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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 152 129
Rank change year-on-year +6 -23 -65
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 293 327 496
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.75% 2.40% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.11% 8.88% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 210 238 391
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +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 2,899 3,682 5,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.28% 27.05% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,065 2,506 4,805
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 £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 12 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 12 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 -13 33 £90,000 +44.00% 34
West London - 6 £82,500 - 4
South London +15 5 £105,000 +27.27% 1
East London -12 1 £75,000 -18.92% 7
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 70 (23.89%) Apache Spark
2 51 (17.41%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (9.22%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) Confluence
5 5 (1.71%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.71%) IIS
5 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.02%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) Mule
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.34%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) 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
1 200 (68.26%) AWS
2 81 (27.65%) Azure
3 76 (25.94%) GCP
4 34 (11.60%) Serverless
5 32 (10.92%) Amazon Kinesis
6 28 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (9.56%) Amazon S3
6 28 (9.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (8.19%) dbt
8 23 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (6.83%) Datadog
10 19 (6.48%) Snowflake
11 18 (6.14%) GitHub
12 16 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (5.12%) Power Platform
14 14 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (3.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) Broadband
2 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) AMQP
3 2 (0.68%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.34%) RTMP
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VLAN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.02%) NoSQL
2 39 (13.31%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (10.24%) Big Data
4 24 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (7.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (6.83%) Relational Database
7 19 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (6.48%) Redis
7 19 (6.48%) Tableau
8 18 (6.14%) MongoDB
9 17 (5.80%) DynamoDB
9 17 (5.80%) Metadata
9 17 (5.80%) SQL Server
10 16 (5.46%) Data Lake
11 15 (5.12%) BigQuery
11 15 (5.12%) Power BI
12 13 (4.44%) Flink
13 10 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (3.41%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (12.63%) GitLab
2 34 (11.60%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.22%) Git
4 18 (6.14%) CircleCI
5 13 (4.44%) MLflow
6 8 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.05%) JIRA
8 5 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.37%) JUnit
10 3 (1.02%) Jaeger
10 3 (1.02%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.02%) VisualVM
11 2 (0.68%) Mocha
11 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 2 (0.68%) webpack
11 2 (0.68%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.68%) YourKit
General
1 149 (50.85%) Finance
2 83 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 65 (22.18%) Front Office
4 44 (15.02%) Banking
5 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.19%) Telecoms
7 18 (6.14%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.39%) Law
10 6 (2.05%) Retail
11 5 (1.71%) Billing
12 4 (1.37%) Advertising
12 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.02%) Games
13 3 (1.02%) Legal
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Back Office
14 2 (0.68%) Electronics
14 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (35.15%) Developer
2 83 (28.33%) Senior
3 57 (19.45%) Software Engineer
4 50 (17.06%) Data Engineer
5 48 (16.38%) Lead
6 34 (11.60%) Java Engineer
7 32 (10.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 26 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (8.53%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.85%) Lead Developer
11 22 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (7.17%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (7.17%) Python Developer
12 21 (7.17%) Senior Developer
13 20 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (6.83%) Lead Software Developer
14 16 (5.46%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (5.12%) Architect
16 14 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (4.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.41%) Spring
2 47 (16.04%) React
3 43 (14.68%) Node.js
3 43 (14.68%) RabbitMQ
3 43 (14.68%) RESTful
4 42 (14.33%) REST
5 41 (13.99%) GraphQL
6 38 (12.97%) Spring Boot
7 35 (11.95%) Redux
8 29 (9.90%) gRPC
9 18 (6.14%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.12%) PySpark
11 14 (4.78%) OAuth
11 14 (4.78%) OAuth2
12 12 (4.10%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (4.10%) web3js
13 10 (3.41%) TensorFlow
13 10 (3.41%) WebSockets
14 9 (3.07%) Akka
14 9 (3.07%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 75 (25.60%) Cloud Native
2 61 (20.82%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (13.99%) Fixed Income
4 17 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.78%) Public Cloud
6 12 (4.10%) Blockchain
6 12 (4.10%) Web3
7 11 (3.75%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.75%) e-Learning
7 11 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (3.07%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.39%) Reference Data
10 7 (2.39%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.05%) Derivative
11 6 (2.05%) Equities
11 6 (2.05%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.85%) Linux
2 11 (3.75%) Windows
3 9 (3.07%) Android
4 7 (2.39%) Unix
5 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.10%) CI/CD
2 115 (39.25%) Microservices
3 114 (38.91%) DevOps
4 112 (38.23%) Software Engineering
5 102 (34.81%) Agile
6 68 (23.21%) Analytics
7 67 (22.87%) Containerisation
8 64 (21.84%) Data Pipeline
8 64 (21.84%) Event-Driven
9 60 (20.48%) Data Modelling
10 59 (20.14%) Computer Science
10 59 (20.14%) Low Latency
11 57 (19.45%) Data Engineering
11 57 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (19.11%) AI
13 53 (18.09%) Fintech
13 53 (18.09%) Investment Management
14 52 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
15 51 (17.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 48 (16.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 166 (56.66%) Python
2 141 (48.12%) Java
3 117 (39.93%) SQL
4 79 (26.96%) Go
5 48 (16.38%) TypeScript
6 38 (12.97%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.19%) Bash
8 18 (6.14%) C++
8 18 (6.14%) Scala
9 17 (5.80%) C#
10 8 (2.73%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.05%) Rust
12 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.68%) Groovy
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Korn
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (13.65%) Degree
2 38 (12.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.10%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.41%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.07%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.83%) GDPR
3 9 (3.07%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.39%) QA
4 7 (2.39%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (34.13%) Docker
2 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.02%) HDFS
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 114 (38.91%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.77%) Terraform
3 35 (11.95%) Prometheus
4 22 (7.51%) Grafana
5 21 (7.17%) Ansible
6 11 (3.75%) Argo
7 4 (1.37%) Kibana
7 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
9 1 (0.34%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (10.24%) Databricks
2 10 (3.41%) Dell
3 9 (3.07%) Oracle
4 8 (2.73%) VMware
5 6 (2.05%) Cloudera
5 6 (2.05%) Splunk
6 5 (1.71%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.71%) Google
6 5 (1.71%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.71%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.71%) Nokia
6 5 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.71%) Solace
7 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.37%) Confluent
8 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.68%) PayPal
8 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.68%) SAP