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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 125 198
Rank change year-on-year -18 +73 -93
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 380 336 325
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.78% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.61% 9.69% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 203 178 217
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,400
25th Percentile £74,375 £75,875 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £115,000 £126,875 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +17.86% -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 3,955 3,466 5,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.40% 28.72% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,568 2,371 3,879
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £63,750 £63,750
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 £110,000 £113,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 34 £90,000 -20.00% 25
West London - 16 £80,000 - 20
South London -19 5 - - 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 89 (23.42%) Apache Spark
2 62 (16.32%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.42%) Apache
4 13 (3.42%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.32%) Camunda
6 4 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
7 2 (0.53%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 224 (58.95%) AWS
2 146 (38.42%) Azure
3 81 (21.32%) GCP
4 53 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (12.89%) Serverless
6 38 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 30 (7.89%) dbt
8 29 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (7.11%) Snowflake
10 25 (6.58%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (5.79%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (5.00%) Datadog
14 18 (4.74%) GitHub
15 17 (4.47%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.47%) SaaS
16 15 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (3.95%) OpenShift
17 14 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.84%) BGP
2 6 (1.58%) DNS
2 6 (1.58%) IPsec
2 6 (1.58%) VPN
3 5 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.53%) AMQP
4 2 (0.53%) MQTT
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) 5G
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (27.89%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (12.63%) Relational Database
3 46 (12.11%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (9.74%) Data Lake
5 37 (9.74%) Power BI
6 35 (9.21%) Big Data
7 33 (8.68%) MongoDB
8 27 (7.11%) Tableau
9 24 (6.32%) MySQL
10 23 (6.05%) Hadoop
11 21 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (4.74%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (4.47%) BigQuery
13 17 (4.47%) Redis
14 16 (4.21%) Looker
15 14 (3.68%) DynamoDB
16 12 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 53 (13.95%) GitLab
2 39 (10.26%) Cucumber
3 36 (9.47%) Git
4 33 (8.68%) Jenkins
5 19 (5.00%) MLflow
6 13 (3.42%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.16%) Selenium
8 8 (2.11%) JIRA
8 8 (2.11%) Maven
9 6 (1.58%) JUnit
10 4 (1.05%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.05%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.79%) Gradle
11 3 (0.79%) Mockito
12 2 (0.53%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.53%) Postman
12 2 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.53%) Xcode
12 2 (0.53%) XCTest
12 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 182 (47.89%) Finance
2 97 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.37%) Banking
4 40 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.05%) Front Office
6 20 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.95%) Marketing
9 15 (3.95%) Retail
10 10 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.63%) Law
11 9 (2.37%) Military
12 6 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Aviation
14 3 (0.79%) Billing
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
15 2 (0.53%) Advertising
15 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 121 (31.84%) Senior
2 78 (20.53%) Java Engineer
3 72 (18.95%) Developer
4 62 (16.32%) Software Engineer
5 50 (13.16%) Data Engineer
6 37 (9.74%) Architect
6 37 (9.74%) Lead
7 34 (8.95%) Principal Engineer
8 29 (7.63%) Senior Java Engineer
8 29 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (7.11%) Principal Java Engineer
10 23 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.79%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.79%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.00%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 16 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
14 14 (3.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 14 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (31.05%) Spring
2 104 (27.37%) Spring Boot
3 73 (19.21%) Terraform
4 55 (14.47%) REST
5 53 (13.95%) RESTful
6 52 (13.68%) RabbitMQ
7 37 (9.74%) Node.js
7 37 (9.74%) React
8 24 (6.32%) .NET
9 23 (6.05%) PySpark
10 20 (5.26%) PyTorch
10 20 (5.26%) TensorFlow
11 19 (5.00%) pgvector
12 18 (4.74%) LangChain
13 17 (4.47%) GraphQL
13 17 (4.47%) gRPC
14 16 (4.21%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.21%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.16%) Middleware
15 12 (3.16%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 140 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 98 (25.79%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (13.42%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.95%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.42%) Onboarding
6 21 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.21%) Clustering
8 16 (4.21%) Fixed Income
8 16 (4.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (3.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 13 (3.42%) AI Agents
11 12 (3.16%) Product Ownership
12 11 (2.89%) Data Structures
13 10 (2.63%) EPoS
13 10 (2.63%) iSeries
14 9 (2.37%) Algorithms
14 9 (2.37%) Blockchain
14 9 (2.37%) Web3
15 8 (2.11%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.53%) Linux
2 7 (1.84%) Unix
3 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.79%) Windows
5 2 (0.53%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 177 (46.58%) Microservices
3 167 (43.95%) Event-Driven
4 139 (36.58%) Agile
5 127 (33.42%) Software Engineering
6 117 (30.79%) AI
7 114 (30.00%) DevOps
8 106 (27.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (27.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 88 (23.16%) Test Automation
11 85 (22.37%) Mentoring
12 82 (21.58%) Analytics
13 79 (20.79%) Containerisation
14 76 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
15 72 (18.95%) Observability
16 70 (18.42%) Data Modelling
17 62 (16.32%) Data Engineering
17 62 (16.32%) Machine Learning
18 57 (15.00%) Data Science
19 56 (14.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 191 (50.26%) Java
2 154 (40.53%) Python
3 151 (39.74%) SQL
4 38 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 37 (9.74%) Go
6 33 (8.68%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.16%) C#
8 15 (3.95%) Scala
9 14 (3.68%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.63%) RPG
11 9 (2.37%) Bash
12 7 (1.84%) PHP
13 6 (1.58%) C
13 6 (1.58%) C++
13 6 (1.58%) Ruby
14 3 (0.79%) Rust
14 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 2 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (11.84%) AWS Certification
2 44 (11.58%) Degree
3 35 (9.21%) Security Cleared
4 34 (8.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (7.89%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.95%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.68%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.32%) PhD
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) CSPO
11 1 (0.26%) GIAC
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) OCP
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.37%) GDPR
3 16 (4.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.89%) QA
5 7 (1.84%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.05%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.05%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (26.84%) Docker
2 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.68%) Prometheus
3 20 (5.26%) Grafana
4 14 (3.68%) Ansible
5 11 (2.89%) Istio
6 8 (2.11%) Argo
7 6 (1.58%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.05%) Cilium
9 2 (0.53%) kaniko
9 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
10 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (12.63%) Databricks
2 38 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.32%) IBM
4 19 (5.00%) Oracle
5 16 (4.21%) Cloudera
5 16 (4.21%) Dell
6 9 (2.37%) Confluent
7 8 (2.11%) Google
8 7 (1.84%) Talend
9 6 (1.58%) HP
9 6 (1.58%) SAP
9 6 (1.58%) Solace
9 6 (1.58%) Splunk
10 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.32%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.05%) WSO2
12 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.53%) Apple