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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 121 201
Rank change year-on-year -27 +80 -97
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 378 337 325
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.78% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.47% 9.69% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 207 182 221
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £98,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +3.95% -
75th Percentile £123,125 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.13%

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 3,993 3,477 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.68% 28.73% 27.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,595 2,386 3,979
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
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 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 21 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 21 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 +4 36 £90,000 -20.00% 23
West London - 16 £80,000 - 12
South London -16 5 - - 1
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 90 (23.81%) Apache Spark
2 66 (17.46%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.47%) Apache
4 13 (3.44%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.06%) Camunda
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
7 2 (0.53%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 230 (60.85%) AWS
2 140 (37.04%) Azure
3 81 (21.43%) GCP
4 52 (13.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (12.70%) Serverless
6 36 (9.52%) Power Platform
7 34 (8.99%) dbt
8 31 (8.20%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (6.88%) Amazon S3
11 23 (6.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (6.08%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.29%) Amazon EMR
13 20 (5.29%) Datadog
14 18 (4.76%) GitHub
15 17 (4.50%) SaaS
16 14 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (3.70%) OpenShift
17 13 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) BGP
2 6 (1.59%) DNS
2 6 (1.59%) IPsec
2 6 (1.59%) VPN
3 5 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.53%) AMQP
4 2 (0.53%) MQTT
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) 5G
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (27.51%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.70%) Relational Database
3 46 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (10.05%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (9.79%) Data Lake
7 35 (9.26%) Big Data
7 35 (9.26%) Power BI
8 31 (8.20%) MongoDB
9 27 (7.14%) Tableau
10 24 (6.35%) MySQL
11 23 (6.08%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (4.50%) BigQuery
13 17 (4.50%) Redis
13 17 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (4.23%) Looker
15 15 (3.97%) DynamoDB
16 12 (3.17%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 52 (13.76%) GitLab
2 37 (9.79%) Cucumber
3 35 (9.26%) Git
4 32 (8.47%) Jenkins
5 19 (5.03%) MLflow
6 14 (3.70%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.17%) Selenium
8 8 (2.12%) JIRA
8 8 (2.12%) Maven
9 6 (1.59%) JUnit
10 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.79%) Gradle
11 3 (0.79%) Mockito
12 2 (0.53%) git-flow
12 2 (0.53%) Postman
12 2 (0.53%) Xcode
12 2 (0.53%) XCTest
12 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 189 (50.00%) Finance
2 97 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.46%) Banking
4 41 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (8.20%) Front Office
6 19 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.97%) Retail
9 14 (3.70%) Marketing
10 11 (2.91%) Investment Banking
11 10 (2.65%) Law
12 9 (2.38%) Military
13 6 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Billing
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
15 2 (0.53%) Advertising
15 2 (0.53%) Prime Brokerage
15 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (29.89%) Senior
2 79 (20.90%) Developer
3 78 (20.63%) Java Engineer
4 66 (17.46%) Software Engineer
5 53 (14.02%) Data Engineer
6 42 (11.11%) Lead
7 34 (8.99%) Architect
8 33 (8.73%) Principal Engineer
9 28 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
9 28 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (6.88%) Principal Java Engineer
11 25 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (5.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 20 (5.29%) Java Developer
13 20 (5.29%) Python Engineer
14 19 (5.03%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.23%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 16 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (29.63%) Spring
2 98 (25.93%) Spring Boot
3 77 (20.37%) Terraform
4 53 (14.02%) RESTful
5 52 (13.76%) RabbitMQ
6 51 (13.49%) REST
7 46 (12.17%) React
8 44 (11.64%) Node.js
9 25 (6.61%) GraphQL
10 23 (6.08%) .NET
10 23 (6.08%) PySpark
11 20 (5.29%) PyTorch
11 20 (5.29%) Redux
11 20 (5.29%) TensorFlow
12 19 (5.03%) pgvector
13 18 (4.76%) gRPC
13 18 (4.76%) LangChain
14 16 (4.23%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.23%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 135 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 91 (24.07%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (12.96%) Public Cloud
4 32 (8.47%) e-Learning
4 32 (8.47%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.08%) Fixed Income
6 20 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (4.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (4.23%) Clustering
10 14 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (3.44%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.65%) Blockchain
12 10 (2.65%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.65%) EPoS
12 10 (2.65%) iSeries
12 10 (2.65%) Web3
13 9 (2.38%) Algorithms
13 9 (2.38%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.82%) Linux
2 8 (2.12%) Unix
3 3 (0.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (46.56%) CI/CD
2 166 (43.92%) Microservices
3 156 (41.27%) Event-Driven
4 142 (37.57%) Agile
5 130 (34.39%) Software Engineering
6 112 (29.63%) AI
7 111 (29.37%) DevOps
8 104 (27.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 99 (26.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 85 (22.49%) Test Automation
11 84 (22.22%) Mentoring
12 81 (21.43%) Analytics
12 81 (21.43%) Containerisation
13 79 (20.90%) Data Pipeline
14 72 (19.05%) Observability
15 68 (17.99%) Data Modelling
16 61 (16.14%) Data Engineering
16 61 (16.14%) Machine Learning
17 57 (15.08%) Data Science
18 54 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 189 (50.00%) Java
2 165 (43.65%) Python
3 152 (40.21%) SQL
4 47 (12.43%) TypeScript
5 45 (11.90%) Go
6 42 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.20%) C#
8 15 (3.97%) Scala
9 14 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.65%) RPG
11 8 (2.12%) Bash
12 7 (1.85%) C++
12 7 (1.85%) PHP
13 6 (1.59%) C
13 6 (1.59%) Ruby
14 5 (1.32%) Rust
15 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.53%) Bicep
16 2 (0.53%) R
16 2 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (11.38%) AWS Certification
1 43 (11.38%) Degree
2 33 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 28 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.32%) PhD
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) CSPO
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 42 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.41%) GDPR
3 16 (4.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.65%) QA
5 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.53%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (26.98%) Docker
2 8 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (34.39%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.26%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.56%) Grafana
4 14 (3.70%) Ansible
5 11 (2.91%) Istio
6 7 (1.85%) Argo
7 6 (1.59%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.06%) Cilium
9 2 (0.53%) kaniko
9 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.70%) Databricks
2 36 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.56%) IBM
4 17 (4.50%) Oracle
5 16 (4.23%) Cloudera
5 16 (4.23%) Dell
6 9 (2.38%) Confluent
6 9 (2.38%) Google
7 7 (1.85%) Talend
8 6 (1.59%) HP
8 6 (1.59%) SAP
8 6 (1.59%) Solace
8 6 (1.59%) Splunk
9 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.06%) WSO2
11 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.53%) Apple