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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 110 189
Rank change year-on-year -40 +79 -119
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 342 378 439
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.57% 3.10% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.03% 11.60% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 225 222 339
10th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,438 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £123,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 3,409 3,259 6,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.69% 26.72% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 2,262 4,803
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £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 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £138,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -18 38 £92,500 +1.37% 12
West London - 13 £80,000 - 5
South London -6 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 84 (24.56%) Apache Spark
2 77 (22.51%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (10.53%) Apache
4 9 (2.63%) Confluence
5 4 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.58%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 216 (63.16%) AWS
2 117 (34.21%) Azure
3 77 (22.51%) GCP
4 54 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (14.33%) Serverless
6 44 (12.87%) dbt
7 39 (11.40%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.36%) Snowflake
9 30 (8.77%) Datadog
10 28 (8.19%) Power Platform
11 26 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (7.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (5.85%) Amazon Kinesis
15 19 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (4.39%) SaaS
19 11 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
19 11 (3.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.46%) Broadband
2 3 (0.88%) BGP
2 3 (0.88%) Network Security
3 2 (0.58%) 4G
3 2 (0.58%) 5G
3 2 (0.58%) DNS
3 2 (0.58%) IPsec
3 2 (0.58%) VPN
4 1 (0.29%) CTI
4 1 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) LTE
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (22.81%) NoSQL
2 47 (13.74%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (9.94%) Data Lake
3 34 (9.94%) Relational Database
4 33 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.77%) Big Data
6 29 (8.48%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (8.48%) Tableau
7 27 (7.89%) Power BI
8 25 (7.31%) BigQuery
9 22 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (6.14%) MongoDB
11 19 (5.56%) DynamoDB
11 19 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (5.26%) Metadata
12 18 (5.26%) MySQL
13 16 (4.68%) Looker
14 11 (3.22%) Hadoop
14 11 (3.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (14.62%) GitLab
2 33 (9.65%) Git
2 33 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.31%) CircleCI
4 24 (7.02%) Cucumber
5 19 (5.56%) MLflow
6 6 (1.75%) Selenium
7 5 (1.46%) JIRA
7 5 (1.46%) Maven
8 4 (1.17%) JUnit
9 3 (0.88%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.88%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.29%) Gatling
10 1 (0.29%) Gradle
10 1 (0.29%) Mockito
10 1 (0.29%) Postman
10 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 170 (49.71%) Finance
2 81 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.79%) Banking
4 43 (12.57%) Front Office
5 34 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.92%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.34%) Law
8 8 (2.34%) Retail
9 6 (1.75%) Billing
9 6 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.46%) Advertising
11 4 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (0.88%) Marketing
13 2 (0.58%) Back Office
13 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Legal
14 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (29.24%) Senior
2 95 (27.78%) Developer
3 63 (18.42%) Data Engineer
4 57 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 57 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 51 (14.91%) Lead
6 35 (10.23%) Architect
6 35 (10.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 31 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (7.31%) Senior Developer
9 24 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 24 (7.02%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (6.73%) Lead Developer
10 23 (6.73%) Python Engineer
11 20 (5.85%) Lead Software Developer
11 20 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (5.85%) Senior Java Engineer
12 19 (5.56%) Principal Java Engineer
13 17 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (21.93%) Spring
2 72 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 52 (15.20%) React
4 51 (14.91%) RabbitMQ
5 49 (14.33%) Node.js
6 42 (12.28%) REST
7 38 (11.11%) RESTful
8 35 (10.23%) Redux
9 32 (9.36%) GraphQL
10 24 (7.02%) gRPC
10 24 (7.02%) PySpark
11 18 (5.26%) .NET
12 17 (4.97%) web3js
13 16 (4.68%) LangChain
13 16 (4.68%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.68%) pgvector
13 16 (4.68%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.68%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.68%) TensorFlow
14 11 (3.22%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 108 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 50 (14.62%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.40%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.82%) Fixed Income
5 22 (6.43%) e-Learning
6 17 (4.97%) Blockchain
6 17 (4.97%) Web3
7 16 (4.68%) Clustering
7 16 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.80%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.22%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (2.05%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.05%) EPoS
12 7 (2.05%) iSeries
13 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.46%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.14%) Linux
2 7 (2.05%) Unix
3 6 (1.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.27%) CI/CD
2 130 (38.01%) Microservices
2 130 (38.01%) Software Engineering
3 118 (34.50%) Agile
4 109 (31.87%) Event-Driven
5 105 (30.70%) DevOps
6 88 (25.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 82 (23.98%) Analytics
8 78 (22.81%) Containerisation
9 77 (22.51%) AI
10 74 (21.64%) Data Pipeline
11 70 (20.47%) Test Automation
12 69 (20.18%) Data Modelling
13 67 (19.59%) Data Engineering
14 66 (19.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 63 (18.42%) Observability
16 58 (16.96%) Mentoring
17 54 (15.79%) ETL
18 52 (15.20%) Data Governance
19 50 (14.62%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (52.63%) Python
2 152 (44.44%) Java
3 149 (43.57%) SQL
4 69 (20.18%) Go
5 57 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 52 (15.20%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.60%) C#
8 17 (4.97%) Bash
9 14 (4.09%) C++
10 12 (3.51%) Scala
11 7 (2.05%) RPG
11 7 (2.05%) Rust
12 4 (1.17%) PHP
13 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.58%) Bicep
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.58%) Ruby
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.89%) AWS Certification
1 27 (7.89%) Degree
2 25 (7.31%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
8 1 (0.29%) GIAC
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.29%) SSCP
8 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.74%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.89%) GDPR
3 16 (4.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.92%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.34%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.05%) QA
7 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) SEPA
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (28.36%) Docker
2 8 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 85 (24.85%) Terraform
3 41 (11.99%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.43%) Grafana
5 15 (4.39%) Ansible
6 10 (2.92%) Istio
7 3 (0.88%) Argo
8 2 (0.58%) Cilium
8 2 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.58%) Puppet
8 2 (0.58%) Salt
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.57%) Databricks
2 23 (6.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.68%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.68%) Dell
4 10 (2.92%) IBM
5 9 (2.63%) Confluent
6 8 (2.34%) Solace
7 6 (1.75%) Splunk
7 6 (1.75%) Talend
8 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.17%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.17%) Oracle
8 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.17%) WSO2
9 3 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.58%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.58%) HP
10 2 (0.58%) PayPal
10 2 (0.58%) SAP