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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 180 121
Rank change year-on-year +64 -59 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 348 305 502
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.71% 1.77% 2.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.88% 6.62% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 182 184 433
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £69,375 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £108,750 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% +5.56% -2.53%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% -2.94%

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 2,930 4,610 5,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.81% 26.79% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,976 2,932 4,907
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £101,185
90th Percentile £136,250 £140,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 36 £112,500 +55.17% 125
South London +34 7 £95,000 - 3
West London -3 2 £76,250 +12.96% 2
East London -15 1 £75,000 - 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 (23.28%) Apache Spark
2 35 (10.06%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (6.32%) Apache
4 10 (2.87%) Confluence
5 8 (2.30%) Apache Pulsar
6 7 (2.01%) nginx
7 4 (1.15%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (1.15%) Traefik
8 3 (0.86%) IIS
8 3 (0.86%) JBoss
8 3 (0.86%) Luigi
8 3 (0.86%) Mule
8 3 (0.86%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.29%) SAS
10 1 (0.29%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.29%) Endur
3 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 231 (66.38%) AWS
2 105 (30.17%) Azure
3 93 (26.72%) GCP
4 32 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (7.76%) GitHub
6 26 (7.47%) Serverless
7 23 (6.61%) Amazon Kinesis
8 21 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.45%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.45%) Snowflake
12 11 (3.16%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.59%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.72%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) DNS
2 6 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 6 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.72%) VPN
3 4 (1.15%) DHCP
3 4 (1.15%) FTP
3 4 (1.15%) ICMP
4 2 (0.57%) BGP
4 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.57%) Firewall
4 2 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.57%) OSPF
4 2 (0.57%) RTMP
4 2 (0.57%) VLAN
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
4 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.57%) Wireless
5 1 (0.29%) AMQP
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (19.83%) NoSQL
2 50 (14.37%) Big Data
3 46 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (12.07%) MongoDB
5 40 (11.49%) Relational Database
6 36 (10.34%) Hadoop
7 34 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (6.03%) Metadata
9 21 (6.03%) Redis
10 17 (4.89%) SQL Server
11 14 (4.02%) Flink
12 12 (3.45%) Data Lake
12 12 (3.45%) DynamoDB
12 12 (3.45%) MySQL
12 12 (3.45%) RDBMS
13 11 (3.16%) BigQuery
13 11 (3.16%) Oracle Database
13 11 (3.16%) Power BI
14 10 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (8.91%) Git
2 28 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.31%) GitLab
4 13 (3.74%) JIRA
5 10 (2.87%) MLflow
6 9 (2.59%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.30%) JUnit
7 8 (2.30%) Vite
8 7 (2.01%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.72%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.72%) Selenium
9 6 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.15%) git-flow
11 4 (1.15%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.15%) Mockito
11 4 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.15%) VisualVM
General
1 214 (61.49%) Finance
2 106 (30.46%) Social Skills
3 85 (24.43%) Law
4 76 (21.84%) Banking
4 76 (21.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (15.80%) Front Office
6 51 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (11.78%) Financial Institution
8 24 (6.90%) Marketing
9 15 (4.31%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.16%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.59%) Games
12 7 (2.01%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.15%) Legal
14 4 (1.15%) Retail
15 3 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
16 2 (0.57%) Electronics
16 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (36.49%) Software Engineer
2 95 (27.30%) Developer
3 77 (22.13%) Lead
4 66 (18.97%) Senior
5 51 (14.66%) Java Engineer
6 45 (12.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 43 (12.36%) Data Engineer
8 41 (11.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 36 (10.34%) Java Developer
10 28 (8.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 21 (6.03%) Python Engineer
12 20 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.75%) Lead Developer
13 18 (5.17%) Architect
13 18 (5.17%) Kafka Engineer
14 17 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
14 17 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (4.60%) Kafka Developer
15 16 (4.60%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (26.15%) Spring
2 71 (20.40%) Spring Boot
3 64 (18.39%) RESTful
4 62 (17.82%) React
5 45 (12.93%) GraphQL
6 44 (12.64%) Node.js
7 43 (12.36%) REST
8 41 (11.78%) RabbitMQ
9 32 (9.20%) AngularJS
10 27 (7.76%) Redux
11 18 (5.17%) gRPC
12 17 (4.89%) Akka
13 15 (4.31%) JMS
13 15 (4.31%) RxJava
13 15 (4.31%) Spring WebFlux
14 14 (4.02%) Jest
14 14 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (3.45%) Quarkus
16 11 (3.16%) Micronaut
17 10 (2.87%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 104 (29.89%) Cloud Native
2 87 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (10.06%) Algorithms
4 29 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 28 (8.05%) Fixed Income
6 26 (7.47%) Product Ownership
7 21 (6.03%) Management Information System
8 20 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (4.89%) Public Cloud
10 16 (4.60%) Mobile App
11 15 (4.31%) Client/Server
12 14 (4.02%) FMCG
12 14 (4.02%) Hedge funds
13 13 (3.74%) Distributed Applications
13 13 (3.74%) e-Learning
14 11 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (3.16%) Virtual Team
15 10 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (2.87%) Reference Data
16 9 (2.59%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.61%) Linux
2 7 (2.01%) Windows
3 5 (1.44%) Android
3 5 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.15%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (47.70%) Software Engineering
2 159 (45.69%) CI/CD
3 146 (41.95%) Agile
4 139 (39.94%) Microservices
5 100 (28.74%) DevOps
6 89 (25.57%) Fintech
7 69 (19.83%) SDLC
8 66 (18.97%) Analytics
9 64 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (18.10%) Test Automation
11 62 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
12 58 (16.67%) Data Modelling
13 55 (15.80%) Computer Science
13 55 (15.80%) Machine Learning
14 54 (15.52%) Containerisation
15 53 (15.23%) AI
16 52 (14.94%) ETL
16 52 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 51 (14.66%) Data Engineering
18 50 (14.37%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 216 (62.07%) Java
2 146 (41.95%) Python
3 115 (33.05%) SQL
4 68 (19.54%) Go
5 51 (14.66%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.63%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.62%) Scala
8 29 (8.33%) Kotlin
9 15 (4.31%) C#
10 13 (3.74%) Bash
11 12 (3.45%) C++
12 6 (1.72%) Groovy
13 4 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.15%) Rust
14 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) Clojure
15 1 (0.29%) Perl
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (12.07%) Degree
2 27 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.60%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.16%) PhD
6 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.44%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.57%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.32%) QA
3 17 (4.89%) GDPR
4 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 89 (25.57%) Docker
2 8 (2.30%) HDFS
3 6 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 150 (43.10%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.78%) Terraform
3 22 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 18 (5.17%) Grafana
5 15 (4.31%) Ansible
6 14 (4.02%) Argo
7 8 (2.30%) Mesos
8 7 (2.01%) Puppet
9 5 (1.44%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.15%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.86%) Kibana
12 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.57%) logstash
12 2 (0.57%) Podman
13 1 (0.29%) Icinga
13 1 (0.29%) Nagios
13 1 (0.29%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (12.36%) Databricks
2 31 (8.91%) Oracle
3 16 (4.60%) SAP
4 12 (3.45%) Google
5 11 (3.16%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.72%) VMware
7 5 (1.44%) Confluent
7 5 (1.44%) Splunk
8 4 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.15%) Dell
8 4 (1.15%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.15%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.15%) Nokia
8 4 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.86%) Solace
10 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco
10 2 (0.57%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.57%) StreamSets