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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 107 194
Rank change year-on-year -33 +87 -106
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 365 383 389
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.63% 3.10% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.64% 11.58% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 230 222 295
10th Percentile £63,625 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,188 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,500 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -16.67%

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 3,431 3,307 5,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.31% 26.73% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,315 2,306 4,365
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
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 18 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 18 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 -13 39 £90,000 -7.69% 16
West London - 16 £80,000 - 4
South London -12 7 £105,000 +27.27% 1
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 94 (25.75%) Apache Spark
2 72 (19.73%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (8.49%) Apache
4 12 (3.29%) Confluence
5 5 (1.37%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.10%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.55%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 232 (63.56%) AWS
2 122 (33.42%) Azure
3 77 (21.10%) GCP
4 57 (15.62%) Serverless
5 55 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (12.05%) dbt
7 33 (9.04%) Snowflake
8 32 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 29 (7.95%) Power Platform
10 28 (7.67%) Datadog
11 27 (7.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (7.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (7.12%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.75%) Amazon EMR
15 16 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.38%) SaaS
16 15 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (3.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) BGP
2 6 (1.64%) DNS
2 6 (1.64%) IPsec
2 6 (1.64%) VPN
3 5 (1.37%) Broadband
3 5 (1.37%) Internet
4 3 (0.82%) Network Security
5 2 (0.55%) 4G
5 2 (0.55%) 5G
5 2 (0.55%) AMQP
5 2 (0.55%) MQTT
6 1 (0.27%) CTI
6 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) LTE
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (25.48%) NoSQL
2 48 (13.15%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (9.86%) Big Data
3 36 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (9.59%) Relational Database
5 34 (9.32%) Data Lake
5 34 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (7.67%) Power BI
7 26 (7.12%) MongoDB
8 25 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (6.85%) Tableau
9 24 (6.58%) BigQuery
10 21 (5.75%) Hadoop
11 19 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (5.21%) MySQL
12 18 (4.93%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (4.66%) DynamoDB
14 16 (4.38%) Looker
15 15 (4.11%) Metadata
15 15 (4.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (14.25%) GitLab
2 33 (9.04%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.49%) Git
4 28 (7.67%) Cucumber
5 22 (6.03%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.21%) MLflow
7 10 (2.74%) Selenium
8 5 (1.37%) JIRA
8 5 (1.37%) Maven
9 4 (1.10%) JUnit
10 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.82%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.27%) Gatling
11 1 (0.27%) Gradle
11 1 (0.27%) Mockito
11 1 (0.27%) Postman
11 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 182 (49.86%) Finance
2 85 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.79%) Banking
4 45 (12.33%) Front Office
5 36 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.29%) Retail
7 11 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.47%) Military
10 8 (2.19%) Marketing
11 7 (1.92%) Law
12 6 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.10%) Advertising
13 4 (1.10%) Billing
13 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.55%) Back Office
14 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 102 (27.95%) Senior
2 97 (26.58%) Developer
3 68 (18.63%) Java Engineer
4 59 (16.16%) Software Engineer
5 58 (15.89%) Data Engineer
6 47 (12.88%) Lead
7 37 (10.14%) Architect
8 35 (9.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (7.67%) Principal Engineer
11 27 (7.40%) Java Developer
12 23 (6.30%) Lead Developer
12 23 (6.30%) Python Engineer
13 22 (6.03%) Principal Java Engineer
13 22 (6.03%) Senior Developer
13 22 (6.03%) Senior Java Engineer
14 20 (5.48%) Lead Software Developer
14 20 (5.48%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (4.66%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (23.84%) Spring
2 85 (23.29%) Spring Boot
3 59 (16.16%) Node.js
3 59 (16.16%) React
4 51 (13.97%) RabbitMQ
5 46 (12.60%) REST
6 40 (10.96%) RESTful
7 35 (9.59%) Redux
8 33 (9.04%) GraphQL
9 22 (6.03%) PySpark
10 21 (5.75%) gRPC
11 19 (5.21%) .NET
12 17 (4.66%) PyTorch
12 17 (4.66%) TensorFlow
13 16 (4.38%) LangChain
13 16 (4.38%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.38%) pgvector
13 16 (4.38%) scikit-learn
14 14 (3.84%) web3js
15 12 (3.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 115 (31.51%) Cloud Native
2 67 (18.36%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (11.78%) Public Cloud
4 39 (10.68%) Fixed Income
5 26 (7.12%) e-Learning
5 26 (7.12%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (4.38%) Clustering
8 15 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (3.84%) Blockchain
9 14 (3.84%) Web3
10 13 (3.56%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.74%) EPoS
11 10 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.74%) iSeries
12 7 (1.92%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.64%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.37%) Blog
14 5 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.85%) Linux
2 8 (2.19%) Unix
3 7 (1.92%) Windows
4 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (44.11%) CI/CD
2 145 (39.73%) Microservices
3 133 (36.44%) Software Engineering
4 129 (35.34%) Agile
5 121 (33.15%) Event-Driven
6 107 (29.32%) DevOps
7 97 (26.58%) AI
8 94 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 81 (22.19%) Analytics
9 81 (22.19%) Containerisation
10 77 (21.10%) Test Automation
11 74 (20.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 73 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 72 (19.73%) Data Modelling
13 72 (19.73%) Data Pipeline
14 65 (17.81%) Observability
15 62 (16.99%) Data Engineering
16 55 (15.07%) Computer Science
17 52 (14.25%) Machine Learning
18 50 (13.70%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 184 (50.41%) Python
2 176 (48.22%) Java
3 162 (44.38%) SQL
4 64 (17.53%) Go
5 61 (16.71%) TypeScript
6 54 (14.79%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.49%) C#
8 15 (4.11%) C++
9 13 (3.56%) Bash
9 13 (3.56%) Scala
10 10 (2.74%) RPG
11 8 (2.19%) PHP
12 7 (1.92%) Rust
13 6 (1.64%) C
13 6 (1.64%) Ruby
14 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.55%) Bicep
15 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (10.41%) Degree
2 36 (9.86%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 26 (7.12%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.75%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.29%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.37%) PhD
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) SSCP
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.51%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.95%) GDPR
3 16 (4.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (3.01%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.19%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.92%) QA
7 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.27%) PSD2
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (26.03%) Docker
2 8 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (33.70%) Kubernetes
2 84 (23.01%) Terraform
3 42 (11.51%) Prometheus
4 24 (6.58%) Grafana
5 16 (4.38%) Ansible
6 10 (2.74%) Istio
7 6 (1.64%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.82%) Argo
9 2 (0.55%) Cilium
9 2 (0.55%) Kibana
9 2 (0.55%) Puppet
9 2 (0.55%) Salt
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (12.05%) Databricks
2 29 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.48%) IBM
4 16 (4.38%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.38%) Dell
5 10 (2.74%) Oracle
6 9 (2.47%) Confluent
6 9 (2.47%) Solace
7 7 (1.92%) Splunk
7 7 (1.92%) Talend
8 6 (1.64%) HP
8 6 (1.64%) SAP
9 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.10%) WSO2
10 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.82%) Google
10 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.55%) CheckPoint