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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 117 176
Rank change year-on-year -22 +59 -109
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 332 348 440
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 2.91% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% 11.19% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 224 229 342
10th Percentile £64,875 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -8.86%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -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 3,320 3,111 5,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.86% 25.97% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 2,200 4,685
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £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 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 3 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 3 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 -26 38 £95,000 +15.15% 37
West London - 10 £81,250 - 2
South London -16 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 82 (24.70%) Apache Spark
2 75 (22.59%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (10.84%) Apache
4 5 (1.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.60%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 207 (62.35%) AWS
2 113 (34.04%) Azure
3 75 (22.59%) GCP
4 50 (15.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (13.86%) Serverless
6 43 (12.95%) dbt
7 38 (11.45%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.34%) Snowflake
9 30 (9.04%) Datadog
10 28 (8.43%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (7.23%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (4.52%) SaaS
16 14 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (3.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) Broadband
2 3 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.60%) 4G
3 2 (0.60%) 5G
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.39%) NoSQL
2 48 (14.46%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (9.94%) Relational Database
4 32 (9.64%) Data Lake
5 31 (9.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 30 (9.04%) Big Data
6 30 (9.04%) Tableau
7 27 (8.13%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (8.13%) Power BI
8 26 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (7.53%) BigQuery
10 21 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (5.72%) DynamoDB
12 19 (5.72%) MySQL
13 18 (5.42%) MongoDB
14 17 (5.12%) Metadata
15 16 (4.82%) Looker
16 12 (3.61%) Redis
17 11 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 45 (13.55%) GitLab
2 32 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.04%) Git
4 24 (7.23%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.02%) Cucumber
6 19 (5.72%) MLflow
7 6 (1.81%) Selenium
8 5 (1.51%) Maven
9 3 (0.90%) JIRA
9 3 (0.90%) JUnit
9 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.90%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.30%) Gatling
10 1 (0.30%) Gradle
10 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Mockito
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 163 (49.10%) Finance
2 80 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 51 (15.36%) Banking
4 49 (14.76%) Front Office
5 36 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.01%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.71%) Retail
7 9 (2.71%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.41%) Law
9 7 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.81%) Billing
10 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.20%) Advertising
12 2 (0.60%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Digital Economy
13 1 (0.30%) Legal
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (30.42%) Senior
2 94 (28.31%) Developer
3 62 (18.67%) Data Engineer
4 58 (17.47%) Software Engineer
5 55 (16.57%) Java Engineer
5 55 (16.57%) Lead
6 33 (9.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 29 (8.73%) Architect
7 29 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (7.53%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.93%) Lead Developer
10 21 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (6.33%) Java Developer
10 21 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
10 21 (6.33%) Python Engineer
11 20 (6.02%) Lead Software Developer
11 20 (6.02%) Senior Java Engineer
12 17 (5.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 16 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.88%) Spring
2 61 (18.37%) Spring Boot
3 53 (15.96%) React
4 50 (15.06%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (12.65%) Node.js
6 40 (12.05%) REST
7 39 (11.75%) RESTful
8 33 (9.94%) Redux
9 32 (9.64%) GraphQL
10 25 (7.53%) PySpark
11 23 (6.93%) gRPC
12 18 (5.42%) .NET
13 17 (5.12%) scikit-learn
13 17 (5.12%) TensorFlow
13 17 (5.12%) web3js
14 16 (4.82%) LangChain
14 16 (4.82%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.82%) pgvector
14 16 (4.82%) PyTorch
15 10 (3.01%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (30.12%) Cloud Native
2 51 (15.36%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (11.14%) Fixed Income
4 35 (10.54%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.72%) e-Learning
6 17 (5.12%) Blockchain
6 17 (5.12%) Web3
7 16 (4.82%) Clustering
8 13 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.31%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.71%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.20%) EPoS
13 4 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.12%) Linux
2 6 (1.81%) Unix
2 6 (1.81%) Windows
3 2 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (43.67%) CI/CD
2 125 (37.65%) Software Engineering
3 124 (37.35%) Microservices
4 111 (33.43%) Agile
5 107 (32.23%) DevOps
6 99 (29.82%) Event-Driven
7 82 (24.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (23.80%) Analytics
9 76 (22.89%) Data Pipeline
10 75 (22.59%) Containerisation
11 72 (21.69%) Data Engineering
12 71 (21.39%) AI
13 69 (20.78%) Data Modelling
14 66 (19.88%) Test Automation
15 60 (18.07%) Observability
16 57 (17.17%) Mentoring
17 56 (16.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 54 (16.27%) ETL
19 53 (15.96%) Investment Management
20 50 (15.06%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 184 (55.42%) Python
2 145 (43.67%) Java
3 144 (43.37%) SQL
4 75 (22.59%) Go
5 53 (15.96%) TypeScript
6 50 (15.06%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.23%) C#
8 17 (5.12%) Bash
9 16 (4.82%) C++
9 16 (4.82%) Scala
10 7 (2.11%) Rust
11 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.20%) RPG
12 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.60%) Bicep
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.30%) R
14 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 28 (8.43%) Degree
2 23 (6.93%) AWS Certification
3 22 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 22 (6.63%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.12%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.01%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.16%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.83%) GDPR
3 16 (4.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.01%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.51%) QA
7 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (30.12%) Docker
2 8 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (35.54%) Kubernetes
2 84 (25.30%) Terraform
3 38 (11.45%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.33%) Grafana
5 14 (4.22%) Ansible
6 9 (2.71%) Istio
7 6 (1.81%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Kibana
8 2 (0.60%) Puppet
8 2 (0.60%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Cilium
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.95%) Databricks
2 19 (5.72%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.82%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.82%) Dell
4 9 (2.71%) Confluent
5 8 (2.41%) Solace
6 6 (1.81%) Splunk
7 5 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.51%) Talend
8 4 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.20%) IBM
8 4 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.20%) WSO2
9 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.60%) Google
10 2 (0.60%) PayPal
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.30%) Pega