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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 125 195
Rank change year-on-year -28 +70 -91
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 368 331 329
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.49% 2.76% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 9.79% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 194 169 212
10th Percentile £55,725 £60,000 £60,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £103,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% +8.95% +3.07%
75th Percentile £106,875 £127,500 £119,063
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £142,500
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 3,922 3,381 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.83% 28.19% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,521 2,296 3,770
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
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 £111,250 £115,000
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 11 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 11 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 -4 32 £90,000 -20.00% 29
West London -2 13 £80,000 -3.03% 15
South London -15 3 - - 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 81 (22.01%) Apache Spark
2 53 (14.40%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (8.15%) Apache
4 13 (3.53%) Confluence
5 5 (1.36%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.36%) Camunda
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.54%) Luigi
7 2 (0.54%) Tornado
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (58.15%) AWS
2 136 (36.96%) Azure
3 68 (18.48%) GCP
4 54 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (12.50%) Serverless
6 30 (8.15%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 23 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (5.98%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (5.98%) dbt
9 21 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (5.43%) Snowflake
11 18 (4.89%) Amazon EMR
11 18 (4.89%) GitHub
12 17 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (4.62%) Datadog
12 17 (4.62%) SaaS
13 15 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (4.08%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) BGP
1 7 (1.90%) DNS
2 6 (1.63%) IPsec
2 6 (1.63%) VPN
3 5 (1.36%) Internet
4 2 (0.54%) 4G
4 2 (0.54%) 5G
4 2 (0.54%) AMQP
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) MQTT
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) SSH
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (29.89%) NoSQL
2 54 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 38 (10.33%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (9.51%) Big Data
6 34 (9.24%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (7.88%) Data Lake
8 29 (7.88%) Power BI
9 24 (6.52%) MySQL
10 23 (6.25%) Hadoop
11 22 (5.98%) Tableau
12 21 (5.71%) Redis
13 20 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (3.53%) DynamoDB
16 13 (3.53%) SQL Server
17 12 (3.26%) Apache Hive
17 12 (3.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 55 (14.95%) GitLab
2 43 (11.68%) Cucumber
3 42 (11.41%) Git
4 38 (10.33%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.53%) Selenium
6 11 (2.99%) MLflow
7 10 (2.72%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.17%) JIRA
9 7 (1.90%) Maven
10 5 (1.36%) JUnit
11 4 (1.09%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.82%) Mockito
13 2 (0.54%) Gradle
13 2 (0.54%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.54%) Postman
13 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.54%) Xcode
13 2 (0.54%) XCTest
13 2 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 172 (46.74%) Finance
2 94 (25.54%) Social Skills
3 63 (17.12%) Banking
4 35 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.71%) Financial Institution
5 21 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.08%) Front Office
6 15 (4.08%) Marketing
6 15 (4.08%) Retail
7 10 (2.72%) Law
8 9 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.45%) Military
9 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.36%) Aviation
11 3 (0.82%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (0.82%) Publishing
11 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.54%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 116 (31.52%) Senior
2 79 (21.47%) Java Engineer
3 64 (17.39%) Developer
4 54 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 49 (13.32%) Data Engineer
6 37 (10.05%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.51%) Architect
8 32 (8.70%) Lead
9 31 (8.42%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (7.88%) Principal Java Engineer
10 29 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (6.52%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.71%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.89%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 11 (2.99%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (33.15%) Spring
2 108 (29.35%) Spring Boot
3 72 (19.57%) Terraform
4 54 (14.67%) REST
5 53 (14.40%) RESTful
6 51 (13.86%) RabbitMQ
7 30 (8.15%) Node.js
8 29 (7.88%) React
9 25 (6.79%) .NET
10 21 (5.71%) PySpark
11 16 (4.35%) gRPC
12 14 (3.80%) PyTorch
12 14 (3.80%) TensorFlow
13 13 (3.53%) pgvector
13 13 (3.53%) Playwright
14 12 (3.26%) LangChain
14 12 (3.26%) Middleware
15 11 (2.99%) Swagger
16 10 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (2.72%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 135 (36.68%) Cloud Native
2 104 (28.26%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (13.32%) Public Cloud
4 38 (10.33%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.70%) Onboarding
6 23 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.53%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.53%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.99%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.72%) Clustering
12 10 (2.72%) EPoS
12 10 (2.72%) iSeries
13 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.17%) Equities
14 8 (2.17%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.90%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.98%) Linux
2 6 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.54%) Android
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (50.27%) CI/CD
2 176 (47.83%) Microservices
3 169 (45.92%) Event-Driven
4 141 (38.32%) Agile
5 119 (32.34%) Software Engineering
6 113 (30.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (30.43%) DevOps
8 111 (30.16%) AI
9 106 (28.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 97 (26.36%) Test Automation
11 88 (23.91%) Mentoring
12 79 (21.47%) Observability
13 73 (19.84%) Containerisation
14 71 (19.29%) Analytics
14 71 (19.29%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (17.39%) Data Modelling
16 59 (16.03%) Roadmaps
17 55 (14.95%) Data Engineering
18 54 (14.67%) Machine Learning
19 52 (14.13%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.54%) Java
2 145 (39.40%) SQL
3 140 (38.04%) Python
4 31 (8.42%) C#
5 30 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 25 (6.79%) Go
8 16 (4.35%) Scala
9 13 (3.53%) Bash
9 13 (3.53%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.72%) RPG
11 6 (1.63%) C
11 6 (1.63%) Groovy
11 6 (1.63%) PHP
11 6 (1.63%) Ruby
12 5 (1.36%) C++
13 3 (0.82%) R
13 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Rust
14 2 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (13.59%) AWS Certification
2 43 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 40 (10.87%) Degree
4 38 (10.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 38 (10.33%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.36%) PhD
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) CSPO
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) OCP
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.41%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.43%) GDPR
3 12 (3.26%) QA
4 10 (2.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) PSD2
6 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Basel III
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) SEPA
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (27.17%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.78%) Prometheus
3 24 (6.52%) Grafana
4 10 (2.72%) Ansible
5 9 (2.45%) Istio
6 8 (2.17%) Argo
7 6 (1.63%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (1.63%) Rancher
8 4 (1.09%) Cilium
9 2 (0.54%) kaniko
9 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) Puppet
9 2 (0.54%) Salt
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.27%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (11.14%) Databricks
2 35 (9.51%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.52%) IBM
4 19 (5.16%) Oracle
5 10 (2.72%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.72%) Dell
5 10 (2.72%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.72%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.17%) Google
7 7 (1.90%) Confluent
8 6 (1.63%) HP
8 6 (1.63%) SAP
8 6 (1.63%) Splunk
8 6 (1.63%) Talend
9 5 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.36%) Solace
10 4 (1.09%) WSO2
11 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.54%) Apple