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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 109 189
Rank change year-on-year -29 +80 -94
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 390 372 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 3.02% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 11.30% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 236 209 246
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £141,250
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 3,534 3,292 4,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.14% 26.71% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,349 2,287 3,695
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,764
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
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 2 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 2 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 0 39 £90,000 -9.32% 29
West London - 16 £80,000 - 4
South London -22 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
1 101 (25.90%) Apache Spark
2 75 (19.23%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (8.46%) Apache
4 12 (3.08%) Confluence
5 5 (1.28%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.77%) Camunda
8 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) Luigi
9 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.26%) Tornado
Applications
1 11 (2.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 244 (62.56%) AWS
2 134 (34.36%) Azure
3 85 (21.79%) GCP
4 54 (13.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 53 (13.59%) Serverless
6 42 (10.77%) dbt
7 34 (8.72%) Snowflake
8 33 (8.46%) Power Platform
9 28 (7.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (6.92%) Amazon S3
11 26 (6.67%) Datadog
12 25 (6.41%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (6.15%) Amazon Kinesis
14 22 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (5.38%) Amazon EMR
16 17 (4.36%) SaaS
17 14 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (3.33%) OpenShift
19 12 (3.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) BGP
2 6 (1.54%) DNS
2 6 (1.54%) IPsec
2 6 (1.54%) VPN
3 5 (1.28%) Internet
4 4 (1.03%) 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 (0.26%) CTI
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (25.38%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 40 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.49%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.23%) Big Data
6 36 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (8.21%) Power BI
8 27 (6.92%) MongoDB
9 25 (6.41%) Tableau
10 22 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (5.64%) Hadoop
10 22 (5.64%) MySQL
11 21 (5.38%) BigQuery
12 17 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (4.36%) Redis
12 17 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (4.10%) Looker
13 16 (4.10%) Metadata
14 15 (3.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (13.08%) GitLab
2 32 (8.21%) Git
2 32 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 31 (7.95%) Cucumber
4 19 (4.87%) CircleCI
4 19 (4.87%) MLflow
5 12 (3.08%) Selenium
6 6 (1.54%) JIRA
6 6 (1.54%) Maven
7 4 (1.03%) JUnit
7 4 (1.03%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.77%) WinDbg
9 2 (0.51%) Postman
10 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.26%) Gatling
10 1 (0.26%) Gradle
10 1 (0.26%) Mockito
10 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 197 (50.51%) Finance
2 96 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 61 (15.64%) Banking
4 47 (12.05%) Front Office
5 41 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.59%) Retail
8 11 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.82%) Marketing
9 9 (2.31%) Law
9 9 (2.31%) Military
10 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Advertising
13 4 (1.03%) Billing
14 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.26%) Back Office
16 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (28.46%) Senior
2 98 (25.13%) Developer
3 77 (19.74%) Java Engineer
4 69 (17.69%) Software Engineer
5 60 (15.38%) Data Engineer
6 52 (13.33%) Lead
7 37 (9.49%) Architect
8 36 (9.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (7.95%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (6.92%) Java Developer
12 26 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
13 24 (6.15%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.15%) Principal Java Engineer
14 23 (5.90%) Lead Software Engineer
14 23 (5.90%) Python Engineer
15 21 (5.38%) Lead Software Developer
15 21 (5.38%) Senior Developer
16 19 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.41%) Spring
2 95 (24.36%) Spring Boot
3 61 (15.64%) React
4 60 (15.38%) Node.js
5 51 (13.08%) RabbitMQ
6 48 (12.31%) REST
6 48 (12.31%) RESTful
7 37 (9.49%) GraphQL
8 36 (9.23%) Redux
9 22 (5.64%) PySpark
10 20 (5.13%) .NET
10 20 (5.13%) gRPC
11 19 (4.87%) PyTorch
11 19 (4.87%) TensorFlow
12 17 (4.36%) pgvector
13 16 (4.10%) LangChain
13 16 (4.10%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.10%) scikit-learn
14 13 (3.33%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 126 (32.31%) Cloud Native
2 81 (20.77%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.26%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.44%) Onboarding
6 28 (7.18%) e-Learning
7 18 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.10%) Clustering
9 14 (3.59%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (3.08%) Blockchain
10 12 (3.08%) Web3
11 10 (2.56%) EPoS
11 10 (2.56%) iSeries
12 8 (2.05%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.54%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.90%) Linux
2 8 (2.05%) Unix
3 7 (1.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (45.13%) CI/CD
2 159 (40.77%) Microservices
3 146 (37.44%) Agile
4 144 (36.92%) Software Engineering
5 139 (35.64%) Event-Driven
6 116 (29.74%) DevOps
7 109 (27.95%) AI
8 103 (26.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (22.56%) Containerisation
9 88 (22.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 85 (21.79%) Analytics
10 85 (21.79%) Test Automation
11 83 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
12 80 (20.51%) Mentoring
13 75 (19.23%) Data Modelling
14 72 (18.46%) Observability
15 67 (17.18%) Data Engineering
16 58 (14.87%) Machine Learning
17 56 (14.36%) Computer Science
18 53 (13.59%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 197 (50.51%) Java
2 192 (49.23%) Python
3 164 (42.05%) SQL
4 64 (16.41%) Go
5 62 (15.90%) TypeScript
6 57 (14.62%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.46%) C#
8 16 (4.10%) Scala
9 15 (3.85%) C++
10 10 (2.56%) RPG
11 9 (2.31%) Bash
12 7 (1.79%) PHP
12 7 (1.79%) Rust
13 6 (1.54%) C
13 6 (1.54%) Ruby
14 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.51%) Bicep
16 2 (0.51%) R
17 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (10.51%) Degree
2 39 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 29 (7.44%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.15%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.59%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.28%) PhD
10 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) GIAC
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) OCP
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) SSCP
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.95%) GDPR
3 16 (4.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.05%) QA
6 7 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) PSD2
8 2 (0.51%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (26.67%) Docker
2 8 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (33.85%) Kubernetes
2 83 (21.28%) Terraform
3 40 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 24 (6.15%) Grafana
5 15 (3.85%) Ansible
6 10 (2.56%) Istio
7 6 (1.54%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.03%) 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 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.31%) Databricks
2 33 (8.46%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.38%) IBM
4 16 (4.10%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.10%) Dell
5 13 (3.33%) Oracle
6 9 (2.31%) Confluent
6 9 (2.31%) Solace
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
7 7 (1.79%) Talend
8 6 (1.54%) Google
8 6 (1.54%) HP
8 6 (1.54%) SAP
9 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.03%) WSO2
10 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint