Kafka Job Trends in West End of London

Apache Kafka
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West End of London 6.45% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £90,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £112,500 £80,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +40.63% -17.95% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West End of 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 West End of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2 30 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West End of London 6.45% 31.58% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 28
10th Percentile - - £50,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £79,750 £92,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.24% -9.38% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in West End of London

Kafka
Salary Trend in West End of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Kafka

Kafka
Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Holborn - 2 £85,000 - 2
Kafka
Central London

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SnowPro
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform