Kafka Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Kafka
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 109 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 28 56 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.21% 2.11% 3.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.51% 7.23% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24 51 86
10th Percentile £72,500 - £66,250
25th Percentile £81,875 £56,250 £81,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £108,750 £62,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £114,063 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £161,000 £140,000 £118,250
Central London median annual salary £106,250 £62,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +70.00% -37.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 430 775 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 18.64% 29.19% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 364 561 754
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £115,875
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +6.25%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Kafka job vacancy trend in the City of London

Kafka
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kafka in the City of London

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.71%) Confluence
4 2 (7.14%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Dagster
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Hadoop
3 4 (14.29%) Big Data
3 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.57%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Flink
5 1 (3.57%) KDB
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) MLflow
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JMeter
3 1 (3.57%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (39.29%) Front Office
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Financial Institution
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Games
5 1 (3.57%) International Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (21.43%) Java Concurrency
2 4 (14.29%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.14%) Django
3 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 2 (7.14%) Flask
3 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 2 (7.14%) Next.js
3 2 (7.14%) React
3 2 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (3.57%) pydantic
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.57%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Algorithms
1 13 (46.43%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (35.71%) Cloud Native
3 8 (28.57%) Equities
4 6 (21.43%) Derivative
5 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
6 4 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Computer Science
1 13 (46.43%) Low Latency
2 12 (42.86%) Analytics
3 11 (39.29%) Electronic Trading
3 11 (39.29%) Mathematics
3 11 (39.29%) Multithreading
4 10 (35.71%) AI
5 9 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (32.14%) Microservices
6 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 8 (28.57%) Quantitative Research
7 6 (21.43%) ETL
7 6 (21.43%) Market Making
7 6 (21.43%) Memory Management
7 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (21.43%) Smart Order Routing
8 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.86%) Order Management
8 5 (17.86%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 14 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) Korn
7 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 8 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
3 5 (17.86%) PhD
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Databricks
1 2 (7.14%) Dell
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Confluent
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle