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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 122 195
Rank change year-on-year -27 +73 -87
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 368 336 324
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.53% 2.78% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 9.70% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 192 178 214
10th Percentile £56,150 £60,000 £61,500
25th Percentile £70,938 £75,875 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £107,500 £126,875 £120,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £81,250 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +17.86% -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 3,925 3,465 5,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.27% 28.72% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,540 2,370 3,865
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,200
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 £113,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £132,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -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 31 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 31 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 -5 34 £90,000 -20.00% 29
West London - 16 £80,000 - 18
South London -16 5 - - 2
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 89 (24.18%) Apache Spark
2 61 (16.58%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.70%) Apache
4 13 (3.53%) Confluence
5 5 (1.36%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.36%) Camunda
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.54%) Luigi
7 2 (0.54%) Tornado
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 213 (57.88%) AWS
2 146 (39.67%) Azure
3 77 (20.92%) GCP
4 52 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (12.50%) Serverless
6 37 (10.05%) Power Platform
7 29 (7.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (7.88%) dbt
8 26 (7.07%) Snowflake
9 23 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
9 23 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.98%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (4.89%) Datadog
12 18 (4.89%) GitHub
13 17 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (4.62%) SaaS
14 16 (4.35%) Azure Databricks
15 14 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) BGP
2 6 (1.63%) DNS
2 6 (1.63%) IPsec
2 6 (1.63%) VPN
3 5 (1.36%) Internet
4 2 (0.54%) AMQP
4 2 (0.54%) MQTT
5 1 (0.27%) 4G
5 1 (0.27%) 5G
5 1 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (28.53%) NoSQL
2 48 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 46 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.33%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (10.05%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.78%) Power BI
7 35 (9.51%) Big Data
8 33 (8.97%) MongoDB
9 26 (7.07%) Tableau
10 23 (6.25%) Hadoop
10 23 (6.25%) MySQL
11 20 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (4.62%) BigQuery
12 17 (4.62%) Milvus
12 17 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (4.35%) Looker
14 15 (4.08%) Redis
15 14 (3.80%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (14.13%) GitLab
2 39 (10.60%) Cucumber
3 35 (9.51%) Git
4 32 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 19 (5.16%) MLflow
6 12 (3.26%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.26%) Selenium
7 8 (2.17%) JIRA
8 7 (1.90%) Maven
9 5 (1.36%) JUnit
10 4 (1.09%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.82%) Mockito
12 2 (0.54%) Gradle
12 2 (0.54%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.54%) Postman
12 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.54%) Xcode
12 2 (0.54%) XCTest
12 2 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 172 (46.74%) Finance
2 96 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.39%) Banking
4 40 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.16%) Financial Institution
7 16 (4.35%) Front Office
7 16 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.08%) Marketing
8 15 (4.08%) Retail
9 10 (2.72%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.72%) Law
10 9 (2.45%) Military
11 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Aviation
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
14 2 (0.54%) Advertising
14 2 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (32.88%) Senior
2 75 (20.38%) Java Engineer
3 64 (17.39%) Developer
4 54 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 49 (13.32%) Data Engineer
6 37 (10.05%) Architect
7 34 (9.24%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (8.70%) Lead
9 29 (7.88%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (7.34%) Principal Java Engineer
11 23 (6.25%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (5.43%) Java Developer
14 19 (5.16%) Python Engineer
15 16 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 16 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (32.07%) Spring
2 104 (28.26%) Spring Boot
3 71 (19.29%) Terraform
4 55 (14.95%) REST
5 53 (14.40%) RESTful
6 50 (13.59%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (7.88%) Node.js
7 29 (7.88%) React
8 25 (6.79%) .NET
9 22 (5.98%) PySpark
10 20 (5.43%) PyTorch
10 20 (5.43%) TensorFlow
11 19 (5.16%) pgvector
12 18 (4.89%) LangChain
13 17 (4.62%) gRPC
14 16 (4.35%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.35%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.26%) Middleware
15 12 (3.26%) Playwright
16 11 (2.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 140 (38.04%) Cloud Native
2 97 (26.36%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (13.86%) Public Cloud
4 34 (9.24%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.70%) Onboarding
6 21 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.35%) Clustering
9 15 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.53%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.53%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.99%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.72%) EPoS
12 10 (2.72%) iSeries
13 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.17%) Equities
14 8 (2.17%) Fixed Income
14 8 (2.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.71%) Linux
2 7 (1.90%) Unix
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.54%) Android
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 174 (47.28%) Microservices
3 165 (44.84%) Event-Driven
4 132 (35.87%) Agile
5 117 (31.79%) AI
5 117 (31.79%) Software Engineering
6 111 (30.16%) DevOps
7 105 (28.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 103 (27.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 88 (23.91%) Test Automation
10 84 (22.83%) Mentoring
11 82 (22.28%) Analytics
12 77 (20.92%) Containerisation
13 75 (20.38%) Data Pipeline
14 72 (19.57%) Observability
15 70 (19.02%) Data Modelling
16 62 (16.85%) Machine Learning
17 61 (16.58%) Data Engineering
18 57 (15.49%) Data Science
19 55 (14.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 182 (49.46%) Java
2 150 (40.76%) SQL
3 146 (39.67%) Python
4 32 (8.70%) C#
5 30 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.34%) Go
7 25 (6.79%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.08%) Scala
9 13 (3.53%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.72%) RPG
11 8 (2.17%) Bash
12 6 (1.63%) C
12 6 (1.63%) C++
12 6 (1.63%) PHP
12 6 (1.63%) Ruby
13 3 (0.82%) Rust
13 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Bicep
14 2 (0.54%) R
14 2 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (12.23%) AWS Certification
2 44 (11.96%) Degree
3 35 (9.51%) Security Cleared
4 34 (9.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.36%) PhD
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.54%) 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 43 (11.68%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.34%) GDPR
3 16 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.99%) QA
5 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
9 1 (0.27%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (26.90%) Docker
2 8 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 19 (5.16%) Grafana
4 13 (3.53%) Ansible
5 11 (2.99%) Istio
6 8 (2.17%) Argo
7 6 (1.63%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.09%) Cilium
9 2 (0.54%) kaniko
9 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) Puppet
9 2 (0.54%) Salt
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.27%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
10 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (13.04%) Databricks
2 38 (10.33%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.52%) IBM
4 19 (5.16%) Oracle
5 16 (4.35%) Cloudera
5 16 (4.35%) Dell
6 9 (2.45%) Confluent
7 8 (2.17%) Google
8 7 (1.90%) Talend
9 6 (1.63%) HP
9 6 (1.63%) SAP
9 6 (1.63%) Splunk
10 5 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.36%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.36%) Solace
11 4 (1.09%) WSO2
12 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.54%) Apple