Kafka Jobs in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 133 75
Rank change year-on-year +29 -58 +25
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 61 64 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.40% 1.69% 3.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.41% 6.72% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 46 63 196
10th Percentile - £58,250 £74,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £73,125 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £95,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £102,688 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £162,500 £115,000 £126,250
London median annual salary £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +17.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 725 952 1,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 28.54% 25.17% 33.20%
Number of salaries quoted 575 787 1,559
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,380 £58,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £103,750 £101,250 £101,125
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +3.23%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
City of London +22 47 £62,500 -34.21% 9
City of Westminster +9 22 £62,500 -
Camden - 10 - - 2
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 26 (42.62%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 22 (36.07%) Azure
3 14 (22.95%) GCP
4 9 (14.75%) SaaS
5 8 (13.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (8.20%) GitHub
6 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (36.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.23%) NoSQL
2 12 (19.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (16.39%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.48%) MySQL
4 7 (11.48%) Redis
5 4 (6.56%) Big Data
5 4 (6.56%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.64%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.64%) Flink
8 1 (1.64%) Metadata
8 1 (1.64%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.64%) Power BI
8 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) Maven
3 5 (8.20%) Gradle
4 4 (6.56%) JIRA
5 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.92%) JUnit
6 2 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.28%) JMeter
6 2 (3.28%) Mockito
6 2 (3.28%) MSTest
6 2 (3.28%) NUnit
6 2 (3.28%) Postman
6 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.28%) SoapUI
6 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.28%) Subversion
6 2 (3.28%) Xcode
6 2 (3.28%) XCTest
7 1 (1.64%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (65.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (55.74%) Games
3 32 (52.46%) Finance
4 25 (40.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (36.07%) Advertising
5 22 (36.07%) Retail
6 8 (13.11%) Back Office
7 6 (9.84%) Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (63.93%) Senior
2 26 (42.62%) Software Engineer
3 24 (39.34%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (19.67%) Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Lead
6 7 (11.48%) Architect
6 7 (11.48%) Senior Architect
7 6 (9.84%) Head of Architecture
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.20%) Software Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.92%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.92%) .NET Team Leader
9 3 (4.92%) Lead .NET Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.28%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.07%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (16.39%) React
3 8 (13.11%) Spring
4 7 (11.48%) RESTful
5 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (8.20%) OpenAPI
6 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.56%) CSS
6 4 (6.56%) HTML
7 3 (4.92%) .NET
7 3 (4.92%) Flask
7 3 (4.92%) REST
7 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.28%) CSS3
8 2 (3.28%) Django
8 2 (3.28%) HTML5
8 2 (3.28%) JPA
8 2 (3.28%) Node.js
8 2 (3.28%) Spring MVC
8 2 (3.28%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (44.26%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (21.31%) Cloud Native
3 10 (16.39%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (16.39%) Mobile Games
4 7 (11.48%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (9.84%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.64%) Derivative
8 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.64%) Equities
8 1 (1.64%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) Software Engineering
2 35 (57.38%) Agile
3 33 (54.10%) Computer Science
4 26 (42.62%) Machine Learning
5 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (36.07%) Performance Metrics
6 22 (36.07%) Programmatic Advertising
7 19 (31.15%) Microservices
8 17 (27.87%) Event-Driven
9 15 (24.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (18.03%) Domain-Driven Design
10 11 (18.03%) Migration
11 10 (16.39%) Analytics
11 10 (16.39%) API Design
11 10 (16.39%) B2B
11 10 (16.39%) UML
11 10 (16.39%) Unit Testing
12 9 (14.75%) Data Modelling
13 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
13 8 (13.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) Python
2 24 (39.34%) Scala
3 19 (31.15%) SQL
4 15 (24.59%) Java
5 6 (9.84%) C#
6 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) Groovy
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
8 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (57.38%) Degree
2 11 (18.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Argo
2 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (55.74%) Google
2 26 (42.62%) Microsoft
3 22 (36.07%) Apple
4 5 (8.20%) New Relic
5 3 (4.92%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.28%) Databricks
6 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.28%) Informatica
6 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.28%) Splunk
6 2 (3.28%) StreamSets
6 2 (3.28%) Talend
7 1 (1.64%) OpenLink