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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 123 191
Rank change year-on-year -46 +68 -74
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 338 328 329
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 2.77% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.66% 10.14% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 165 168 204
10th Percentile £55,725 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £121,500 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +18.88% -15.88%

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 3,905 3,236 5,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 27.35% 29.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 2,180 3,619
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,950 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,509 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £116,375 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -5.11%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -2 26 £90,000 -20.00% 52
West London -7 10 £80,000 -3.03% 10
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 65 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (7.40%) Apache
4 14 (4.14%) Confluence
5 5 (1.48%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.18%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.18%) Camunda
7 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.59%) Luigi
7 2 (0.59%) Tornado
8 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 192 (56.80%) AWS
2 116 (34.32%) Azure
3 54 (15.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (13.91%) GCP
5 42 (12.43%) Serverless
6 23 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (6.80%) GitHub
6 23 (6.80%) Power Platform
7 22 (6.51%) Amazon Kinesis
7 22 (6.51%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (5.92%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (5.33%) Azure Databricks
10 16 (4.73%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.85%) SaaS
13 12 (3.55%) Datadog
14 11 (3.25%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.07%) DNS
2 6 (1.78%) BGP
2 6 (1.78%) IPsec
2 6 (1.78%) VPN
3 5 (1.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.59%) 4G
4 2 (0.59%) 5G
4 2 (0.59%) AMQP
4 2 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.59%) MQTT
5 1 (0.30%) Broadband
5 1 (0.30%) LTE
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) SSH
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (32.54%) NoSQL
2 55 (16.27%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.91%) Relational Database
4 35 (10.36%) MongoDB
5 29 (8.58%) Big Data
6 26 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (6.51%) Hadoop
7 22 (6.51%) Power BI
7 22 (6.51%) Redis
8 20 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (5.92%) Data Lake
9 19 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (5.33%) MySQL
11 17 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (4.14%) Metadata
12 14 (4.14%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.14%) Tableau
13 12 (3.55%) Apache Hive
14 11 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (3.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (16.86%) GitLab
2 49 (14.50%) Cucumber
3 47 (13.91%) Git
4 40 (11.83%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.96%) JIRA
5 10 (2.96%) Selenium
6 7 (2.07%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.07%) Maven
7 6 (1.78%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.18%) JUnit
8 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.59%) git-flow
9 2 (0.59%) Gradle
9 2 (0.59%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.59%) Mockito
9 2 (0.59%) Postman
9 2 (0.59%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.59%) Xcode
9 2 (0.59%) XCTest
9 2 (0.59%) XCUITest
General
1 165 (48.82%) Finance
2 86 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 62 (18.34%) Banking
4 25 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.40%) Financial Institution
5 23 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.73%) Front Office
7 16 (4.73%) Retail
8 15 (4.44%) Marketing
9 10 (2.96%) Law
10 9 (2.66%) Military
11 7 (2.07%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.48%) Aviation
14 3 (0.89%) Billing
14 3 (0.89%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.89%) Publishing
14 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 102 (30.18%) Senior
2 79 (23.37%) Java Engineer
3 55 (16.27%) Developer
3 55 (16.27%) Software Engineer
4 42 (12.43%) Data Engineer
5 40 (11.83%) Principal Engineer
6 36 (10.65%) Architect
7 33 (9.76%) Lead
7 33 (9.76%) Senior Java Engineer
8 31 (9.17%) Principal Java Engineer
9 28 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (6.51%) Senior Developer
11 19 (5.62%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.44%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.25%) Backend Developer
14 11 (3.25%) Consultant
15 10 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (2.96%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (37.87%) Spring
2 115 (34.02%) Spring Boot
3 60 (17.75%) Terraform
4 51 (15.09%) REST
4 51 (15.09%) RESTful
5 44 (13.02%) RabbitMQ
6 29 (8.58%) React
7 28 (8.28%) Node.js
8 27 (7.99%) .NET
9 23 (6.80%) PySpark
10 14 (4.14%) gRPC
11 13 (3.85%) Middleware
12 11 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (3.25%) Keycloak
12 11 (3.25%) Playwright
13 10 (2.96%) Swagger
14 9 (2.66%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.66%) FIX Protocol
14 9 (2.66%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.66%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 124 (36.69%) Cloud Native
2 113 (33.43%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (13.31%) Public Cloud
4 44 (13.02%) e-Learning
5 30 (8.88%) Onboarding
6 26 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 14 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (4.14%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.25%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.96%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.96%) EPoS
10 10 (2.96%) Equities
10 10 (2.96%) iSeries
10 10 (2.96%) Replication
11 9 (2.66%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.66%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.21%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Unix
3 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.59%) Android
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (55.33%) CI/CD
2 177 (52.37%) Microservices
3 171 (50.59%) Event-Driven
4 153 (45.27%) Agile
5 111 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 109 (32.25%) Software Engineering
7 107 (31.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 105 (31.07%) DevOps
9 100 (29.59%) AI
10 99 (29.29%) Test Automation
11 88 (26.04%) Mentoring
12 75 (22.19%) Observability
13 63 (18.64%) Containerisation
14 61 (18.05%) Roadmaps
15 58 (17.16%) BDD
16 56 (16.57%) Data Modelling
17 55 (16.27%) Data Pipeline
18 53 (15.68%) Analytics
19 52 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
20 49 (14.50%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 188 (55.62%) Java
2 132 (39.05%) SQL
3 113 (33.43%) Python
4 31 (9.17%) C#
5 30 (8.88%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.28%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.33%) Scala
8 14 (4.14%) Bash
8 14 (4.14%) Go
9 12 (3.55%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.96%) RPG
11 9 (2.66%) Groovy
12 6 (1.78%) C
12 6 (1.78%) PHP
12 6 (1.78%) Ruby
13 5 (1.48%) R
14 4 (1.18%) C++
15 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (16.57%) AWS Certification
2 47 (13.91%) Security Cleared
3 44 (13.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 42 (12.43%) SC Cleared
5 38 (11.24%) Degree
6 17 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.48%) PhD
10 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CSPO
12 1 (0.30%) GIAC
12 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.30%) OCP
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.25%) QA
3 9 (2.66%) GDPR
4 6 (1.78%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.59%) Basel III
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) PSD2
7 1 (0.30%) SEPA
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (28.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (36.69%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.47%) Prometheus
3 24 (7.10%) Grafana
4 9 (2.66%) Rancher
5 7 (2.07%) Argo
6 6 (1.78%) Ansible
6 6 (1.78%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (0.89%) Cilium
8 2 (0.59%) Control-M
8 2 (0.59%) Istio
8 2 (0.59%) kaniko
8 2 (0.59%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.30%) logstash
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (10.36%) Databricks
1 35 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.40%) IBM
3 20 (5.92%) Oracle
4 12 (3.55%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.37%) Google
7 6 (1.78%) HP
7 6 (1.78%) SAP
7 6 (1.78%) Splunk
8 5 (1.48%) Solace
9 4 (1.18%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.18%) Talend
10 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.89%) WSO2
11 2 (0.59%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.59%) Apple
11 2 (0.59%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.59%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.59%) TIBCO