 70 (40.46%) HTML5
8 70 (40.46%) Jest
8 70 (40.46%) Sass
9 39 (22.54%) Hibernate
10 12 (6.94%) .NET
11 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.78%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.47%) gRPC
13 4 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (2.31%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 120 (69.36%) Product Ownership
2 109 (63.01%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.47%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.47%) Wiki
5 5 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.73%) Derivative
7 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Clustering
8 2 (1.16%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.16%) Equities
8 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.16%) Replication
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.05%) Linux
2 3 (1.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (83.24%) Agile
2 143 (82.66%) Microservices
3 140 (80.92%) DevOps
4 138 (79.77%) Software Engineering
5 133 (76.88%) CI/CD
6 129 (74.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 126 (72.83%) Containerisation
8 119 (68.79%) Test Automation
9 113 (65.32%) Performance Optimisation
9 113 (65.32%) SDLC
10 109 (63.01%) Front End Development
11 90 (52.02%) Mentoring
12 80 (46.24%) User Experience
13 71 (41.04%) Migration
14 70 (40.46%) Responsive Web Design
14 70 (40.46%) Strategic Thinking
15 52 (30.06%) TDD
16 44 (25.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (23.12%) Clean Code
18 18 (10.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 144 (83.24%) Java
2 124 (71.68%) JavaScript
3 123 (71.10%) SQL
4 80 (46.24%) TypeScript
5 22 (12.72%) Python
6 13 (7.51%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) Bash
7 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (2.89%) Degree
2 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (64.16%) QA
2 72 (41.62%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.16%) GDPR
3 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 138 (79.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 137 (79.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.09%) Terraform
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 112 (64.74%) Solace
2 6 (3.47%) Splunk
3 4 (2.31%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.31%) Databricks
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle
4 3 (1.73%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.58%) Confluent
5 1 (0.58%) Google
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.58%) SAP