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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 110 179
Rank change year-on-year -37 +69 -111
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 337 379 442
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.56% 3.11% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.92% 11.63% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 220 223 342
10th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £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 £140,000 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £141,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.46% +8.06% -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 3,397 3,259 6,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.67% 26.77% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 2,258 4,794
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £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 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £137,500
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -23 36 £97,500 +5.41% 9
West London - 12 £80,000 - 6
South London -6 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 84 (24.93%) Apache Spark
2 77 (22.85%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (10.68%) Apache
4 8 (2.37%) Confluence
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.59%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (62.91%) AWS
2 116 (34.42%) Azure
3 76 (22.55%) GCP
4 53 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (14.24%) Serverless
6 44 (13.06%) dbt
7 38 (11.28%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.50%) Snowflake
9 29 (8.61%) Datadog
10 28 (8.31%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (5.93%) Amazon Kinesis
12 20 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (4.75%) Amazon EMR
16 15 (4.45%) SaaS
17 11 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (3.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.48%) Broadband
2 3 (0.89%) BGP
2 3 (0.89%) Network Security
3 2 (0.59%) 4G
3 2 (0.59%) 5G
3 2 (0.59%) DNS
3 2 (0.59%) IPsec
3 2 (0.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) HTTP
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (22.85%) NoSQL
2 47 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.09%) Data Lake
3 34 (10.09%) Relational Database
4 31 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (8.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.90%) Big Data
6 29 (8.61%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (8.61%) Tableau
7 27 (8.01%) Power BI
8 25 (7.42%) BigQuery
9 21 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (6.23%) MongoDB
10 19 (5.64%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (5.34%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.34%) Metadata
11 18 (5.34%) MySQL
12 16 (4.75%) Looker
13 11 (3.26%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (14.54%) GitLab
2 33 (9.79%) Git
3 32 (9.50%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.12%) CircleCI
4 24 (7.12%) Cucumber
5 19 (5.64%) MLflow
6 6 (1.78%) Selenium
7 5 (1.48%) JIRA
7 5 (1.48%) Maven
8 4 (1.19%) JUnit
9 3 (0.89%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.89%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.30%) Gatling
10 1 (0.30%) Gradle
10 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.30%) Mockito
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 168 (49.85%) Finance
2 80 (23.74%) Social Skills
3 51 (15.13%) Banking
4 43 (12.76%) Front Office
5 34 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.37%) Law
8 8 (2.37%) Retail
9 7 (2.08%) Billing
9 7 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.19%) Advertising
11 4 (1.19%) Military
12 3 (0.89%) Marketing
13 2 (0.59%) Back Office
13 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Legal
14 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (29.38%) Senior
2 92 (27.30%) Developer
3 63 (18.69%) Data Engineer
4 57 (16.91%) Java Engineer
5 56 (16.62%) Software Engineer
6 50 (14.84%) Lead
7 35 (10.39%) Architect
8 34 (10.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (7.12%) Principal Engineer
10 24 (7.12%) Senior Developer
11 23 (6.82%) Lead Developer
11 23 (6.82%) Python Engineer
12 22 (6.53%) Java Developer
13 20 (5.93%) Lead Software Developer
13 20 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
14 19 (5.64%) Principal Java Engineer
15 17 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (5.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.26%) Spring
2 72 (21.36%) Spring Boot
3 50 (14.84%) RabbitMQ
3 50 (14.84%) React
4 47 (13.95%) Node.js
5 41 (12.17%) REST
6 36 (10.68%) RESTful
7 33 (9.79%) Redux
8 32 (9.50%) GraphQL
9 24 (7.12%) PySpark
10 21 (6.23%) gRPC
11 18 (5.34%) .NET
12 17 (5.04%) web3js
13 16 (4.75%) LangChain
13 16 (4.75%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.75%) pgvector
13 16 (4.75%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.75%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.75%) TensorFlow
14 11 (3.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 105 (31.16%) Cloud Native
2 50 (14.84%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.57%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.98%) Fixed Income
5 22 (6.53%) e-Learning
6 17 (5.04%) Blockchain
6 17 (5.04%) Web3
7 16 (4.75%) Clustering
7 16 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.86%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.78%) EPoS
10 6 (1.78%) iSeries
10 6 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.23%) Linux
2 7 (2.08%) Unix
3 6 (1.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (43.03%) CI/CD
2 127 (37.69%) Microservices
3 126 (37.39%) Software Engineering
4 116 (34.42%) Agile
5 106 (31.45%) Event-Driven
6 103 (30.56%) DevOps
7 87 (25.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 81 (24.04%) Analytics
9 76 (22.55%) AI
9 76 (22.55%) Containerisation
10 74 (21.96%) Data Pipeline
11 69 (20.47%) Data Modelling
11 69 (20.47%) Test Automation
12 67 (19.88%) Data Engineering
13 63 (18.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 62 (18.40%) Observability
15 59 (17.51%) Mentoring
16 54 (16.02%) ETL
17 52 (15.43%) Data Governance
18 49 (14.54%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (53.41%) Python
2 149 (44.21%) Java
2 149 (44.21%) SQL
3 68 (20.18%) Go
4 54 (16.02%) TypeScript
5 50 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 26 (7.72%) C#
7 17 (5.04%) Bash
8 14 (4.15%) C++
9 12 (3.56%) Scala
10 7 (2.08%) Rust
11 6 (1.78%) RPG
12 4 (1.19%) PHP
13 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Bicep
14 2 (0.59%) C
14 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.59%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (8.01%) AWS Certification
2 26 (7.72%) Degree
3 25 (7.42%) Security Cleared
4 24 (7.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.64%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
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 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.01%) GDPR
3 16 (4.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.97%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.37%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.08%) QA
7 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SEPA
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (28.49%) Docker
2 8 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (34.72%) Kubernetes
2 84 (24.93%) Terraform
3 40 (11.87%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.53%) Grafana
5 15 (4.45%) Ansible
6 10 (2.97%) Istio
7 3 (0.89%) Argo
8 2 (0.59%) Cilium
8 2 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.59%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.76%) Databricks
2 23 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.75%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.75%) Dell
4 9 (2.67%) Confluent
4 9 (2.67%) IBM
5 8 (2.37%) Solace
6 6 (1.78%) Splunk
6 6 (1.78%) Talend
7 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle
7 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.19%) WSO2
8 3 (0.89%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.59%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.59%) HP
9 2 (0.59%) PayPal
9 2 (0.59%) SAP