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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 116 169
Rank change year-on-year -21 +53 -104
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 330 350 440
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.90% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.94% 11.17% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 225 230 342
10th Percentile £67,500 £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% -10.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £144,000 £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 3,320 3,132 5,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.88% 25.98% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,270 2,215 4,682
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 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -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 2 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 2 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 -22 38 £95,000 +15.15% 33
West London - 10 £81,250 - 2
South London -17 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 81 (24.55%) Apache Spark
2 76 (23.03%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (11.21%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.61%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 207 (62.73%) AWS
2 110 (33.33%) Azure
3 75 (22.73%) GCP
4 50 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (13.94%) Serverless
6 43 (13.03%) dbt
7 39 (11.82%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.39%) Snowflake
9 30 (9.09%) Datadog
10 27 (8.18%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 25 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.24%) GitHub
15 14 (4.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Broadband
2 3 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.61%) 4G
3 2 (0.61%) 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 70 (21.21%) NoSQL
2 47 (14.24%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 32 (9.70%) Data Lake
4 31 (9.39%) Relational Database
5 30 (9.09%) Big Data
5 30 (9.09%) Tableau
6 27 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (7.88%) Power BI
8 25 (7.58%) BigQuery
8 25 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (5.76%) DynamoDB
11 19 (5.76%) MySQL
12 18 (5.45%) Metadata
12 18 (5.45%) MongoDB
13 16 (4.85%) Looker
14 12 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (3.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (13.64%) GitLab
2 31 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.09%) Git
4 24 (7.27%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.06%) Cucumber
6 19 (5.76%) MLflow
7 6 (1.82%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Maven
9 3 (0.91%) JIRA
9 3 (0.91%) JUnit
9 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.91%) 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
1 162 (49.09%) Finance
2 76 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 51 (15.45%) Banking
4 49 (14.85%) Front Office
5 36 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.73%) Retail
7 9 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.42%) Law
9 7 (2.12%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.82%) Billing
10 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.21%) Advertising
13 2 (0.61%) Back Office
14 1 (0.30%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.30%) Legal
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (30.30%) Senior
2 94 (28.48%) Developer
3 62 (18.79%) Data Engineer
4 58 (17.58%) Software Engineer
5 56 (16.97%) Lead
6 55 (16.67%) Java Engineer
7 33 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 29 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
9 27 (8.18%) Architect
10 25 (7.58%) Senior Developer
11 23 (6.97%) Lead Developer
12 21 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (6.36%) Java Developer
12 21 (6.36%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (6.36%) Principal Engineer
12 21 (6.36%) Python Engineer
13 20 (6.06%) Lead Software Developer
13 20 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
14 17 (5.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 16 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.39%) Spring
2 59 (17.88%) Spring Boot
3 53 (16.06%) React
4 51 (15.45%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (12.73%) Node.js
6 39 (11.82%) RESTful
7 38 (11.52%) REST
8 33 (10.00%) Redux
9 32 (9.70%) GraphQL
10 24 (7.27%) gRPC
10 24 (7.27%) PySpark
11 19 (5.76%) .NET
12 17 (5.15%) scikit-learn
12 17 (5.15%) TensorFlow
12 17 (5.15%) web3js
13 16 (4.85%) LangChain
13 16 (4.85%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.85%) pgvector
13 16 (4.85%) PyTorch
14 10 (3.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 99 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 51 (15.45%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (11.21%) Fixed Income
4 35 (10.61%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.76%) e-Learning
6 17 (5.15%) Blockchain
6 17 (5.15%) Web3
7 16 (4.85%) Clustering
8 13 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.33%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.73%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.12%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.21%) Anti-Piracy
14 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.15%) Linux
2 6 (1.82%) Unix
2 6 (1.82%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (43.64%) CI/CD
2 124 (37.58%) Software Engineering
3 123 (37.27%) Microservices
4 108 (32.73%) Agile
4 108 (32.73%) DevOps
5 97 (29.39%) Event-Driven
6 81 (24.55%) Analytics
6 81 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (23.03%) Data Pipeline
8 72 (21.82%) Containerisation
8 72 (21.82%) Data Engineering
9 71 (21.52%) AI
10 67 (20.30%) Data Modelling
11 66 (20.00%) Test Automation
12 58 (17.58%) Observability
13 57 (17.27%) Mentoring
14 55 (16.67%) ETL
15 54 (16.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 53 (16.06%) Investment Management
17 50 (15.15%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 183 (55.45%) Python
2 145 (43.94%) SQL
3 143 (43.33%) Java
4 75 (22.73%) Go
5 53 (16.06%) TypeScript
6 50 (15.15%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.58%) C#
8 18 (5.45%) Bash
9 16 (4.85%) C++
10 15 (4.55%) Scala
11 7 (2.12%) Rust
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.21%) RPG
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 28 (8.48%) Degree
2 23 (6.97%) AWS Certification
3 22 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 21 (6.36%) Security Cleared
5 20 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.85%) SC Cleared
7 11 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) GIAC
11 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.30%) SSCP
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.24%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.88%) GDPR
3 16 (4.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.42%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.52%) QA
7 3 (0.91%) 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 97 (29.39%) Docker
2 8 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 84 (25.45%) Terraform
3 37 (11.21%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.06%) Grafana
5 14 (4.24%) Ansible
6 9 (2.73%) Istio
7 6 (1.82%) Argo
8 2 (0.61%) Kibana
8 2 (0.61%) Puppet
8 2 (0.61%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Cilium
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (12.73%) Databricks
2 18 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.85%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.85%) Dell
4 9 (2.73%) Confluent
5 8 (2.42%) Solace
6 6 (1.82%) Splunk
7 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.52%) Talend
8 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.21%) IBM
8 4 (1.21%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.21%) WSO2
9 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) Google
10 2 (0.61%) PayPal
10 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.30%) Pega