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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 110 192
Rank change year-on-year -27 +82 -100
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 384 374 346
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.68% 3.05% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.01% 11.40% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 234 212 251
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £74,375 £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 £125,625 £119,375
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £137,500
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 3,488 3,281 5,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.23% 26.78% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 2,285 3,869
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
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 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -7.69% 24
West London - 16 £80,000 - 6
South London -22 7 £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 97 (25.26%) Apache Spark
2 72 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (8.07%) Apache
4 12 (3.13%) Confluence
5 5 (1.30%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.04%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.78%) Camunda
8 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 240 (62.50%) AWS
2 133 (34.64%) Azure
3 82 (21.35%) GCP
4 56 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (14.32%) Serverless
6 42 (10.94%) dbt
7 34 (8.85%) Snowflake
8 32 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 28 (7.29%) Amazon S3
9 28 (7.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (7.03%) Datadog
11 25 (6.51%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.47%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.43%) SaaS
16 14 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.39%) OpenShift
18 12 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.82%) BGP
2 6 (1.56%) DNS
2 6 (1.56%) IPsec
2 6 (1.56%) VPN
3 5 (1.30%) Internet
4 4 (1.04%) Broadband
5 2 (0.52%) 4G
5 2 (0.52%) 5G
5 2 (0.52%) AMQP
5 2 (0.52%) MQTT
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) CTI
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (25.52%) NoSQL
2 47 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 38 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (9.38%) Data Lake
6 35 (9.11%) Big Data
6 35 (9.11%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (8.07%) Power BI
8 27 (7.03%) MongoDB
9 25 (6.51%) Tableau
10 23 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (5.47%) BigQuery
11 21 (5.47%) Hadoop
12 20 (5.21%) MySQL
13 17 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (4.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (4.17%) Looker
14 16 (4.17%) Metadata
14 16 (4.17%) Redis
15 15 (3.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (13.80%) GitLab
2 33 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.07%) Cucumber
3 31 (8.07%) Git
4 20 (5.21%) CircleCI
5 19 (4.95%) MLflow
6 11 (2.86%) Selenium
7 5 (1.30%) JIRA
7 5 (1.30%) Maven
8 4 (1.04%) JUnit
9 3 (0.78%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.78%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
11 1 (0.26%) Gradle
11 1 (0.26%) Mockito
11 1 (0.26%) Postman
11 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 195 (50.78%) Finance
2 92 (23.96%) Social Skills
3 60 (15.63%) Banking
4 47 (12.24%) Front Office
5 39 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.65%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.39%) Retail
8 12 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.86%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.60%) Marketing
11 9 (2.34%) Military
12 8 (2.08%) Law
13 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.30%) Advertising
16 4 (1.04%) Billing
17 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
18 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
19 1 (0.26%) Back Office
19 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 110 (28.65%) Senior
2 97 (25.26%) Developer
3 77 (20.05%) Java Engineer
4 68 (17.71%) Software Engineer
5 58 (15.10%) Data Engineer
6 50 (13.02%) Lead
7 37 (9.64%) Architect
8 36 (9.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 32 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.77%) Java Developer
11 26 (6.77%) Senior Java Engineer
12 25 (6.51%) Principal Java Engineer
13 24 (6.25%) Lead Developer
14 23 (5.99%) Python Engineer
15 22 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (5.47%) Lead Software Developer
16 21 (5.47%) Senior Developer
17 18 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (26.56%) Spring
2 94 (24.48%) Spring Boot
3 62 (16.15%) React
4 60 (15.63%) Node.js
5 52 (13.54%) RabbitMQ
6 47 (12.24%) REST
7 46 (11.98%) RESTful
8 36 (9.38%) Redux
9 35 (9.11%) GraphQL
10 22 (5.73%) PySpark
11 20 (5.21%) .NET
11 20 (5.21%) gRPC
12 18 (4.69%) PyTorch
12 18 (4.69%) TensorFlow
13 17 (4.43%) pgvector
14 16 (4.17%) LangChain
14 16 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.17%) scikit-learn
15 13 (3.39%) AngularJS
16 12 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 122 (31.77%) Cloud Native
2 79 (20.57%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (11.98%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.42%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.55%) e-Learning
5 29 (7.55%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.17%) Clustering
9 14 (3.65%) Data Structures
10 13 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (3.13%) Blockchain
11 12 (3.13%) Web3
12 10 (2.60%) EPoS
12 10 (2.60%) iSeries
13 8 (2.08%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.56%) Product Ownership
16 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.99%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Unix
3 7 (1.82%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 157 (40.89%) Microservices
3 143 (37.24%) Agile
3 143 (37.24%) Software Engineering
4 134 (34.90%) Event-Driven
5 114 (29.69%) DevOps
6 106 (27.60%) AI
7 101 (26.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 85 (22.14%) Analytics
8 85 (22.14%) Containerisation
9 84 (21.88%) Test Automation
10 82 (21.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 81 (21.09%) Mentoring
12 79 (20.57%) Data Pipeline
13 76 (19.79%) Data Modelling
14 70 (18.23%) Observability
15 65 (16.93%) Data Engineering
16 56 (14.58%) Machine Learning
17 55 (14.32%) Computer Science
18 53 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 193 (50.26%) Java
2 190 (49.48%) Python
3 164 (42.71%) SQL
4 64 (16.67%) Go
5 63 (16.41%) TypeScript
6 57 (14.84%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.59%) C#
8 16 (4.17%) Scala
9 15 (3.91%) C++
10 11 (2.86%) Bash
11 10 (2.60%) RPG
12 7 (1.82%) PHP
12 7 (1.82%) Rust
13 6 (1.56%) C
13 6 (1.56%) Ruby
14 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.52%) Bicep
16 2 (0.52%) R
17 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 39 (10.16%) AWS Certification
1 39 (10.16%) Degree
2 29 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 28 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.30%) PhD
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
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
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.07%) GDPR
3 16 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.82%) QA
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (26.04%) Docker
2 8 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 129 (33.59%) Kubernetes
2 83 (21.61%) Terraform
3 41 (10.68%) Prometheus
4 25 (6.51%) Grafana
5 16 (4.17%) Ansible
6 10 (2.60%) Istio
7 6 (1.56%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.78%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) Cilium
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) kaniko
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.50%) Databricks
2 32 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.47%) IBM
4 16 (4.17%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.17%) Dell
5 12 (3.13%) Oracle
6 9 (2.34%) Confluent
6 9 (2.34%) Solace
7 7 (1.82%) Splunk
7 7 (1.82%) Talend
8 6 (1.56%) HP
8 6 (1.56%) SAP
9 5 (1.30%) Google
10 4 (1.04%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.04%) WSO2
11 3 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.52%) CheckPoint