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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 120 199
Rank change year-on-year -37 +79 -88
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 364 335 325
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.47% 2.79% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.27% 9.88% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 190 172 209
10th Percentile £55,725 £60,000 £61,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +3.07%
75th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £143,000
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 3,926 3,392 5,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.90% 28.25% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,526 2,306 3,748
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
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 £115,000
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 10 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 10 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 -9 31 £90,000 -20.00% 30
West London -4 13 £80,000 -3.03% 15
South London -18 3 - - 3
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 (21.98%) Apache Spark
2 54 (14.84%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (8.24%) Apache
4 13 (3.57%) Confluence
5 5 (1.37%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.37%) Camunda
6 4 (1.10%) Apache Pulsar
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 (3.02%) 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
1 210 (57.69%) AWS
2 137 (37.64%) Azure
3 69 (18.96%) GCP
4 54 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (11.81%) Serverless
6 30 (8.24%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 23 (6.32%) dbt
8 22 (6.04%) Amazon S3
8 22 (6.04%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.49%) Snowflake
11 18 (4.95%) GitHub
12 17 (4.67%) Amazon EMR
12 17 (4.67%) Datadog
12 17 (4.67%) SaaS
13 15 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (4.12%) Azure Databricks
14 14 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) BGP
1 7 (1.92%) DNS
2 6 (1.65%) IPsec
2 6 (1.65%) 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
1 109 (29.95%) NoSQL
2 51 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (13.19%) Relational Database
4 38 (10.44%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (9.62%) Big Data
6 34 (9.34%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (7.97%) Power BI
9 28 (7.69%) Data Lake
10 24 (6.59%) MySQL
11 23 (6.32%) Hadoop
12 22 (6.04%) Tableau
13 18 (4.95%) Redis
14 17 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (3.57%) DynamoDB
16 13 (3.57%) SQL Server
17 12 (3.30%) Apache Hive
17 12 (3.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 55 (15.11%) GitLab
2 43 (11.81%) Cucumber
3 39 (10.71%) Git
4 35 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.57%) Selenium
6 11 (3.02%) MLflow
7 10 (2.75%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.20%) JIRA
9 7 (1.92%) Maven
10 5 (1.37%) JUnit
11 4 (1.10%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.10%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.82%) Mockito
13 2 (0.55%) Gradle
13 2 (0.55%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.55%) Postman
13 2 (0.55%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.55%) Xcode
13 2 (0.55%) XCTest
13 2 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 173 (47.53%) Finance
2 94 (25.82%) Social Skills
3 63 (17.31%) Banking
4 34 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.77%) Financial Institution
6 20 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.12%) Front Office
8 15 (4.12%) Marketing
8 15 (4.12%) Retail
9 10 (2.75%) Law
10 9 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.47%) Military
11 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.37%) Aviation
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
13 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 116 (31.87%) Senior
2 79 (21.70%) Java Engineer
3 64 (17.58%) Developer
4 54 (14.84%) Software Engineer
5 49 (13.46%) Data Engineer
6 36 (9.89%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.62%) Architect
8 32 (8.79%) Lead
9 31 (8.52%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (7.97%) Principal Java Engineer
10 29 (7.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (6.59%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.77%) Java Developer
13 20 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.95%) Python Engineer
15 16 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
17 11 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (3.02%) Backend Developer
17 11 (3.02%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (33.52%) Spring
2 108 (29.67%) Spring Boot
3 67 (18.41%) Terraform
4 54 (14.84%) REST
5 53 (14.56%) RESTful
6 51 (14.01%) RabbitMQ
7 30 (8.24%) Node.js
8 29 (7.97%) React
9 25 (6.87%) .NET
10 21 (5.77%) PySpark
11 16 (4.40%) gRPC
12 14 (3.85%) PyTorch
12 14 (3.85%) TensorFlow
13 13 (3.57%) pgvector
13 13 (3.57%) Playwright
14 12 (3.30%) LangChain
14 12 (3.30%) Middleware
15 11 (3.02%) Swagger
16 10 (2.75%) LlamaIndex
16 10 (2.75%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 135 (37.09%) Cloud Native
2 103 (28.30%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (13.46%) Public Cloud
4 38 (10.44%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.79%) Onboarding
6 23 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.57%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.57%) Product Ownership
11 11 (3.02%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.75%) Clustering
12 10 (2.75%) EPoS
12 10 (2.75%) iSeries
13 9 (2.47%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.20%) Equities
14 8 (2.20%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.92%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.77%) Linux
2 6 (1.65%) Unix
3 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (49.73%) CI/CD
2 176 (48.35%) Microservices
3 168 (46.15%) Event-Driven
4 138 (37.91%) Agile
5 119 (32.69%) Software Engineering
6 111 (30.49%) AI
7 108 (29.67%) DevOps
7 108 (29.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 106 (29.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 93 (25.55%) Test Automation
10 85 (23.35%) Mentoring
11 74 (20.33%) Observability
12 73 (20.05%) Containerisation
13 72 (19.78%) Analytics
14 70 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (17.58%) Data Modelling
16 55 (15.11%) Roadmaps
17 54 (14.84%) Data Engineering
18 53 (14.56%) Machine Learning
19 52 (14.29%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 186 (51.10%) Java
2 144 (39.56%) SQL
3 137 (37.64%) Python
4 31 (8.52%) C#
5 30 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.42%) JavaScript
7 25 (6.87%) Go
8 16 (4.40%) Scala
9 13 (3.57%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.75%) Bash
10 10 (2.75%) RPG
11 6 (1.65%) C
11 6 (1.65%) PHP
11 6 (1.65%) Ruby
12 5 (1.37%) C++
13 3 (0.82%) Groovy
13 3 (0.82%) R
13 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.55%) Rust
14 2 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (13.46%) AWS Certification
2 41 (11.26%) Degree
3 39 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 38 (10.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (9.34%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.37%) PhD
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) CSPO
11 1 (0.27%) GIAC
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.27%) OCP
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.49%) GDPR
3 12 (3.30%) QA
4 10 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.55%) PSD2
6 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Basel III
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) SEPA
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (26.65%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 127 (34.89%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.07%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.77%) Grafana
4 10 (2.75%) Ansible
5 9 (2.47%) Istio
6 8 (2.20%) Argo
7 6 (1.65%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.10%) Cilium
9 3 (0.82%) Rancher
10 2 (0.55%) kaniko
10 2 (0.55%) Kibana
10 2 (0.55%) Puppet
10 2 (0.55%) Salt
11 1 (0.27%) Control-M
11 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.27%) logstash
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (10.99%) Databricks
2 35 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.59%) IBM
4 19 (5.22%) Oracle
5 10 (2.75%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.75%) Dell
6 8 (2.20%) Google
7 7 (1.92%) Confluent
7 7 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.92%) Talend
8 6 (1.65%) HP
8 6 (1.65%) SAP
8 6 (1.65%) Splunk
9 5 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.37%) Solace
10 4 (1.10%) WSO2
11 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.55%) Apple