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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 113 197
Rank change year-on-year -24 +84 -104
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 388 360 334
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.95% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.97% 11.16% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 222 198 239
10th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,188 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £99,250 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +4.47% -
75th Percentile £127,500 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £140,500
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 3,537 3,226 4,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.95% 26.42% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 2,225 3,639
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £83,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -2.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £114,897
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 8 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 8 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 -3 39 £90,000 -12.20% 36
West London - 17 £80,000 - 7
South London -19 6 - -
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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 73 (18.81%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (8.76%) Apache
4 13 (3.35%) Confluence
5 5 (1.29%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.03%) Camunda
7 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.52%) Luigi
7 2 (0.52%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 239 (61.60%) AWS
2 136 (35.05%) Azure
3 86 (22.16%) GCP
4 53 (13.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (12.89%) Serverless
6 39 (10.05%) dbt
7 34 (8.76%) Power Platform
8 33 (8.51%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (6.70%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 24 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (5.93%) Datadog
13 21 (5.41%) Amazon EMR
13 21 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (4.38%) SaaS
15 14 (3.61%) GitHub
16 13 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (3.35%) OpenShift
17 12 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.80%) BGP
2 6 (1.55%) DNS
2 6 (1.55%) IPsec
2 6 (1.55%) VPN
3 5 (1.29%) Internet
4 4 (1.03%) 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%) 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
1 102 (26.29%) NoSQL
2 47 (12.11%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (12.11%) Relational Database
3 42 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 36 (9.28%) Big Data
5 36 (9.28%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (8.51%) Power BI
7 28 (7.22%) MongoDB
8 26 (6.70%) Tableau
9 24 (6.19%) MySQL
10 23 (5.93%) Hadoop
11 22 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (5.15%) BigQuery
13 18 (4.64%) Redis
14 17 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (4.12%) Looker
15 16 (4.12%) Metadata
16 15 (3.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (13.14%) GitLab
2 33 (8.51%) Git
3 32 (8.25%) Cucumber
4 30 (7.73%) Jenkins
5 19 (4.90%) MLflow
6 17 (4.38%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.09%) Selenium
8 8 (2.06%) JIRA
9 6 (1.55%) Maven
10 4 (1.03%) JUnit
10 4 (1.03%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.52%) Postman
12 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.52%) WinDbg
13 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.26%) Gradle
13 1 (0.26%) Mocha
13 1 (0.26%) Mockito
13 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 194 (50.00%) Finance
2 100 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.75%) Banking
4 42 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (10.57%) Front Office
6 19 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.12%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.87%) Retail
9 13 (3.35%) Marketing
10 12 (3.09%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.84%) Law
12 9 (2.32%) Military
13 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.03%) Advertising
14 4 (1.03%) Billing
15 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.52%) Publishing
16 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 112 (28.87%) Senior
2 91 (23.45%) Developer
3 78 (20.10%) Java Engineer
4 68 (17.53%) Software Engineer
5 57 (14.69%) Data Engineer
6 47 (12.11%) Lead
7 36 (9.28%) Architect
8 32 (8.25%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (7.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 28 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (6.96%) Senior Java Engineer
12 26 (6.70%) Java Developer
13 25 (6.44%) Principal Java Engineer
14 24 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (5.67%) Python Engineer
16 20 (5.15%) Lead Developer
16 20 (5.15%) Senior Developer
17 19 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
18 18 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
19 17 (4.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (27.84%) Spring
2 96 (24.74%) Spring Boot
3 53 (13.66%) React
3 53 (13.66%) RESTful
4 52 (13.40%) Node.js
5 50 (12.89%) RabbitMQ
6 48 (12.37%) REST
7 31 (7.99%) GraphQL
8 28 (7.22%) Redux
9 23 (5.93%) .NET
10 22 (5.67%) PySpark
11 20 (5.15%) PyTorch
11 20 (5.15%) TensorFlow
12 19 (4.90%) gRPC
13 17 (4.38%) pgvector
14 16 (4.12%) LangChain
14 16 (4.12%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.12%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.09%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 129 (33.25%) Cloud Native
2 84 (21.65%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (11.86%) Public Cloud
4 33 (8.51%) Fixed Income
5 31 (7.99%) Onboarding
6 29 (7.47%) e-Learning
7 19 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (4.12%) Clustering
10 13 (3.35%) Data Structures
11 11 (2.84%) Blockchain
11 11 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (2.84%) Web3
12 10 (2.58%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.58%) EPoS
12 10 (2.58%) iSeries
13 9 (2.32%) Product Ownership
14 8 (2.06%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.67%) Linux
2 8 (2.06%) Unix
3 6 (1.55%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (45.36%) CI/CD
2 166 (42.78%) Microservices
3 146 (37.63%) Event-Driven
4 145 (37.37%) Agile
5 140 (36.08%) Software Engineering
6 114 (29.38%) DevOps
7 111 (28.61%) AI
8 103 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 93 (23.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 88 (22.68%) Containerisation
11 85 (21.91%) Test Automation
12 84 (21.65%) Analytics
13 83 (21.39%) Data Pipeline
14 82 (21.13%) Mentoring
15 72 (18.56%) Data Modelling
16 70 (18.04%) Observability
17 66 (17.01%) Data Engineering
18 62 (15.98%) Machine Learning
19 58 (14.95%) Data Science
20 55 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 197 (50.77%) Java
2 181 (46.65%) Python
3 162 (41.75%) SQL
4 55 (14.18%) Go
5 54 (13.92%) TypeScript
6 50 (12.89%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.76%) C#
8 15 (3.87%) Scala
9 13 (3.35%) C++
10 10 (2.58%) RPG
11 8 (2.06%) Bash
11 8 (2.06%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.80%) PHP
12 7 (1.80%) Rust
13 6 (1.55%) C
13 6 (1.55%) Ruby
14 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.52%) Bicep
15 2 (0.52%) R
16 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 42 (10.82%) Degree
2 40 (10.31%) AWS Certification
3 30 (7.73%) Security Cleared
4 29 (7.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.61%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) PhD
9 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
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 44 (11.34%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.73%) GDPR
3 16 (4.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.32%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.06%) QA
6 6 (1.55%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
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
1 104 (26.80%) Docker
2 8 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (33.51%) Kubernetes
2 79 (20.36%) Terraform
3 36 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 21 (5.41%) Grafana
5 14 (3.61%) Ansible
6 10 (2.58%) Istio
7 6 (1.55%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (1.29%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) Cilium
9 2 (0.52%) kaniko
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%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (12.63%) Databricks
2 34 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.41%) IBM
4 16 (4.12%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.12%) Dell
5 14 (3.61%) Oracle
6 9 (2.32%) Confluent
7 8 (2.06%) Google
7 8 (2.06%) Solace
8 7 (1.80%) Talend
9 6 (1.55%) HP
9 6 (1.55%) SAP
9 6 (1.55%) Splunk
10 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.03%) WSO2
11 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.52%) CheckPoint