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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 129 148
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -84
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 323 343 466
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.71% 2.66% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.45% 9.93% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 226 258 362
10th Percentile £70,875 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,313 £68,125 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £134,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -11.11%

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 3,092 3,453 5,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.34% 26.75% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,167 2,492 4,725
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,454 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £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 £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -19 35 £85,000 +36.00% 35
West London - 9 £82,500 - 2
South London +6 8 £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 83 (25.70%) Apache Spark
2 72 (22.29%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (10.53%) Apache
4 6 (1.86%) Confluence
5 5 (1.55%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.55%) IIS
5 5 (1.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.62%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 216 (66.87%) AWS
2 102 (31.58%) Azure
3 88 (27.24%) GCP
4 42 (13.00%) Serverless
5 39 (12.07%) dbt
6 34 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 34 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (9.29%) Amazon S3
8 29 (8.98%) Snowflake
9 28 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (8.36%) Power Platform
11 26 (8.05%) Datadog
12 24 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (6.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (5.57%) GitHub
15 16 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (4.64%) OpenShift
17 14 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Broadband
2 4 (1.24%) DNS
3 2 (0.62%) AMQP
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) 4G
4 1 (0.31%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) BGP
4 1 (0.31%) CTI
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.31%) LTE
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.03%) NoSQL
2 50 (15.48%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (9.91%) Big Data
5 30 (9.29%) Tableau
6 27 (8.36%) Power BI
7 25 (7.74%) BigQuery
8 24 (7.43%) Data Lake
9 23 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (7.12%) Relational Database
10 22 (6.81%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (6.19%) Redis
11 20 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (5.57%) DynamoDB
12 18 (5.57%) SQL Server
13 16 (4.95%) Looker
13 16 (4.95%) Metadata
14 15 (4.64%) Flink
14 15 (4.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (11.76%) GitLab
2 37 (11.46%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.67%) Git
4 21 (6.50%) CircleCI
4 21 (6.50%) MLflow
5 9 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.86%) JIRA
7 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.55%) Selenium
8 4 (1.24%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.24%) JUnit
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.93%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.62%) Mocha
10 2 (0.62%) webpack
11 1 (0.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 154 (47.68%) Finance
2 85 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 61 (18.89%) Front Office
4 49 (15.17%) Banking
5 40 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.43%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.10%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.17%) Law
8 7 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.17%) Retail
9 4 (1.24%) Advertising
9 4 (1.24%) Billing
9 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (32.51%) Developer
2 102 (31.58%) Senior
3 61 (18.89%) Data Engineer
4 53 (16.41%) Software Engineer
5 52 (16.10%) Lead
6 37 (11.46%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (11.15%) Java Engineer
8 32 (9.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 28 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (8.05%) Java Developer
11 24 (7.43%) Lead Developer
12 22 (6.81%) Python Developer
12 22 (6.81%) Senior Developer
13 21 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (6.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (6.50%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (6.19%) Lead Software Developer
15 18 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (5.57%) Python Engineer
16 17 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.41%) React
2 51 (15.79%) Spring
3 47 (14.55%) RESTful
4 45 (13.93%) RabbitMQ
4 45 (13.93%) REST
5 43 (13.31%) Node.js
6 42 (13.00%) Spring Boot
7 37 (11.46%) GraphQL
8 35 (10.84%) Redux
9 31 (9.60%) gRPC
10 18 (5.57%) PySpark
11 17 (5.26%) scikit-learn
11 17 (5.26%) TensorFlow
12 16 (4.95%) LangChain
12 16 (4.95%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (4.95%) pgvector
12 16 (4.95%) PyTorch
13 14 (4.33%) AngularJS
13 14 (4.33%) web3js
14 13 (4.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 88 (27.24%) Cloud Native
2 57 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (12.69%) Fixed Income
4 24 (7.43%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.95%) Clustering
6 14 (4.33%) Blockchain
6 14 (4.33%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (4.33%) Web3
7 13 (4.02%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.41%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.86%) Derivative
11 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.86%) Equities
11 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.88%) Linux
2 11 (3.41%) Windows
3 9 (2.79%) Android
4 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (43.96%) CI/CD
2 125 (38.70%) DevOps
3 117 (36.22%) Microservices
4 115 (35.60%) Software Engineering
5 103 (31.89%) Agile
6 83 (25.70%) Analytics
7 80 (24.77%) Data Pipeline
8 77 (23.84%) Event-Driven
9 74 (22.91%) Containerisation
10 72 (22.29%) Data Engineering
11 68 (21.05%) Data Modelling
12 67 (20.74%) AI
13 66 (20.43%) Computer Science
14 60 (18.58%) Low Latency
15 58 (17.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (17.34%) ETL
16 56 (17.34%) Investment Management
17 55 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
18 53 (16.41%) Data Governance
18 53 (16.41%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 193 (59.75%) Python
2 140 (43.34%) Java
3 139 (43.03%) SQL
4 88 (27.24%) Go
5 50 (15.48%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.07%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.43%) Bash
8 21 (6.50%) C#
9 20 (6.19%) Scala
10 19 (5.88%) C++
11 7 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.17%) Rust
12 6 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
13 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.31%) Groovy
14 1 (0.31%) Korn
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 43 (13.31%) Degree
2 39 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.10%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.93%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.60%) GDPR
3 16 (4.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.10%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.48%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.86%) QA
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (32.82%) Docker
2 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 123 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 70 (21.67%) Terraform
3 36 (11.15%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.12%) Grafana
5 21 (6.50%) Ansible
6 12 (3.72%) Argo
7 9 (2.79%) Istio
8 6 (1.86%) Puppet
9 4 (1.24%) Kibana
9 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.62%) Salt
11 1 (0.31%) Cilium
11 1 (0.31%) Icinga
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (11.76%) Databricks
2 16 (4.95%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.95%) Dell
3 10 (3.10%) Confluent
4 7 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.17%) VMware
5 6 (1.86%) Oracle
6 5 (1.55%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.55%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.55%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.55%) Nokia
6 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.55%) Solace
7 4 (1.24%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.24%) Splunk
8 3 (0.93%) Google
8 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.93%) Talend
9 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow