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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 104 183
Rank change year-on-year -38 +79 -104
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 349 397 429
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 3.20% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.29% 11.95% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 228 235 330
10th Percentile £62,125 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £78,438 £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £127,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +16.13% -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 3,391 3,322 6,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.47% 26.74% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 2,319 4,753
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £81,945
Median % change year-on-year - +0.68% +2.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -15 38 £92,500 -1.33% 43
West London - 15 £80,000 - 9
South London -5 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 88 (25.21%) Apache Spark
2 76 (21.78%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.03%) Apache
4 11 (3.15%) Confluence
5 4 (1.15%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Pig
6 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.57%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (63.04%) AWS
2 121 (34.67%) Azure
3 78 (22.35%) GCP
4 53 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (14.61%) Serverless
6 45 (12.89%) dbt
7 35 (10.03%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.17%) Snowflake
9 28 (8.02%) Datadog
9 28 (8.02%) Power Platform
10 25 (7.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (6.30%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (6.30%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (5.16%) Amazon EMR
14 17 (4.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (4.30%) SaaS
17 11 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (3.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.43%) Broadband
2 4 (1.15%) BGP
3 3 (0.86%) DNS
3 3 (0.86%) IPsec
3 3 (0.86%) Network Security
3 3 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) 4G
4 2 (0.57%) 5G
4 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) CTI
5 1 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) LTE
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (23.50%) NoSQL
2 48 (13.75%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (9.74%) Data Lake
4 34 (9.74%) Relational Database
5 32 (9.17%) Big Data
6 31 (8.88%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (8.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (7.74%) Power BI
8 27 (7.74%) Tableau
9 25 (7.16%) BigQuery
10 22 (6.30%) MongoDB
11 20 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (5.44%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (5.16%) MySQL
14 17 (4.87%) DynamoDB
15 16 (4.58%) Looker
15 16 (4.58%) Metadata
16 15 (4.30%) Hadoop
17 12 (3.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (14.04%) GitLab
2 32 (9.17%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.88%) Git
4 25 (7.16%) Cucumber
5 23 (6.59%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.44%) MLflow
7 7 (2.01%) Selenium
8 5 (1.43%) JIRA
8 5 (1.43%) Maven
9 4 (1.15%) JUnit
10 3 (0.86%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.86%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.29%) Gatling
11 1 (0.29%) Gradle
11 1 (0.29%) Mockito
11 1 (0.29%) Postman
11 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 174 (49.86%) Finance
2 80 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 52 (14.90%) Banking
4 43 (12.32%) Front Office
5 34 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.87%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.58%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.58%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.58%) Retail
8 8 (2.29%) Law
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.72%) Military
10 5 (1.43%) Advertising
10 5 (1.43%) Billing
10 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.15%) Marketing
12 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Back Office
14 1 (0.29%) Legal
14 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (28.65%) Senior
2 94 (26.93%) Developer
3 62 (17.77%) Data Engineer
4 60 (17.19%) Java Engineer
5 58 (16.62%) Software Engineer
6 49 (14.04%) Lead
7 36 (10.32%) Architect
8 35 (10.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (7.16%) Java Developer
10 25 (7.16%) Principal Engineer
11 23 (6.59%) Lead Developer
11 23 (6.59%) Python Engineer
11 23 (6.59%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.73%) Lead Software Developer
12 20 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (5.73%) Principal Java Engineer
12 20 (5.73%) Senior Java Engineer
13 17 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.87%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (22.35%) Spring
2 76 (21.78%) Spring Boot
3 54 (15.47%) React
4 52 (14.90%) Node.js
5 49 (14.04%) RabbitMQ
6 43 (12.32%) REST
7 36 (10.32%) RESTful
8 35 (10.03%) Redux
9 32 (9.17%) GraphQL
10 24 (6.88%) PySpark
11 22 (6.30%) gRPC
12 19 (5.44%) .NET
13 16 (4.58%) LangChain
13 16 (4.58%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.58%) pgvector
13 16 (4.58%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.58%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.58%) TensorFlow
14 15 (4.30%) web3js
15 11 (3.15%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 110 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 55 (15.76%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (11.46%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.60%) Fixed Income
5 23 (6.59%) e-Learning
6 17 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.87%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.58%) Clustering
8 15 (4.30%) Blockchain
8 15 (4.30%) Web3
9 13 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (3.44%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.58%) EPoS
11 9 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.58%) iSeries
12 7 (2.01%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.30%) Linux
2 7 (2.01%) Unix
3 6 (1.72%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (42.69%) CI/CD
2 133 (38.11%) Microservices
3 131 (37.54%) Software Engineering
4 121 (34.67%) Agile
5 112 (32.09%) Event-Driven
6 103 (29.51%) DevOps
7 88 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 82 (23.50%) AI
9 80 (22.92%) Analytics
10 78 (22.35%) Containerisation
11 73 (20.92%) Data Pipeline
12 71 (20.34%) Test Automation
13 69 (19.77%) Data Modelling
14 68 (19.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 65 (18.62%) Data Engineering
16 63 (18.05%) Mentoring
17 62 (17.77%) Observability
18 54 (15.47%) ETL
19 51 (14.61%) Data Governance
20 50 (14.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 181 (51.86%) Python
2 159 (45.56%) Java
3 153 (43.84%) SQL
4 67 (19.20%) Go
5 58 (16.62%) TypeScript
6 53 (15.19%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.02%) C#
8 15 (4.30%) Bash
8 15 (4.30%) C++
9 12 (3.44%) Scala
10 9 (2.58%) RPG
11 7 (2.01%) Rust
12 5 (1.43%) PHP
13 3 (0.86%) C
13 3 (0.86%) Ruby
13 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.57%) Bicep
14 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 32 (9.17%) Degree
2 31 (8.88%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.45%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.57%) PhD
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) GIAC
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.29%) SSCP
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.74%) GDPR
3 16 (4.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.87%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.29%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.01%) QA
7 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.86%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) SEPA
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (27.22%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 84 (24.07%) Terraform
3 39 (11.17%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.30%) Grafana
5 15 (4.30%) Ansible
6 10 (2.87%) Istio
7 3 (0.86%) Argo
7 3 (0.86%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.57%) Cilium
8 2 (0.57%) Puppet
8 2 (0.57%) Salt
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.32%) Databricks
2 24 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.58%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.58%) Dell
4 13 (3.72%) IBM
5 9 (2.58%) Confluent
6 8 (2.29%) Solace
7 7 (2.01%) Talend
8 6 (1.72%) Splunk
9 5 (1.43%) Oracle
10 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.15%) WSO2
11 3 (0.86%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.86%) HP
11 3 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.86%) SAP
12 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.57%) OpenText