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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 190 115
Rank change year-on-year +76 -75 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 336 303 525
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.73% 1.75% 2.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.43% 6.54% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 172 185 453
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £66,250
25th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% +2.78% -2.35%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £141,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £76,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +24.18% -7.27% -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 2,939 4,630 5,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.85% 26.74% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 2,950 5,058
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% +0.46%
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 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 8 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 +20 34 £112,500 +50.00% 204
South London +37 8 £95,000 - 5
West London +4 1 £82,500 +22.22% 2
East London -7 1 £75,000 - 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 78 (23.21%) Apache Spark
2 32 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (5.95%) Apache
4 9 (2.68%) Confluence
5 7 (2.08%) nginx
6 6 (1.79%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.19%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (1.19%) Traefik
8 3 (0.89%) JBoss
8 3 (0.89%) Luigi
8 3 (0.89%) Mule
9 2 (0.60%) IIS
9 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.30%) SAS
10 1 (0.30%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 226 (67.26%) AWS
2 95 (28.27%) Azure
3 83 (24.70%) GCP
4 29 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (8.04%) Serverless
6 25 (7.44%) GitHub
7 22 (6.55%) Amazon Kinesis
8 20 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 13 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.27%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.68%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
17 5 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.79%) DNS
1 6 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
1 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
1 6 (1.79%) VPN
2 4 (1.19%) DHCP
2 4 (1.19%) FTP
2 4 (1.19%) ICMP
3 2 (0.60%) BGP
3 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.60%) Firewall
3 2 (0.60%) MQTT
3 2 (0.60%) OSPF
3 2 (0.60%) RTMP
3 2 (0.60%) VLAN
3 2 (0.60%) WAN
3 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.60%) Wireless
4 1 (0.30%) AMQP
4 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.94%) NoSQL
2 51 (15.18%) Big Data
3 44 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (12.20%) MongoDB
5 39 (11.61%) Relational Database
6 37 (11.01%) Hadoop
7 31 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (5.95%) Metadata
9 20 (5.95%) Redis
10 16 (4.76%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.57%) DynamoDB
11 12 (3.57%) Flink
11 12 (3.57%) RDBMS
12 11 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (3.27%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.27%) MySQL
12 11 (3.27%) Oracle Database
13 10 (2.98%) Apache Hive
13 10 (2.98%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 29 (8.63%) Git
2 26 (7.74%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.76%) GitLab
4 12 (3.57%) JIRA
5 11 (3.27%) JUnit
6 10 (2.98%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.68%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.68%) MLflow
8 8 (2.38%) Vite
9 6 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.79%) Selenium
9 6 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.19%) git-flow
10 4 (1.19%) JMeter
10 4 (1.19%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.19%) Mockito
10 4 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.19%) VisualVM
General
1 217 (64.58%) Finance
2 99 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 85 (25.30%) Law
4 77 (22.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (22.32%) Banking
6 52 (15.48%) Front Office
7 49 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (12.50%) Financial Institution
9 22 (6.55%) Marketing
10 11 (3.27%) Investment Banking
11 10 (2.98%) Games
12 8 (2.38%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.79%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.89%) Legal
15 3 (0.89%) Retail
15 3 (0.89%) Wholesale Banking
16 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (37.80%) Software Engineer
2 94 (27.98%) Developer
3 78 (23.21%) Lead
4 60 (17.86%) Senior
5 52 (15.48%) Java Engineer
6 45 (13.39%) Lead Software Engineer
7 43 (12.80%) Java Software Engineer
8 41 (12.20%) Data Engineer
9 36 (10.71%) Java Developer
10 28 (8.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 21 (6.25%) Python Engineer
12 20 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.95%) Lead Developer
13 19 (5.65%) Architect
14 17 (5.06%) Kafka Engineer
14 17 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (4.76%) Kafka Developer
15 16 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (4.46%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (27.08%) Spring
2 72 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 63 (18.75%) React
4 57 (16.96%) RESTful
5 45 (13.39%) GraphQL
6 42 (12.50%) Node.js
7 41 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
8 37 (11.01%) REST
9 34 (10.12%) AngularJS
10 27 (8.04%) Redux
11 22 (6.55%) Akka
12 17 (5.06%) RxJava
12 17 (5.06%) Spring WebFlux
13 14 (4.17%) gRPC
13 14 (4.17%) Jest
13 14 (4.17%) JMS
14 13 (3.87%) Micronaut
14 13 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (3.57%) Quarkus
16 10 (2.98%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (29.76%) Cloud Native
2 77 (22.92%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (10.12%) Algorithms
4 28 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 27 (8.04%) Fixed Income
5 27 (8.04%) Product Ownership
6 23 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (6.25%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.76%) Mobile App
8 16 (4.76%) Public Cloud
9 15 (4.46%) Client/Server
9 15 (4.46%) Hedge funds
10 13 (3.87%) Distributed Applications
10 13 (3.87%) FMCG
11 12 (3.57%) e-Learning
12 11 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.98%) Equities
13 10 (2.98%) Reference Data
13 10 (2.98%) Virtual Team
14 9 (2.68%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.25%) Linux
2 6 (1.79%) Windows
3 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.19%) Unix
4 2 (0.60%) Android
4 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (50.60%) Software Engineering
2 147 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 140 (41.67%) Agile
4 127 (37.80%) Microservices
5 94 (27.98%) DevOps
6 88 (26.19%) Fintech
7 66 (19.64%) SDLC
8 64 (19.05%) Analytics
9 62 (18.45%) Test Automation
10 60 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 56 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 50 (14.88%) ETL
12 50 (14.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 48 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 46 (13.69%) AI
14 46 (13.69%) Containerisation
14 46 (13.69%) Data Engineering
15 42 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 211 (62.80%) Java
2 138 (41.07%) Python
3 110 (32.74%) SQL
4 62 (18.45%) Go
5 51 (15.18%) TypeScript
6 37 (11.01%) JavaScript
7 32 (9.52%) Scala
8 28 (8.33%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.87%) C#
10 11 (3.27%) Bash
11 9 (2.68%) C++
12 6 (1.79%) Groovy
13 4 (1.19%) Rust
14 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) Clojure
15 1 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (10.12%) Degree
2 19 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.46%) Master's Degree
4 14 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.27%) PhD
6 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.89%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.89%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.55%) QA
3 18 (5.36%) GDPR
4 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.60%) SEPA
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 85 (25.30%) Docker
2 8 (2.38%) HDFS
3 5 (1.49%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.60%) NFS
4 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 144 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.20%) Terraform
3 20 (5.95%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.46%) Grafana
5 13 (3.87%) Argo
6 12 (3.57%) Ansible
7 8 (2.38%) Mesos
8 6 (1.79%) Puppet
9 5 (1.49%) Kubeflow
10 4 (1.19%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.89%) Kibana
12 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.60%) logstash
12 2 (0.60%) Podman
13 1 (0.30%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (12.50%) Databricks
2 30 (8.93%) Oracle
3 15 (4.46%) SAP
4 12 (3.57%) Google
4 12 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (1.19%) Confluent
5 4 (1.19%) Dell
5 4 (1.19%) Splunk
5 4 (1.19%) VMware
6 3 (0.89%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.89%) Solace
7 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.60%) Cisco
7 2 (0.60%) Ericsson
7 2 (0.60%) Informatica
7 2 (0.60%) Mavenir
7 2 (0.60%) NETGEAR
7 2 (0.60%) Nokia
7 2 (0.60%) Sonatype