Kafka Developer Job Trends in London

Kafka Developer
England > London

The median Kafka Developer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 - 490
Rank change year-on-year - - +364
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 9 0 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.075% - 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% - 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 20
10th Percentile - - £75,000
25th Percentile - - £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile - - £107,500
90th Percentile - - £200,000
England median annual salary £100,000 - £95,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 10,961 18,254 21,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 95.40% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,151 11,735 17,915
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Kafka Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in London

Kafka Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in London

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, Kafka Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
2 7 (77.78%) Java
3 6 (66.67%) AWS
4 5 (55.56%) Front Office
4 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
4 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
5 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Hedge funds
5 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
5 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
5 4 (44.44%) Reference Data
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Spring
5 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
7 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
7 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Front Office
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
2 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Hedge funds
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (44.44%) Reference Data
1 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes