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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 129 173
Rank change year-on-year -15 +44 -107
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 326 327 439
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.65% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.05% 10.30% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 226 247 348
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £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 £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £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 3,244 3,176 5,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.71% 25.76% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 2,350 4,686
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,625 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.14% +10.42% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -19 42 £90,000 +38.46% 37
West London - 10 £81,250 - 4
South London -10 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 78 (23.93%) Apache Spark
2 75 (23.01%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (11.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 206 (63.19%) AWS
2 106 (32.52%) Azure
3 77 (23.62%) GCP
4 46 (14.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (14.11%) Serverless
5 43 (13.19%) dbt
6 39 (11.96%) Amazon S3
7 31 (9.51%) Datadog
7 31 (9.51%) Snowflake
8 27 (8.28%) Amazon Kinesis
9 25 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (7.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (7.67%) Power Platform
10 18 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (5.52%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.91%) GitHub
13 13 (3.99%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (3.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.53%) Broadband
2 3 (0.92%) Network Security
3 2 (0.61%) 4G
3 2 (0.61%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) AMQP
4 1 (0.31%) BGP
4 1 (0.31%) CTI
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.31%) LTE
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (19.63%) NoSQL
2 45 (13.80%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.20%) Big Data
4 30 (9.20%) Data Lake
5 29 (8.90%) Tableau
6 25 (7.67%) BigQuery
6 25 (7.67%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.67%) Relational Database
7 24 (7.36%) Power BI
8 23 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (6.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (5.83%) DynamoDB
12 18 (5.52%) MongoDB
12 18 (5.52%) MySQL
13 16 (4.91%) Looker
13 16 (4.91%) Metadata
14 13 (3.99%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (13.19%) GitLab
2 33 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.59%) Git
4 25 (7.67%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.13%) MLflow
6 16 (4.91%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.84%) Selenium
8 5 (1.53%) Maven
9 3 (0.92%) JIRA
9 3 (0.92%) JUnit
9 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.92%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.31%) Gradle
11 1 (0.31%) Mocha
11 1 (0.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 160 (49.08%) Finance
2 76 (23.31%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.95%) Banking
3 52 (15.95%) Front Office
4 36 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.45%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.45%) Law
6 8 (2.45%) Retail
7 7 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.53%) Billing
8 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.23%) Advertising
9 4 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.61%) Back Office
11 1 (0.31%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.31%) Games
11 1 (0.31%) International Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Legal
11 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (30.37%) Developer
2 96 (29.45%) Senior
3 59 (18.10%) Data Engineer
4 56 (17.18%) Lead
5 55 (16.87%) Software Engineer
6 50 (15.34%) Java Engineer
7 33 (10.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 32 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (7.36%) Architect
9 24 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.36%) Senior Developer
10 23 (7.06%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.75%) Java Developer
11 22 (6.75%) Python Engineer
12 21 (6.44%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (6.13%) Lead Software Developer
14 18 (5.52%) Python Developer
14 18 (5.52%) Senior Java Engineer
15 17 (5.21%) Principal Engineer
15 17 (5.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.18%) Spring
2 54 (16.56%) React
3 53 (16.26%) Spring Boot
4 51 (15.64%) RabbitMQ
5 41 (12.58%) RESTful
6 39 (11.96%) Node.js
6 39 (11.96%) REST
7 33 (10.12%) GraphQL
7 33 (10.12%) Redux
8 27 (8.28%) gRPC
9 20 (6.13%) PySpark
10 18 (5.52%) .NET
10 18 (5.52%) web3js
11 17 (5.21%) scikit-learn
11 17 (5.21%) TensorFlow
12 16 (4.91%) LangChain
12 16 (4.91%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (4.91%) pgvector
12 16 (4.91%) PyTorch
13 10 (3.07%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (29.75%) Cloud Native
2 49 (15.03%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.96%) Fixed Income
4 31 (9.51%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.52%) Blockchain
5 18 (5.52%) Web3
6 16 (4.91%) Clustering
7 15 (4.60%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.45%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.53%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.23%) Anti-Piracy
13 4 (1.23%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.91%) Linux
2 7 (2.15%) Windows
3 4 (1.23%) Android
3 4 (1.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (42.64%) CI/CD
2 123 (37.73%) Software Engineering
3 121 (37.12%) Microservices
4 112 (34.36%) DevOps
5 101 (30.98%) Agile
6 89 (27.30%) Event-Driven
7 83 (25.46%) Analytics
8 76 (23.31%) Data Pipeline
8 76 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (22.09%) Containerisation
10 69 (21.17%) AI
11 68 (20.86%) Data Engineering
12 65 (19.94%) Data Modelling
13 60 (18.40%) Test Automation
14 56 (17.18%) Investment Management
14 56 (17.18%) Observability
15 55 (16.87%) ETL
16 52 (15.95%) Mentoring
17 51 (15.64%) Computer Science
18 49 (15.03%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 183 (56.13%) Python
2 141 (43.25%) SQL
3 137 (42.02%) Java
4 78 (23.93%) Go
5 51 (15.64%) TypeScript
6 46 (14.11%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.67%) C#
8 19 (5.83%) Bash
9 18 (5.52%) C++
10 13 (3.99%) Scala
11 7 (2.15%) Rust
12 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PHP
14 2 (0.61%) RPG
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 31 (9.51%) Degree
2 23 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.52%) AWS Certification
3 18 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 13 (3.99%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.31%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) GIAC
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.31%) SSCP
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.11%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.67%) GDPR
3 16 (4.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.07%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.45%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.84%) QA
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (29.45%) Docker
2 8 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 118 (36.20%) Kubernetes
2 83 (25.46%) Terraform
3 36 (11.04%) Prometheus
4 19 (5.83%) Grafana
5 14 (4.29%) Ansible
6 9 (2.76%) Istio
7 8 (2.45%) Argo
8 2 (0.61%) Kibana
8 2 (0.61%) Puppet
8 2 (0.61%) Salt
9 1 (0.31%) Cilium
9 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 39 (11.96%) Databricks
2 19 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.91%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.91%) Dell
4 10 (3.07%) Confluent
5 7 (2.15%) Solace
6 6 (1.84%) Splunk
7 5 (1.53%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.53%) Talend
8 4 (1.23%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.23%) WSO2
9 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.61%) Google
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle
10 2 (0.61%) PayPal
10 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.31%) Pega