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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 135 163
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 -98
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 324 342 451
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.63% 2.67% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.28% 10.23% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 230 258 355
10th Percentile £68,625 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £128,000
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 3,151 3,342 5,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.87% 26.07% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,197 2,476 4,686
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,454 £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 £127,500 £128,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.31% +10.49% -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 28 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 28 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 -17 37 £85,000 +33.33% 38
West London - 9 £82,500 - 3
South London -8 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 (24.69%) Apache Spark
2 76 (23.46%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.80%) Apache
4 6 (1.85%) Apache Pulsar
4 6 (1.85%) Confluence
5 5 (1.54%) IIS
5 5 (1.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 214 (66.05%) AWS
2 107 (33.02%) Azure
3 91 (28.09%) GCP
4 43 (13.27%) Serverless
5 42 (12.96%) dbt
6 39 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (10.49%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.57%) Amazon Kinesis
9 30 (9.26%) Snowflake
10 29 (8.95%) Datadog
11 26 (8.02%) Power Platform
12 24 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (5.86%) GitHub
15 16 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (4.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) Broadband
2 4 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (0.62%) 4G
3 2 (0.62%) 5G
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) AMQP
4 1 (0.31%) BGP
4 1 (0.31%) CTI
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.31%) LTE
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.21%) NoSQL
2 48 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (10.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.26%) Tableau
5 27 (8.33%) Big Data
6 26 (8.02%) Data Lake
6 26 (8.02%) Power BI
6 26 (8.02%) Relational Database
7 25 (7.72%) BigQuery
8 24 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (6.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (5.56%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.56%) MySQL
12 17 (5.25%) Metadata
12 17 (5.25%) SQL Server
13 16 (4.94%) Looker
13 16 (4.94%) Redis
14 15 (4.63%) Flink
Development Applications
1 41 (12.65%) GitLab
2 37 (11.42%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.64%) Git
4 23 (7.10%) CircleCI
5 21 (6.48%) MLflow
6 11 (3.40%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.85%) JIRA
8 5 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.54%) Selenium
9 3 (0.93%) JUnit
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.93%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.31%) Gradle
10 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.31%) Mocha
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 156 (48.15%) Finance
2 81 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.90%) Front Office
4 49 (15.12%) Banking
5 38 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.72%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.47%) Retail
8 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.16%) Law
9 6 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.54%) Billing
11 4 (1.23%) Advertising
11 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.93%) Legal
12 3 (0.93%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Back Office
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (32.41%) Senior
2 99 (30.56%) Developer
3 60 (18.52%) Data Engineer
4 57 (17.59%) Lead
5 51 (15.74%) Software Engineer
6 41 (12.65%) Java Engineer
7 35 (10.80%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (9.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 27 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (7.41%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.79%) Java Developer
11 22 (6.79%) Python Engineer
11 22 (6.79%) Senior Developer
12 21 (6.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (6.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (6.17%) Lead Software Developer
14 19 (5.86%) Python Developer
15 17 (5.25%) Architect
15 17 (5.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.43%) React
2 49 (15.12%) RabbitMQ
2 49 (15.12%) RESTful
2 49 (15.12%) Spring
3 44 (13.58%) Spring Boot
4 43 (13.27%) REST
5 42 (12.96%) Node.js
6 34 (10.49%) GraphQL
7 33 (10.19%) Redux
8 32 (9.88%) gRPC
9 18 (5.56%) PySpark
10 17 (5.25%) scikit-learn
10 17 (5.25%) TensorFlow
11 16 (4.94%) LangChain
11 16 (4.94%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (4.94%) pgvector
11 16 (4.94%) PyTorch
11 16 (4.94%) web3js
12 12 (3.70%) OAuth
13 11 (3.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 90 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 56 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (12.96%) Fixed Income
4 26 (8.02%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.94%) Blockchain
5 16 (4.94%) Clustering
5 16 (4.94%) Web3
6 13 (4.01%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.70%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.40%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.16%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.85%) Equities
14 5 (1.54%) Derivative
14 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.56%) Linux
2 10 (3.09%) Windows
3 9 (2.78%) Android
4 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (44.75%) CI/CD
2 124 (38.27%) DevOps
3 117 (36.11%) Microservices
3 117 (36.11%) Software Engineering
4 99 (30.56%) Agile
5 87 (26.85%) Analytics
6 84 (25.93%) Event-Driven
7 81 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 81 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 73 (22.53%) Data Engineering
9 71 (21.91%) AI
10 69 (21.30%) Data Modelling
11 66 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 62 (19.14%) Computer Science
13 60 (18.52%) Low Latency
14 57 (17.59%) ETL
14 57 (17.59%) Investment Management
15 54 (16.67%) Machine Learning
15 54 (16.67%) Observability
16 52 (16.05%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 190 (58.64%) Python
2 139 (42.90%) SQL
3 133 (41.05%) Java
4 89 (27.47%) Go
5 47 (14.51%) TypeScript
6 38 (11.73%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.41%) Bash
8 21 (6.48%) C#
9 19 (5.86%) C++
10 16 (4.94%) Scala
11 7 (2.16%) Rust
12 6 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.54%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.62%) Bicep
15 2 (0.62%) PHP
16 1 (0.31%) Korn
16 1 (0.31%) Perl
16 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 41 (12.65%) Degree
2 35 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.01%) AWS Certification
3 13 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.95%) GDPR
3 16 (4.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.09%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.47%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.54%) QA
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (33.02%) Docker
2 8 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 127 (39.20%) Kubernetes
2 75 (23.15%) Terraform
3 37 (11.42%) Prometheus
4 24 (7.41%) Grafana
5 20 (6.17%) Ansible
6 11 (3.40%) Argo
7 9 (2.78%) Istio
8 6 (1.85%) Puppet
9 4 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.62%) Kibana
10 2 (0.62%) Salt
11 1 (0.31%) Cilium
11 1 (0.31%) Icinga
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (11.42%) Databricks
2 16 (4.94%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.94%) Dell
3 11 (3.40%) Confluent
4 8 (2.47%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.16%) Solace
6 6 (1.85%) Oracle
6 6 (1.85%) VMware
7 5 (1.54%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.54%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.54%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.54%) Nokia
7 5 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.54%) Talend
8 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.23%) Splunk
9 3 (0.93%) Google
9 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.62%) Salesforce