Kafka Jobs in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 187 70
Rank change year-on-year +66 -117 +1
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 379 445 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.94% 1.80% 4.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.85% 7.39% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 223 344 906
10th Percentile £56,500 £61,250 £68,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £122,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -13.89% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,494 6,018 10,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.14% 24.35% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 4,737 7,809
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £110,938 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,125 £136,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,037 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.73% -11.11% +3.85%

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 12 June 2025.

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 12 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
Central London +29 55 £90,000 -1.37% 42
South London +33 32 £82,500 -24.14% 11
East London -25 1 £92,500 -38.33% 1
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
1 107 (28.23%) Apache Spark
2 74 (19.53%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (15.57%) Apache
4 9 (2.37%) Confluence
5 7 (1.85%) nginx
6 5 (1.32%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.06%) Traefik
8 3 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.53%) GemFire
9 2 (0.53%) JBoss
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.26%) Luigi
10 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Maya
2 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Endur
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 281 (74.14%) AWS
2 104 (27.44%) Azure
3 98 (25.86%) Serverless
4 82 (21.64%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (20.58%) GCP
6 66 (17.41%) OpenShift
7 62 (16.36%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (14.25%) dbt
9 29 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (7.65%) GitHub
10 28 (7.39%) Amazon S3
11 18 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (4.49%) Snowflake
13 15 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.49%) HTTP
2 12 (3.17%) Network Security
3 4 (1.06%) DHCP
3 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 4 (1.06%) ICMP
3 4 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.06%) VPN
4 2 (0.53%) FTP
5 1 (0.26%) AMQP
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (19.26%) NoSQL
2 61 (16.09%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (14.51%) Apache Iceberg
4 54 (14.25%) Apache Ignite
5 51 (13.46%) Apache Arrow
5 51 (13.46%) Dremio
6 37 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (9.23%) Relational Database
8 29 (7.65%) MongoDB
9 23 (6.07%) Hadoop
10 20 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (5.28%) Big Data
11 19 (5.01%) Redis
12 17 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (4.49%) BigQuery
12 17 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (4.22%) DynamoDB
13 16 (4.22%) MySQL
14 15 (3.96%) SQL Server
15 13 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (13.98%) Artifactory
2 38 (10.03%) Jenkins
3 37 (9.76%) Git
4 20 (5.28%) CircleCI
5 19 (5.01%) GitLab
5 19 (5.01%) JUnit
6 16 (4.22%) JIRA
7 13 (3.43%) Maven
8 10 (2.64%) Mockito
9 8 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.11%) Postman
9 8 (2.11%) Vite
10 7 (1.85%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.58%) NUnit
12 5 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.32%) Gradle
12 5 (1.32%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.32%) SoapUI
13 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 244 (64.38%) Finance
2 104 (27.44%) Social Skills
3 99 (26.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (24.27%) Banking
5 81 (21.37%) Law
6 62 (16.36%) Front Office
7 37 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (8.18%) Games
9 29 (7.65%) Financial Institution
10 22 (5.80%) Marketing
11 20 (5.28%) Retail
12 15 (3.96%) Advertising
13 14 (3.69%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
15 6 (1.58%) Back Office
16 5 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 4 (1.06%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.79%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (34.56%) Software Engineer
2 99 (26.12%) Senior
3 79 (20.84%) Data Engineer
4 76 (20.05%) Python Engineer
5 65 (17.15%) AWS Engineer
6 62 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (16.36%) Lead
7 60 (15.83%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (15.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 59 (15.57%) Java Engineer
9 57 (15.04%) Developer
10 50 (13.19%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (11.08%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (8.97%) Architect
12 34 (8.97%) Lead Software Engineer
13 24 (6.33%) Java Developer
13 24 (6.33%) Senior Java Engineer
14 19 (5.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 17 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (4.22%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (25.59%) Spring
2 91 (24.01%) Spring Boot
3 61 (16.09%) PySpark
4 60 (15.83%) RESTful
5 56 (14.78%) J2EE
6 53 (13.98%) RabbitMQ
7 48 (12.66%) React
8 41 (10.82%) AngularJS
9 38 (10.03%) REST
10 30 (7.92%) Akka
10 30 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (4.75%) gRPC
12 17 (4.49%) GraphQL
12 17 (4.49%) RxJava
12 17 (4.49%) Spring WebFlux
13 15 (3.96%) Micronaut
14 14 (3.69%) Node.js
15 13 (3.43%) Jest
16 12 (3.17%) .NET
16 12 (3.17%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 88 (23.22%) Cloud Native
2 48 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (7.39%) Data Structures
4 26 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 23 (6.07%) Algorithms
6 21 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.54%) Management Information System
6 21 (5.54%) Mobile App
7 18 (4.75%) Distributed Applications
8 16 (4.22%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (3.69%) Client/Server
11 10 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (2.37%) Blockchain
12 9 (2.37%) Mobile Banking
12 9 (2.37%) Web3
13 8 (2.11%) Mobile Games
14 7 (1.85%) FMCG
14 7 (1.85%) Virtual Team
15 5 (1.32%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.69%) Linux
2 6 (1.58%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (62.53%) Software Engineering
2 205 (54.09%) Agile
3 201 (53.03%) CI/CD
4 149 (39.31%) Microservices
5 148 (39.05%) DevOps
6 83 (21.90%) Fintech
7 77 (20.32%) Data Engineering
8 72 (19.00%) Event-Driven
9 68 (17.94%) Containerisation
10 66 (17.41%) SDLC
11 64 (16.89%) Open Source
12 62 (16.36%) TDD
13 61 (16.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 59 (15.57%) Asset Management
14 59 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (14.78%) Analytics
15 56 (14.78%) Test Automation
16 51 (13.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 49 (12.93%) Machine Learning
18 48 (12.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 241 (63.59%) Java
2 154 (40.63%) Python
3 102 (26.91%) SQL
4 94 (24.80%) Go
5 37 (9.76%) Scala
6 26 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.33%) Kotlin
8 19 (5.01%) C#
9 18 (4.75%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.37%) C++
11 7 (1.85%) Bash
12 6 (1.58%) Rust
13 5 (1.32%) Groovy
14 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) Clojure
15 1 (0.26%) COBOL
15 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.26%) R
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (12.93%) Degree
2 27 (7.12%) AWS Certification
3 21 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.28%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.01%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.79%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.01%) GDPR
2 14 (3.69%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.11%) QA
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) MiFID
6 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 182 (48.02%) Docker
2 6 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.32%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 253 (66.75%) Kubernetes
2 124 (32.72%) Terraform
3 36 (9.50%) Prometheus
4 25 (6.60%) Grafana
5 17 (4.49%) Argo
6 8 (2.11%) Mesos
7 7 (1.85%) Ansible
8 6 (1.58%) Istio
9 5 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 5 (1.32%) Oozie
10 4 (1.06%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.79%) Packer
12 1 (0.26%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.26%) Kibana
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Nagios
12 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (11.61%) Google
2 37 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 35 (9.23%) Databricks
4 23 (6.07%) Oracle
5 15 (3.96%) Apple
6 8 (2.11%) Cloudera
6 8 (2.11%) Confluent
7 7 (1.85%) Splunk
8 5 (1.32%) New Relic
8 5 (1.32%) Okta
8 5 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.79%) Informatica
10 3 (0.79%) Solace
10 3 (0.79%) Talend
11 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.53%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.53%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.53%) WSO2
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