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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 169
Rank change year-on-year -8 +32 -105
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 328 340 442
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.62% 2.67% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.35% 10.32% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 232 255 350
10th Percentile £68,875 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.59% -8.75%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £130,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -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 3,169 3,294 5,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.66% 25.85% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,201 2,439 4,691
10th Percentile £52,500 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +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 5 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 5 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 -16 40 £90,000 +38.46% 33
West London - 9 £82,500 - 7
South London -2 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 81 (24.70%) Apache Spark
2 79 (24.09%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (10.98%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 4 (1.22%) IIS
5 4 (1.22%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
2 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 213 (64.94%) AWS
2 109 (33.23%) Azure
3 89 (27.13%) GCP
4 43 (13.11%) Serverless
5 42 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 42 (12.80%) dbt
6 35 (10.67%) Amazon S3
7 31 (9.45%) Snowflake
8 30 (9.15%) Amazon Kinesis
8 30 (9.15%) Datadog
9 26 (7.93%) Power Platform
10 25 (7.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (5.49%) GitHub
14 17 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (5.18%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) Broadband
2 3 (0.91%) DNS
3 2 (0.61%) 4G
3 2 (0.61%) 5G
3 2 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) AMQP
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.21%) NoSQL
2 46 (14.02%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.15%) Tableau
5 26 (7.93%) Big Data
5 26 (7.93%) Data Lake
5 26 (7.93%) Power BI
5 26 (7.93%) Relational Database
6 25 (7.62%) BigQuery
6 25 (7.62%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (6.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (5.79%) DynamoDB
10 19 (5.79%) MySQL
11 17 (5.18%) Metadata
11 17 (5.18%) SQL Server
12 16 (4.88%) Looker
12 16 (4.88%) MongoDB
13 15 (4.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (13.11%) GitLab
2 37 (11.28%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.54%) Git
4 24 (7.32%) CircleCI
5 21 (6.40%) MLflow
6 13 (3.96%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.83%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.52%) JIRA
9 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.91%) JUnit
10 3 (0.91%) Maven
10 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.91%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.30%) Gradle
12 1 (0.30%) Mocha
12 1 (0.30%) Mockito
12 1 (0.30%) Postman
12 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 157 (47.87%) Finance
2 81 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 56 (17.07%) Front Office
4 50 (15.24%) Banking
5 38 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.71%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.44%) Retail
8 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.13%) Law
9 6 (1.83%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.52%) Billing
11 4 (1.22%) Advertising
11 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing
13 2 (0.61%) Back Office
13 2 (0.61%) Electronics
13 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Legal
13 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (32.01%) Senior
2 99 (30.18%) Developer
3 60 (18.29%) Data Engineer
4 58 (17.68%) Lead
5 53 (16.16%) Software Engineer
6 45 (13.72%) Java Engineer
7 34 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (10.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 26 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.01%) Lead Developer
10 23 (7.01%) Senior Developer
11 22 (6.71%) Python Engineer
12 21 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (6.10%) Java Developer
13 20 (6.10%) Lead Software Developer
14 19 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (5.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 19 (5.79%) Python Developer
15 18 (5.49%) Architect
16 17 (5.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.85%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (15.24%) React
2 50 (15.24%) Spring
3 49 (14.94%) RESTful
4 46 (14.02%) Spring Boot
5 43 (13.11%) REST
6 41 (12.50%) Node.js
7 33 (10.06%) GraphQL
7 33 (10.06%) Redux
8 31 (9.45%) gRPC
9 18 (5.49%) PySpark
10 17 (5.18%) scikit-learn
10 17 (5.18%) TensorFlow
10 17 (5.18%) web3js
11 16 (4.88%) LangChain
11 16 (4.88%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (4.88%) pgvector
11 16 (4.88%) PyTorch
12 13 (3.96%) .NET
13 10 (3.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 95 (28.96%) Cloud Native
2 55 (16.77%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (12.50%) Fixed Income
4 28 (8.54%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.18%) Blockchain
5 17 (5.18%) Web3
6 16 (4.88%) Clustering
7 12 (3.66%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.66%) e-Learning
8 10 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
9 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.83%) Equities
12 5 (1.52%) Derivative
12 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.18%) Linux
2 9 (2.74%) Windows
3 8 (2.44%) Android
4 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Unix
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (44.51%) CI/CD
2 122 (37.20%) DevOps
3 120 (36.59%) Microservices
3 120 (36.59%) Software Engineering
4 101 (30.79%) Agile
5 88 (26.83%) Event-Driven
6 87 (26.52%) Analytics
7 81 (24.70%) Data Pipeline
8 80 (24.39%) Containerisation
9 73 (22.26%) Data Engineering
10 72 (21.95%) AI
11 71 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (20.73%) Data Modelling
13 60 (18.29%) Low Latency
14 59 (17.99%) Computer Science
15 57 (17.38%) ETL
15 57 (17.38%) Investment Management
16 55 (16.77%) Observability
16 55 (16.77%) Test Automation
17 52 (15.85%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 187 (57.01%) Python
2 142 (43.29%) SQL
3 133 (40.55%) Java
4 87 (26.52%) Go
5 48 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 39 (11.89%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.01%) Bash
7 23 (7.01%) C#
8 19 (5.79%) C++
9 15 (4.57%) Scala
10 7 (2.13%) Rust
11 5 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.61%) Bicep
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) Korn
14 1 (0.30%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (11.89%) Degree
2 32 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.57%) AWS Certification
3 15 (4.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (3.96%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.74%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.23%) GDPR
3 16 (4.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.83%) QA
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (32.32%) Docker
2 8 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 126 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 77 (23.48%) Terraform
3 37 (11.28%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.01%) Grafana
5 19 (5.79%) Ansible
6 10 (3.05%) Argo
7 9 (2.74%) Istio
8 5 (1.52%) Puppet
9 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.61%) Kibana
10 2 (0.61%) Salt
11 1 (0.30%) Cilium
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (11.28%) Databricks
2 16 (4.88%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.88%) Dell
3 11 (3.35%) Confluent
4 10 (3.05%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.13%) Solace
6 5 (1.52%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.52%) Oracle
6 5 (1.52%) Talend
6 5 (1.52%) VMware
7 4 (1.22%) Ericsson
7 4 (1.22%) Mavenir
7 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.22%) Nokia
7 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.22%) Splunk
7 4 (1.22%) WSO2
8 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.91%) Google