Kafka Jobs in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 65 74
Rank change year-on-year -103 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 451 1,767 3,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.92% 4.93% 5.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.85% 14.23% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 355 1,035 1,150
10th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £128,000 £150,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 5,744 12,416 29,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.47% 34.67% 45.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,686 8,671 13,077
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,647
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.90% +10.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London -56 65 £95,000 -7.32% 8
East London +9 10 £150,000 +50.00% 4
South London -3 5 £105,000 +40.00%
West London -1 1 £67,500 -18.18% 4
Kafka
England

Kafka
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:

Application Platforms
1 89 (19.73%) Apache Spark
2 43 (9.53%) Apache
3 31 (6.87%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.00%) nginx
5 7 (1.55%) Confluence
6 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 309 (68.51%) AWS
2 110 (24.39%) Azure
3 93 (20.62%) GCP
4 30 (6.65%) GitHub
5 28 (6.21%) Serverless
6 23 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 17 (3.77%) OpenShift
8 17 (3.77%) Snowflake
9 16 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.88%) SaaS
12 11 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.00%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.77%) npm
14 8 (1.77%) Stackdriver
14 8 (1.77%) Yarn
15 6 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.77%) Firewall
2 7 (1.55%) AMQP
3 5 (1.11%) FTP
3 5 (1.11%) Network Security
4 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.67%) HTTP
6 2 (0.44%) DNS
6 2 (0.44%) SSL
7 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (17.52%) NoSQL
2 65 (14.41%) Hadoop
3 61 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (12.42%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (11.75%) Big Data
6 50 (11.09%) MongoDB
7 46 (10.20%) MySQL
8 42 (9.31%) Redis
9 38 (8.43%) Data Mining
10 32 (7.10%) Data Lake
10 32 (7.10%) SQL Server
11 28 (6.21%) Flink
11 28 (6.21%) Relational Database
12 27 (5.99%) Apache Ignite
13 23 (5.10%) BigQuery
14 19 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (3.99%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (2.22%) Apache Hive
18 9 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (13.53%) Jenkins
2 33 (7.32%) Git
3 20 (4.43%) GitLab
4 18 (3.99%) JIRA
5 15 (3.33%) Maven
6 9 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.55%) Mocha
8 7 (1.55%) Selenium
9 6 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.11%) Jaeger
10 5 (1.11%) JMeter
11 4 (0.89%) JUnit
11 4 (0.89%) Postman
12 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.67%) Serenity BDD
12 3 (0.67%) SoapUI
General
1 120 (26.61%) Finance
2 80 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 76 (16.85%) Banking
4 53 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.98%) Games
5 36 (7.98%) Retail Banking
6 26 (5.76%) Front Office
6 26 (5.76%) Law
7 25 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.33%) Retail
9 12 (2.66%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.22%) Marketing
11 7 (1.55%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.33%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.11%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.89%) Advertising
14 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (35.25%) Developer
2 156 (34.59%) Senior
3 73 (16.19%) Lead
4 71 (15.74%) Java Developer
5 55 (12.20%) Architect
6 54 (11.97%) Senior Developer
7 49 (10.86%) Data Engineer
8 47 (10.42%) Software Engineer
9 36 (7.98%) .NET Developer
10 32 (7.10%) Java Engineer
10 32 (7.10%) Technical Leader
11 31 (6.87%) Cloud Architect
12 26 (5.76%) IT Architect
13 23 (5.10%) Senior Architect
13 23 (5.10%) Senior Cloud Architect
13 23 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
14 22 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
16 17 (3.77%) Lead Developer
16 17 (3.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (26.39%) Spring Boot
2 91 (20.18%) Spring
3 68 (15.08%) React
4 66 (14.63%) .NET
5 41 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 35 (7.76%) AngularJS
7 34 (7.54%) RESTful
8 33 (7.32%) Apache Beam
9 29 (6.43%) REST
10 25 (5.54%) Node.js
11 21 (4.66%) CSS
12 18 (3.99%) Middleware
13 16 (3.55%) Django
14 14 (3.10%) GraphQL
14 14 (3.10%) PyTorch
14 14 (3.10%) TensorFlow
15 12 (2.66%) HTML
15 12 (2.66%) PySpark
16 11 (2.44%) .NET Core
16 11 (2.44%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
3 32 (7.10%) Algorithms
4 16 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.10%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.44%) Hedge funds
9 10 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (2.22%) Sports Betting
10 8 (1.77%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.55%) PropTech
12 6 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.11%) Blog
13 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.87%) Linux
2 12 (2.66%) Windows
3 11 (2.44%) Unix
4 9 (2.00%) Solaris
5 8 (1.77%) CentOS
5 8 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.77%) zOS
6 2 (0.44%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (35.48%) Microservices
2 140 (31.04%) Software Engineering
3 134 (29.71%) Agile
4 126 (27.94%) CI/CD
5 119 (26.39%) DevOps
6 72 (15.96%) TDD
7 66 (14.63%) Analytics
8 60 (13.30%) Computer Science
8 60 (13.30%) SDLC
9 59 (13.08%) Fintech
9 59 (13.08%) Mathematics
10 56 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 51 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
13 49 (10.86%) Machine Learning
14 47 (10.42%) Migration
15 46 (10.20%) Data Visualisation
15 46 (10.20%) ETL
15 46 (10.20%) Visualisation
16 45 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 228 (50.55%) Java
2 133 (29.49%) SQL
3 116 (25.72%) Python
4 84 (18.63%) C#
5 47 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 38 (8.43%) Kotlin
7 31 (6.87%) Scala
7 31 (6.87%) TypeScript
8 25 (5.54%) Go
9 14 (3.10%) C
10 6 (1.33%) Clojure
10 6 (1.33%) Groovy
11 5 (1.11%) VBA
12 4 (0.89%) Bash
12 4 (0.89%) R
13 3 (0.67%) C++
13 3 (0.67%) F#
13 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (21.29%) Degree
2 38 (8.43%) Master's Degree
3 20 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.88%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.88%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.22%) PhD
6 7 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.89%) CISM
9 4 (0.89%) CISSP
10 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) QA
2 10 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.89%) NIST
5 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 145 (32.15%) Docker
2 10 (2.22%) HDFS
3 2 (0.44%) IAG
4 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 209 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.31%) Terraform
3 25 (5.54%) Ansible
4 13 (2.88%) Grafana
5 12 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.11%) Kiali
7 4 (0.89%) Argo
7 4 (0.89%) Kibana
7 4 (0.89%) Kubeflow
7 4 (0.89%) logstash
8 3 (0.67%) Consul
9 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.22%) Oozie
10 1 (0.22%) Packer
10 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
10 1 (0.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 51 (11.31%) Google
2 38 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.21%) Databricks
4 17 (3.77%) Splunk
5 13 (2.88%) Cloudera
6 12 (2.66%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.66%) Oracle
7 8 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.77%) YouTube
8 6 (1.33%) IBM
9 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.11%) Apple
9 5 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.11%) Confluent
10 4 (0.89%) Qualys
10 4 (0.89%) Vertica
10 4 (0.89%) VMware
11 3 (0.67%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.67%) Facebook
11 3 (0.67%) Reuters