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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 112 186
Rank change year-on-year -20 +74 -89
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 394 367 341
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.69% 3.00% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.21% 11.26% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 231 205 246
10th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 3,516 3,259 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 26.64% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 2,254 3,669
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -2 39 £90,000 -9.32% 34
West London - 16 £80,000 - 5
South London -21 6 - -
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 98 (24.87%) Apache Spark
2 73 (18.53%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.12%) Apache
4 12 (3.05%) Confluence
5 5 (1.27%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.02%) Camunda
7 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.25%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.25%) Tornado
Applications
1 11 (2.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 246 (62.44%) AWS
2 134 (34.01%) Azure
3 86 (21.83%) GCP
4 55 (13.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (12.94%) Serverless
6 42 (10.66%) dbt
7 34 (8.63%) Snowflake
8 33 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 28 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (6.85%) Amazon S3
11 25 (6.35%) Datadog
12 24 (6.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (6.09%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.33%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.31%) SaaS
16 14 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.55%) GitHub
17 13 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.78%) BGP
2 6 (1.52%) DNS
2 6 (1.52%) IPsec
2 6 (1.52%) VPN
3 5 (1.27%) Internet
4 4 (1.02%) Broadband
5 2 (0.51%) 4G
5 2 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) MQTT
5 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 1 (0.25%) CTI
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.25%) HTTP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (25.63%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.18%) Relational Database
3 47 (11.93%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (10.41%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.39%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.14%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (8.88%) Big Data
8 32 (8.12%) Power BI
9 27 (6.85%) MongoDB
10 25 (6.35%) Tableau
11 24 (6.09%) MySQL
12 22 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (5.58%) Hadoop
13 21 (5.33%) BigQuery
14 17 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (4.31%) Redis
14 17 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (4.06%) DynamoDB
15 16 (4.06%) Looker
15 16 (4.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (13.45%) GitLab
2 34 (8.63%) Git
3 33 (8.38%) Cucumber
4 31 (7.87%) Jenkins
5 19 (4.82%) MLflow
6 18 (4.57%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.05%) Selenium
8 6 (1.52%) JIRA
8 6 (1.52%) Maven
9 4 (1.02%) JUnit
9 4 (1.02%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.76%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.51%) Postman
12 1 (0.25%) Gatling
12 1 (0.25%) Mocha
12 1 (0.25%) Mockito
12 1 (0.25%) XCTest
12 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 201 (51.02%) Finance
2 100 (25.38%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.50%) Banking
4 48 (12.18%) Front Office
5 42 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.81%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.55%) Retail
9 12 (3.05%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.05%) Marketing
10 11 (2.79%) Law
11 10 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.28%) Military
13 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.27%) Advertising
15 4 (1.02%) Billing
16 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
18 1 (0.25%) Legal
18 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (28.93%) Senior
2 98 (24.87%) Developer
3 80 (20.30%) Java Engineer
4 75 (19.04%) Software Engineer
5 58 (14.72%) Data Engineer
6 53 (13.45%) Lead
7 37 (9.39%) Architect
7 37 (9.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 33 (8.38%) Principal Engineer
9 28 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 27 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
11 26 (6.60%) Principal Java Engineer
12 25 (6.35%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.09%) Lead Software Engineer
14 23 (5.84%) Python Engineer
14 23 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (5.58%) Lead Software Developer
16 20 (5.08%) Senior Developer
17 18 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (27.66%) Spring
2 98 (24.87%) Spring Boot
3 61 (15.48%) Node.js
3 61 (15.48%) React
4 51 (12.94%) RabbitMQ
5 49 (12.44%) RESTful
6 48 (12.18%) REST
7 38 (9.64%) GraphQL
8 36 (9.14%) Redux
9 22 (5.58%) PySpark
10 21 (5.33%) .NET
11 20 (5.08%) gRPC
12 19 (4.82%) PyTorch
12 19 (4.82%) TensorFlow
13 17 (4.31%) pgvector
14 16 (4.06%) LangChain
14 16 (4.06%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.06%) scikit-learn
15 14 (3.55%) AngularJS
16 12 (3.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 128 (32.49%) Cloud Native
2 82 (20.81%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (11.93%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.15%) Fixed Income
5 31 (7.87%) Onboarding
6 30 (7.61%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (4.06%) Clustering
10 15 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (3.55%) Data Structures
12 12 (3.05%) Blockchain
12 12 (3.05%) Web3
13 10 (2.54%) EPoS
13 10 (2.54%) iSeries
14 9 (2.28%) AI Agents
15 8 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (2.03%) Product Ownership
16 7 (1.78%) Algorithms
17 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.58%) Linux
2 8 (2.03%) Unix
3 7 (1.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (44.92%) CI/CD
2 163 (41.37%) Microservices
3 151 (38.32%) Agile
4 148 (37.56%) Software Engineering
5 144 (36.55%) Event-Driven
6 115 (29.19%) DevOps
7 111 (28.17%) AI
8 105 (26.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 91 (23.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 89 (22.59%) Containerisation
11 87 (22.08%) Test Automation
12 85 (21.57%) Analytics
13 83 (21.07%) Data Pipeline
14 82 (20.81%) Mentoring
15 75 (19.04%) Data Modelling
16 74 (18.78%) Observability
17 67 (17.01%) Data Engineering
18 59 (14.97%) Machine Learning
19 55 (13.96%) Computer Science
19 55 (13.96%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 204 (51.78%) Java
2 188 (47.72%) Python
3 163 (41.37%) SQL
4 63 (15.99%) Go
5 62 (15.74%) TypeScript
6 58 (14.72%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.38%) C#
8 16 (4.06%) Scala
9 15 (3.81%) C++
10 10 (2.54%) RPG
11 8 (2.03%) Bash
11 8 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.78%) PHP
12 7 (1.78%) Rust
13 6 (1.52%) C
13 6 (1.52%) Ruby
14 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Bicep
15 2 (0.51%) R
16 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (10.41%) AWS Certification
1 41 (10.41%) Degree
2 30 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 30 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.27%) PhD
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CISSP
8 1 (0.25%) GIAC
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.25%) SSCP
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.61%) GDPR
3 16 (4.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.03%) QA
6 6 (1.52%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.51%) PSD2
9 2 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 102 (25.89%) Docker
2 8 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (32.99%) Kubernetes
2 82 (20.81%) Terraform
3 39 (9.90%) Prometheus
4 23 (5.84%) Grafana
5 14 (3.55%) Ansible
6 10 (2.54%) Istio
7 6 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.02%) Argo
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) kaniko
9 2 (0.51%) Kibana
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Salt
10 1 (0.25%) Control-M
10 1 (0.25%) logstash
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.18%) Databricks
2 33 (8.38%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.33%) IBM
4 16 (4.06%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.06%) Dell
5 13 (3.30%) Oracle
6 9 (2.28%) Confluent
6 9 (2.28%) Solace
7 7 (1.78%) Google
7 7 (1.78%) Splunk
7 7 (1.78%) Talend
8 6 (1.52%) HP
8 6 (1.52%) SAP
9 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.02%) WSO2
10 3 (0.76%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint