Kafka Job Trends in South London

Apache Kafka
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 68 54
Rank change year-on-year +23 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 4 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.87% 2.17% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.76% 7.59% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £81,250 - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -2.44% -25.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £86,250 £69,375
90th Percentile £108,750 £99,000 £72,750
London median annual salary £107,500 £97,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.26% +8.33% -5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 158 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 8.89% 28.52% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12 32 71
10th Percentile £52,400 £32,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £53,413 £49,090 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £84,375 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £104,250 £85,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South London.

Kafka job vacancy trend in South London

Kafka
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in South London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Croydon +11 2 - -
Merton -5 2 £95,000 +1.33%
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Akka
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) RxJava
2 2 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Mustache
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Video on Demand
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Demand Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Icinga
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware