Kafka Jobs in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 127 85
Rank change year-on-year +13 -42 +20
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 46 58 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.97% 1.54% 3.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.18% 6.42% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 35 50 166
10th Percentile - £56,250 £75,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £66,250 £82,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £87,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £118,125 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £164,000 £115,500 £125,000
London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 641 904 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 27.51% 24.05% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 505 692 1,411
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,875 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £116,250
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Central London over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
City of London +15 38 £95,000 +5.56% 129
City of Westminster +4 12 £62,500 - 3
Camden - 4 - - 2
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 14 (30.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) GCP
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (8.70%) SaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (19.57%) MongoDB
4 7 (15.22%) Redis
5 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
6 4 (8.70%) MySQL
7 3 (6.52%) Big Data
7 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 4 (8.70%) Maven
4 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) JUnit
4 3 (6.52%) MSTest
4 3 (6.52%) NUnit
5 2 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.35%) Gradle
5 2 (4.35%) Mockito
5 2 (4.35%) Postman
5 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.35%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.35%) Subversion
5 2 (4.35%) Xcode
5 2 (4.35%) XCTest
6 1 (2.17%) JMeter
6 1 (2.17%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (58.70%) Finance
2 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 18 (39.13%) Games
4 16 (34.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (26.09%) Advertising
5 12 (26.09%) Retail
6 5 (10.87%) Back Office
6 5 (10.87%) Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Senior
2 20 (43.48%) Software Engineer
3 17 (36.96%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Lead
5 6 (13.04%) Architect
5 6 (13.04%) Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Head of Architecture
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Architect
7 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.52%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.52%) .NET Team Leader
8 3 (6.52%) Lead .NET Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Team Leader
9 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (19.57%) React
3 6 (13.04%) RESTful
4 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.87%) CSS
4 5 (10.87%) HTML
5 4 (8.70%) .NET
5 4 (8.70%) Node.js
5 4 (8.70%) REST
5 4 (8.70%) Spring
6 3 (6.52%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.35%) Bootstrap
7 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.35%) Flask
7 2 (4.35%) gRPC
7 2 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (4.35%) pytest
7 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
3 7 (15.22%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.70%) Mobile Games
5 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
5 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.17%) Derivative
7 1 (2.17%) Equities
7 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Software Engineering
2 25 (54.35%) Agile
3 17 (36.96%) Microservices
4 16 (34.78%) Computer Science
4 16 (34.78%) Machine Learning
5 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (28.26%) Event-Driven
7 12 (26.09%) Performance Metrics
7 12 (26.09%) Programmatic Advertising
8 9 (19.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 8 (17.39%) Unit Testing
10 7 (15.22%) TDD
11 6 (13.04%) Analytics
11 6 (13.04%) Low Latency
11 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.04%) Migration
11 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
12 5 (10.87%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 16 (34.78%) Java
3 14 (30.43%) Scala
4 13 (28.26%) SQL
5 7 (15.22%) C#
6 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.35%) Groovy
8 2 (4.35%) Rust
8 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.17%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) GDPR
1 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
1 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Argo
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Google
1 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) Apple
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) Informatica
4 2 (4.35%) New Relic
4 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) Talend
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