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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 124 193
Rank change year-on-year -54 +69 -70
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 324 315 321
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 2.70% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.32% 9.92% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 155 159 198
10th Percentile £55,725 £67,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £93,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +12.60% +3.61%
75th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £121,500 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £77,000 £88,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.24% +22.41% -12.12%

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 3,893 3,174 5,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.01% 27.19% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,422 2,140 3,588
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £111,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +7 24 £92,500 -17.78% 40
West London -10 10 £80,000 -3.03% 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 60 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 29 (8.95%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (6.79%) Apache
4 13 (4.01%) Confluence
5 5 (1.54%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.54%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.23%) Camunda
7 2 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.62%) Luigi
7 2 (0.62%) Tornado
8 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 190 (58.64%) AWS
2 112 (34.57%) Azure
3 53 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (14.20%) GCP
5 39 (12.04%) Serverless
6 23 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (7.10%) GitHub
6 23 (7.10%) Power Platform
7 22 (6.79%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (6.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 21 (6.48%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (5.25%) Azure Databricks
11 15 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.63%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.40%) Lucidchart
13 11 (3.40%) SaaS
14 10 (3.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.16%) DNS
2 6 (1.85%) BGP
2 6 (1.85%) IPsec
2 6 (1.85%) VPN
3 5 (1.54%) Internet
4 2 (0.62%) 4G
4 2 (0.62%) 5G
4 2 (0.62%) AMQP
4 2 (0.62%) HTTP
4 2 (0.62%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) Broadband
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) SSH
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 53 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (13.58%) Relational Database
4 33 (10.19%) MongoDB
5 25 (7.72%) Big Data
6 24 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (6.79%) Power BI
8 21 (6.48%) Redis
9 20 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (6.17%) Hadoop
10 19 (5.86%) Data Lake
11 17 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (4.94%) MySQL
13 14 (4.32%) Metadata
13 14 (4.32%) Tableau
14 13 (4.01%) SQL Server
15 11 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (3.40%) Apache Hive
15 11 (3.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (17.90%) GitLab
2 49 (15.12%) Cucumber
3 47 (14.51%) Git
4 38 (11.73%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.78%) JIRA
6 8 (2.47%) Selenium
7 7 (2.16%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.54%) Maven
10 3 (0.93%) JUnit
10 3 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.62%) git-flow
11 2 (0.62%) Gradle
11 2 (0.62%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.62%) Mockito
11 2 (0.62%) Postman
11 2 (0.62%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.62%) Xcode
11 2 (0.62%) XCTest
11 2 (0.62%) XCUITest
General
1 163 (50.31%) Finance
2 82 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 65 (20.06%) Banking
4 26 (8.02%) Financial Institution
5 23 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.94%) Front Office
8 15 (4.63%) Marketing
8 15 (4.63%) Retail
9 10 (3.09%) Law
10 9 (2.78%) Military
11 7 (2.16%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.54%) Aviation
14 3 (0.93%) Billing
14 3 (0.93%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.93%) Publishing
14 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 100 (30.86%) Senior
2 76 (23.46%) Java Engineer
3 53 (16.36%) Software Engineer
4 52 (16.05%) Developer
5 40 (12.35%) Data Engineer
5 40 (12.35%) Principal Engineer
6 35 (10.80%) Architect
7 32 (9.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 31 (9.57%) Principal Java Engineer
9 30 (9.26%) Lead
10 27 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (6.79%) Senior Developer
12 17 (5.25%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (4.01%) Python Engineer
16 10 (3.09%) Backend Developer
16 10 (3.09%) Consultant
16 10 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (3.09%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (38.27%) Spring
2 111 (34.26%) Spring Boot
3 56 (17.28%) Terraform
4 51 (15.74%) REST
5 48 (14.81%) RESTful
6 43 (13.27%) RabbitMQ
7 28 (8.64%) Node.js
8 26 (8.02%) React
9 25 (7.72%) .NET
10 22 (6.79%) PySpark
11 15 (4.63%) gRPC
12 13 (4.01%) Middleware
13 11 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.40%) Keycloak
14 10 (3.09%) OpenAPI
14 10 (3.09%) Playwright
14 10 (3.09%) Swagger
15 9 (2.78%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
15 9 (2.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 122 (37.65%) Cloud Native
2 114 (35.19%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (14.20%) Public Cloud
4 45 (13.89%) e-Learning
5 31 (9.57%) Onboarding
6 26 (8.02%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (4.32%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (4.32%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.40%) AI Agents
11 10 (3.09%) EPoS
11 10 (3.09%) Equities
11 10 (3.09%) iSeries
11 10 (3.09%) Replication
12 9 (2.78%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.78%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.78%) Fixed Income
13 7 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.48%) Linux
2 6 (1.85%) Unix
3 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) Android
4 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (56.79%) CI/CD
2 173 (53.40%) Microservices
3 170 (52.47%) Event-Driven
4 148 (45.68%) Agile
5 109 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 106 (32.72%) Software Engineering
8 100 (30.86%) DevOps
9 98 (30.25%) AI
10 96 (29.63%) Test Automation
11 83 (25.62%) Mentoring
12 72 (22.22%) Observability
13 61 (18.83%) Containerisation
14 58 (17.90%) Roadmaps
15 57 (17.59%) BDD
16 56 (17.28%) Data Modelling
17 53 (16.36%) Analytics
17 53 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
18 49 (15.12%) CQRS
18 49 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 181 (55.86%) Java
2 128 (39.51%) SQL
3 107 (33.02%) Python
4 29 (8.95%) C#
5 28 (8.64%) TypeScript
6 27 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.25%) Scala
8 14 (4.32%) Bash
8 14 (4.32%) Go
9 12 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.09%) RPG
11 9 (2.78%) Groovy
12 6 (1.85%) C
12 6 (1.85%) PHP
12 6 (1.85%) Ruby
13 5 (1.54%) R
14 3 (0.93%) C++
14 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (17.59%) AWS Certification
2 46 (14.20%) Security Cleared
3 45 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 42 (12.96%) SC Cleared
5 37 (11.42%) Degree
6 16 (4.94%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.40%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.54%) PhD
10 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.31%) CISSP
12 1 (0.31%) CSPO
12 1 (0.31%) GIAC
12 1 (0.31%) OCP
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.04%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.40%) QA
3 9 (2.78%) GDPR
4 7 (2.16%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.62%) Basel III
6 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.62%) PSD2
7 1 (0.31%) SEPA
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (27.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 117 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.88%) Prometheus
3 23 (7.10%) Grafana
4 9 (2.78%) Rancher
5 7 (2.16%) Argo
6 6 (1.85%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (1.54%) Ansible
8 3 (0.93%) Cilium
9 2 (0.62%) Control-M
9 2 (0.62%) Istio
9 2 (0.62%) kaniko
10 1 (0.31%) Kibana
10 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.19%) Databricks
3 25 (7.72%) IBM
4 19 (5.86%) Oracle
5 11 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.47%) Google
8 6 (1.85%) HP
8 6 (1.85%) SAP
8 6 (1.85%) Splunk
9 5 (1.54%) Solace
10 4 (1.23%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.23%) Talend
11 3 (0.93%) WSO2
12 2 (0.62%) Apple
12 2 (0.62%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.62%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.62%) Confluent
12 2 (0.62%) OpenText
12 2 (0.62%) TIBCO