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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 144 144
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -79
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 308 324 476
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.75% 2.51% 2.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 9.28% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 222 244 368
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £67,188 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -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 2,956 3,493 5,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.80% 27.06% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,104 2,476 4,732
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,454 £48,350
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 £101,313 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £124,375 £122,500
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 26 March 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 March 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 38 £87,500 +40.00% 47
West London - 9 £82,500 - 6
South London +18 8 £105,000 +27.27%
East London -17 1 £75,000 -18.92% 5
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 (26.30%) Apache Spark
2 67 (21.75%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.09%) Apache
4 5 (1.62%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.62%) Confluence
4 5 (1.62%) IIS
4 5 (1.62%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.32%) Endur
2 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 212 (68.83%) AWS
2 101 (32.79%) Azure
3 91 (29.55%) GCP
4 37 (12.01%) dbt
5 35 (11.36%) Serverless
6 33 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
7 30 (9.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (9.74%) Snowflake
8 29 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (9.42%) Amazon S3
9 26 (8.44%) Power Platform
10 23 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.14%) Datadog
12 20 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (5.84%) GitHub
14 16 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (5.19%) OpenShift
15 14 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) Broadband
2 4 (1.30%) DNS
3 2 (0.65%) AMQP
3 2 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.32%) 4G
4 1 (0.32%) 5G
4 1 (0.32%) BGP
4 1 (0.32%) CTI
4 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (16.56%) Data Warehouse
1 51 (16.56%) NoSQL
2 34 (11.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 31 (10.06%) Big Data
4 29 (9.42%) Tableau
5 26 (8.44%) Power BI
6 25 (8.12%) BigQuery
7 24 (7.79%) Data Lake
7 24 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (6.49%) Redis
8 20 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 20 (6.49%) Snowflake Schema
9 17 (5.52%) DynamoDB
9 17 (5.52%) SQL Server
10 16 (5.19%) Looker
10 16 (5.19%) Metadata
11 13 (4.22%) Flink
11 13 (4.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (12.01%) GitLab
2 34 (11.04%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.44%) Git
4 21 (6.82%) MLflow
5 20 (6.49%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.62%) JIRA
8 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.30%) JUnit
9 3 (0.97%) Selenium
10 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.65%) Gradle
10 2 (0.65%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.65%) Mocha
10 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.65%) WinDbg
General
1 153 (49.68%) Finance
2 86 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 63 (20.45%) Front Office
4 48 (15.58%) Banking
5 38 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.79%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.27%) Law
10 6 (1.95%) Retail
11 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.30%) Advertising
12 4 (1.30%) Billing
13 3 (0.97%) Games
13 3 (0.97%) Legal
13 3 (0.97%) Marketing
14 2 (0.65%) Back Office
14 2 (0.65%) Electronics
14 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (32.79%) Developer
2 96 (31.17%) Senior
3 56 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 53 (17.21%) Software Engineer
5 49 (15.91%) Lead
6 35 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
7 34 (11.04%) Java Engineer
8 32 (10.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 29 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.47%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.47%) Lead Developer
11 22 (7.14%) Python Developer
12 21 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 21 (6.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (6.82%) Senior Developer
13 20 (6.49%) Lead Software Developer
14 18 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (5.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 16 (5.19%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.26%) Spring
2 46 (14.94%) React
3 45 (14.61%) RabbitMQ
4 43 (13.96%) REST
4 43 (13.96%) RESTful
5 42 (13.64%) Node.js
6 38 (12.34%) GraphQL
7 36 (11.69%) Spring Boot
8 34 (11.04%) Redux
9 30 (9.74%) gRPC
10 18 (5.84%) scikit-learn
10 18 (5.84%) TensorFlow
11 17 (5.52%) LangChain
11 17 (5.52%) PyTorch
12 16 (5.19%) AngularJS
12 16 (5.19%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (5.19%) pgvector
13 15 (4.87%) PySpark
14 14 (4.55%) OAuth
14 14 (4.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 84 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 59 (19.16%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (13.31%) Fixed Income
4 24 (7.79%) Public Cloud
5 16 (5.19%) Clustering
6 15 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.55%) Data Structures
8 13 (4.22%) AI Agents
8 13 (4.22%) Blockchain
8 13 (4.22%) Web3
9 11 (3.57%) e-Learning
9 11 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (2.27%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.95%) Derivative
12 6 (1.95%) Equities
13 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.62%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.47%) Linux
2 11 (3.57%) Windows
3 9 (2.92%) Android
4 6 (1.95%) Unix
5 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 118 (38.31%) DevOps
3 115 (37.34%) Microservices
4 114 (37.01%) Software Engineering
5 97 (31.49%) Agile
6 83 (26.95%) Analytics
7 77 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 74 (24.03%) Containerisation
9 72 (23.38%) Data Modelling
10 71 (23.05%) AI
11 67 (21.75%) Data Engineering
11 67 (21.75%) Event-Driven
12 62 (20.13%) Computer Science
13 61 (19.81%) Low Latency
14 58 (18.83%) Machine Learning
14 58 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (18.51%) Data Governance
15 57 (18.51%) ETL
16 54 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (17.53%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (61.04%) Python
2 134 (43.51%) Java
3 132 (42.86%) SQL
4 88 (28.57%) Go
5 48 (15.58%) TypeScript
6 38 (12.34%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.79%) Bash
8 18 (5.84%) C#
8 18 (5.84%) C++
8 18 (5.84%) Scala
9 7 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.27%) Rust
10 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.65%) Groovy
11 2 (0.65%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) Bicep
12 1 (0.32%) Korn
12 1 (0.32%) Perl
12 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.64%) Degree
2 38 (12.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (3.25%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.06%) GDPR
3 16 (5.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.25%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.60%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.27%) QA
7 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (32.14%) Docker
2 8 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.97%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 116 (37.66%) Kubernetes
2 64 (20.78%) Terraform
3 37 (12.01%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.47%) Ansible
4 23 (7.47%) Grafana
5 12 (3.90%) Argo
6 9 (2.92%) Istio
7 6 (1.95%) Puppet
8 4 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.97%) Kibana
10 2 (0.65%) Salt
11 1 (0.32%) Cilium
11 1 (0.32%) Icinga
11 1 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (12.34%) Databricks
2 20 (6.49%) Dell
3 16 (5.19%) Cloudera
4 10 (3.25%) Confluent
5 8 (2.60%) VMware
6 7 (2.27%) Oracle
7 6 (1.95%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.62%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.62%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.62%) Nokia
8 5 (1.62%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.62%) Splunk
9 4 (1.30%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.30%) Solace
10 3 (0.97%) Google
10 3 (0.97%) Talend
11 2 (0.65%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.65%) PayPal
11 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow