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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 135 152
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 -87
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 322 342 460
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.69% 2.65% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.44% 9.89% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 226 258 358
10th Percentile £72,125 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £68,125 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £131,500
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 3,085 3,458 5,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.19% 26.79% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,157 2,492 4,701
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £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 £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 15 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 15 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 -28 35 £85,000 +36.00% 26
West London - 9 £82,500 - 4
South London 0 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 82 (25.47%) Apache Spark
2 73 (22.67%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (10.56%) Apache
4 6 (1.86%) Confluence
5 5 (1.55%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.55%) IIS
5 5 (1.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.62%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
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
1 213 (66.15%) AWS
2 103 (31.99%) Azure
3 88 (27.33%) GCP
4 42 (13.04%) Serverless
5 40 (12.42%) dbt
6 34 (10.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 34 (10.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (9.32%) Amazon S3
8 29 (9.01%) Snowflake
9 27 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (8.07%) Datadog
10 26 (8.07%) Power Platform
11 24 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (5.59%) GitHub
14 16 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (4.66%) OpenShift
16 14 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Broadband
2 4 (1.24%) DNS
3 2 (0.62%) AMQP
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) 4G
4 1 (0.31%) 5G
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 55 (17.08%) NoSQL
2 50 (15.53%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (9.94%) Big Data
5 30 (9.32%) Tableau
6 26 (8.07%) Power BI
7 25 (7.76%) BigQuery
8 24 (7.45%) Data Lake
8 24 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (7.45%) Relational Database
9 22 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (6.83%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (6.21%) Redis
10 20 (6.21%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (5.59%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.59%) SQL Server
12 16 (4.97%) Flink
12 16 (4.97%) Looker
12 16 (4.97%) Metadata
13 15 (4.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (11.49%) GitLab
1 37 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 27 (8.39%) Git
3 21 (6.52%) CircleCI
3 21 (6.52%) MLflow
4 9 (2.80%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.86%) JIRA
6 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.55%) Selenium
7 4 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.24%) JUnit
8 3 (0.93%) Maven
8 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.93%) WinDbg
9 2 (0.62%) Mocha
9 2 (0.62%) webpack
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 154 (47.83%) Finance
2 83 (25.78%) Social Skills
3 60 (18.63%) Front Office
4 49 (15.22%) Banking
5 40 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.17%) Law
8 7 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.17%) Retail
9 4 (1.24%) Advertising
9 4 (1.24%) Billing
9 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (31.68%) Developer
1 102 (31.68%) Senior
2 59 (18.32%) Data Engineer
3 53 (16.46%) Lead
3 53 (16.46%) Software Engineer
4 37 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.87%) Java Engineer
6 32 (9.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 28 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.45%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.14%) Lead Developer
10 22 (6.83%) Senior Developer
11 21 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (6.52%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (6.52%) Python Developer
12 20 (6.21%) Lead Software Developer
13 19 (5.90%) Python Engineer
14 17 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (5.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.46%) React
2 49 (15.22%) Spring
3 48 (14.91%) RESTful
4 45 (13.98%) RabbitMQ
4 45 (13.98%) REST
5 43 (13.35%) Node.js
6 41 (12.73%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.18%) GraphQL
8 35 (10.87%) Redux
9 31 (9.63%) gRPC
10 17 (5.28%) PySpark
10 17 (5.28%) scikit-learn
10 17 (5.28%) TensorFlow
11 16 (4.97%) LangChain
11 16 (4.97%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (4.97%) pgvector
11 16 (4.97%) PyTorch
12 14 (4.35%) web3js
13 13 (4.04%) AngularJS
13 13 (4.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 86 (26.71%) Cloud Native
2 57 (17.70%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (13.04%) Fixed Income
4 24 (7.45%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.97%) Clustering
6 14 (4.35%) Blockchain
6 14 (4.35%) Web3
7 13 (4.04%) AI Agents
7 13 (4.04%) Data Structures
7 13 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (3.42%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.86%) Equities
12 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.55%) Derivative
13 5 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.90%) Linux
2 11 (3.42%) Windows
3 9 (2.80%) Android
4 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (44.10%) CI/CD
2 124 (38.51%) DevOps
3 116 (36.02%) Microservices
4 114 (35.40%) Software Engineering
5 102 (31.68%) Agile
6 83 (25.78%) Analytics
7 79 (24.53%) Data Pipeline
7 79 (24.53%) Event-Driven
8 75 (23.29%) Containerisation
9 72 (22.36%) Data Engineering
10 69 (21.43%) Data Modelling
11 68 (21.12%) AI
12 65 (20.19%) Computer Science
13 60 (18.63%) Low Latency
14 58 (18.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (17.39%) ETL
15 56 (17.39%) Investment Management
16 53 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (16.15%) Data Governance
17 52 (16.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 192 (59.63%) Python
2 139 (43.17%) SQL
3 138 (42.86%) Java
4 88 (27.33%) Go
5 50 (15.53%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.11%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.45%) Bash
8 21 (6.52%) C#
9 20 (6.21%) Scala
10 19 (5.90%) C++
11 7 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.17%) Rust
12 6 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
13 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.31%) Groovy
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.04%) Degree
2 38 (11.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.42%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.11%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.98%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.63%) GDPR
3 16 (4.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.11%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.48%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.86%) 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
1 105 (32.61%) Docker
2 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (38.51%) Kubernetes
2 71 (22.05%) Terraform
3 36 (11.18%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.14%) Grafana
5 21 (6.52%) Ansible
6 12 (3.73%) Argo
7 9 (2.80%) Istio
8 6 (1.86%) Puppet
9 4 (1.24%) Kibana
9 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.62%) Salt
11 1 (0.31%) Cilium
11 1 (0.31%) Icinga
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (11.49%) Databricks
2 16 (4.97%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.97%) Dell
3 11 (3.42%) Confluent
4 7 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.17%) VMware
5 6 (1.86%) Oracle
5 6 (1.86%) Solace
6 5 (1.55%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.55%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.55%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.55%) Nokia
6 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.24%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.24%) Splunk
8 3 (0.93%) Google
8 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.93%) Talend
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce