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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 176 67
Rank change year-on-year +60 -109 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 354 438 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.77% 1.82% 4.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.41% 7.45% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 235 340 925
10th Percentile £56,750 £61,250 £67,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
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% +11.11%

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 3,400 5,878 10,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.60% 24.46% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,232 4,678 7,980
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% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £132,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -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 31 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 31 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 +25 54 £82,500 -9.59% 35
South London +29 33 £82,500 -24.14% 4
East London -26 1 £92,500 -38.33% 2
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
1 113 (31.92%) Apache Spark
2 82 (23.16%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (19.49%) Apache
4 12 (3.39%) Confluence
5 7 (1.98%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.41%) nginx
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.56%) GemFire
8 2 (0.56%) JBoss
8 2 (0.56%) Traefik
9 1 (0.28%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Maya
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.26%) Endur
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (74.58%) AWS
2 106 (29.94%) Serverless
3 93 (26.27%) Azure
4 91 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (20.90%) OpenShift
6 72 (20.34%) Amazon ECS
7 64 (18.08%) dbt
8 60 (16.95%) GCP
9 28 (7.91%) Amazon S3
9 28 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (5.93%) GitHub
10 21 (5.93%) Snowflake
11 17 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (4.24%) SaaS
14 14 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (3.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.08%) HTTP
2 13 (3.67%) Network Security
3 2 (0.56%) DHCP
3 2 (0.56%) DNS
3 2 (0.56%) ICMP
3 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.56%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) AMQP
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.28%) FTP
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (19.77%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (17.80%) Apache Iceberg
3 62 (17.51%) Apache Ignite
3 62 (17.51%) NoSQL
4 61 (17.23%) Dremio
5 59 (16.67%) Apache Arrow
6 38 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (7.63%) MongoDB
8 25 (7.06%) Relational Database
9 23 (6.50%) Hadoop
10 18 (5.08%) Big Data
11 17 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (4.52%) Redis
12 16 (4.52%) SQL Server
13 15 (4.24%) MySQL
14 14 (3.95%) BigQuery
15 13 (3.67%) Data Lake
15 13 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 61 (17.23%) Artifactory
2 39 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 34 (9.60%) Git
4 18 (5.08%) GitLab
5 17 (4.80%) JIRA
5 17 (4.80%) JUnit
6 16 (4.52%) CircleCI
7 14 (3.95%) Maven
8 8 (2.26%) Mockito
8 8 (2.26%) Postman
9 7 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.69%) Gradle
11 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.41%) NUnit
11 5 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.41%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.13%) Selenium
12 4 (1.13%) Vite
General
1 211 (59.60%) Finance
2 100 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 73 (20.62%) Banking
3 73 (20.62%) Front Office
4 66 (18.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (13.56%) Law
6 31 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (8.47%) Games
8 26 (7.34%) Financial Institution
9 21 (5.93%) Retail
10 16 (4.52%) Advertising
11 11 (3.11%) Marketing
12 10 (2.82%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.98%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.69%) Back Office
15 5 (1.41%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (27.68%) Software Engineer
2 96 (27.12%) Senior
3 83 (23.45%) Data Engineer
4 82 (23.16%) Python Engineer
5 74 (20.90%) AWS Engineer
6 72 (20.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 70 (19.77%) AWS DevOps
7 70 (19.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 57 (16.10%) Developer
9 48 (13.56%) Java Engineer
9 48 (13.56%) Lead
10 39 (11.02%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (10.17%) Architect
13 23 (6.50%) Java Developer
14 22 (6.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
16 16 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (4.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 14 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (22.03%) Spring
2 75 (21.19%) Spring Boot
3 70 (19.77%) PySpark
4 64 (18.08%) J2EE
5 48 (13.56%) RabbitMQ
6 42 (11.86%) RESTful
7 38 (10.73%) React
8 37 (10.45%) AngularJS
9 35 (9.89%) REST
10 34 (9.60%) Elastic Stack
11 28 (7.91%) Akka
12 15 (4.24%) GraphQL
12 15 (4.24%) gRPC
12 15 (4.24%) RxJava
12 15 (4.24%) Spring WebFlux
13 14 (3.95%) Node.js
14 11 (3.11%) .NET
15 10 (2.82%) Web Services
16 9 (2.54%) Mustache
16 9 (2.54%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.21%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 18 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 18 (5.08%) Mobile App
5 15 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.82%) Client/Server
7 10 (2.82%) Distributed Applications
7 10 (2.82%) Mobile Games
8 9 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.26%) Blockchain
9 8 (2.26%) Web3
10 6 (1.69%) FMCG
11 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.41%) Equities
11 5 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.11%) Linux
2 6 (1.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (59.89%) Software Engineering
2 189 (53.39%) Agile
3 185 (52.26%) CI/CD
4 154 (43.50%) DevOps
5 132 (37.29%) Microservices
6 85 (24.01%) Data Engineering
7 70 (19.77%) Open Source
8 67 (18.93%) Asset Management
8 67 (18.93%) Event-Driven
8 67 (18.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 64 (18.08%) Containerisation
10 62 (17.51%) Fintech
11 57 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (16.10%) TDD
12 53 (14.97%) Analytics
13 50 (14.12%) Machine Learning
14 49 (13.84%) Computer Science
15 47 (13.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 47 (13.28%) SDLC
16 42 (11.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 217 (61.30%) Java
2 159 (44.92%) Python
3 94 (26.55%) Go
4 89 (25.14%) SQL
5 34 (9.60%) Scala
6 19 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.08%) C#
8 15 (4.24%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.69%) C++
10 5 (1.41%) Bash
10 5 (1.41%) Groovy
11 4 (1.13%) Rust
12 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.56%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Clojure
14 1 (0.28%) COBOL
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (14.69%) Degree
2 24 (6.78%) AWS Certification
2 24 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.85%) PhD
8 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.93%) GDPR
2 15 (4.24%) HIPAA
3 11 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.69%) QA
5 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (52.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.41%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 235 (66.38%) Kubernetes
2 126 (35.59%) Terraform
3 35 (9.89%) Prometheus
4 24 (6.78%) Grafana
5 13 (3.67%) Argo
6 7 (1.98%) Ansible
7 6 (1.69%) Istio
7 6 (1.69%) Mesos
8 5 (1.41%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.41%) Oozie
9 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.85%) Packer
11 2 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.28%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.28%) Kibana
12 1 (0.28%) logstash
12 1 (0.28%) Nagios
12 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (12.43%) Google
2 37 (10.45%) Databricks
3 35 (9.89%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.08%) Oracle
5 16 (4.52%) Apple
6 8 (2.26%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.98%) Splunk
8 6 (1.69%) Confluent
8 6 (1.69%) New Relic
9 5 (1.41%) Okta
9 5 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.85%) Informatica
11 3 (0.85%) Solace
11 3 (0.85%) Talend
12 2 (0.56%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.56%) SimCorp
12 2 (0.56%) TIBCO