Kafka Jobs in Merton

Apache Kafka
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 23 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 25.56% 1.56% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 82.14% 18.18% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 23 2 0
10th Percentile - £103,125 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £104,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £108,750 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - -
75th Percentile £111,250 £114,063 -
90th Percentile - £115,375 -
South London median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% -11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 11 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 31.11% 8.59% 63.24%
Number of salaries quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile - £47,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +28.30% +10.42%
75th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £80,938
90th Percentile - £107,500 £92,750
South London median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.86% +16.67% +9.09%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merton.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Merton

Kafka
Salary Trend in Merton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Merton.

Salary trend for Kafka in Merton

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Merton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Merton over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Merton

Kafka
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 within the Merton region over the 6 months to 8 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
Wimbledon +3 23 £82,500 -24.14%
Kafka
South London

Kafka
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 23 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 23 (100.00%) Finance
1 23 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 23 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Senior
2 10 (43.48%) Senior Java Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) Akka
1 23 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 23 (100.00%) Spring
1 23 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 13 (56.52%) RxJava
2 13 (56.52%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
1 23 (100.00%) BDD
1 23 (100.00%) Fintech
1 23 (100.00%) Microservices
1 23 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 13 (56.52%) Concurrent Programming
2 13 (56.52%) Multithreading
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 23 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Kubernetes