Kafka Jobs in South London

Apache Kafka
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 -3 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 34 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 4.76% 0.46% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.38% 3.51% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 28 2 5
10th Percentile £73,125 £103,125 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £104,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £108,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +45.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £111,250 £114,063 -
90th Percentile - £115,375 £82,500
London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £98,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.86% +9.72%

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 159 114 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 22.27% 13.01% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 42 82 85
10th Percentile £32,000 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £105,625 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £95,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +3.23%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Kafka in South London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in South London over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 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
Merton +12 25 £82,500 -24.14% 1
Croydon +10 6 - -
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 6 (17.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Serverless
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.82%) AWS KMS
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 25 (73.53%) Finance
1 25 (73.53%) Financial Institution
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (73.53%) Java Engineer
1 25 (73.53%) Java Software Engineer
1 25 (73.53%) Software Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Senior
2 11 (32.35%) Senior Java Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (91.18%) Spring
1 31 (91.18%) Spring Boot
2 25 (73.53%) Akka
2 25 (73.53%) AngularJS
3 15 (44.12%) RxJava
3 15 (44.12%) Spring WebFlux
4 9 (26.47%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (17.65%) Mustache
5 6 (17.65%) Node.js
5 6 (17.65%) React
5 6 (17.65%) REST
5 6 (17.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Microservices
2 31 (91.18%) Agile
2 31 (91.18%) TDD
3 28 (82.35%) Software Engineering
4 25 (73.53%) BDD
4 25 (73.53%) Fintech
4 25 (73.53%) Pair Programming
5 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
6 15 (44.12%) Concurrent Programming
6 15 (44.12%) Multithreading
7 14 (41.18%) High Availability
8 13 (38.24%) Containerisation
8 13 (38.24%) DevOps
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
10 5 (14.71%) SDLC
11 3 (8.82%) Architectural Design
11 3 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (8.82%) Regulatory Compliance
11 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
1 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) Grafana
2 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform