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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 95 73
Rank change year-on-year -99 -22 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 348 916 3,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.68% 3.38% 5.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.78% 10.64% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 251 753 1,177
10th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £60,708
25th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £119,375 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £150,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% +9.68%

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 5,129 8,605 33,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.73% 31.73% 44.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,874 7,101 12,543
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -49 55 £95,000 -5.00% 7
South London -16 4 £108,750 +45.00%
East London +17 1 - - 6
West London -10 1 £67,500 -18.18% 3
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 69 (19.83%) Apache Spark
2 36 (10.34%) Apache
3 26 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.59%) nginx
5 7 (2.01%) Confluence
6 6 (1.72%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Camunda
8 1 (0.29%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 226 (64.94%) AWS
2 94 (27.01%) Azure
3 77 (22.13%) GCP
4 22 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
4 22 (6.32%) Serverless
5 21 (6.03%) Snowflake
6 15 (4.31%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (3.74%) Stackdriver
8 12 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.45%) Google Gemini
9 11 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.30%) Kong
11 8 (2.30%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.30%) SaaS
12 7 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.01%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) HTTP
2 6 (1.72%) AMQP
2 6 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.44%) FTP
4 4 (1.15%) Network Security
5 2 (0.57%) DNS
5 2 (0.57%) Firewall
5 2 (0.57%) PPP
6 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.07%) NoSQL
2 40 (11.49%) SQL Server
3 35 (10.06%) Big Data
4 33 (9.48%) MongoDB
5 32 (9.20%) BigQuery
6 31 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (6.90%) Hadoop
8 22 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (6.03%) Data Mining
10 20 (5.75%) Flink
10 20 (5.75%) Relational Database
11 19 (5.46%) Redis
12 18 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.16%) MySQL
15 8 (2.30%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (1.72%) Bigtable
16 6 (1.72%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 49 (14.08%) Jenkins
2 33 (9.48%) Git
3 10 (2.87%) GitLab
4 8 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.01%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.01%) JIRA
5 7 (2.01%) Selenium
6 6 (1.72%) Mocha
6 6 (1.72%) Mockito
7 5 (1.44%) JUnit
7 5 (1.44%) Maven
7 5 (1.44%) Postman
7 5 (1.44%) Spinnaker
8 4 (1.15%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.15%) MLflow
8 4 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.86%) ScalaTest
9 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (33.33%) Finance
2 84 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 52 (14.94%) Banking
4 29 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 25 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (5.46%) Law
8 17 (4.89%) Retail
9 16 (4.60%) Front Office
10 14 (4.02%) Games
11 12 (3.45%) Advertising
12 9 (2.59%) Financial Institution
13 8 (2.30%) Back Office
14 7 (2.01%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.44%) Legal
16 4 (1.15%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.57%) Prime Brokerage
17 2 (0.57%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 134 (38.51%) Senior
2 97 (27.87%) Developer
3 66 (18.97%) Lead
4 60 (17.24%) Software Engineer
5 43 (12.36%) Senior Developer
6 42 (12.07%) Java Developer
7 41 (11.78%) Architect
8 38 (10.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (8.91%) Technical Leader
10 28 (8.05%) Data Engineer
11 27 (7.76%) .NET Developer
12 23 (6.61%) Senior Java Developer
13 19 (5.46%) Java Engineer
14 16 (4.60%) C# Developer
14 16 (4.60%) Data Architect
14 16 (4.60%) Senior Architect
15 14 (4.02%) C# .NET Developer
16 13 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
17 12 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
17 12 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.13%) Spring Boot
2 54 (15.52%) .NET
2 54 (15.52%) Spring
3 50 (14.37%) RabbitMQ
3 50 (14.37%) React
4 30 (8.62%) AngularJS
5 28 (8.05%) RESTful
6 27 (7.76%) Apache Beam
7 21 (6.03%) REST
8 20 (5.75%) Node.js
9 17 (4.89%) GraphQL
9 17 (4.89%) PyTorch
9 17 (4.89%) TensorFlow
10 14 (4.02%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.02%) gRPC
11 13 (3.74%) Middleware
12 11 (3.16%) CSS
12 11 (3.16%) Jest
12 11 (3.16%) OpenAPI
13 10 (2.87%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 27 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.03%) Data Structures
4 20 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (5.17%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.60%) Cloud Native
7 14 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.87%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.30%) Blog
9 8 (2.30%) Sports Betting
10 6 (1.72%) Digital Currency
11 5 (1.44%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.15%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.15%) Derivative
12 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.36%) Linux
2 15 (4.31%) Unix
3 11 (3.16%) Windows
4 9 (2.59%) Solaris
5 8 (2.30%) CentOS
5 8 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.30%) zOS
6 4 (1.15%) Debian
6 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.57%) Android
7 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (39.66%) Microservices
2 120 (34.48%) Software Engineering
3 94 (27.01%) DevOps
4 81 (23.28%) Agile
5 78 (22.41%) CI/CD
6 62 (17.82%) Fintech
7 55 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (14.66%) Analytics
9 50 (14.37%) SDLC
10 48 (13.79%) Computer Science
11 47 (13.51%) Machine Learning
12 46 (13.22%) TDD
13 43 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 41 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
15 39 (11.21%) Mentoring
16 33 (9.48%) ETL
17 31 (8.91%) Mathematics
18 30 (8.62%) Full Stack Development
18 30 (8.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 173 (49.71%) Java
2 91 (26.15%) Python
3 83 (23.85%) SQL
4 51 (14.66%) C#
5 36 (10.34%) Kotlin
6 35 (10.06%) Scala
7 34 (9.77%) TypeScript
8 25 (7.18%) JavaScript
9 20 (5.75%) Go
10 15 (4.31%) Clojure
11 6 (1.72%) Groovy
11 6 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.15%) C++
12 4 (1.15%) R
13 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.57%) Ruby
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) C
14 1 (0.29%) JCL
14 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (17.82%) Degree
2 27 (7.76%) Master's Degree
3 22 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.87%) PhD
5 9 (2.59%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.15%) CISM
7 4 (1.15%) CISSP
7 4 (1.15%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.16%) MiFID
2 10 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.59%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.72%) QA
6 5 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.15%) NIST
8 3 (0.86%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.57%) GDPR
10 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 99 (28.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.15%) HDFS
3 2 (0.57%) IAG
4 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 161 (46.26%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.78%) Terraform
3 17 (4.89%) Ansible
3 17 (4.89%) Grafana
4 14 (4.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.44%) Kibana
6 3 (0.86%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.57%) Argo
7 2 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.57%) Istio
7 2 (0.57%) Kiali
7 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.57%) Packer
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (8.62%) Google
2 20 (5.75%) Databricks
3 18 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.02%) Splunk
5 12 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.72%) Apple
6 6 (1.72%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.72%) IBM
7 5 (1.44%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.44%) Reuters
8 4 (1.15%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.15%) Oracle
8 4 (1.15%) Qualys
8 4 (1.15%) Solace
8 4 (1.15%) Vertica
9 3 (0.86%) Confluent
9 3 (0.86%) Hortonworks
9 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.86%) StreamSets