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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 107 198
Rank change year-on-year -31 +91 -107
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 384 377 348
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.68% 3.06% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 11.39% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 237 215 254
10th Percentile £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,375 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £140,000 £126,250 £119,688
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 3,478 3,309 5,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.23% 26.88% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 2,306 3,926
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,350
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 39 £90,000 -7.69% 26
West London - 16 £80,000 - 3
South London -22 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 99 (25.78%) Apache Spark
2 73 (19.01%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.33%) Apache
4 12 (3.13%) Confluence
5 5 (1.30%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.04%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.78%) Camunda
8 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 240 (62.50%) AWS
2 133 (34.64%) Azure
3 82 (21.35%) GCP
4 57 (14.84%) Serverless
5 55 (14.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 42 (10.94%) dbt
7 34 (8.85%) Snowflake
8 32 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 30 (7.81%) Amazon S3
10 28 (7.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (7.29%) Datadog
11 26 (6.77%) Amazon Kinesis
12 25 (6.51%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.47%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.43%) SaaS
16 15 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (3.39%) OpenShift
19 12 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.82%) BGP
2 6 (1.56%) DNS
2 6 (1.56%) IPsec
2 6 (1.56%) VPN
3 5 (1.30%) Internet
4 4 (1.04%) Broadband
5 2 (0.52%) 4G
5 2 (0.52%) 5G
5 2 (0.52%) AMQP
5 2 (0.52%) MQTT
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) CTI
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (25.26%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (10.68%) Relational Database
4 37 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (9.38%) Big Data
5 36 (9.38%) Data Lake
6 35 (9.11%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (8.07%) Power BI
8 27 (7.03%) MongoDB
9 25 (6.51%) Tableau
10 24 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (5.47%) BigQuery
11 21 (5.47%) Hadoop
12 20 (5.21%) MySQL
13 19 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (4.17%) DynamoDB
15 16 (4.17%) Looker
15 16 (4.17%) Metadata
15 16 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (13.54%) GitLab
2 34 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.33%) Git
4 29 (7.55%) Cucumber
5 21 (5.47%) CircleCI
6 19 (4.95%) MLflow
7 11 (2.86%) Selenium
8 5 (1.30%) JIRA
8 5 (1.30%) Maven
9 4 (1.04%) JUnit
10 3 (0.78%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.78%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.26%) Gatling
12 1 (0.26%) Gradle
12 1 (0.26%) Mockito
12 1 (0.26%) Postman
12 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 194 (50.52%) Finance
2 93 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 59 (15.36%) Banking
4 47 (12.24%) Front Office
5 39 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.39%) Financial Institution
6 13 (3.39%) Retail
7 12 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.60%) Marketing
10 9 (2.34%) Military
11 8 (2.08%) Law
12 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.30%) Advertising
15 4 (1.04%) Billing
16 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
18 1 (0.26%) Back Office
18 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 109 (28.39%) Senior
2 99 (25.78%) Developer
3 75 (19.53%) Java Engineer
4 67 (17.45%) Software Engineer
5 59 (15.36%) Data Engineer
6 50 (13.02%) Lead
7 37 (9.64%) Architect
8 36 (9.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (8.07%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.77%) Java Developer
12 25 (6.51%) Senior Java Engineer
13 24 (6.25%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.25%) Principal Java Engineer
14 23 (5.99%) Python Engineer
15 22 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (5.73%) Senior Developer
16 21 (5.47%) Lead Software Developer
17 18 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
18 17 (4.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (25.78%) Spring
2 91 (23.70%) Spring Boot
3 62 (16.15%) React
4 60 (15.63%) Node.js
5 53 (13.80%) RabbitMQ
6 48 (12.50%) REST
7 47 (12.24%) RESTful
8 36 (9.38%) Redux
9 35 (9.11%) GraphQL
10 23 (5.99%) PySpark
11 21 (5.47%) gRPC
12 20 (5.21%) .NET
13 18 (4.69%) PyTorch
13 18 (4.69%) TensorFlow
14 17 (4.43%) pgvector
15 16 (4.17%) LangChain
15 16 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
15 16 (4.17%) scikit-learn
16 13 (3.39%) AngularJS
16 13 (3.39%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 121 (31.51%) Cloud Native
2 76 (19.79%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (11.46%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.42%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.55%) Onboarding
6 27 (7.03%) e-Learning
7 18 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (4.17%) Clustering
10 14 (3.65%) Data Structures
11 13 (3.39%) Blockchain
11 13 (3.39%) Web3
12 12 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (2.60%) EPoS
13 10 (2.60%) iSeries
14 8 (2.08%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
16 6 (1.56%) Product Ownership
17 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.99%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Unix
3 7 (1.82%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 156 (40.63%) Microservices
3 144 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 141 (36.72%) Agile
5 132 (34.38%) Event-Driven
6 115 (29.95%) DevOps
7 106 (27.60%) AI
8 100 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 87 (22.66%) Analytics
10 86 (22.40%) Containerisation
11 83 (21.61%) Test Automation
12 81 (21.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 80 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
14 79 (20.57%) Mentoring
15 76 (19.79%) Data Modelling
16 71 (18.49%) Observability
17 66 (17.19%) Data Engineering
18 56 (14.58%) Computer Science
18 56 (14.58%) Machine Learning
19 52 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 192 (50.00%) Python
2 190 (49.48%) Java
3 164 (42.71%) SQL
4 65 (16.93%) Go
5 63 (16.41%) TypeScript
6 57 (14.84%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.59%) C#
8 16 (4.17%) Scala
9 15 (3.91%) C++
10 11 (2.86%) Bash
11 10 (2.60%) RPG
12 7 (1.82%) PHP
12 7 (1.82%) Rust
13 6 (1.56%) C
13 6 (1.56%) Ruby
14 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.52%) Bicep
16 2 (0.52%) R
17 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 39 (10.16%) Degree
2 38 (9.90%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 28 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.30%) PhD
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.46%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.07%) GDPR
3 16 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.82%) QA
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (26.30%) Docker
2 8 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (33.85%) Kubernetes
2 84 (21.88%) Terraform
3 42 (10.94%) Prometheus
4 25 (6.51%) Grafana
5 16 (4.17%) Ansible
6 10 (2.60%) Istio
7 6 (1.56%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.78%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) Cilium
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) kaniko
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.50%) Databricks
2 32 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.47%) IBM
4 16 (4.17%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.17%) Dell
5 12 (3.13%) Oracle
6 9 (2.34%) Confluent
6 9 (2.34%) Solace
7 7 (1.82%) Splunk
7 7 (1.82%) Talend
8 6 (1.56%) HP
8 6 (1.56%) SAP
9 5 (1.30%) Google
10 4 (1.04%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.04%) WSO2
11 3 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.52%) CheckPoint