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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 72 100
Rank change year-on-year -58 +28 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 61 208 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.62% 3.93% 3.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.46% 11.82% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 60 197 220
10th Percentile £57,375 £74,500 £62,400
25th Percentile £71,875 £85,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £115,325 £126,000 £125,250
London median annual salary £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +17.65% +6.25%

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 945 1,759 2,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 25.03% 33.27% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 780 1,559 2,325
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -48 60 £95,000 -9.52% 6
City of Westminster -13 2 £62,500 -41.86%
Southwark +17 1 £72,500 +29.46%
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 6 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.20%) Apache
2 5 (8.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (72.13%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.20%) Azure
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.56%) Serverless
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.92%) AWS CodeCommit
5 3 (4.92%) AWS KMS
5 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.92%) GCP
5 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub
7 1 (1.64%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Network Security
2 2 (3.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
3 1 (1.64%) Firewall
3 1 (1.64%) FTP
3 1 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Big Data
1 8 (13.11%) MongoDB
1 8 (13.11%) Redis
2 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.84%) MySQL
4 5 (8.20%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (8.20%) Flink
5 4 (6.56%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.56%) Power BI
5 4 (6.56%) Tableau
6 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
6 2 (3.28%) Metadata
7 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.64%) Impala
7 1 (1.64%) Presto
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.20%) Git
3 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.92%) Postman
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.64%) GitLab
5 1 (1.64%) Mockito
5 1 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (22.95%) Finance
2 12 (19.67%) Banking
3 9 (14.75%) Games
4 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
5 6 (9.84%) Retail Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Advertising
7 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Retail
8 2 (3.28%) Health Technology
8 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Front Office
9 1 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (42.62%) Developer
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 15 (24.59%) Java Developer
4 14 (22.95%) Lead
5 13 (21.31%) Senior Developer
6 10 (16.39%) Software Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (13.11%) Java Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) .NET Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Games Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Games Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
11 3 (4.92%) Development Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) Lead Java Engineer
12 2 (3.28%) Junior
12 2 (3.28%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) Spring
2 16 (26.23%) Spring Boot
3 14 (22.95%) React
4 12 (19.67%) .NET
5 9 (14.75%) REST
6 7 (11.48%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.48%) Node.js
7 6 (9.84%) RESTful
8 4 (6.56%) CSS
8 4 (6.56%) HTML
9 3 (4.92%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (4.92%) JMS
10 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.28%) Hibernate
10 2 (3.28%) JPA
10 2 (3.28%) Next.js
11 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (1.64%) gRPC
11 1 (1.64%) PySpark
11 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
1 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
1 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) Microservices
2 20 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 18 (29.51%) Agile
3 18 (29.51%) DevOps
3 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
4 14 (22.95%) TDD
5 13 (21.31%) Fintech
6 12 (19.67%) Clean Code
7 11 (18.03%) Computer Science
8 10 (16.39%) SOLID
9 9 (14.75%) Mathematics
9 9 (14.75%) Scrum
10 8 (13.11%) SDLC
10 8 (13.11%) Statistics
11 7 (11.48%) Migration
11 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.84%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (9.84%) Data Engineering
12 6 (9.84%) Data Migration
12 6 (9.84%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 42 (68.85%) Java
2 14 (22.95%) C#
2 14 (22.95%) Python
3 11 (18.03%) Kotlin
3 11 (18.03%) SQL
4 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.56%) Scala
5 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.56%) VBA
6 3 (4.92%) Bash
6 3 (4.92%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) Perl
7 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Degree
2 8 (13.11%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (59.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.64%) logstash
4 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.64%) Puppet
4 1 (1.64%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.92%) Apple
3 3 (4.92%) Google
3 3 (4.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) BEA
4 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.64%) Facebook
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.64%) Splunk
4 1 (1.64%) Spotify