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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 140 166
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 -102
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 322 339 453
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 2.62% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.31% 9.79% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 227 255 353
10th Percentile £72,200 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,625 £67,500 £73,750
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 £134,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -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 3,122 3,461 5,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.09% 26.78% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,178 2,500 4,702
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 £129,125 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 20 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 20 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 -19 36 £85,000 +33.33% 35
West London - 9 £82,500 - 4
South London -6 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 83 (25.78%) Apache Spark
2 75 (23.29%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.87%) 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
1 211 (65.53%) AWS
2 104 (32.30%) Azure
3 90 (27.95%) GCP
4 42 (13.04%) Serverless
5 41 (12.73%) dbt
6 34 (10.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 34 (10.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (9.32%) Amazon S3
7 30 (9.32%) Snowflake
8 26 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (8.07%) Datadog
8 26 (8.07%) Power Platform
9 24 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.59%) GitHub
12 16 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (4.66%) OpenShift
14 14 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 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 56 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 49 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (10.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (9.63%) Big Data
5 30 (9.32%) Tableau
6 26 (8.07%) Power BI
7 25 (7.76%) BigQuery
7 25 (7.76%) Relational Database
8 24 (7.45%) Data Lake
8 24 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (6.21%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (5.90%) Redis
12 19 (5.90%) SQL Server
13 18 (5.59%) DynamoDB
14 16 (4.97%) Flink
14 16 (4.97%) Looker
14 16 (4.97%) Metadata
14 16 (4.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (11.49%) GitLab
2 36 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 27 (8.39%) Git
4 21 (6.52%) CircleCI
4 21 (6.52%) MLflow
5 9 (2.80%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.86%) JIRA
7 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.55%) Selenium
8 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.93%) 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%) Gradle
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 154 (47.83%) Finance
2 82 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 60 (18.63%) Front Office
4 47 (14.60%) Banking
5 40 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.48%) Retail
8 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.17%) Law
8 7 (2.17%) Public Sector
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
2 100 (31.06%) Senior
3 60 (18.63%) Data Engineer
4 55 (17.08%) Lead
5 52 (16.15%) Software Engineer
6 36 (11.18%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.18%) Java Engineer
7 32 (9.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 27 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.45%) Java Developer
9 24 (7.45%) Lead Developer
10 21 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
10 21 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (6.52%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (6.52%) Python Developer
10 21 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 20 (6.21%) Lead Software Developer
11 20 (6.21%) Python Engineer
12 17 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (5.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.15%) 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 34 (10.56%) 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 56 (17.39%) 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 10 (3.11%) e-Learning
8 10 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.86%) Equities
11 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.55%) Derivative
12 5 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.59%) Linux
2 10 (3.11%) 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
1 141 (43.79%) CI/CD
2 122 (37.89%) DevOps
3 115 (35.71%) 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 76 (23.60%) Containerisation
9 72 (22.36%) Data Engineering
10 70 (21.74%) AI
11 68 (21.12%) Data Modelling
12 66 (20.50%) 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 54 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (16.15%) Machine Learning
18 51 (15.84%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 190 (59.01%) Python
2 139 (43.17%) SQL
3 137 (42.55%) Java
4 88 (27.33%) Go
5 49 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.11%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.45%) Bash
8 21 (6.52%) C#
9 19 (5.90%) C++
9 19 (5.90%) Scala
10 7 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.17%) Rust
11 6 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Korn
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 43 (13.35%) 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 9 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.80%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.32%) 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
1 107 (33.23%) Docker
2 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (38.82%) Kubernetes
2 70 (21.74%) Terraform
3 35 (10.87%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.14%) Grafana
5 20 (6.21%) Ansible
6 12 (3.73%) Argo
7 9 (2.80%) Istio
8 6 (1.86%) Puppet
9 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.93%) Kibana
11 2 (0.62%) Salt
12 1 (0.31%) Cilium
12 1 (0.31%) Icinga
12 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
5 6 (1.86%) Oracle
5 6 (1.86%) Solace
5 6 (1.86%) VMware
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
7 4 (1.24%) Talend
8 3 (0.93%) Google
8 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce