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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 121 176
Rank change year-on-year -22 +55 -111
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 332 334 435
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 2.82% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.04% 11.00% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 226 233 342
10th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £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 £141,875 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £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 3,306 3,035 5,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.83% 25.64% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 2,177 4,680
10th Percentile £51,700 £50,000 £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 £104,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £131,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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 27 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 27 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 -25 41 £92,500 +23.33% 22
West London - 10 £81,250 - 2
South London -16 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 80 (24.10%) Apache Spark
2 74 (22.29%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (10.84%) Apache
4 5 (1.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.60%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 208 (62.65%) AWS
2 112 (33.73%) Azure
3 77 (23.19%) GCP
4 48 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (13.86%) Serverless
6 43 (12.95%) dbt
7 39 (11.75%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.34%) Datadog
8 31 (9.34%) Snowflake
9 27 (8.13%) Power Platform
10 25 (7.53%) Amazon Kinesis
10 25 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (5.72%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (4.82%) GitHub
15 14 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.22%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (4.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) Broadband
2 3 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.60%) 4G
3 2 (0.60%) 5G
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
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.39%) NoSQL
2 46 (13.86%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (9.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 31 (9.34%) Data Lake
3 31 (9.34%) Relational Database
4 30 (9.04%) Big Data
4 30 (9.04%) Tableau
5 27 (8.13%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (7.83%) Power BI
7 25 (7.53%) BigQuery
8 24 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (6.02%) DynamoDB
10 20 (6.02%) MongoDB
10 20 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (5.72%) MySQL
12 18 (5.42%) Metadata
13 16 (4.82%) Looker
14 13 (3.92%) Redis
15 12 (3.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (13.25%) GitLab
2 33 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.04%) Git
4 25 (7.53%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.02%) MLflow
6 18 (5.42%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.81%) Selenium
8 5 (1.51%) Maven
9 4 (1.20%) JIRA
10 3 (0.90%) JUnit
10 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.90%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.30%) Gatling
11 1 (0.30%) Gradle
11 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.30%) Mockito
11 1 (0.30%) Postman
11 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 164 (49.40%) Finance
2 79 (23.80%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.66%) Banking
4 51 (15.36%) Front Office
5 36 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.01%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.71%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.71%) Retail
8 8 (2.41%) Law
9 7 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.81%) Billing
10 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.51%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.20%) Advertising
13 2 (0.60%) Back Office
14 1 (0.30%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.30%) International Banking
14 1 (0.30%) Legal
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (30.12%) Senior
2 98 (29.52%) Developer
3 60 (18.07%) Data Engineer
4 58 (17.47%) Software Engineer
5 56 (16.87%) Lead
6 53 (15.96%) Java Engineer
7 33 (9.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 30 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (7.83%) Architect
10 25 (7.53%) Senior Developer
11 23 (6.93%) Lead Developer
12 22 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (6.63%) Java Developer
12 22 (6.63%) Python Engineer
13 21 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (6.02%) Lead Software Developer
14 20 (6.02%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (5.72%) Senior Java Engineer
16 17 (5.12%) Python Developer
16 17 (5.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (18.37%) Spring
2 56 (16.87%) Spring Boot
3 53 (15.96%) RabbitMQ
3 53 (15.96%) React
4 42 (12.65%) RESTful
5 41 (12.35%) Node.js
6 39 (11.75%) REST
7 33 (9.94%) Redux
8 32 (9.64%) GraphQL
9 25 (7.53%) gRPC
10 23 (6.93%) PySpark
11 20 (6.02%) .NET
12 18 (5.42%) web3js
13 17 (5.12%) scikit-learn
13 17 (5.12%) TensorFlow
14 16 (4.82%) LangChain
14 16 (4.82%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.82%) pgvector
14 16 (4.82%) PyTorch
15 10 (3.01%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 99 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 51 (15.36%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.45%) Fixed Income
4 33 (9.94%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.42%) Blockchain
5 18 (5.42%) Web3
6 17 (5.12%) e-Learning
7 16 (4.82%) Clustering
8 12 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.31%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.41%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.51%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.20%) Anti-Piracy
14 4 (1.20%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.12%) Linux
2 6 (1.81%) Unix
2 6 (1.81%) Windows
3 3 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (43.98%) CI/CD
2 125 (37.65%) Microservices
2 125 (37.65%) Software Engineering
3 111 (33.43%) DevOps
4 107 (32.23%) Agile
5 95 (28.61%) Event-Driven
6 81 (24.40%) Analytics
7 79 (23.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (22.89%) Data Pipeline
9 73 (21.99%) Containerisation
10 71 (21.39%) AI
10 71 (21.39%) Data Engineering
11 65 (19.58%) Data Modelling
11 65 (19.58%) Test Automation
12 59 (17.77%) Observability
13 56 (16.87%) Mentoring
14 55 (16.57%) Investment Management
15 54 (16.27%) ETL
16 52 (15.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 49 (14.76%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 185 (55.72%) Python
2 144 (43.37%) SQL
3 142 (42.77%) Java
4 77 (23.19%) Go
5 53 (15.96%) TypeScript
6 50 (15.06%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.83%) C#
8 18 (5.42%) Bash
9 17 (5.12%) C++
10 15 (4.52%) Scala
11 7 (2.11%) Rust
12 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.90%) RPG
13 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.60%) Bicep
14 2 (0.60%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (9.04%) Degree
2 22 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.02%) AWS Certification
3 20 (6.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 20 (6.02%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) GIAC
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) SSCP
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.16%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.83%) GDPR
3 16 (4.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.01%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.51%) QA
7 3 (0.90%) 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 99 (29.82%) Docker
2 8 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (35.84%) Kubernetes
2 84 (25.30%) Terraform
3 38 (11.45%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.02%) Grafana
5 14 (4.22%) Ansible
6 9 (2.71%) Istio
7 7 (2.11%) 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 (12.65%) Databricks
2 19 (5.72%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.82%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.82%) Dell
4 9 (2.71%) Confluent
5 8 (2.41%) Solace
6 6 (1.81%) Splunk
7 5 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.51%) Talend
8 4 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.20%) WSO2
9 3 (0.90%) IBM
9 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.60%) Google
10 2 (0.60%) PayPal
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.30%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.30%) Mavenir