Kafka Jobs in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 193 90
Rank change year-on-year +81 -103 -17
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 387 396 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.95% 1.74% 3.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.82% 6.96% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 225 300 809
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +5.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,577 5,693 9,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.25% 25.05% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 4,388 7,398
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,563 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 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
Central London +6 42 £96,250 +2.67% 19
South London +27 33 £82,500 -24.14% 14
East London -14 1 £92,500 -38.33% 1
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 95 (24.55%) Apache Spark
2 59 (15.25%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (10.85%) Apache
4 12 (3.10%) Confluence
5 7 (1.81%) nginx
6 6 (1.55%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (1.03%) Traefik
8 3 (0.78%) JBoss
8 3 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.52%) GemFire
9 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.26%) Luigi
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Maya
1 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.03%) Endur
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.52%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 283 (73.13%) AWS
2 110 (28.42%) Azure
3 86 (22.22%) GCP
4 78 (20.16%) Serverless
5 59 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (11.89%) OpenShift
7 39 (10.08%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (9.04%) dbt
9 30 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (7.24%) Amazon S3
11 26 (6.72%) GitHub
12 20 (5.17%) Snowflake
13 18 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (4.65%) Power Platform
14 15 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.10%) HTTP
1 12 (3.10%) Network Security
2 4 (1.03%) DHCP
2 4 (1.03%) DNS
2 4 (1.03%) ICMP
2 4 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.03%) VPN
3 3 (0.78%) FTP
4 1 (0.26%) AMQP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (19.90%) NoSQL
2 39 (10.08%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (9.30%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.79%) Apache Iceberg
5 33 (8.53%) Big Data
6 32 (8.27%) Apache Ignite
6 32 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (7.75%) Apache Arrow
7 30 (7.75%) Dremio
7 30 (7.75%) Hadoop
8 29 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (7.24%) MongoDB
10 24 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (5.17%) BigQuery
12 19 (4.91%) SQL Server
13 18 (4.65%) Metadata
13 18 (4.65%) Power BI
14 17 (4.39%) Redis
15 15 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (3.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.85%) Git
3 33 (8.53%) Artifactory
4 20 (5.17%) GitLab
5 19 (4.91%) CircleCI
5 19 (4.91%) JUnit
6 18 (4.65%) JIRA
7 10 (2.58%) Maven
7 10 (2.58%) Mockito
8 9 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.07%) Postman
9 8 (2.07%) Vite
10 7 (1.81%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.55%) NUnit
12 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.29%) MLflow
12 5 (1.29%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.29%) Selenium
12 5 (1.29%) SoapUI
13 4 (1.03%) Terragrunt
General
1 251 (64.86%) Finance
2 105 (27.13%) Social Skills
3 97 (25.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (23.26%) Banking
5 88 (22.74%) Law
6 61 (15.76%) Front Office
7 48 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (8.27%) Financial Institution
9 22 (5.68%) Marketing
10 20 (5.17%) Games
11 15 (3.88%) Retail
12 10 (2.58%) Advertising
13 9 (2.33%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.55%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.29%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.78%) Back Office
17 3 (0.78%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (39.28%) Software Engineer
2 90 (23.26%) Senior
3 82 (21.19%) Lead
4 74 (19.12%) Developer
5 66 (17.05%) Java Engineer
6 64 (16.54%) Data Engineer
7 57 (14.73%) Java Software Engineer
7 57 (14.73%) Python Engineer
8 49 (12.66%) Lead Software Engineer
9 45 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
10 41 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 39 (10.08%) AWS DevOps
11 39 (10.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 36 (9.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (9.04%) Architect
14 28 (7.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 28 (7.24%) Java Developer
15 25 (6.46%) Senior Java Engineer
16 21 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
17 19 (4.91%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (24.29%) Spring
2 93 (24.03%) Spring Boot
3 73 (18.86%) React
4 55 (14.21%) RESTful
5 47 (12.14%) AngularJS
6 43 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 43 (11.11%) PySpark
7 42 (10.85%) Node.js
7 42 (10.85%) RabbitMQ
8 40 (10.34%) REST
9 34 (8.79%) J2EE
10 31 (8.01%) Akka
11 27 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
12 24 (6.20%) Redux
13 20 (5.17%) RxJava
13 20 (5.17%) Spring WebFlux
14 18 (4.65%) gRPC
15 15 (3.88%) Micronaut
16 12 (3.10%) Jest
16 12 (3.10%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 56 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.53%) Data Structures
4 30 (7.75%) Product Ownership
5 28 (7.24%) Algorithms
6 25 (6.46%) Fixed Income
7 22 (5.68%) Management Information System
8 20 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (5.17%) Public Cloud
9 18 (4.65%) Distributed Applications
9 18 (4.65%) Mobile App
10 14 (3.62%) Client/Server
11 12 (3.10%) FMCG
12 10 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (2.33%) Blockchain
13 9 (2.33%) Mobile Banking
13 9 (2.33%) Virtual Team
13 9 (2.33%) Web3
14 7 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.55%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.88%) Linux
2 6 (1.55%) Unix
3 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (60.98%) Software Engineering
2 206 (53.23%) Agile
3 186 (48.06%) CI/CD
4 147 (37.98%) Microservices
5 141 (36.43%) DevOps
6 84 (21.71%) Fintech
7 71 (18.35%) Data Engineering
8 69 (17.83%) SDLC
9 67 (17.31%) Analytics
9 67 (17.31%) Containerisation
10 61 (15.76%) TDD
11 60 (15.50%) Event-Driven
11 60 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (14.99%) Test Automation
13 54 (13.95%) Machine Learning
14 51 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
15 49 (12.66%) Multithreading
15 49 (12.66%) Open Source
16 47 (12.14%) Data Modelling
17 45 (11.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 242 (62.53%) Java
2 161 (41.60%) Python
3 115 (29.72%) SQL
4 99 (25.58%) Go
5 51 (13.18%) TypeScript
6 43 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 32 (8.27%) Scala
8 23 (5.94%) Kotlin
9 19 (4.91%) C#
10 10 (2.58%) Bash
11 8 (2.07%) C++
12 6 (1.55%) Groovy
12 6 (1.55%) Rust
13 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Clojure
14 1 (0.26%) COBOL
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) R
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (10.59%) Degree
2 24 (6.20%) AWS Certification
3 17 (4.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.33%) PhD
7 4 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.94%) GDPR
2 20 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.62%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.33%) QA
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 155 (40.05%) Docker
2 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.29%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 229 (59.17%) Kubernetes
2 105 (27.13%) Terraform
3 33 (8.53%) Prometheus
4 25 (6.46%) Grafana
5 13 (3.36%) Argo
6 8 (2.07%) Ansible
6 8 (2.07%) Mesos
7 6 (1.55%) Istio
7 6 (1.55%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.29%) Kubeflow
8 5 (1.29%) Oozie
9 4 (1.03%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.78%) Packer
11 2 (0.52%) Podman
11 2 (0.52%) Puppet
12 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) Kibana
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 42 (10.85%) Databricks
2 35 (9.04%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.01%) Google
4 26 (6.72%) Oracle
5 10 (2.58%) Apple
5 10 (2.58%) Confluent
6 7 (1.81%) Cloudera
6 7 (1.81%) Splunk
7 6 (1.55%) SAP
8 5 (1.29%) Okta
8 5 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.78%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.78%) Informatica
10 3 (0.78%) Talend
11 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.52%) Facebook
11 2 (0.52%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.52%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.52%) WSO2