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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 121 191
Rank change year-on-year -36 +70 -74
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 353 329 328
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.38% 2.78% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.89% 9.94% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 179 168 208
10th Percentile £55,945 £63,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £105,000 £138,125 £118,750
90th Percentile £135,500 £142,500 £140,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.71% +22.50% -17.65%

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 3,971 3,311 5,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.57% 28.00% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,526 2,241 3,671
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,293
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -3 26 £90,000 -20.00% 56
West London -11 10 £80,000 -3.03% 20
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 70 (19.83%) Apache Spark
2 37 (10.48%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (7.65%) Apache
4 13 (3.68%) Confluence
5 5 (1.42%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.13%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.13%) Camunda
7 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.57%) Luigi
7 2 (0.57%) Tornado
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 199 (56.37%) AWS
2 120 (33.99%) Azure
3 54 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (13.60%) GCP
5 45 (12.75%) Serverless
6 24 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (6.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 22 (6.23%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.95%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.95%) GitHub
10 18 (5.10%) Amazon EMR
10 18 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (5.10%) Azure Databricks
11 15 (4.25%) SaaS
12 14 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.97%) Datadog
13 12 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.12%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.98%) DNS
2 6 (1.70%) BGP
2 6 (1.70%) IPsec
2 6 (1.70%) VPN
3 5 (1.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.57%) 4G
4 2 (0.57%) 5G
4 2 (0.57%) AMQP
4 2 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.57%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (31.16%) NoSQL
2 54 (15.30%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.31%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.63%) Big Data
4 34 (9.63%) MongoDB
5 27 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (6.80%) Redis
7 23 (6.52%) Hadoop
8 22 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (5.95%) Power BI
10 20 (5.67%) Data Lake
10 20 (5.67%) MySQL
11 19 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (4.25%) Tableau
14 14 (3.97%) Metadata
14 14 (3.97%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (3.40%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (15.86%) GitLab
2 48 (13.60%) Git
3 47 (13.31%) Cucumber
4 41 (11.61%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.40%) Selenium
6 9 (2.55%) JIRA
7 7 (1.98%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.98%) Maven
8 6 (1.70%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.13%) JUnit
9 4 (1.13%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.57%) git-flow
10 2 (0.57%) Gradle
10 2 (0.57%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.57%) Mockito
10 2 (0.57%) Postman
10 2 (0.57%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.57%) Xcode
10 2 (0.57%) XCUITest
General
1 169 (47.88%) Finance
2 90 (25.50%) Social Skills
3 61 (17.28%) Banking
4 26 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.52%) Financial Institution
5 23 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.82%) Front Office
8 16 (4.53%) Retail
9 15 (4.25%) Marketing
10 10 (2.83%) Law
11 9 (2.55%) Military
12 7 (1.98%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.42%) Aviation
15 3 (0.85%) Billing
15 3 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
15 3 (0.85%) Publishing
15 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 106 (30.03%) Senior
2 81 (22.95%) Java Engineer
3 60 (17.00%) Developer
4 56 (15.86%) Software Engineer
5 46 (13.03%) Data Engineer
6 39 (11.05%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.92%) Architect
8 34 (9.63%) Lead
9 33 (9.35%) Senior Java Engineer
10 30 (8.50%) Principal Java Engineer
11 29 (8.22%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (6.80%) Senior Developer
13 20 (5.67%) Java Developer
14 18 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (4.53%) Python Engineer
15 16 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.12%) Backend Developer
16 11 (3.12%) Consultant
17 10 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
17 10 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (36.26%) Spring
2 115 (32.58%) Spring Boot
3 64 (18.13%) Terraform
4 53 (15.01%) RESTful
5 52 (14.73%) REST
6 46 (13.03%) RabbitMQ
7 32 (9.07%) React
8 30 (8.50%) Node.js
9 26 (7.37%) .NET
10 24 (6.80%) PySpark
11 15 (4.25%) gRPC
12 13 (3.68%) Middleware
12 13 (3.68%) Playwright
13 11 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.12%) Keycloak
14 10 (2.83%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (2.83%) Swagger
15 9 (2.55%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.55%) GraphQL
15 9 (2.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 127 (35.98%) Cloud Native
2 112 (31.73%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (12.18%) Public Cloud
4 42 (11.90%) e-Learning
5 32 (9.07%) Onboarding
6 25 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.25%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (3.97%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.40%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.83%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.83%) EPoS
11 10 (2.83%) Equities
11 10 (2.83%) iSeries
11 10 (2.83%) Replication
12 9 (2.55%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.55%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.95%) Linux
2 6 (1.70%) Unix
3 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.85%) Windows
5 2 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (53.26%) CI/CD
2 177 (50.14%) Microservices
3 176 (49.86%) Event-Driven
4 152 (43.06%) Agile
5 114 (32.29%) Software Engineering
6 113 (32.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 110 (31.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 109 (30.88%) DevOps
9 101 (28.61%) AI
10 100 (28.33%) Test Automation
11 89 (25.21%) Mentoring
12 78 (22.10%) Observability
13 64 (18.13%) Containerisation
14 63 (17.85%) Roadmaps
15 61 (17.28%) Data Pipeline
16 56 (15.86%) Analytics
16 56 (15.86%) BDD
16 56 (15.86%) Data Modelling
17 52 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
18 49 (13.88%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 192 (54.39%) Java
2 136 (38.53%) SQL
3 120 (33.99%) Python
4 32 (9.07%) C#
4 32 (9.07%) TypeScript
5 30 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.38%) Scala
7 15 (4.25%) Go
8 14 (3.97%) Bash
9 13 (3.68%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.83%) RPG
11 9 (2.55%) Groovy
12 6 (1.70%) C
12 6 (1.70%) PHP
12 6 (1.70%) Ruby
13 5 (1.42%) C++
13 5 (1.42%) R
14 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (15.30%) AWS Certification
2 47 (13.31%) Security Cleared
3 42 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 42 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 39 (11.05%) Degree
5 17 (4.82%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.42%) PhD
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) CSPO
11 1 (0.28%) GIAC
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.28%) OCP
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.40%) QA
3 9 (2.55%) GDPR
4 5 (1.42%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) SEPA
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (27.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 129 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.63%) Prometheus
3 24 (6.80%) Grafana
4 9 (2.55%) Rancher
5 8 (2.27%) Argo
6 7 (1.98%) Ansible
7 6 (1.70%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.85%) Cilium
9 2 (0.57%) Control-M
9 2 (0.57%) Istio
9 2 (0.57%) kaniko
9 2 (0.57%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) logstash
10 1 (0.28%) Puppet
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
10 1 (0.28%) Salt
Vendors
1 35 (9.92%) Databricks
1 35 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.08%) IBM
3 20 (5.67%) Oracle
4 13 (3.68%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.27%) Google
7 6 (1.70%) HP
7 6 (1.70%) SAP
7 6 (1.70%) Solace
7 6 (1.70%) Splunk
8 5 (1.42%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.13%) Talend
9 4 (1.13%) WSO2
10 3 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.57%) Apple
11 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.57%) Confluent
11 2 (0.57%) TIBCO