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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 128 194
Rank change year-on-year -25 +66 -88
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 366 333 331
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.48% 2.78% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.41% 9.85% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 192 169 214
10th Percentile £55,725 £60,000 £60,375
25th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.53% +3.07%
75th Percentile £105,625 £127,500 £119,688
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%

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 3,889 3,382 5,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.73% 28.23% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,501 2,292 3,770
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £63,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 September 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 September 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 -4 32 £90,000 -20.00% 38
West London -3 13 £80,000 -3.03% 13
South London -13 3 - - 4
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 82 (22.40%) Apache Spark
2 53 (14.48%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (8.20%) Apache
4 13 (3.55%) Confluence
5 5 (1.37%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.09%) Camunda
7 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.55%) Luigi
7 2 (0.55%) Tornado
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 211 (57.65%) AWS
2 133 (36.34%) Azure
3 65 (17.76%) GCP
4 53 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (12.30%) Serverless
6 31 (8.47%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.28%) Amazon Kinesis
7 23 (6.28%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.28%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (6.01%) dbt
9 21 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (5.46%) Snowflake
11 18 (4.92%) Amazon EMR
11 18 (4.92%) GitHub
12 17 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (4.64%) SaaS
13 16 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (4.37%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (4.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.91%) BGP
1 7 (1.91%) DNS
2 6 (1.64%) IPsec
2 6 (1.64%) VPN
3 5 (1.37%) Internet
4 2 (0.55%) 4G
4 2 (0.55%) 5G
4 2 (0.55%) AMQP
4 2 (0.55%) HTTP
4 2 (0.55%) MQTT
4 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) SSH
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (30.05%) NoSQL
2 53 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (13.11%) Relational Database
4 39 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (9.84%) Big Data
6 34 (9.29%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (8.20%) Power BI
9 29 (7.92%) Data Lake
10 23 (6.28%) Hadoop
10 23 (6.28%) MySQL
10 23 (6.28%) Tableau
11 21 (5.74%) Redis
12 20 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (3.55%) DynamoDB
14 13 (3.55%) Metadata
14 13 (3.55%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.28%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 54 (14.75%) GitLab
2 43 (11.75%) Cucumber
2 43 (11.75%) Git
3 38 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.55%) Selenium
5 11 (3.01%) MLflow
6 9 (2.46%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.19%) JIRA
8 7 (1.91%) Maven
9 4 (1.09%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.09%) JUnit
9 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.55%) git-flow
10 2 (0.55%) Gradle
10 2 (0.55%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.55%) Mockito
10 2 (0.55%) Postman
10 2 (0.55%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.55%) XCTest
10 2 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 173 (47.27%) Finance
2 94 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 63 (17.21%) Banking
4 35 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.74%) Financial Institution
5 21 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.10%) Marketing
7 15 (4.10%) Retail
8 14 (3.83%) Front Office
9 10 (2.73%) Law
10 9 (2.46%) Military
11 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.37%) Aviation
14 3 (0.82%) Billing
14 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.82%) Publishing
14 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 116 (31.69%) Senior
2 78 (21.31%) Java Engineer
3 62 (16.94%) Developer
4 55 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 50 (13.66%) Data Engineer
6 36 (9.84%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.56%) Architect
8 33 (9.02%) Lead
9 31 (8.47%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (7.65%) Principal Java Engineer
12 24 (6.56%) Senior Developer
13 23 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (5.46%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.92%) Python Engineer
16 16 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
18 13 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
18 13 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 11 (3.01%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (33.06%) Spring
2 108 (29.51%) Spring Boot
3 70 (19.13%) Terraform
4 53 (14.48%) REST
5 52 (14.21%) RESTful
6 49 (13.39%) RabbitMQ
7 30 (8.20%) Node.js
7 30 (8.20%) React
8 25 (6.83%) .NET
9 22 (6.01%) PySpark
10 16 (4.37%) gRPC
11 14 (3.83%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.83%) TensorFlow
12 13 (3.55%) pgvector
12 13 (3.55%) Playwright
13 12 (3.28%) LangChain
13 12 (3.28%) Middleware
14 10 (2.73%) LlamaIndex
14 10 (2.73%) scikit-learn
14 10 (2.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 134 (36.61%) Cloud Native
2 105 (28.69%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (13.39%) Public Cloud
4 38 (10.38%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.74%) Onboarding
6 23 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.10%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.55%) Product Ownership
11 12 (3.28%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.73%) Clustering
12 10 (2.73%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.73%) EPoS
12 10 (2.73%) iSeries
13 9 (2.46%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.19%) Equities
14 8 (2.19%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.01%) Linux
2 6 (1.64%) Unix
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 174 (47.54%) Microservices
3 169 (46.17%) Event-Driven
4 141 (38.52%) Agile
5 118 (32.24%) Software Engineering
6 111 (30.33%) AI
6 111 (30.33%) DevOps
6 111 (30.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 106 (28.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 96 (26.23%) Test Automation
9 86 (23.50%) Mentoring
10 78 (21.31%) Observability
11 71 (19.40%) Analytics
11 71 (19.40%) Data Pipeline
12 70 (19.13%) Containerisation
13 65 (17.76%) Data Modelling
14 59 (16.12%) Roadmaps
15 56 (15.30%) Data Engineering
16 54 (14.75%) Machine Learning
17 52 (14.21%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 185 (50.55%) Java
2 145 (39.62%) SQL
3 140 (38.25%) Python
4 31 (8.47%) C#
4 31 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 28 (7.65%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.56%) Go
7 17 (4.64%) Scala
8 13 (3.55%) Kotlin
9 12 (3.28%) Bash
10 10 (2.73%) RPG
11 6 (1.64%) C
11 6 (1.64%) Groovy
11 6 (1.64%) PHP
11 6 (1.64%) Ruby
12 5 (1.37%) C++
13 4 (1.09%) R
14 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (13.66%) AWS Certification
2 43 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 40 (10.93%) Degree
4 38 (10.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 38 (10.38%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 15 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.37%) PhD
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) CSPO
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) OCP
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.75%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.46%) GDPR
3 12 (3.28%) QA
4 10 (2.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (27.05%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 128 (34.97%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.29%) Prometheus
3 23 (6.28%) Grafana
4 9 (2.46%) Ansible
4 9 (2.46%) Istio
5 8 (2.19%) Argo
6 6 (1.64%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (1.64%) Rancher
7 4 (1.09%) Cilium
8 2 (0.55%) kaniko
8 2 (0.55%) Kibana
8 2 (0.55%) Puppet
8 2 (0.55%) Salt
9 1 (0.27%) Control-M
9 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
9 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (11.48%) Databricks
2 35 (9.56%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.56%) IBM
4 19 (5.19%) Oracle
5 10 (2.73%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.73%) Dell
5 10 (2.73%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.19%) Google
7 7 (1.91%) Confluent
8 6 (1.64%) HP
8 6 (1.64%) SAP
8 6 (1.64%) Splunk
8 6 (1.64%) Talend
9 5 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.37%) Solace
10 4 (1.09%) WSO2
11 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.55%) Apple