Kafka Jobs in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -102 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 443 1,609 3,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.87% 4.79% 5.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 13.77% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 348 973 1,138
10th Percentile £61,250 £66,350 £58,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £150,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £81,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +11.11% +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,825 11,682 31,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.63% 34.75% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,688 8,254 12,768
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Central London -46 60 £95,000 -5.00% 15
East London +13 10 £150,000 +71.43% 53
South London -6 5 £105,000 +40.00%
West London -7 1 £67,500 -18.18% 3
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 91 (20.54%) Apache Spark
2 39 (8.80%) Apache
3 30 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.03%) nginx
5 8 (1.81%) Confluence
6 4 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 297 (67.04%) AWS
2 113 (25.51%) Azure
3 91 (20.54%) GCP
4 27 (6.09%) Serverless
5 25 (5.64%) GitHub
6 19 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (3.84%) Snowflake
8 16 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
8 16 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.93%) OpenShift
11 10 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.26%) SaaS
12 9 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.81%) Kong
13 8 (1.81%) npm
13 8 (1.81%) Stackdriver
13 8 (1.81%) Yarn
14 6 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.81%) Firewall
2 7 (1.58%) AMQP
3 6 (1.35%) FTP
3 6 (1.35%) Network Security
3 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.68%) DNS
4 3 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.45%) SSL
6 1 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.23%) PPP
6 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.90%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.54%) Hadoop
3 56 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (11.74%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (11.74%) MongoDB
5 43 (9.71%) Big Data
5 43 (9.71%) MySQL
6 41 (9.26%) Redis
7 35 (7.90%) Data Mining
7 35 (7.90%) SQL Server
8 30 (6.77%) Flink
9 26 (5.87%) Data Lake
10 24 (5.42%) Apache Ignite
10 24 (5.42%) Relational Database
11 23 (5.19%) BigQuery
12 19 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.26%) Apache Hive
16 8 (1.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 59 (13.32%) Jenkins
2 37 (8.35%) Git
3 21 (4.74%) GitLab
4 19 (4.29%) JIRA
5 14 (3.16%) Maven
6 9 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.81%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.58%) Mocha
8 7 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.35%) Selenium
10 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.13%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.90%) JMeter
11 4 (0.90%) Postman
12 3 (0.68%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.68%) JUnit
12 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 123 (27.77%) Finance
2 79 (17.83%) Social Skills
3 71 (16.03%) Banking
4 47 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.58%) Retail Banking
6 37 (8.35%) Games
7 29 (6.55%) Law
8 28 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.97%) Front Office
10 12 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.26%) Marketing
11 10 (2.26%) Retail
12 8 (1.81%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.13%) Advertising
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
15 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.23%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 150 (33.86%) Senior
2 146 (32.96%) Developer
3 76 (17.16%) Lead
4 61 (13.77%) Java Developer
5 56 (12.64%) Software Engineer
6 53 (11.96%) Architect
7 52 (11.74%) Senior Developer
8 47 (10.61%) Data Engineer
9 36 (8.13%) .NET Developer
10 34 (7.67%) Technical Leader
11 31 (7.00%) Java Engineer
12 28 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
13 26 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (5.19%) IT Architect
15 21 (4.74%) Senior Architect
15 21 (4.74%) Senior Cloud Architect
15 21 (4.74%) Senior Java Developer
16 18 (4.06%) Java Software Engineer
17 17 (3.84%) Games Developer
18 16 (3.61%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (25.06%) Spring Boot
2 83 (18.74%) Spring
3 64 (14.45%) .NET
3 64 (14.45%) React
4 50 (11.29%) RabbitMQ
5 32 (7.22%) RESTful
6 31 (7.00%) AngularJS
7 30 (6.77%) Apache Beam
8 25 (5.64%) Node.js
9 24 (5.42%) REST
10 21 (4.74%) CSS
11 16 (3.61%) Django
11 16 (3.61%) Middleware
12 14 (3.16%) PyTorch
12 14 (3.16%) TensorFlow
13 12 (2.71%) GraphQL
13 12 (2.71%) HTML
14 11 (2.48%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (2.48%) gRPC
14 11 (2.48%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
1 36 (8.13%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (7.45%) Algorithms
3 19 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.61%) Client/Server
5 15 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.71%) Hedge funds
8 11 (2.48%) Sports Betting
9 8 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
9 8 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.58%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.58%) PropTech
11 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.13%) Blog
12 5 (1.13%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.90%) Cyberattack
13 4 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.16%) Linux
2 11 (2.48%) Unix
2 11 (2.48%) Windows
3 9 (2.03%) Solaris
4 8 (1.81%) CentOS
4 8 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.81%) zOS
5 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.68%) Android
6 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (36.34%) Microservices
2 155 (34.99%) Software Engineering
3 128 (28.89%) Agile
4 123 (27.77%) CI/CD
5 114 (25.73%) DevOps
6 67 (15.12%) TDD
7 63 (14.22%) Analytics
8 62 (14.00%) Fintech
8 62 (14.00%) SDLC
9 57 (12.87%) Mathematics
10 56 (12.64%) Computer Science
11 55 (12.42%) Mentoring
11 55 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (10.16%) Migration
14 44 (9.93%) Machine Learning
15 42 (9.48%) Data Modelling
16 41 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
16 41 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (8.80%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 226 (51.02%) Java
2 123 (27.77%) SQL
3 114 (25.73%) Python
4 81 (18.28%) C#
5 45 (10.16%) Kotlin
6 40 (9.03%) JavaScript
7 37 (8.35%) Scala
8 33 (7.45%) TypeScript
9 24 (5.42%) Go
10 14 (3.16%) C
11 11 (2.48%) Clojure
12 6 (1.35%) Groovy
13 5 (1.13%) C++
13 5 (1.13%) VBA
14 4 (0.90%) R
15 2 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.45%) Ruby
15 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (20.09%) Degree
2 36 (8.13%) Master's Degree
3 15 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.16%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.48%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.26%) PhD
7 8 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.90%) CISM
8 4 (0.90%) CISSP
9 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.26%) QA
2 6 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.90%) MiFID
4 4 (0.90%) NIST
5 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 135 (30.47%) Docker
2 10 (2.26%) HDFS
3 2 (0.45%) IAG
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (45.60%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.26%) Terraform
3 24 (5.42%) Ansible
4 18 (4.06%) Grafana
5 15 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.35%) Kibana
7 5 (1.13%) Kiali
8 4 (0.90%) Argo
8 4 (0.90%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.90%) logstash
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
10 2 (0.45%) Consul
10 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.45%) Puppet
11 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.23%) Oozie
11 1 (0.23%) Packer
11 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 45 (10.16%) Google
2 35 (7.90%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.55%) Databricks
4 19 (4.29%) Splunk
5 13 (2.93%) Cloudera
6 12 (2.71%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.48%) Oracle
8 10 (2.26%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.81%) YouTube
10 6 (1.35%) IBM
11 5 (1.13%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.13%) Apple
11 5 (1.13%) Confluent
12 4 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.90%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.90%) Qualys
12 4 (0.90%) Reuters
12 4 (0.90%) Vertica
13 3 (0.68%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.68%) Facebook