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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 147 130
Rank change year-on-year -4 -17 -66
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 291 330 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.76% 2.41% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.16% 8.88% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 207 241 398
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%

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 2,864 3,715 5,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.29% 27.11% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,041 2,522 4,815
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
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 £105,000 £109,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 10 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 10 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 -16 33 £90,000 +44.00% 8
West London -6 6 £82,500 +22.22% 4
South London +17 5 £105,000 +27.27% 1
East London -12 1 £75,000 -18.92% 9
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 71 (24.40%) Apache Spark
2 50 (17.18%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.62%) Apache
4 6 (2.06%) Confluence
5 5 (1.72%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.72%) IIS
5 5 (1.72%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.03%) nginx
7 2 (0.69%) Mule
8 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.34%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 197 (67.70%) AWS
2 76 (26.12%) Azure
3 73 (25.09%) GCP
4 34 (11.68%) Serverless
5 33 (11.34%) Amazon Kinesis
6 30 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (9.62%) Amazon S3
8 27 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.90%) dbt
11 19 (6.53%) Datadog
11 19 (6.53%) Snowflake
12 18 (6.19%) GitHub
13 16 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (5.15%) Power Platform
15 14 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (4.47%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
18 10 (3.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.06%) Broadband
2 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (0.69%) AMQP
3 2 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) 4G
4 1 (0.34%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) BGP
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.34%) CTI
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
4 1 (0.34%) OSPF
4 1 (0.34%) RTMP
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VLAN
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.78%) NoSQL
2 39 (13.40%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (10.65%) Big Data
4 24 (8.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (6.87%) Redis
7 19 (6.53%) MongoDB
7 19 (6.53%) Relational Database
7 19 (6.53%) Tableau
8 17 (5.84%) DynamoDB
8 17 (5.84%) Metadata
8 17 (5.84%) SQL Server
9 16 (5.50%) Data Lake
10 15 (5.15%) BigQuery
10 15 (5.15%) Power BI
11 13 (4.47%) Flink
12 10 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (3.44%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (12.37%) GitLab
2 33 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.28%) Git
4 17 (5.84%) CircleCI
5 13 (4.47%) MLflow
6 8 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.06%) JIRA
8 5 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.72%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.37%) VisualVM
10 3 (1.03%) Jaeger
10 3 (1.03%) JUnit
10 3 (1.03%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.69%) Selenium
11 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.69%) webpack
11 2 (0.69%) YourKit
General
1 150 (51.55%) Finance
2 82 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 65 (22.34%) Front Office
4 44 (15.12%) Banking
5 30 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.25%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.87%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.41%) Law
10 6 (2.06%) Retail
11 5 (1.72%) Billing
12 4 (1.37%) Advertising
12 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.03%) Games
13 3 (1.03%) Legal
13 3 (1.03%) Marketing
14 2 (0.69%) Back Office
14 2 (0.69%) Electronics
14 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (35.05%) Developer
2 83 (28.52%) Senior
3 57 (19.59%) Software Engineer
4 50 (17.18%) Data Engineer
5 49 (16.84%) Lead
6 33 (11.34%) Java Engineer
7 32 (11.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 26 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (8.25%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.90%) Lead Developer
11 21 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (7.22%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (7.22%) Python Developer
11 21 (7.22%) Senior Developer
12 20 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (6.87%) Lead Software Developer
13 16 (5.50%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (5.15%) Architect
15 13 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.18%) Spring
2 47 (16.15%) React
3 43 (14.78%) Node.js
4 42 (14.43%) RabbitMQ
4 42 (14.43%) RESTful
5 41 (14.09%) GraphQL
5 41 (14.09%) REST
6 38 (13.06%) Spring Boot
7 35 (12.03%) Redux
8 30 (10.31%) gRPC
9 18 (6.19%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.15%) PySpark
11 13 (4.47%) OAuth
11 13 (4.47%) OAuth2
12 12 (4.12%) web3js
13 11 (3.78%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.44%) TensorFlow
14 10 (3.44%) WebSockets
15 9 (3.09%) Pandas
15 9 (3.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 74 (25.43%) Cloud Native
2 64 (21.99%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (14.09%) Fixed Income
4 17 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.81%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.81%) Public Cloud
6 12 (4.12%) Blockchain
6 12 (4.12%) e-Learning
6 12 (4.12%) Web3
7 11 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.44%) AI Agents
8 10 (3.44%) Algorithms
9 9 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.41%) Reference Data
10 7 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.06%) Clustering
11 6 (2.06%) Hedge funds
11 6 (2.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.90%) Linux
2 11 (3.78%) Windows
3 9 (3.09%) Android
4 7 (2.41%) Unix
5 5 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (46.39%) CI/CD
2 114 (39.18%) DevOps
3 112 (38.49%) Microservices
4 109 (37.46%) Software Engineering
5 102 (35.05%) Agile
6 67 (23.02%) Analytics
7 64 (21.99%) Containerisation
7 64 (21.99%) Data Pipeline
7 64 (21.99%) Event-Driven
8 60 (20.62%) Data Modelling
9 59 (20.27%) Computer Science
10 58 (19.93%) Data Engineering
10 58 (19.93%) Low Latency
11 56 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (18.56%) AI
13 53 (18.21%) Fintech
13 53 (18.21%) Investment Management
14 52 (17.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (16.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 165 (56.70%) Python
2 142 (48.80%) Java
3 115 (39.52%) SQL
4 78 (26.80%) Go
5 48 (16.49%) TypeScript
6 38 (13.06%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.90%) Bash
8 19 (6.53%) Scala
9 18 (6.19%) C++
10 17 (5.84%) C#
11 8 (2.75%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.72%) Rust
14 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.69%) Groovy
14 2 (0.69%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) Bicep
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (13.40%) Degree
2 38 (13.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.12%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.09%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.75%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.87%) GDPR
3 8 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.41%) QA
5 6 (2.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (2.06%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (33.68%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.37%) HDFS
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 112 (38.49%) Kubernetes
2 53 (18.21%) Terraform
3 34 (11.68%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.22%) Grafana
5 20 (6.87%) Ansible
6 11 (3.78%) Argo
7 4 (1.37%) Kibana
7 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.69%) Istio
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
9 1 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 31 (10.65%) Databricks
2 10 (3.44%) Dell
3 9 (3.09%) Oracle
4 8 (2.75%) VMware
5 6 (2.06%) Cloudera
5 6 (2.06%) Google
5 6 (2.06%) Solace
5 6 (2.06%) Splunk
6 5 (1.72%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.72%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.72%) Nokia
6 5 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.37%) Confluent
8 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.69%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.69%) PayPal
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.69%) SAP