Kafka Engineer Job Trends in Merton

Kafka Engineer
South London > Merton

The median Kafka Engineer salary in Merton is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 4 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 6.45% 2.60% -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 2.63% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £103,125 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £104,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £108,750 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% - -
75th Percentile £111,250 £114,063 -
90th Percentile - £115,375 -
South London median annual salary £95,000 £108,750 -
% change year-on-year -12.64% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Merton with a recognized job title 55 76 61
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.71% 98.70% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 39 22 55
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £64,250 £79,375
90th Percentile £111,250 £85,000 £92,000
South London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

Job postings that featured Kafka Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merton.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Engineer in Merton

Kafka Engineer
Salary Trend in Merton

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in Merton.

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in Merton

Kafka Engineer
Salary Histogram in Merton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka Engineer in Merton over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka Engineer in Merton

Kafka Engineer
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Engineer within the Merton region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Wimbledon -2 4 £95,000 -12.64%
Kafka Engineer
South London

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Kafka Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Merton region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Akka
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) RxJava
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
1 4 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Akka
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) RxJava
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes