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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 134 146
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 -82
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 315 335 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.71% 2.60% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.32% 9.61% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 226 252 366
10th Percentile £72,125 £56,250 £60,625
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £100,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%

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 3,053 3,486 5,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.61% 27.02% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,160 2,516 4,746
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,227 £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 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.76%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 34 £90,000 +44.00% 47
West London - 9 £82,500 - 6
South London +12 8 £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 80 (25.40%) Apache Spark
2 69 (21.90%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.84%) Apache
4 5 (1.59%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.59%) Confluence
4 5 (1.59%) IIS
4 5 (1.59%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.32%) Endur
2 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 213 (67.62%) AWS
2 100 (31.75%) Azure
3 87 (27.62%) GCP
4 39 (12.38%) Serverless
5 38 (12.06%) dbt
6 33 (10.48%) Amazon Kinesis
6 33 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 28 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (8.57%) Snowflake
10 26 (8.25%) Power Platform
11 24 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (7.62%) Datadog
12 20 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (5.71%) GitHub
14 16 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (4.76%) OpenShift
16 14 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) Broadband
2 4 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (0.63%) AMQP
3 2 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.32%) 4G
4 1 (0.32%) 5G
4 1 (0.32%) BGP
4 1 (0.32%) CTI
4 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (16.51%) NoSQL
2 49 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.52%) Big Data
4 30 (9.52%) Tableau
5 26 (8.25%) Power BI
6 25 (7.94%) BigQuery
7 23 (7.30%) Data Lake
8 22 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (6.67%) Redis
10 20 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (6.35%) Relational Database
10 20 (6.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (5.71%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.71%) SQL Server
12 16 (5.08%) Looker
12 16 (5.08%) Metadata
13 15 (4.76%) Flink
14 13 (4.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (12.06%) GitLab
2 36 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.89%) Git
4 21 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 21 (6.67%) MLflow
5 8 (2.54%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.59%) JIRA
7 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.27%) JUnit
8 3 (0.95%) Selenium
8 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.95%) WinDbg
9 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.63%) Gradle
9 2 (0.63%) Mocha
9 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 155 (49.21%) Finance
2 84 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 61 (19.37%) Front Office
4 50 (15.87%) Banking
5 39 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.62%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.13%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.54%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.22%) Law
9 7 (2.22%) Retail
10 4 (1.27%) Advertising
10 4 (1.27%) Billing
10 4 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Marketing
12 2 (0.63%) Back Office
12 2 (0.63%) Electronics
12 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (33.02%) Developer
2 101 (32.06%) Senior
3 57 (18.10%) Data Engineer
4 54 (17.14%) Software Engineer
5 50 (15.87%) Lead
6 36 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.43%) Java Engineer
7 32 (10.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 29 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.62%) Java Developer
9 24 (7.62%) Lead Developer
10 23 (7.30%) Python Developer
11 22 (6.98%) Senior Developer
12 21 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 21 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (6.35%) Lead Software Developer
14 18 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (5.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 16 (5.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.87%) React
2 48 (15.24%) Spring
3 47 (14.92%) RESTful
4 46 (14.60%) RabbitMQ
5 45 (14.29%) REST
6 44 (13.97%) Node.js
7 38 (12.06%) Spring Boot
8 37 (11.75%) GraphQL
9 34 (10.79%) Redux
10 31 (9.84%) gRPC
11 18 (5.71%) scikit-learn
11 18 (5.71%) TensorFlow
12 17 (5.40%) LangChain
12 17 (5.40%) PySpark
12 17 (5.40%) PyTorch
13 16 (5.08%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (5.08%) pgvector
14 15 (4.76%) AngularJS
15 14 (4.44%) web3js
16 12 (3.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 86 (27.30%) Cloud Native
2 57 (18.10%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (13.02%) Fixed Income
4 24 (7.62%) Public Cloud
5 16 (5.08%) Clustering
6 14 (4.44%) Blockchain
6 14 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (4.44%) Web3
7 13 (4.13%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.49%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.90%) Derivative
11 6 (1.90%) Equities
11 6 (1.90%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.35%) Linux
2 12 (3.81%) Windows
3 9 (2.86%) Android
4 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (44.76%) CI/CD
2 121 (38.41%) DevOps
3 115 (36.51%) Microservices
3 115 (36.51%) Software Engineering
4 99 (31.43%) Agile
5 82 (26.03%) Analytics
6 79 (25.08%) Data Pipeline
7 76 (24.13%) Event-Driven
8 75 (23.81%) Containerisation
9 70 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 68 (21.59%) Data Modelling
11 66 (20.95%) AI
12 65 (20.63%) Computer Science
13 61 (19.37%) Low Latency
14 56 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
14 56 (17.78%) Investment Management
15 55 (17.46%) ETL
15 55 (17.46%) Fintech
15 55 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (17.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 191 (60.63%) Python
2 136 (43.17%) SQL
3 135 (42.86%) Java
4 89 (28.25%) Go
5 51 (16.19%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.38%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.62%) Bash
8 20 (6.35%) C#
9 19 (6.03%) C++
9 19 (6.03%) Scala
10 8 (2.54%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.22%) Rust
12 6 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.63%) Groovy
13 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Korn
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.33%) Degree
2 38 (12.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.49%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.84%) GDPR
3 16 (5.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.54%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.90%) QA
7 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (32.06%) Docker
2 8 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 120 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 67 (21.27%) Terraform
3 37 (11.75%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.98%) Grafana
5 21 (6.67%) Ansible
6 12 (3.81%) Argo
7 9 (2.86%) Istio
8 6 (1.90%) Puppet
9 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.95%) Kibana
11 2 (0.63%) Salt
12 1 (0.32%) Cilium
12 1 (0.32%) Icinga
12 1 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (11.75%) Databricks
2 16 (5.08%) Cloudera
2 16 (5.08%) Dell
3 10 (3.17%) Confluent
4 8 (2.54%) VMware
5 6 (1.90%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle
6 5 (1.59%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.59%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.59%) Nokia
6 5 (1.59%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.59%) Solace
7 4 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.27%) Splunk
8 3 (0.95%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.95%) Google
8 3 (0.95%) Talend
9 2 (0.63%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.63%) PayPal
9 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow