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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 125 201
Rank change year-on-year -26 +76 -93
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 379 334 323
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.57% 2.77% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.54% 9.63% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 200 178 217
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,188 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £83,750 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.52% +17.86% -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 3,468 5,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.47% 28.71% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,576 2,378 3,951
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,025 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £63,750 £63,750
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 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £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 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 27 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 +5 34 £90,000 -20.00% 37
West London - 16 £80,000 - 20
South London -16 5 - - 3
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 89 (23.48%) Apache Spark
2 64 (16.89%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.44%) Apache
4 13 (3.43%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.32%) Camunda
6 4 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
7 2 (0.53%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 225 (59.37%) AWS
2 144 (37.99%) Azure
3 81 (21.37%) GCP
4 53 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (12.66%) Serverless
6 38 (10.03%) Power Platform
7 32 (8.44%) dbt
8 29 (7.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (7.65%) Snowflake
9 25 (6.60%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 22 (5.80%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (5.01%) Amazon EMR
13 19 (5.01%) Datadog
14 18 (4.75%) GitHub
15 17 (4.49%) SaaS
16 15 (3.96%) OpenShift
17 14 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) BGP
2 6 (1.58%) DNS
2 6 (1.58%) IPsec
2 6 (1.58%) VPN
3 5 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.53%) AMQP
4 2 (0.53%) MQTT
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) 5G
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (27.97%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.66%) Relational Database
3 47 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (12.14%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (10.03%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (9.76%) Data Lake
6 37 (9.76%) Power BI
7 35 (9.23%) Big Data
8 33 (8.71%) MongoDB
9 27 (7.12%) Tableau
10 24 (6.33%) MySQL
11 23 (6.07%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (4.75%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (4.49%) BigQuery
15 16 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (4.22%) Looker
15 16 (4.22%) Redis
16 14 (3.69%) DynamoDB
17 12 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 53 (13.98%) GitLab
2 39 (10.29%) Cucumber
3 35 (9.23%) Git
4 32 (8.44%) Jenkins
5 19 (5.01%) MLflow
6 13 (3.43%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.17%) Selenium
8 8 (2.11%) JIRA
8 8 (2.11%) Maven
9 6 (1.58%) JUnit
10 4 (1.06%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.79%) Gradle
11 3 (0.79%) Mockito
12 2 (0.53%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.53%) Postman
12 2 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.53%) Xcode
12 2 (0.53%) XCTest
12 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 181 (47.76%) Finance
2 96 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.41%) Banking
4 40 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.07%) Front Office
6 20 (5.28%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.01%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.96%) Marketing
8 15 (3.96%) Retail
9 10 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.64%) Law
10 9 (2.37%) Military
11 6 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Aviation
12 3 (0.79%) Billing
12 3 (0.79%) Publishing
13 2 (0.53%) Advertising
13 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (31.40%) Senior
2 78 (20.58%) Java Engineer
3 71 (18.73%) Developer
4 62 (16.36%) Software Engineer
5 52 (13.72%) Data Engineer
6 37 (9.76%) Lead
7 36 (9.50%) Architect
8 34 (8.97%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (7.65%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (7.12%) Principal Java Engineer
11 24 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.54%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.54%) Senior Developer
13 19 (5.01%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 16 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (3.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 13 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (31.13%) Spring
2 104 (27.44%) Spring Boot
3 74 (19.53%) Terraform
4 54 (14.25%) REST
5 53 (13.98%) RESTful
6 52 (13.72%) RabbitMQ
7 37 (9.76%) Node.js
7 37 (9.76%) React
8 24 (6.33%) .NET
9 23 (6.07%) PySpark
10 20 (5.28%) PyTorch
10 20 (5.28%) TensorFlow
11 19 (5.01%) pgvector
12 18 (4.75%) LangChain
13 17 (4.49%) GraphQL
13 17 (4.49%) gRPC
14 16 (4.22%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.22%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.17%) Middleware
15 12 (3.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 140 (36.94%) Cloud Native
2 98 (25.86%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (13.46%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.97%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.44%) Onboarding
6 21 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.22%) Clustering
8 16 (4.22%) Fixed Income
8 16 (4.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (3.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 13 (3.43%) AI Agents
11 12 (3.17%) Product Ownership
12 11 (2.90%) Data Structures
13 10 (2.64%) EPoS
13 10 (2.64%) iSeries
14 9 (2.37%) Algorithms
14 9 (2.37%) Blockchain
14 9 (2.37%) Web3
15 8 (2.11%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.54%) Linux
2 7 (1.85%) Unix
3 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.79%) Windows
5 2 (0.53%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (46.70%) CI/CD
2 176 (46.44%) Microservices
3 166 (43.80%) Event-Driven
4 138 (36.41%) Agile
5 126 (33.25%) Software Engineering
6 117 (30.87%) AI
7 113 (29.82%) DevOps
8 105 (27.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (27.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 87 (22.96%) Test Automation
11 85 (22.43%) Mentoring
12 82 (21.64%) Analytics
13 79 (20.84%) Containerisation
14 78 (20.58%) Data Pipeline
15 71 (18.73%) Observability
16 70 (18.47%) Data Modelling
17 62 (16.36%) Data Engineering
17 62 (16.36%) Machine Learning
18 57 (15.04%) Data Science
19 54 (14.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 190 (50.13%) Java
2 155 (40.90%) Python
3 153 (40.37%) SQL
4 38 (10.03%) TypeScript
5 37 (9.76%) Go
6 33 (8.71%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.18%) C#
8 15 (3.96%) Scala
9 14 (3.69%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.64%) RPG
11 8 (2.11%) Bash
12 7 (1.85%) PHP
13 6 (1.58%) C
13 6 (1.58%) C++
13 6 (1.58%) Ruby
14 3 (0.79%) Rust
14 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 2 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (11.87%) AWS Certification
2 44 (11.61%) Degree
3 34 (8.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 34 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 29 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.69%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.32%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.35%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.39%) GDPR
3 16 (4.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.90%) QA
5 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (26.65%) Docker
2 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (34.83%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.44%) Prometheus
3 19 (5.01%) Grafana
4 14 (3.69%) Ansible
5 11 (2.90%) Istio
6 8 (2.11%) Argo
7 6 (1.58%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.06%) Cilium
9 2 (0.53%) kaniko
9 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.66%) Databricks
2 38 (10.03%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.07%) IBM
4 19 (5.01%) Oracle
5 16 (4.22%) Cloudera
5 16 (4.22%) Dell
6 9 (2.37%) Confluent
7 8 (2.11%) Google
8 7 (1.85%) Talend
9 6 (1.58%) HP
9 6 (1.58%) SAP
9 6 (1.58%) Solace
9 6 (1.58%) Splunk
10 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.06%) WSO2
12 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.53%) Apple