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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 183 67
Rank change year-on-year +58 -116 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 340 434 1,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.67% 1.84% 4.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.14% 7.47% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 239 345 966
10th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £66,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £122,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +9.09%

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 3,352 5,812 11,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.34% 24.61% 34.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,239 4,672 8,250
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £132,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +38 56 £70,000 -26.32% 43
South London +28 35 £82,500 -21.43% 4
East London -23 1 £92,500 -38.33% 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
1 118 (34.71%) Apache Spark
2 84 (24.71%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (21.47%) Apache
4 10 (2.94%) Confluence
5 7 (2.06%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.47%) nginx
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.59%) GemFire
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.29%) JBoss
9 1 (0.29%) Luigi
9 1 (0.29%) Traefik
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Maya
2 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.35%) Endur
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 256 (75.29%) AWS
2 108 (31.76%) Serverless
3 95 (27.94%) AWS Lambda
4 85 (25.00%) Azure
5 78 (22.94%) Amazon ECS
5 78 (22.94%) OpenShift
6 68 (20.00%) dbt
7 52 (15.29%) GCP
8 29 (8.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (7.94%) Amazon S3
10 21 (6.18%) Snowflake
11 16 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (4.71%) GitHub
12 15 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (4.41%) SaaS
13 14 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.12%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (3.82%) AWS KMS
15 12 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.18%) HTTP
2 15 (4.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) AMQP
3 1 (0.29%) DHCP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) ICMP
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (22.35%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (19.41%) Apache Iceberg
2 66 (19.41%) Apache Ignite
3 65 (19.12%) Dremio
4 63 (18.53%) Apache Arrow
5 54 (15.88%) NoSQL
6 37 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (7.06%) MongoDB
8 23 (6.76%) Hadoop
9 20 (5.88%) Relational Database
10 17 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (5.00%) Big Data
10 17 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (5.00%) Redis
11 16 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (4.41%) SQL Server
13 14 (4.12%) MySQL
14 13 (3.82%) BigQuery
15 12 (3.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (19.12%) Artifactory
2 38 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 30 (8.82%) Git
4 17 (5.00%) GitLab
5 15 (4.41%) JIRA
5 15 (4.41%) JUnit
6 14 (4.12%) CircleCI
7 13 (3.82%) Maven
8 7 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.06%) Postman
9 6 (1.76%) Gradle
9 6 (1.76%) Mockito
9 6 (1.76%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.47%) NUnit
11 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.18%) Selenium
11 4 (1.18%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.18%) TestNG
12 3 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 195 (57.35%) Finance
2 99 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 76 (22.35%) Front Office
4 56 (16.47%) Banking
5 50 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (10.29%) Games
7 30 (8.82%) Law
8 28 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (7.65%) Financial Institution
10 23 (6.76%) Retail
11 19 (5.59%) Advertising
12 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.35%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.76%) Back Office
14 6 (1.76%) Marketing
15 4 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (28.53%) Senior
2 84 (24.71%) Data Engineer
2 84 (24.71%) Software Engineer
3 82 (24.12%) Python Engineer
4 79 (23.24%) AWS Engineer
5 77 (22.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 75 (22.06%) AWS DevOps
6 75 (22.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 53 (15.59%) Developer
8 43 (12.65%) Java Engineer
9 39 (11.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (11.18%) Lead
11 37 (10.88%) Architect
12 34 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
13 22 (6.47%) Java Developer
14 19 (5.59%) Senior Java Engineer
15 16 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
15 16 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (4.12%) AWS Architect
16 14 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.76%) PySpark
2 68 (20.00%) Spring
3 66 (19.41%) J2EE
4 65 (19.12%) Spring Boot
5 44 (12.94%) RabbitMQ
6 37 (10.88%) Elastic Stack
7 35 (10.29%) AngularJS
8 33 (9.71%) React
9 32 (9.41%) RESTful
10 29 (8.53%) REST
11 28 (8.24%) Akka
12 15 (4.41%) RxJava
12 15 (4.41%) Spring WebFlux
13 13 (3.82%) GraphQL
13 13 (3.82%) gRPC
14 12 (3.53%) Node.js
15 11 (3.24%) .NET
16 9 (2.65%) Mustache
16 9 (2.65%) React Native
17 8 (2.35%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.29%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.94%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.59%) Data Structures
4 19 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (5.29%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.00%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.82%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.94%) Mobile Games
10 8 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.06%) Blockchain
11 7 (2.06%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (2.06%) Web3
12 6 (1.76%) FMCG
13 5 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.47%) Equities
14 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.94%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Unix
3 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (59.12%) Software Engineering
2 183 (53.82%) Agile
3 176 (51.76%) CI/CD
4 157 (46.18%) DevOps
5 119 (35.00%) Microservices
6 88 (25.88%) Data Engineering
7 72 (21.18%) Open Source
8 71 (20.88%) Asset Management
9 70 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 66 (19.41%) Event-Driven
11 62 (18.24%) Containerisation
12 57 (16.76%) TDD
13 52 (15.29%) Computer Science
14 50 (14.71%) Analytics
14 50 (14.71%) Machine Learning
14 50 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (14.12%) Fintech
16 45 (13.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 43 (12.65%) High Availability
18 36 (10.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 205 (60.29%) Java
2 156 (45.88%) Python
3 90 (26.47%) Go
4 79 (23.24%) SQL
5 33 (9.71%) Scala
6 20 (5.88%) C#
7 18 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.71%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.94%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.76%) C++
11 5 (1.47%) Bash
12 4 (1.18%) Rust
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
14 2 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) COBOL
15 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.29%) Perl
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (16.76%) Degree
2 25 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) PhD
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.76%) GDPR
2 17 (5.00%) HIPAA
3 9 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.76%) QA
5 2 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 188 (55.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.47%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 223 (65.59%) Kubernetes
2 124 (36.47%) Terraform
3 34 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 24 (7.06%) Grafana
5 11 (3.24%) Argo
6 7 (2.06%) Ansible
7 6 (1.76%) Istio
8 5 (1.47%) Oozie
9 4 (1.18%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.88%) Mesos
10 3 (0.88%) Packer
10 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.29%) Kibana
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) Nagios
11 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (13.53%) Google
2 36 (10.59%) Databricks
2 36 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.59%) Apple
4 14 (4.12%) Oracle
5 9 (2.65%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.76%) Confluent
6 6 (1.76%) New Relic
6 6 (1.76%) Splunk
7 5 (1.47%) Okta
7 5 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.88%) Solace
9 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.59%) Informatica
9 2 (0.59%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.59%) Talend
9 2 (0.59%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.59%) WSO2