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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 132 170
Rank change year-on-year -8 +38 -106
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 329 332 445
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.60% 2.69% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.17% 10.41% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 230 251 351
10th Percentile £69,750 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £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 £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £86,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.14% +11.29% -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 3,235 3,190 5,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.78% 25.83% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 2,355 4,698
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £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 £122,500 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +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 16 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 16 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 -23 41 £90,000 +38.46% 37
West London - 10 £81,250 - 4
South London -12 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 78 (23.71%) Apache Spark
2 75 (22.80%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (10.94%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
6 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
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
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 209 (63.53%) AWS
2 109 (33.13%) Azure
3 81 (24.62%) GCP
4 46 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (13.98%) Serverless
5 43 (13.07%) dbt
6 38 (11.55%) Amazon S3
7 31 (9.42%) Datadog
7 31 (9.42%) Snowflake
8 27 (8.21%) Amazon Kinesis
9 25 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (7.60%) Power Platform
10 18 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (5.47%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (4.56%) GitHub
14 13 (3.95%) OpenShift
15 12 (3.65%) Amazon EMR
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%) AMQP
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (19.45%) NoSQL
2 45 (13.68%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.12%) Big Data
5 29 (8.81%) Data Lake
5 29 (8.81%) Tableau
6 25 (7.60%) BigQuery
6 25 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.60%) Relational Database
7 24 (7.29%) Power BI
8 23 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (6.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (5.78%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.47%) MySQL
12 17 (5.17%) MongoDB
13 16 (4.86%) Looker
13 16 (4.86%) Metadata
14 14 (4.26%) SQL Server
15 13 (3.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (13.37%) GitLab
2 34 (10.33%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.51%) Git
4 25 (7.60%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.08%) MLflow
6 16 (4.86%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.82%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Maven
9 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.91%) JIRA
9 3 (0.91%) JUnit
9 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.91%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.30%) Gradle
11 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.30%) JMeter
11 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 160 (48.63%) Finance
2 77 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.81%) Front Office
4 51 (15.50%) Banking
5 36 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.43%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.43%) Law
7 8 (2.43%) Retail
8 7 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.52%) Billing
9 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.22%) Advertising
10 4 (1.22%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.61%) Back Office
11 2 (0.61%) Legal
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.30%) International Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (30.09%) Developer
1 99 (30.09%) Senior
2 59 (17.93%) Data Engineer
3 57 (17.33%) Lead
4 55 (16.72%) Software Engineer
5 50 (15.20%) Java Engineer
6 33 (10.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 32 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.29%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.99%) Architect
9 23 (6.99%) Lead Developer
10 22 (6.69%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.69%) Python Engineer
11 21 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (6.08%) Lead Software Developer
13 18 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
13 18 (5.47%) Python Developer
13 18 (5.47%) Senior Java Engineer
14 17 (5.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.02%) Spring
2 54 (16.41%) React
3 53 (16.11%) Spring Boot
4 51 (15.50%) RabbitMQ
5 43 (13.07%) RESTful
6 40 (12.16%) Node.js
6 40 (12.16%) REST
7 33 (10.03%) GraphQL
7 33 (10.03%) Redux
8 29 (8.81%) gRPC
9 19 (5.78%) PySpark
10 18 (5.47%) .NET
10 18 (5.47%) web3js
11 17 (5.17%) scikit-learn
11 17 (5.17%) TensorFlow
12 16 (4.86%) LangChain
12 16 (4.86%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (4.86%) pgvector
12 16 (4.86%) PyTorch
13 10 (3.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 52 (15.81%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.85%) Fixed Income
4 31 (9.42%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.47%) Blockchain
5 18 (5.47%) Web3
6 16 (4.86%) Clustering
7 15 (4.56%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.34%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.74%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.43%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.22%) Anti-Piracy
13 4 (1.22%) Equities
13 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.17%) Linux
2 8 (2.43%) Windows
3 5 (1.52%) Android
4 4 (1.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 124 (37.69%) Microservices
2 124 (37.69%) Software Engineering
3 115 (34.95%) DevOps
4 102 (31.00%) Agile
5 89 (27.05%) Event-Driven
6 84 (25.53%) Analytics
7 76 (23.10%) Data Pipeline
8 75 (22.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (22.49%) Containerisation
10 72 (21.88%) AI
11 68 (20.67%) Data Engineering
12 65 (19.76%) Data Modelling
13 60 (18.24%) Test Automation
14 57 (17.33%) Observability
15 56 (17.02%) Investment Management
16 55 (16.72%) ETL
17 54 (16.41%) Computer Science
18 53 (16.11%) Mentoring
19 52 (15.81%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 184 (55.93%) Python
2 141 (42.86%) SQL
3 138 (41.95%) Java
4 81 (24.62%) Go
5 51 (15.50%) TypeScript
6 46 (13.98%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.90%) C#
8 20 (6.08%) Bash
9 18 (5.47%) C++
10 13 (3.95%) Scala
11 7 (2.13%) Rust
12 4 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PHP
14 2 (0.61%) RPG
15 1 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (10.33%) Degree
2 26 (7.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.47%) AWS Certification
3 18 (5.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (4.86%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.65%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.98%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.90%) GDPR
3 16 (4.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.04%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.43%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.82%) 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 99 (30.09%) Docker
2 8 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 121 (36.78%) Kubernetes
2 82 (24.92%) Terraform
3 37 (11.25%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.08%) Grafana
5 15 (4.56%) Ansible
6 9 (2.74%) Istio
7 8 (2.43%) Argo
8 3 (0.91%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) Kibana
9 2 (0.61%) Salt
10 1 (0.30%) Cilium
10 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (11.55%) Databricks
2 18 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.86%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.86%) Dell
4 10 (3.04%) Confluent
5 7 (2.13%) Solace
6 6 (1.82%) Splunk
7 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.52%) Talend
8 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.22%) WSO2
9 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle
10 2 (0.61%) Ericsson
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) Nokia
10 2 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.61%) VMware