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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 123 181
Rank change year-on-year -17 +58 -115
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 329 333 436
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.80% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% 10.91% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 224 233 343
10th Percentile £68,250 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £148,500 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%

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 3,289 3,052 5,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.78% 25.66% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,263 2,192 4,678
10th Percentile £52,080 £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 £104,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -19 40 £92,500 +23.33% 21
West London - 10 £81,250 - 2
South London -15 7 £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 80 (24.32%) Apache Spark
2 75 (22.80%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (11.25%) Apache
4 4 (1.22%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.30%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 207 (62.92%) AWS
2 108 (32.83%) Azure
3 76 (23.10%) GCP
4 48 (14.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (13.98%) Serverless
6 43 (13.07%) dbt
7 40 (12.16%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.42%) Datadog
8 31 (9.42%) Snowflake
9 27 (8.21%) Power Platform
10 26 (7.90%) Amazon Kinesis
11 25 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (5.78%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.86%) GitHub
16 14 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (4.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Broadband
2 3 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.61%) 4G
3 2 (0.61%) 5G
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.58%) NoSQL
2 46 (13.98%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (9.42%) Data Lake
4 31 (9.42%) Relational Database
4 31 (9.42%) Tableau
5 30 (9.12%) Big Data
6 27 (8.21%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (7.90%) Power BI
8 25 (7.60%) BigQuery
9 23 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (6.08%) DynamoDB
10 20 (6.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (5.78%) Metadata
11 19 (5.78%) MongoDB
11 19 (5.78%) MySQL
12 16 (4.86%) Looker
13 13 (3.95%) Redis
13 13 (3.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (13.68%) GitLab
2 34 (10.33%) Jenkins
3 31 (9.42%) Git
4 25 (7.60%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.08%) MLflow
6 18 (5.47%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.82%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Maven
9 4 (1.22%) JIRA
10 3 (0.91%) JUnit
10 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.91%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.30%) Gradle
12 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.30%) Mockito
12 1 (0.30%) Postman
12 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 164 (49.85%) Finance
2 78 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.81%) Banking
4 51 (15.50%) Front Office
5 35 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.04%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.74%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.74%) Retail
8 8 (2.43%) Law
9 7 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.82%) Billing
10 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.22%) Advertising
11 4 (1.22%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.61%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Digital Economy
13 1 (0.30%) International Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Legal
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (30.40%) Senior
2 98 (29.79%) Developer
3 61 (18.54%) Data Engineer
4 57 (17.33%) Lead
4 57 (17.33%) Software Engineer
5 52 (15.81%) Java Engineer
6 33 (10.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 30 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (7.60%) Architect
8 25 (7.60%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.99%) Lead Developer
10 22 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (6.69%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.69%) Python Engineer
11 21 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (6.08%) Lead Software Developer
13 19 (5.78%) Senior Java Engineer
14 18 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
15 17 (5.17%) Python Developer
15 17 (5.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (17.93%) Spring
2 55 (16.72%) Spring Boot
3 53 (16.11%) React
4 51 (15.50%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (12.77%) RESTful
6 40 (12.16%) Node.js
7 38 (11.55%) REST
8 33 (10.03%) Redux
9 32 (9.73%) GraphQL
10 25 (7.60%) gRPC
11 23 (6.99%) PySpark
12 19 (5.78%) .NET
13 18 (5.47%) web3js
14 17 (5.17%) scikit-learn
14 17 (5.17%) TensorFlow
15 16 (4.86%) LangChain
15 16 (4.86%) LlamaIndex
15 16 (4.86%) pgvector
15 16 (4.86%) PyTorch
16 10 (3.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 99 (30.09%) Cloud Native
2 49 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.55%) Fixed Income
4 33 (10.03%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.47%) Blockchain
5 18 (5.47%) Web3
6 17 (5.17%) e-Learning
7 16 (4.86%) Clustering
8 12 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.34%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.43%) Onboarding
12 7 (2.13%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.22%) Anti-Piracy
14 4 (1.22%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.17%) Linux
2 7 (2.13%) Windows
3 5 (1.52%) Unix
4 3 (0.91%) Android
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (44.38%) CI/CD
2 123 (37.39%) Microservices
2 123 (37.39%) Software Engineering
3 113 (34.35%) DevOps
4 105 (31.91%) Agile
5 92 (27.96%) Event-Driven
6 82 (24.92%) Analytics
7 79 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 78 (23.71%) Data Pipeline
9 72 (21.88%) Containerisation
9 72 (21.88%) Data Engineering
10 70 (21.28%) AI
11 66 (20.06%) Data Modelling
12 63 (19.15%) Test Automation
13 58 (17.63%) Observability
14 55 (16.72%) ETL
14 55 (16.72%) Investment Management
15 54 (16.41%) Mentoring
16 50 (15.20%) Data Governance
16 50 (15.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 186 (56.53%) Python
2 145 (44.07%) SQL
3 139 (42.25%) Java
4 77 (23.40%) Go
5 52 (15.81%) TypeScript
6 49 (14.89%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.60%) C#
8 19 (5.78%) Bash
9 17 (5.17%) C++
10 15 (4.56%) Scala
11 7 (2.13%) Rust
12 4 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PHP
14 2 (0.61%) RPG
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (9.12%) Degree
2 22 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.08%) AWS Certification
3 20 (6.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (5.78%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.59%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.90%) GDPR
3 16 (4.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.04%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.43%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.82%) QA
7 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (29.79%) Docker
2 8 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 118 (35.87%) Kubernetes
2 83 (25.23%) Terraform
3 37 (11.25%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.08%) Grafana
5 15 (4.56%) Ansible
6 9 (2.74%) Istio
7 7 (2.13%) Argo
8 2 (0.61%) Kibana
8 2 (0.61%) Puppet
8 2 (0.61%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Cilium
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (12.77%) Databricks
2 19 (5.78%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.86%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.86%) Dell
4 9 (2.74%) Confluent
5 7 (2.13%) Solace
5 7 (2.13%) Splunk
6 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.52%) Talend
7 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.22%) WSO2
8 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.61%) Google
9 2 (0.61%) IBM
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle
9 2 (0.61%) PayPal
9 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Pega