Kafka Job Trends in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 111 193
Rank change year-on-year -28 +82 -97
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 394 364 340
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 2.98% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.15% 11.21% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 232 201 244
10th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £139,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 3,533 3,248 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.99% 26.57% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,333 2,241 3,666
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,803
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £83,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -2.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in London

Kafka
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

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 6 August 2026. 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 -5 40 £90,000 -9.32% 40
West London - 16 £80,000 - 5
South London -17 6 - -
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 95 (24.11%) Apache Spark
2 70 (17.77%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.12%) Apache
4 12 (3.05%) Confluence
5 5 (1.27%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.02%) Camunda
7 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.25%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.25%) Tornado
Applications
1 11 (2.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 246 (62.44%) AWS
2 135 (34.26%) Azure
3 86 (21.83%) GCP
4 55 (13.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (12.94%) Serverless
6 39 (9.90%) dbt
7 33 (8.38%) Power Platform
8 32 (8.12%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (6.85%) Amazon S3
11 25 (6.35%) Datadog
12 24 (6.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (6.09%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.33%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.31%) SaaS
16 14 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.55%) GitHub
17 13 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.78%) BGP
2 6 (1.52%) DNS
2 6 (1.52%) IPsec
2 6 (1.52%) VPN
3 5 (1.27%) Internet
4 3 (0.76%) Broadband
5 2 (0.51%) 4G
5 2 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) MQTT
5 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 1 (0.25%) CTI
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.25%) HTTP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (25.63%) NoSQL
2 47 (11.93%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (11.68%) Relational Database
4 41 (10.41%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.39%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.14%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (8.88%) Big Data
8 32 (8.12%) Power BI
9 28 (7.11%) MongoDB
10 25 (6.35%) Tableau
11 24 (6.09%) MySQL
12 22 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (5.58%) Hadoop
13 20 (5.08%) BigQuery
14 17 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (4.31%) Redis
14 17 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (4.06%) DynamoDB
15 16 (4.06%) Looker
16 15 (3.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (13.45%) GitLab
2 34 (8.63%) Git
3 33 (8.38%) Cucumber
4 31 (7.87%) Jenkins
5 19 (4.82%) MLflow
6 18 (4.57%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.05%) Selenium
8 7 (1.78%) JIRA
9 6 (1.52%) Maven
10 4 (1.02%) JUnit
10 4 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.76%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.51%) Postman
13 1 (0.25%) Gatling
13 1 (0.25%) Mocha
13 1 (0.25%) Mockito
13 1 (0.25%) XCTest
13 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 202 (51.27%) Finance
2 98 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 66 (16.75%) Banking
4 49 (12.44%) Front Office
5 40 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.81%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.55%) Retail
9 12 (3.05%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.05%) Marketing
10 10 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.54%) Law
11 9 (2.28%) Military
12 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.27%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
15 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.25%) Legal
17 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (28.68%) Senior
2 99 (25.13%) Developer
3 80 (20.30%) Java Engineer
4 76 (19.29%) Software Engineer
5 56 (14.21%) Data Engineer
6 53 (13.45%) Lead
7 37 (9.39%) Architect
7 37 (9.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 33 (8.38%) Principal Engineer
9 28 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 27 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
11 26 (6.60%) Principal Java Engineer
12 25 (6.35%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.09%) Lead Software Engineer
13 24 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (5.58%) Lead Software Developer
14 22 (5.58%) Python Engineer
15 21 (5.33%) Senior Developer
16 18 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (27.16%) Spring
2 96 (24.37%) Spring Boot
3 61 (15.48%) Node.js
3 61 (15.48%) React
4 52 (13.20%) RabbitMQ
5 51 (12.94%) RESTful
6 48 (12.18%) REST
7 38 (9.64%) GraphQL
8 36 (9.14%) Redux
9 22 (5.58%) .NET
9 22 (5.58%) PySpark
10 20 (5.08%) gRPC
11 19 (4.82%) PyTorch
11 19 (4.82%) TensorFlow
12 17 (4.31%) pgvector
13 16 (4.06%) LangChain
13 16 (4.06%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.06%) scikit-learn
14 14 (3.55%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 128 (32.49%) Cloud Native
2 84 (21.32%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (11.93%) Public Cloud
4 41 (10.41%) Fixed Income
5 31 (7.87%) Onboarding
6 30 (7.61%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (4.06%) Clustering
9 16 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.30%) Data Structures
11 12 (3.05%) Blockchain
11 12 (3.05%) Web3
12 10 (2.54%) EPoS
12 10 (2.54%) iSeries
13 9 (2.28%) AI Agents
13 9 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (2.03%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.78%) Algorithms
16 6 (1.52%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.58%) Linux
2 8 (2.03%) Unix
3 7 (1.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (44.42%) CI/CD
2 165 (41.88%) Microservices
3 151 (38.32%) Agile
4 147 (37.31%) Software Engineering
5 145 (36.80%) Event-Driven
6 115 (29.19%) DevOps
7 109 (27.66%) AI
8 104 (26.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 91 (23.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 87 (22.08%) Containerisation
11 86 (21.83%) Test Automation
12 84 (21.32%) Analytics
13 82 (20.81%) Mentoring
14 80 (20.30%) Data Pipeline
15 72 (18.27%) Data Modelling
15 72 (18.27%) Observability
16 64 (16.24%) Data Engineering
17 59 (14.97%) Machine Learning
18 55 (13.96%) Computer Science
19 54 (13.71%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 203 (51.52%) Java
2 186 (47.21%) Python
3 160 (40.61%) SQL
4 64 (16.24%) Go
5 62 (15.74%) TypeScript
6 58 (14.72%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.63%) C#
8 15 (3.81%) Scala
9 14 (3.55%) C++
10 10 (2.54%) RPG
11 8 (2.03%) Bash
11 8 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.78%) PHP
12 7 (1.78%) Rust
13 6 (1.52%) C
13 6 (1.52%) Ruby
14 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Bicep
15 2 (0.51%) R
16 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (10.41%) AWS Certification
1 41 (10.41%) Degree
2 30 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 30 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.27%) PhD
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CISSP
8 1 (0.25%) GIAC
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.25%) SSCP
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.66%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.61%) GDPR
3 16 (4.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.03%) QA
6 6 (1.52%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.51%) PSD2
9 2 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (25.63%) Docker
2 8 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 129 (32.74%) Kubernetes
2 80 (20.30%) Terraform
3 37 (9.39%) Prometheus
4 21 (5.33%) Grafana
5 14 (3.55%) Ansible
6 10 (2.54%) Istio
7 6 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.02%) Argo
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) kaniko
9 2 (0.51%) Kibana
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Salt
10 1 (0.25%) Control-M
10 1 (0.25%) logstash
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.18%) Databricks
2 33 (8.38%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.33%) IBM
4 16 (4.06%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.06%) Dell
5 13 (3.30%) Oracle
6 9 (2.28%) Confluent
6 9 (2.28%) Solace
7 7 (1.78%) Google
7 7 (1.78%) Splunk
7 7 (1.78%) Talend
8 6 (1.52%) HP
8 6 (1.52%) SAP
9 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.02%) WSO2
10 3 (0.76%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint