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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 190 118
Rank change year-on-year +73 -72 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 326 312 526
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.75% 1.78% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.30% 6.58% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 164 190 462
10th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,938 £71,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,750 £108,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,250 £122,250
England median annual salary £92,500 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +23.33% -9.09% -2.94%

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 2,886 4,743 6,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.31% 27.06% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,944 3,047 5,233
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,382 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £111,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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 +25 34 £112,500 +50.00% 95
South London +29 8 £95,000 - 1
West London +1 1 £82,500 +22.22% 2
East London -7 1 £75,000 - 8
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 77 (23.62%) Apache Spark
2 33 (10.12%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (6.44%) Apache
4 7 (2.15%) Confluence
4 7 (2.15%) nginx
5 4 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.23%) Apache Synapse
5 4 (1.23%) JBoss
5 4 (1.23%) Traefik
6 3 (0.92%) Luigi
6 3 (0.92%) Mule
6 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.31%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 220 (67.48%) AWS
2 91 (27.91%) Azure
3 76 (23.31%) GCP
4 29 (8.90%) Serverless
5 25 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (7.36%) GitHub
7 20 (6.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 20 (6.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.60%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.68%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.07%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.07%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
16 5 (1.53%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.84%) Reverse Proxy
1 6 (1.84%) TCP/IP
1 6 (1.84%) VPN
2 4 (1.23%) DHCP
2 4 (1.23%) DNS
2 4 (1.23%) FTP
2 4 (1.23%) ICMP
3 2 (0.61%) BGP
3 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.61%) Firewall
3 2 (0.61%) MQTT
3 2 (0.61%) OSPF
3 2 (0.61%) RTMP
3 2 (0.61%) VLAN
3 2 (0.61%) WAN
3 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.61%) Wireless
4 1 (0.31%) AMQP
4 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.25%) NoSQL
2 49 (15.03%) Big Data
3 42 (12.88%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (12.27%) MongoDB
5 39 (11.96%) Relational Database
6 35 (10.74%) Hadoop
7 31 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (9.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (6.13%) Metadata
10 17 (5.21%) Redis
11 14 (4.29%) SQL Server
12 12 (3.68%) DynamoDB
13 11 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (3.37%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.37%) MySQL
13 11 (3.37%) Oracle Database
13 11 (3.37%) RDBMS
14 10 (3.07%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.07%) Flink
14 10 (3.07%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (9.20%) Git
2 27 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.60%) GitLab
4 11 (3.37%) CircleCI
4 11 (3.37%) JIRA
4 11 (3.37%) JUnit
5 9 (2.76%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.76%) MLflow
6 8 (2.45%) Vite
7 7 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.84%) Selenium
9 5 (1.53%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.23%) git-flow
10 4 (1.23%) JMeter
10 4 (1.23%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.23%) Maven
10 4 (1.23%) Mockito
10 4 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.23%) VisualVM
General
1 211 (64.72%) Finance
2 95 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 85 (26.07%) Law
4 77 (23.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (23.01%) Banking
6 49 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (15.03%) Front Office
7 40 (12.27%) Financial Institution
8 22 (6.75%) Marketing
9 11 (3.37%) Games
9 11 (3.37%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.53%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.92%) Retail
11 3 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (38.34%) Software Engineer
2 92 (28.22%) Developer
3 75 (23.01%) Lead
4 53 (16.26%) Senior
5 51 (15.64%) Java Engineer
6 45 (13.80%) Lead Software Engineer
7 43 (13.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 42 (12.88%) Data Engineer
9 33 (10.12%) Java Developer
10 28 (8.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 20 (6.13%) Python Engineer
12 19 (5.83%) Architect
12 19 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (5.83%) Lead Developer
13 16 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (4.60%) Lead Software Developer
14 15 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (4.60%) Senior Java Engineer
15 14 (4.29%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (26.99%) Spring
2 71 (21.78%) Spring Boot
3 65 (19.94%) React
4 53 (16.26%) RESTful
5 45 (13.80%) GraphQL
6 40 (12.27%) RabbitMQ
7 39 (11.96%) Node.js
8 35 (10.74%) REST
9 33 (10.12%) AngularJS
10 27 (8.28%) Redux
11 21 (6.44%) Akka
12 16 (4.91%) RxJava
12 16 (4.91%) Spring WebFlux
13 14 (4.29%) Jest
14 13 (3.99%) JMS
14 13 (3.99%) Micronaut
15 12 (3.68%) Quarkus
16 11 (3.37%) gRPC
16 11 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (3.07%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (30.67%) Cloud Native
2 66 (20.25%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (10.43%) Algorithms
4 28 (8.59%) Product Ownership
5 27 (8.28%) Data Structures
6 25 (7.67%) Fixed Income
7 21 (6.44%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (6.44%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.91%) Mobile App
8 16 (4.91%) Public Cloud
9 14 (4.29%) Client/Server
9 14 (4.29%) Hedge funds
10 13 (3.99%) Distributed Applications
10 13 (3.99%) FMCG
11 11 (3.37%) e-Learning
12 10 (3.07%) Equities
12 10 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (3.07%) Virtual Team
13 9 (2.76%) Mobile Banking
13 9 (2.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.13%) Linux
2 5 (1.53%) Windows
3 4 (1.23%) Unix
4 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (51.84%) Software Engineering
2 141 (43.25%) CI/CD
3 134 (41.10%) Agile
4 118 (36.20%) Microservices
5 87 (26.69%) DevOps
6 85 (26.07%) Fintech
7 65 (19.94%) Analytics
7 65 (19.94%) SDLC
8 63 (19.33%) Test Automation
9 59 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (17.79%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (17.48%) Data Modelling
12 51 (15.64%) ETL
12 51 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 47 (14.42%) Data Engineering
14 44 (13.50%) Containerisation
14 44 (13.50%) Machine Learning
15 41 (12.58%) Computer Science
15 41 (12.58%) Multithreading
16 40 (12.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 205 (62.88%) Java
2 135 (41.41%) Python
3 113 (34.66%) SQL
4 57 (17.48%) Go
5 52 (15.95%) TypeScript
6 38 (11.66%) JavaScript
7 30 (9.20%) Scala
8 27 (8.28%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.99%) C#
10 10 (3.07%) Bash
11 9 (2.76%) C++
12 7 (2.15%) Groovy
13 4 (1.23%) Rust
14 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.31%) Clojure
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (8.59%) Degree
2 15 (4.60%) Master's Degree
3 14 (4.29%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.68%) PhD
6 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.23%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.23%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.61%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.75%) QA
3 16 (4.91%) GDPR
4 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.61%) SEPA
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 82 (25.15%) Docker
2 7 (2.15%) HDFS
3 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 139 (42.64%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.50%) Terraform
3 19 (5.83%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.99%) Grafana
5 12 (3.68%) Ansible
5 12 (3.68%) Argo
6 8 (2.45%) Mesos
7 5 (1.53%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.53%) Puppet
8 4 (1.23%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.92%) Kibana
9 3 (0.92%) Podman
10 2 (0.61%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.61%) logstash
10 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.31%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (12.88%) Databricks
2 28 (8.59%) Oracle
3 14 (4.29%) SAP
4 13 (3.99%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.68%) Google
6 4 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.23%) Confluent
6 4 (1.23%) Dell
6 4 (1.23%) Splunk
7 3 (0.92%) Solace
8 2 (0.61%) Cisco
8 2 (0.61%) Facebook
8 2 (0.61%) Informatica
8 2 (0.61%) MikroTik
8 2 (0.61%) NETGEAR
8 2 (0.61%) Sonatype
8 2 (0.61%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.61%) Talend
8 2 (0.61%) Ubiquiti
8 2 (0.61%) VMware