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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 125 192
Rank change year-on-year -35 +67 -78
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 348 326 335
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.35% 2.75% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.78% 9.90% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 175 164 206
10th Percentile £55,835 £64,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £94,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +11.11% +5.00%
75th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £127,500 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -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 3,962 3,292 5,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.41% 27.75% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,509 2,228 3,675
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,850 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £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 27 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 27 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 +1 26 £90,000 -20.00% 55
West London -11 10 £80,000 -3.03% 14
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 69 (19.83%) Apache Spark
2 34 (9.77%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (7.76%) Apache
4 13 (3.74%) Confluence
5 5 (1.44%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.15%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.15%) 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 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 196 (56.32%) AWS
2 119 (34.20%) Azure
3 54 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (13.79%) GCP
5 45 (12.93%) Serverless
6 24 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.61%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 22 (6.32%) GitHub
8 22 (6.32%) Power Platform
9 21 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (5.17%) Azure Databricks
11 16 (4.60%) Amazon EMR
12 15 (4.31%) SaaS
13 14 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.02%) Datadog
14 12 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) DNS
2 6 (1.72%) BGP
2 6 (1.72%) IPsec
2 6 (1.72%) VPN
3 5 (1.44%) 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 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) LTE
5 1 (0.29%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) SSH
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (31.32%) NoSQL
2 54 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.51%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.77%) MongoDB
5 33 (9.48%) Big Data
6 27 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (6.61%) Hadoop
7 23 (6.61%) Redis
8 22 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (6.03%) Power BI
10 20 (5.75%) Data Lake
10 20 (5.75%) MySQL
11 19 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (4.31%) Tableau
14 14 (4.02%) Metadata
14 14 (4.02%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (3.45%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (16.09%) GitLab
2 48 (13.79%) Git
3 47 (13.51%) Cucumber
4 41 (11.78%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.16%) Selenium
6 9 (2.59%) JIRA
7 7 (2.01%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.01%) Claude Code
7 7 (2.01%) Maven
8 4 (1.15%) JUnit
8 4 (1.15%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.57%) git-flow
9 2 (0.57%) Gradle
9 2 (0.57%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.57%) Postman
9 2 (0.57%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.57%) Xcode
9 2 (0.57%) XCTest
9 2 (0.57%) XCUITest
General
1 168 (48.28%) Finance
2 89 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 62 (17.82%) Banking
4 26 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.61%) Financial Institution
5 23 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.60%) Front Office
7 16 (4.60%) Retail
8 15 (4.31%) Marketing
9 10 (2.87%) Law
10 9 (2.59%) Military
11 7 (2.01%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.44%) Aviation
14 3 (0.86%) Billing
14 3 (0.86%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.86%) Publishing
14 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (30.75%) Senior
2 80 (22.99%) Java Engineer
3 59 (16.95%) Developer
4 56 (16.09%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.64%) Data Engineer
6 39 (11.21%) Principal Engineer
7 36 (10.34%) Architect
8 34 (9.77%) Lead
9 33 (9.48%) Senior Java Engineer
10 30 (8.62%) Principal Java Engineer
11 29 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (6.90%) Senior Developer
13 20 (5.75%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (4.60%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.16%) Backend Developer
15 11 (3.16%) Consultant
16 10 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (36.78%) Spring
2 115 (33.05%) Spring Boot
3 62 (17.82%) Terraform
4 53 (15.23%) RESTful
5 52 (14.94%) REST
6 45 (12.93%) RabbitMQ
7 31 (8.91%) React
8 30 (8.62%) Node.js
9 26 (7.47%) .NET
10 24 (6.90%) PySpark
11 15 (4.31%) gRPC
12 13 (3.74%) Middleware
13 12 (3.45%) Playwright
14 11 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.16%) Keycloak
15 10 (2.87%) Swagger
16 9 (2.59%) AngularJS
16 9 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
16 9 (2.59%) GraphQL
16 9 (2.59%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 127 (36.49%) Cloud Native
2 113 (32.47%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (12.36%) Public Cloud
4 42 (12.07%) e-Learning
5 32 (9.20%) Onboarding
6 25 (7.18%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (4.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (4.02%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.16%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.87%) EPoS
11 10 (2.87%) Equities
11 10 (2.87%) iSeries
11 10 (2.87%) Replication
12 9 (2.59%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.59%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.59%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.03%) Linux
2 6 (1.72%) Unix
3 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.86%) Windows
5 2 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (53.74%) CI/CD
2 177 (50.86%) Microservices
3 175 (50.29%) Event-Driven
4 152 (43.68%) Agile
5 112 (32.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 112 (32.18%) Software Engineering
6 110 (31.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 109 (31.32%) DevOps
8 100 (28.74%) AI
9 99 (28.45%) Test Automation
10 88 (25.29%) Mentoring
11 76 (21.84%) Observability
12 65 (18.68%) Containerisation
13 63 (18.10%) Roadmaps
14 58 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
15 56 (16.09%) Analytics
15 56 (16.09%) BDD
15 56 (16.09%) Data Modelling
16 51 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 192 (55.17%) Java
2 133 (38.22%) SQL
3 117 (33.62%) Python
4 32 (9.20%) C#
5 31 (8.91%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.46%) Scala
8 15 (4.31%) Go
9 14 (4.02%) Bash
10 13 (3.74%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.87%) RPG
12 9 (2.59%) Groovy
13 6 (1.72%) C
13 6 (1.72%) PHP
13 6 (1.72%) Ruby
14 5 (1.44%) C++
14 5 (1.44%) R
15 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (15.52%) AWS Certification
2 47 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 42 (12.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 42 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 39 (11.21%) Degree
5 17 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.74%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.44%) PhD
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.29%) CISSP
11 1 (0.29%) CSPO
11 1 (0.29%) GIAC
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) OCP
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.45%) QA
3 9 (2.59%) GDPR
4 6 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) PSD2
7 1 (0.29%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (28.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (37.36%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.48%) Prometheus
3 24 (6.90%) Grafana
4 9 (2.59%) Rancher
5 7 (2.01%) Argo
6 6 (1.72%) Ansible
6 6 (1.72%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (0.86%) Cilium
8 2 (0.57%) Control-M
8 2 (0.57%) Istio
8 2 (0.57%) kaniko
8 2 (0.57%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.29%) logstash
9 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (10.06%) Databricks
1 35 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.18%) IBM
3 20 (5.75%) Oracle
4 13 (3.74%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.30%) Google
7 6 (1.72%) HP
7 6 (1.72%) SAP
7 6 (1.72%) Solace
7 6 (1.72%) Splunk
8 5 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.15%) Talend
9 4 (1.15%) WSO2
10 3 (0.86%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.57%) Apple
11 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.57%) TIBCO