Kafka Jobs in the City of London

Apache Kafka
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 126 71
Rank change year-on-year +27 -55 +22
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 40 52 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.04% 1.55% 4.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 6.11% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 51 173
10th Percentile - £57,500 £77,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £68,125 £87,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -7.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £117,813 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £163,750 £118,250 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £91,250 £100,000
% change year-on-year -9.59% -8.75% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 583 851 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.81% 25.43% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 482 683 1,357
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £105,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,725 £118,150 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% +3.23%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the City of London.

Salary trend for Kafka in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 19 (47.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.50%) Redis
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Big Data
3 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
1 2 (5.00%) MSTest
1 2 (5.00%) NUnit
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JMeter
2 1 (2.50%) JUnit
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (65.00%) Finance
2 20 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (45.00%) Games
4 16 (40.00%) Advertising
4 16 (40.00%) Retail
5 6 (15.00%) Back Office
6 3 (7.50%) Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Senior
2 21 (52.50%) Software Engineer
3 19 (47.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Head of Architecture
5 5 (12.50%) Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Team Leader
7 3 (7.50%) Lead .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Team Leader
8 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (10.00%) React
3 3 (7.50%) .NET
3 3 (7.50%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.00%) CSS
4 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.00%) gRPC
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (2.50%) GraalVM
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) Quarkus
5 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.50%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.50%) Derivative
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Equities
6 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Software Engineering
2 21 (52.50%) Agile
3 18 (45.00%) Machine Learning
4 16 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 16 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 16 (40.00%) Programmatic Advertising
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
6 7 (17.50%) Microservices
7 6 (15.00%) ETRM
8 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (10.00%) Analytics
9 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
9 4 (10.00%) TDD
10 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
10 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
10 3 (7.50%) Low Latency
10 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Python
2 18 (45.00%) Scala
3 10 (25.00%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) C#
4 6 (15.00%) SQL
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Rust
5 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) Go
6 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) Google
3 16 (40.00%) Apple
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) Informatica
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Talend