Kafka Jobs in the North West

Apache Kafka
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 208 156
Rank change year-on-year -32 -52 -9
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 61 88 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 1.18% 2.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 4.09% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 54 54 81
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -12.50% +60.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,741 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,715 £90,000 £88,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,025
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.46% +6.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,136 2,150 3,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.27% 28.82% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,627 1,105 1,819
10th Percentile £36,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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 31 May 2024.

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 31 May 2024. 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 -5 53 £62,500 -10.71% 13
Cumbria - 4 £55,000 -
Cheshire -12 3 £97,000 - 2
Merseyside - 1 - - 3
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 10 (16.39%) Apache Spark
2 9 (14.75%) Apache
3 6 (9.84%) Confluence
4 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.64%) nginx
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) AWS
2 17 (27.87%) Azure
3 14 (22.95%) GCP
4 13 (21.31%) Serverless
5 9 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (13.11%) GitHub
7 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.20%) dbt
7 5 (8.20%) Google Analytics
7 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.20%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.92%) Datadog
10 1 (1.64%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) NoSQL
2 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.48%) DocumentDB
3 7 (11.48%) MySQL
4 5 (8.20%) Airbyte
4 5 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (8.20%) BigQuery
4 5 (8.20%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.20%) Looker
4 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.20%) Power BI
4 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.20%) Tableau
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.92%) Flink
7 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.64%) OLAP
8 1 (1.64%) OLTP
8 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) GitLab
2 6 (9.84%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.56%) Spinnaker
5 2 (3.28%) Maven
6 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (31.15%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.20%) Retail
4 5 (8.20%) Retail Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Games
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (50.82%) Developer
2 30 (49.18%) Senior
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Developer
4 15 (24.59%) Software Engineer
5 13 (21.31%) .NET Developer
6 12 (19.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 9 (14.75%) Java Developer
7 9 (14.75%) Lead
8 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (9.84%) Data Engineer
10 6 (9.84%) ETL Developer
10 6 (9.84%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (8.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (6.56%) GCP Engineer
12 4 (6.56%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.87%) Spring
2 16 (26.23%) .NET
3 15 (24.59%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (19.67%) Spring Boot
5 9 (14.75%) MSMQ
6 8 (13.11%) AWS CDK
6 8 (13.11%) React
6 8 (13.11%) RESTful
7 7 (11.48%) JSON
8 6 (9.84%) Node.js
9 5 (8.20%) Apache Beam
9 5 (8.20%) AWS SAM
9 5 (8.20%) Hibernate
9 5 (8.20%) Jest
9 5 (8.20%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (8.20%) Serverless Framework
10 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.92%) REST
10 3 (4.92%) Web Services
11 2 (3.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (14.75%) Video\Live Streaming
3 6 (9.84%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (8.20%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.64%) DataPower
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.64%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) Agile
2 22 (36.07%) Software Engineering
3 21 (34.43%) TDD
4 17 (27.87%) CI/CD
4 17 (27.87%) Microservices
5 16 (26.23%) Event-Driven
6 15 (24.59%) Design Patterns
6 15 (24.59%) DevOps
6 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (21.31%) Clean Code
8 10 (16.39%) Kanban
8 10 (16.39%) Scrum
9 9 (14.75%) Data Management
9 9 (14.75%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (14.75%) Functional Testing
9 9 (14.75%) OOP
9 9 (14.75%) Software Testing
10 8 (13.11%) Open Source
10 8 (13.11%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (11.48%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) Java
2 19 (31.15%) Python
3 18 (29.51%) JavaScript
4 17 (27.87%) SQL
5 12 (19.67%) C#
6 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.92%) Bash
7 3 (4.92%) Go
8 2 (3.28%) VB
8 2 (3.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.64%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (26.23%) Terraform
2 15 (24.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Kiali
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.20%) Google
1 5 (8.20%) Teradata
2 4 (6.56%) Confluent
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) TSYS