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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 109 180
Rank change year-on-year -30 +71 -109
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 335 378 445
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.56% 3.10% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.97% 11.64% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 223 223 344
10th Percentile £62,750 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +6.45% -13.89%

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 3,360 3,247 6,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.69% 26.63% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,288 2,238 4,761
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
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 £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -20 36 £95,000 +5.56% 26
West London - 10 £81,250 - 7
South London -6 7 £105,000 +27.27%
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 82 (24.48%) Apache Spark
2 78 (23.28%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (11.34%) Apache
4 5 (1.49%) Confluence
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.60%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 209 (62.39%) AWS
2 115 (34.33%) Azure
3 76 (22.69%) GCP
4 53 (15.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (14.03%) Serverless
6 45 (13.43%) dbt
7 40 (11.94%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.55%) Snowflake
9 31 (9.25%) Datadog
10 28 (8.36%) Power Platform
11 26 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (5.67%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (5.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 15 (4.48%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (4.48%) SaaS
15 12 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) Broadband
2 3 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.60%) 4G
3 2 (0.60%) 5G
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) HTTP
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (21.79%) NoSQL
2 49 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.15%) Data Lake
3 34 (10.15%) Relational Database
4 31 (9.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.96%) Tableau
6 29 (8.66%) Big Data
7 28 (8.36%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (8.06%) Power BI
9 25 (7.46%) BigQuery
10 22 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (6.27%) MongoDB
12 20 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (5.37%) DynamoDB
13 18 (5.37%) Metadata
13 18 (5.37%) MySQL
14 16 (4.78%) Looker
15 11 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (3.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (14.63%) GitLab
2 34 (10.15%) Git
2 34 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.46%) CircleCI
4 23 (6.87%) Cucumber
5 19 (5.67%) MLflow
6 6 (1.79%) Selenium
7 5 (1.49%) JIRA
7 5 (1.49%) Maven
8 4 (1.19%) JUnit
9 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.90%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.30%) Gatling
10 1 (0.30%) Gradle
10 1 (0.30%) Mockito
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 166 (49.55%) Finance
2 80 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.52%) Banking
4 44 (13.13%) Front Office
5 34 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.39%) Law
8 8 (2.39%) Retail
9 7 (2.09%) Billing
9 7 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.19%) Advertising
12 2 (0.60%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Legal
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (29.55%) Senior
2 95 (28.36%) Developer
3 65 (19.40%) Data Engineer
4 57 (17.01%) Software Engineer
5 56 (16.72%) Java Engineer
6 50 (14.93%) Lead
7 34 (10.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 32 (9.55%) Architect
9 30 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (7.46%) Senior Developer
11 23 (6.87%) Lead Developer
11 23 (6.87%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (6.57%) Java Developer
12 22 (6.57%) Python Engineer
13 20 (5.97%) Lead Software Developer
13 20 (5.97%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (5.97%) Senior Java Engineer
14 18 (5.37%) Principal Java Engineer
15 17 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (5.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (20.90%) Spring
2 67 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 51 (15.22%) RabbitMQ
4 50 (14.93%) React
5 42 (12.54%) REST
6 41 (12.24%) Node.js
7 37 (11.04%) RESTful
8 33 (9.85%) Redux
9 32 (9.55%) GraphQL
10 25 (7.46%) PySpark
11 22 (6.57%) gRPC
12 19 (5.67%) .NET
13 18 (5.37%) web3js
14 16 (4.78%) LangChain
14 16 (4.78%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.78%) pgvector
14 16 (4.78%) PyTorch
14 16 (4.78%) scikit-learn
14 16 (4.78%) TensorFlow
15 11 (3.28%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 107 (31.94%) Cloud Native
2 49 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.34%) Public Cloud
4 37 (11.04%) Fixed Income
5 21 (6.27%) e-Learning
6 18 (5.37%) Blockchain
6 18 (5.37%) Web3
7 16 (4.78%) Clustering
8 15 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.28%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.69%) Data Structures
12 7 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.79%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.49%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.19%) Anti-Piracy
15 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.67%) Linux
2 7 (2.09%) Unix
3 6 (1.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (43.28%) CI/CD
2 128 (38.21%) Software Engineering
3 125 (37.31%) Microservices
4 113 (33.73%) Agile
5 105 (31.34%) DevOps
6 103 (30.75%) Event-Driven
7 87 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 82 (24.48%) Analytics
9 76 (22.69%) Data Pipeline
10 75 (22.39%) Containerisation
11 71 (21.19%) AI
11 71 (21.19%) Data Modelling
12 70 (20.90%) Test Automation
13 69 (20.60%) Data Engineering
14 64 (19.10%) Observability
15 61 (18.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 58 (17.31%) Mentoring
17 56 (16.72%) ETL
18 52 (15.52%) Data Governance
19 50 (14.93%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 182 (54.33%) Python
2 148 (44.18%) SQL
3 145 (43.28%) Java
4 69 (20.60%) Go
5 53 (15.82%) TypeScript
6 50 (14.93%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.46%) C#
8 18 (5.37%) Bash
9 14 (4.18%) C++
10 13 (3.88%) Scala
11 7 (2.09%) Rust
12 4 (1.19%) RPG
13 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.60%) Bicep
14 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.60%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.46%) AWS Certification
1 25 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 23 (6.87%) Degree
4 19 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) GIAC
8 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.30%) SSCP
8 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.06%) GDPR
3 16 (4.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.39%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.09%) QA
7 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SEPA
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (28.96%) Docker
2 8 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (34.93%) Kubernetes
2 84 (25.07%) Terraform
3 41 (12.24%) Prometheus
4 23 (6.87%) Grafana
5 15 (4.48%) Ansible
6 10 (2.99%) Istio
7 3 (0.90%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Cilium
8 2 (0.60%) Kibana
8 2 (0.60%) Puppet
8 2 (0.60%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (13.13%) Databricks
2 21 (6.27%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.78%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.78%) Dell
4 9 (2.69%) Confluent
5 8 (2.39%) Solace
6 7 (2.09%) Splunk
7 6 (1.79%) Talend
8 5 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.49%) IBM
9 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.19%) WSO2
10 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.60%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.60%) OpenText
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle
11 2 (0.60%) PayPal
11 2 (0.60%) Salesforce