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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 108 196
Rank change year-on-year -27 +88 -104
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 378 378 356
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 3.07% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.99% 11.45% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 235 216 263
10th Percentile £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,563 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,625 £118,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +17.24% -18.99%

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 3,439 3,301 5,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.20% 26.83% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 2,294 4,024
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,375 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £84,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,250
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 24 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 24 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 -1 41 £90,000 -7.69% 24
West London - 16 £80,000 - 2
South London -19 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 97 (25.66%) Apache Spark
2 71 (18.78%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (7.67%) Apache
4 12 (3.17%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.53%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 239 (63.23%) AWS
2 130 (34.39%) Azure
3 81 (21.43%) GCP
4 57 (15.08%) Serverless
5 55 (14.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (11.38%) dbt
7 34 (8.99%) Snowflake
8 31 (8.20%) Power Platform
9 30 (7.94%) Amazon S3
10 28 (7.41%) Datadog
11 27 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (6.88%) Amazon Kinesis
13 25 (6.61%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
16 17 (4.50%) SaaS
17 15 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (3.44%) OpenShift
20 12 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) BGP
2 6 (1.59%) DNS
2 6 (1.59%) IPsec
2 6 (1.59%) VPN
3 5 (1.32%) Internet
4 4 (1.06%) Broadband
5 2 (0.53%) 4G
5 2 (0.53%) 5G
5 2 (0.53%) AMQP
5 2 (0.53%) MQTT
5 2 (0.53%) 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 (25.66%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (10.32%) Relational Database
4 37 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (9.52%) Big Data
6 35 (9.26%) Data Lake
6 35 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
7 30 (7.94%) Power BI
8 27 (7.14%) MongoDB
9 25 (6.61%) Tableau
10 24 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (5.82%) BigQuery
12 21 (5.56%) Hadoop
13 20 (5.29%) MySQL
14 19 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (4.23%) DynamoDB
16 16 (4.23%) Looker
16 16 (4.23%) Metadata
16 16 (4.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (13.76%) GitLab
2 34 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.47%) Git
4 29 (7.67%) Cucumber
5 21 (5.56%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.03%) MLflow
7 11 (2.91%) Selenium
8 5 (1.32%) JIRA
8 5 (1.32%) Maven
9 4 (1.06%) JUnit
10 3 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.79%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.53%) 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
1 192 (50.79%) Finance
2 90 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 59 (15.61%) Banking
4 46 (12.17%) Front Office
5 38 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.70%) Retail
7 12 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.38%) Marketing
10 9 (2.38%) Military
11 8 (2.12%) Law
12 7 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.32%) Advertising
15 4 (1.06%) Billing
16 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
18 1 (0.26%) Back Office
18 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 105 (27.78%) Senior
2 98 (25.93%) Developer
3 75 (19.84%) Java Engineer
4 63 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 58 (15.34%) Data Engineer
6 49 (12.96%) Lead
7 37 (9.79%) Architect
8 35 (9.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
9 30 (7.94%) Principal Engineer
10 27 (7.14%) Java Developer
11 26 (6.88%) Senior Java Engineer
12 23 (6.08%) Lead Developer
12 23 (6.08%) Principal Java Engineer
12 23 (6.08%) Python Engineer
13 22 (5.82%) Senior Developer
14 21 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.29%) Lead Software Developer
16 18 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (4.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.60%) Spring
2 90 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 62 (16.40%) React
4 60 (15.87%) Node.js
5 52 (13.76%) RabbitMQ
6 47 (12.43%) REST
7 46 (12.17%) RESTful
8 36 (9.52%) Redux
9 34 (8.99%) GraphQL
10 23 (6.08%) PySpark
11 21 (5.56%) gRPC
12 20 (5.29%) .NET
13 18 (4.76%) PyTorch
13 18 (4.76%) TensorFlow
14 16 (4.23%) LangChain
14 16 (4.23%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.23%) pgvector
14 16 (4.23%) scikit-learn
15 13 (3.44%) AngularJS
15 13 (3.44%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 123 (32.54%) Cloud Native
2 74 (19.58%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (11.64%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.58%) Fixed Income
5 27 (7.14%) e-Learning
5 27 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (4.23%) Clustering
7 16 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.70%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.44%) Blockchain
9 13 (3.44%) Web3
10 12 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.65%) EPoS
11 10 (2.65%) iSeries
12 7 (1.85%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.35%) Linux
2 8 (2.12%) Unix
3 7 (1.85%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 153 (40.48%) Microservices
3 140 (37.04%) Software Engineering
4 138 (36.51%) Agile
5 128 (33.86%) Event-Driven
6 113 (29.89%) DevOps
7 104 (27.51%) AI
8 98 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 84 (22.22%) Containerisation
10 82 (21.69%) Analytics
10 82 (21.69%) Test Automation
11 80 (21.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 78 (20.63%) Mentoring
13 77 (20.37%) Data Pipeline
14 74 (19.58%) Data Modelling
15 69 (18.25%) Observability
16 64 (16.93%) Data Engineering
17 55 (14.55%) Computer Science
17 55 (14.55%) Machine Learning
18 51 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 189 (50.00%) Python
2 187 (49.47%) Java
3 164 (43.39%) SQL
4 65 (17.20%) Go
5 63 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 57 (15.08%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.73%) C#
8 16 (4.23%) Scala
9 15 (3.97%) C++
10 11 (2.91%) Bash
11 10 (2.65%) RPG
12 7 (1.85%) PHP
12 7 (1.85%) Rust
13 6 (1.59%) C
13 6 (1.59%) Ruby
14 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 2 (0.53%) R
16 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 38 (10.05%) AWS Certification
1 38 (10.05%) Degree
2 28 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 27 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.82%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.44%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.32%) PhD
9 4 (1.06%) 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 42 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.20%) GDPR
3 16 (4.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.12%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.85%) QA
7 3 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.53%) 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 99 (26.19%) Docker
2 8 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 128 (33.86%) Kubernetes
2 84 (22.22%) Terraform
3 42 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 25 (6.61%) Grafana
5 16 (4.23%) Ansible
6 10 (2.65%) Istio
7 6 (1.59%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.79%) Argo
9 2 (0.53%) Cilium
9 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) kaniko
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 47 (12.43%) Databricks
2 32 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.56%) IBM
4 16 (4.23%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.23%) Dell
5 12 (3.17%) Oracle
6 9 (2.38%) Confluent
6 9 (2.38%) Solace
7 7 (1.85%) Splunk
7 7 (1.85%) Talend
8 6 (1.59%) HP
8 6 (1.59%) SAP
9 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.06%) Google
9 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.06%) WSO2
10 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.53%) TIBCO