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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 129 174
Rank change year-on-year -10 +45 -109
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 331 326 438
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.60% 2.66% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.11% 10.34% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 226 244 347
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £69,375 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%

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 3,273 3,153 5,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.79% 25.69% 24.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,248 2,334 4,680
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -27 42 £90,000 +28.57% 23
West London - 10 £81,250 - 3
South London -14 7 £105,000 +27.27%
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 81 (24.47%) Apache Spark
2 76 (22.96%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (11.18%) Apache
4 4 (1.21%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.30%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 207 (62.54%) AWS
2 109 (32.93%) Azure
3 77 (23.26%) GCP
4 47 (14.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (13.90%) Serverless
6 43 (12.99%) dbt
7 39 (11.78%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.37%) Datadog
8 31 (9.37%) Snowflake
9 28 (8.46%) Power Platform
10 27 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 25 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (5.74%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (4.83%) GitHub
16 13 (3.93%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (3.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) Broadband
2 3 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.60%) 4G
3 2 (0.60%) 5G
4 1 (0.30%) AMQP
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (20.85%) NoSQL
2 48 (14.50%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 32 (9.67%) Tableau
4 30 (9.06%) Big Data
4 30 (9.06%) Data Lake
5 29 (8.76%) Relational Database
6 27 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
6 27 (8.16%) Power BI
7 25 (7.55%) BigQuery
8 23 (6.95%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (6.04%) MySQL
9 20 (6.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (5.74%) DynamoDB
10 19 (5.74%) Metadata
10 19 (5.74%) MongoDB
11 16 (4.83%) Looker
12 13 (3.93%) Redis
12 13 (3.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (13.29%) GitLab
2 36 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 31 (9.37%) Git
4 25 (7.55%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.04%) MLflow
6 17 (5.14%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.81%) Selenium
8 5 (1.51%) Maven
9 4 (1.21%) JIRA
10 3 (0.91%) JUnit
10 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.91%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.60%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.30%) Gradle
12 1 (0.30%) Mocha
12 1 (0.30%) Mockito
12 1 (0.30%) Postman
12 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 163 (49.24%) Finance
2 77 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.71%) Banking
3 52 (15.71%) Front Office
4 36 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.32%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.42%) Law
6 8 (2.42%) Retail
7 7 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.51%) Billing
8 5 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.51%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.21%) Advertising
10 2 (0.60%) Back Office
11 1 (0.30%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.30%) International Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Legal
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (29.61%) Developer
1 98 (29.61%) Senior
2 62 (18.73%) Data Engineer
3 57 (17.22%) Lead
4 56 (16.92%) Software Engineer
5 51 (15.41%) Java Engineer
6 33 (9.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 31 (9.37%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.25%) Architect
8 24 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.25%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.95%) Lead Developer
9 23 (6.95%) Python Engineer
10 22 (6.65%) Java Developer
11 21 (6.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (6.04%) Lead Software Developer
13 18 (5.44%) Principal Engineer
13 18 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
14 17 (5.14%) Python Developer
14 17 (5.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.22%) Spring
2 54 (16.31%) React
2 54 (16.31%) Spring Boot
3 51 (15.41%) RabbitMQ
4 42 (12.69%) RESTful
5 39 (11.78%) Node.js
6 38 (11.48%) REST
7 33 (9.97%) GraphQL
7 33 (9.97%) Redux
8 27 (8.16%) gRPC
9 23 (6.95%) PySpark
10 19 (5.74%) .NET
11 18 (5.44%) web3js
12 17 (5.14%) scikit-learn
12 17 (5.14%) TensorFlow
13 16 (4.83%) LangChain
13 16 (4.83%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.83%) pgvector
13 16 (4.83%) PyTorch
14 10 (3.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (29.61%) Cloud Native
2 50 (15.11%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.78%) Fixed Income
4 32 (9.67%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.44%) Blockchain
5 18 (5.44%) Web3
6 16 (4.83%) Clustering
6 16 (4.83%) e-Learning
7 12 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.32%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.42%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.42%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.21%) Anti-Piracy
13 4 (1.21%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.14%) Linux
2 7 (2.11%) Windows
3 5 (1.51%) Unix
4 4 (1.21%) Android
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (43.50%) CI/CD
2 123 (37.16%) Software Engineering
3 122 (36.86%) Microservices
4 116 (35.05%) DevOps
5 105 (31.72%) Agile
6 90 (27.19%) Event-Driven
7 83 (25.08%) Analytics
8 80 (24.17%) Data Pipeline
9 77 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 73 (22.05%) Containerisation
11 72 (21.75%) Data Engineering
12 70 (21.15%) AI
13 67 (20.24%) Data Modelling
14 61 (18.43%) Test Automation
15 58 (17.52%) Observability
16 56 (16.92%) ETL
16 56 (16.92%) Investment Management
17 53 (16.01%) Mentoring
18 51 (15.41%) Computer Science
18 51 (15.41%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 187 (56.50%) Python
2 145 (43.81%) SQL
3 139 (41.99%) Java
4 78 (23.56%) Go
5 51 (15.41%) TypeScript
6 48 (14.50%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.85%) C#
8 19 (5.74%) Bash
9 18 (5.44%) C++
10 16 (4.83%) Scala
11 7 (2.11%) Rust
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.60%) Bicep
14 2 (0.60%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) RPG
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 32 (9.67%) Degree
2 24 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.74%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.53%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.11%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.55%) GDPR
3 16 (4.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.02%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.42%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.81%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (30.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (37.16%) Kubernetes
2 83 (25.08%) Terraform
3 37 (11.18%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.04%) Grafana
5 15 (4.53%) Ansible
6 9 (2.72%) Istio
7 8 (2.42%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Kibana
8 2 (0.60%) Puppet
8 2 (0.60%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Cilium
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (12.69%) Databricks
2 19 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.83%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.83%) Dell
4 10 (3.02%) Confluent
5 7 (2.11%) Solace
5 7 (2.11%) Splunk
6 5 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.51%) Talend
7 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.21%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.21%) WSO2
8 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.60%) Google
9 2 (0.60%) IBM
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle
9 2 (0.60%) PayPal
9 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Pega