Kafka Engineer Job Trends in West London

Kafka Engineer
London > West London

The median Kafka Engineer salary in West London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £86,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £105,000 £112,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West London. 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 West London with a recognized job title 259 822 515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.09% 98.56% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 168 244 423
10th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £39,938 £40,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £50,000 £50,385
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -0.76% -16.03%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Engineer in West London

Kafka Engineer
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Salary distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in West London

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 8 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 West London region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) RxJava
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux

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

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