Kafka Jobs in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 80 99
Rank change year-on-year -48 +19 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 58 195 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.54% 3.77% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.31% 11.44% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 56 185 220
10th Percentile £59,375 £73,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,875 £81,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £118,125
90th Percentile £119,125 £125,000 £130,000
London median annual salary £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London 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 919 1,705 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 24.46% 33.00% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 738 1,497 2,294
10th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% +10.71%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Central London.

Salary trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 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
City of London -46 55 £95,000 -5.00% 10
City of Westminster -19 2 £62,500 -41.86%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (8.62%) Apache
1 5 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (67.24%) AWS
2 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.90%) Serverless
4 3 (5.17%) Azure
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (3.45%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Dropbox
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) FTP
3 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Redis
2 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.07%) MySQL
3 6 (10.34%) Big Data
4 5 (8.62%) Flink
5 4 (6.90%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.90%) Power BI
5 4 (6.90%) Tableau
6 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.72%) Impala
7 1 (1.72%) Metadata
7 1 (1.72%) Presto
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
3 3 (5.17%) Postman
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) Mockito
5 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Games
4 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Retail Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Advertising
7 3 (5.17%) Retail
8 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.72%) Front Office
9 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
9 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Developer
2 18 (31.03%) Senior
3 15 (25.86%) Lead
4 14 (24.14%) Java Developer
4 14 (24.14%) Senior Developer
5 10 (17.24%) Software Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (10.34%) .NET Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Java Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Technical Leader
8 5 (8.62%) Games Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Games Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Lead Java Engineer
11 2 (3.45%) Development Engineer
11 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 2 (3.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Spring
2 12 (20.69%) .NET
2 12 (20.69%) React
2 12 (20.69%) Spring Boot
3 8 (13.79%) REST
4 7 (12.07%) AngularJS
4 7 (12.07%) Node.js
5 5 (8.62%) RESTful
6 4 (6.90%) CSS
6 4 (6.90%) HTML
7 3 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.17%) JMS
8 2 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (3.45%) Next.js
9 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.72%) gRPC
9 1 (1.72%) JPA
9 1 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Debian
4 1 (1.72%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.21%) Microservices
2 19 (32.76%) Software Engineering
3 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.59%) Agile
5 15 (25.86%) DevOps
6 12 (20.69%) Computer Science
6 12 (20.69%) Fintech
7 11 (18.97%) Clean Code
7 11 (18.97%) TDD
8 10 (17.24%) Mathematics
8 10 (17.24%) SOLID
9 9 (15.52%) Statistics
10 8 (13.79%) Scrum
11 7 (12.07%) Migration
11 7 (12.07%) SDLC
12 6 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (10.34%) Data Migration
12 6 (10.34%) Line Management
12 6 (10.34%) Multithreading
13 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (62.07%) Java
2 14 (24.14%) C#
3 12 (20.69%) Python
4 9 (15.52%) Kotlin
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.79%) SQL
6 4 (6.90%) VBA
7 3 (5.17%) C++
7 3 (5.17%) Scala
7 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.72%) Bash
9 1 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (1.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Degree
2 9 (15.52%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Kibana
3 1 (1.72%) logstash
3 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.72%) Puppet
3 1 (1.72%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) Atlassian
2 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.45%) Apple
3 2 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) BEA
4 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Spotify
4 1 (1.72%) VMware