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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 130 196
Rank change year-on-year -32 +66 -84
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 361 328 333
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.45% 2.75% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.28% 9.81% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 183 166 214
10th Percentile £55,780 £61,875 £60,375
25th Percentile £70,000 £77,813 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.53% +3.07%
75th Percentile £106,250 £137,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -14.71%

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 3,891 3,345 5,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.64% 28.03% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 2,264 3,729
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,459
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
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 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -4 31 £90,000 -20.00% 51
West London -3 13 £80,000 -3.03% 16
South London -13 3 - - 3
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 81 (22.44%) Apache Spark
2 51 (14.13%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (7.76%) Apache
4 13 (3.60%) Confluence
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.11%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.11%) Camunda
7 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.55%) Luigi
7 2 (0.55%) Tornado
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (57.06%) AWS
2 130 (36.01%) Azure
3 60 (16.62%) GCP
4 54 (14.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (12.47%) Serverless
6 32 (8.86%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.37%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (6.09%) Amazon Kinesis
8 22 (6.09%) Amazon S3
8 22 (6.09%) dbt
9 21 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (5.82%) Snowflake
10 19 (5.26%) GitHub
11 18 (4.99%) Amazon EMR
12 17 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (4.71%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (4.43%) Datadog
13 16 (4.43%) SaaS
14 13 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.94%) BGP
1 7 (1.94%) DNS
2 6 (1.66%) IPsec
2 6 (1.66%) VPN
3 5 (1.39%) Internet
4 2 (0.55%) 4G
4 2 (0.55%) 5G
4 2 (0.55%) AMQP
4 2 (0.55%) HTTP
4 2 (0.55%) MQTT
4 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (30.47%) NoSQL
2 51 (14.13%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.02%) Relational Database
4 39 (10.80%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (9.42%) Big Data
5 34 (9.42%) MongoDB
6 31 (8.59%) Elasticsearch
6 31 (8.59%) Power BI
7 30 (8.31%) Data Lake
8 24 (6.65%) Tableau
9 23 (6.37%) Hadoop
10 21 (5.82%) MySQL
10 21 (5.82%) Redis
11 20 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (3.88%) SQL Server
14 13 (3.60%) DynamoDB
14 13 (3.60%) Metadata
15 12 (3.32%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 56 (15.51%) GitLab
2 45 (12.47%) Cucumber
3 44 (12.19%) Git
4 39 (10.80%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.32%) Selenium
6 11 (3.05%) MLflow
7 9 (2.49%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.49%) JIRA
8 7 (1.94%) Maven
9 4 (1.11%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.11%) JUnit
9 4 (1.11%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.55%) git-flow
10 2 (0.55%) Gradle
10 2 (0.55%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.55%) Postman
10 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.55%) Xcode
10 2 (0.55%) XCTest
10 2 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 171 (47.37%) Finance
2 90 (24.93%) Social Skills
3 59 (16.34%) Banking
4 36 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.09%) Financial Institution
6 20 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 17 (4.71%) Front Office
9 16 (4.43%) Retail
10 15 (4.16%) Marketing
11 10 (2.77%) Law
12 9 (2.49%) Military
13 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.39%) Aviation
16 3 (0.83%) Billing
16 3 (0.83%) Prime Brokerage
16 3 (0.83%) Publishing
16 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 114 (31.58%) Senior
2 79 (21.88%) Java Engineer
3 61 (16.90%) Developer
4 55 (15.24%) Software Engineer
5 48 (13.30%) Data Engineer
6 37 (10.25%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.70%) Architect
7 35 (9.70%) Lead
8 32 (8.86%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (8.03%) Principal Java Engineer
9 29 (8.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (6.93%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.54%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.71%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.05%) Backend Developer
14 11 (3.05%) Consultant
15 10 (2.77%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (33.80%) Spring
2 109 (30.19%) Spring Boot
3 63 (17.45%) Terraform
4 54 (14.96%) RESTful
5 52 (14.40%) REST
6 49 (13.57%) RabbitMQ
7 30 (8.31%) Node.js
7 30 (8.31%) React
8 27 (7.48%) .NET
9 23 (6.37%) PySpark
10 16 (4.43%) gRPC
11 14 (3.88%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.88%) TensorFlow
12 13 (3.60%) pgvector
12 13 (3.60%) Playwright
13 12 (3.32%) LangChain
13 12 (3.32%) Middleware
14 10 (2.77%) LlamaIndex
14 10 (2.77%) scikit-learn
14 10 (2.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 137 (37.95%) Cloud Native
2 108 (29.92%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (14.13%) Public Cloud
4 40 (11.08%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.86%) Onboarding
6 24 (6.65%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (3.88%) Product Ownership
10 13 (3.60%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.77%) Clustering
11 10 (2.77%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.77%) EPoS
11 10 (2.77%) iSeries
12 9 (2.49%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.49%) Equities
12 9 (2.49%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.94%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.82%) Linux
2 6 (1.66%) Unix
3 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.83%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (51.25%) CI/CD
2 176 (48.75%) Microservices
3 172 (47.65%) Event-Driven
4 145 (40.17%) Agile
5 117 (32.41%) Software Engineering
6 111 (30.75%) AI
6 111 (30.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 107 (29.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 106 (29.36%) DevOps
9 97 (26.87%) Test Automation
10 87 (24.10%) Mentoring
11 77 (21.33%) Observability
12 70 (19.39%) Analytics
12 70 (19.39%) Data Pipeline
13 66 (18.28%) Containerisation
13 66 (18.28%) Data Modelling
14 60 (16.62%) Roadmaps
15 55 (15.24%) Data Engineering
16 54 (14.96%) BDD
17 52 (14.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 186 (51.52%) Java
2 147 (40.72%) SQL
3 131 (36.29%) Python
4 33 (9.14%) C#
5 29 (8.03%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.76%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.99%) Go
7 18 (4.99%) Scala
8 13 (3.60%) Kotlin
9 12 (3.32%) Bash
10 10 (2.77%) RPG
11 6 (1.66%) C
11 6 (1.66%) Groovy
11 6 (1.66%) PHP
11 6 (1.66%) Ruby
12 5 (1.39%) C++
13 4 (1.11%) R
14 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (14.40%) AWS Certification
2 43 (11.91%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 40 (11.08%) Degree
4 38 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.39%) PhD
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) CSPO
11 1 (0.28%) GIAC
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.28%) OCP
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.54%) GDPR
3 12 (3.32%) QA
4 10 (2.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.55%) Basel III
7 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) SEPA
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (26.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (34.63%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.42%) Prometheus
3 23 (6.37%) Grafana
4 9 (2.49%) Ansible
5 8 (2.22%) Argo
6 6 (1.66%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (1.66%) Rancher
7 4 (1.11%) Cilium
8 3 (0.83%) Istio
9 2 (0.55%) Control-M
9 2 (0.55%) kaniko
9 2 (0.55%) Kibana
9 2 (0.55%) Puppet
9 2 (0.55%) Salt
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) logstash
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (11.91%) Databricks
2 35 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.65%) IBM
4 19 (5.26%) Oracle
5 10 (2.77%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.77%) Dell
5 10 (2.77%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.22%) Google
7 6 (1.66%) HP
7 6 (1.66%) SAP
7 6 (1.66%) Solace
7 6 (1.66%) Splunk
7 6 (1.66%) Talend
8 5 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.11%) WSO2
10 3 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.55%) Apple
11 2 (0.55%) Confluent