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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 68 72
Rank change year-on-year -105 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 442 1,450 3,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.83% 4.54% 5.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.50% 13.41% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 342 921 1,155
10th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £150,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +6.67%

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 5,895 10,813 34,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.40% 33.88% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,682 7,913 12,678
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 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.58% +9.29%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -49 58 £92,500 -7.50% 10
East London +19 10 £150,000 +57.89%
South London -2 4 £108,750 +45.00%
West London +2 1 £67,500 -18.18% 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 88 (19.91%) Apache Spark
2 41 (9.28%) Apache
3 27 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.26%) nginx
5 8 (1.81%) Confluence
6 6 (1.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 296 (66.97%) AWS
2 107 (24.21%) Azure
3 88 (19.91%) GCP
4 30 (6.79%) Serverless
5 21 (4.75%) GitHub
6 19 (4.30%) Snowflake
7 18 (4.07%) Amazon Kinesis
7 18 (4.07%) Amazon S3
7 18 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.94%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (2.26%) SaaS
12 9 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.81%) Kong
13 8 (1.81%) npm
13 8 (1.81%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.81%) Firewall
2 7 (1.58%) AMQP
3 6 (1.36%) FTP
3 6 (1.36%) Network Security
3 6 (1.36%) 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 61 (13.80%) NoSQL
2 58 (13.12%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (11.99%) MongoDB
4 52 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 47 (10.63%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (10.18%) Big Data
7 41 (9.28%) MySQL
7 41 (9.28%) Redis
8 36 (8.14%) SQL Server
9 32 (7.24%) Flink
10 29 (6.56%) Data Mining
11 26 (5.88%) BigQuery
12 24 (5.43%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.75%) Data Lake
13 21 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (4.07%) Apache Ignite
15 14 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (1.81%) Apache Hive
17 7 (1.58%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 60 (13.57%) Jenkins
2 37 (8.37%) Git
3 23 (5.20%) GitLab
4 17 (3.85%) JIRA
5 12 (2.71%) Maven
6 9 (2.04%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.81%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.58%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.58%) Mocha
9 6 (1.36%) Selenium
10 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.13%) Jaeger
10 5 (1.13%) Postman
10 5 (1.13%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.68%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.68%) JMeter
11 3 (0.68%) JUnit
11 3 (0.68%) MLflow
11 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 125 (28.28%) Finance
2 85 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 69 (15.61%) Banking
4 40 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.60%) Retail Banking
6 35 (7.92%) Games
7 29 (6.56%) Law
8 28 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.98%) Front Office
10 12 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.49%) Retail
12 10 (2.26%) Marketing
13 9 (2.04%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.36%) Advertising
14 6 (1.36%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.13%) Legal
15 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.45%) Automotive
16 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 151 (34.16%) Senior
2 148 (33.48%) Developer
3 79 (17.87%) Lead
4 64 (14.48%) Java Developer
5 61 (13.80%) Software Engineer
6 55 (12.44%) Senior Developer
7 49 (11.09%) Architect
8 43 (9.73%) Data Engineer
9 36 (8.14%) .NET Developer
9 36 (8.14%) Technical Leader
10 30 (6.79%) Java Engineer
10 30 (6.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
12 22 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (4.30%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (3.85%) Games Developer
14 17 (3.85%) IT Architect
14 17 (3.85%) Senior Architect
14 17 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Architect
15 15 (3.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (24.66%) Spring Boot
2 78 (17.65%) Spring
3 64 (14.48%) React
4 62 (14.03%) .NET
5 53 (11.99%) RabbitMQ
6 35 (7.92%) RESTful
7 30 (6.79%) AngularJS
8 29 (6.56%) Apache Beam
9 26 (5.88%) Node.js
10 24 (5.43%) REST
11 21 (4.75%) CSS
12 16 (3.62%) Django
12 16 (3.62%) Middleware
13 15 (3.39%) PyTorch
13 15 (3.39%) TensorFlow
14 13 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
14 13 (2.94%) OpenAPI
15 12 (2.71%) HTML
16 11 (2.49%) GraphQL
16 11 (2.49%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 32 (7.24%) Greenfield Project
3 31 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.52%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.62%) Client/Server
6 15 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.71%) Hedge funds
9 11 (2.49%) Sports Betting
10 8 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.58%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.58%) PropTech
12 6 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.36%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.13%) Blog
13 5 (1.13%) Data Fabric
13 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.13%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.09%) Linux
2 12 (2.71%) Unix
3 11 (2.49%) Windows
4 9 (2.04%) Solaris
5 8 (1.81%) CentOS
5 8 (1.81%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.81%) zOS
6 6 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.90%) Debian
8 2 (0.45%) Android
8 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (37.56%) Microservices
2 162 (36.65%) Software Engineering
3 125 (28.28%) CI/CD
4 115 (26.02%) DevOps
5 114 (25.79%) Agile
6 64 (14.48%) TDD
7 63 (14.25%) Analytics
8 62 (14.03%) SDLC
9 59 (13.35%) Fintech
9 59 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (12.44%) Computer Science
11 53 (11.99%) Mentoring
12 51 (11.54%) Mathematics
13 49 (11.09%) Data Pipeline
14 46 (10.41%) Machine Learning
15 43 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence
16 42 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (9.50%) Data Modelling
17 39 (8.82%) ETL
17 39 (8.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 229 (51.81%) Java
2 120 (27.15%) SQL
3 114 (25.79%) Python
4 77 (17.42%) C#
5 45 (10.18%) Kotlin
6 38 (8.60%) JavaScript
6 38 (8.60%) Scala
7 34 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 24 (5.43%) Go
9 14 (3.17%) C
10 12 (2.71%) Clojure
11 6 (1.36%) Groovy
12 5 (1.13%) VBA
13 4 (0.90%) C++
13 4 (0.90%) R
14 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.45%) Ruby
16 1 (0.23%) F#
Qualifications
1 80 (18.10%) Degree
2 34 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 15 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.04%) PhD
6 9 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.90%) CISM
7 4 (0.90%) CISSP
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.81%) QA
3 7 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.13%) MiFID
6 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (0.90%) NIST
7 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 139 (31.45%) 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
1 204 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.95%) Terraform
3 27 (6.11%) Ansible
4 18 (4.07%) Grafana
5 15 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.36%) Kibana
7 5 (1.13%) Kiali
8 4 (0.90%) logstash
9 3 (0.68%) Argo
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.68%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.45%) Packer
10 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.45%) Puppet
11 1 (0.23%) Consul
11 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.23%) Oozie
11 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 40 (9.05%) Google
2 31 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.88%) Databricks
4 19 (4.30%) Splunk
5 14 (3.17%) Cloudera
6 13 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.71%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.04%) Oracle
9 6 (1.36%) YouTube
10 5 (1.13%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.13%) Confluent
10 5 (1.13%) IBM
11 4 (0.90%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.90%) Apple
11 4 (0.90%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.90%) Qualys
11 4 (0.90%) Reuters
11 4 (0.90%) Vertica
12 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.68%) Hortonworks