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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 108 180
Rank change year-on-year -30 +72 -114
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 337 378 443
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 3.09% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.99% 11.64% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 227 223 344
10th Percentile £63,750 £56,500 £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 3,373 3,247 5,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.84% 26.58% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 2,230 4,737
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 £110,938 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,434 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +10.72% -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 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 12 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 -32 36 £92,500 +2.78% 14
West London - 10 £81,250 - 5
South London -4 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 81 (24.04%) Apache Spark
2 77 (22.85%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (11.28%) Apache
4 5 (1.48%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.59%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 213 (63.20%) AWS
2 116 (34.42%) Azure
3 78 (23.15%) GCP
4 52 (15.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (13.65%) Serverless
6 44 (13.06%) dbt
7 39 (11.57%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.50%) Snowflake
9 30 (8.90%) Datadog
10 27 (8.01%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (6.23%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (5.34%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (4.75%) SaaS
16 15 (4.45%) Amazon EMR
17 13 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (3.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.48%) Broadband
2 3 (0.89%) Network Security
3 2 (0.59%) 4G
3 2 (0.59%) 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 72 (21.36%) NoSQL
2 47 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.09%) Relational Database
4 33 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 31 (9.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (8.61%) Big Data
6 29 (8.61%) Tableau
7 28 (8.31%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (7.72%) Power BI
9 25 (7.42%) BigQuery
10 21 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (5.93%) MongoDB
11 20 (5.93%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (5.34%) DynamoDB
12 18 (5.34%) MySQL
13 17 (5.04%) Metadata
14 16 (4.75%) Looker
15 12 (3.56%) Redis
16 11 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 48 (14.24%) GitLab
2 33 (9.79%) Git
2 33 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.12%) CircleCI
4 23 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 19 (5.64%) MLflow
6 6 (1.78%) Selenium
7 5 (1.48%) Maven
8 4 (1.19%) JIRA
8 4 (1.19%) JUnit
9 3 (0.89%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.89%) 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
1 163 (48.37%) Finance
2 79 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 51 (15.13%) Banking
4 47 (13.95%) Front Office
5 34 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.67%) Retail
7 9 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.37%) Law
9 7 (2.08%) Billing
9 7 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.19%) Advertising
12 2 (0.59%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Legal
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (29.97%) Senior
2 93 (27.60%) Developer
3 63 (18.69%) Data Engineer
4 58 (17.21%) Software Engineer
5 57 (16.91%) Java Engineer
6 53 (15.73%) Lead
7 33 (9.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 32 (9.50%) Architect
9 29 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (7.42%) Senior Developer
11 23 (6.82%) Lead Developer
11 23 (6.82%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (6.53%) Python Engineer
13 21 (6.23%) Java Developer
13 21 (6.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (5.93%) Lead Software Developer
14 20 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
15 19 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
16 18 (5.34%) Principal Java Engineer
17 17 (5.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (20.77%) Spring
2 66 (19.58%) Spring Boot
3 52 (15.43%) React
4 50 (14.84%) RabbitMQ
5 43 (12.76%) REST
6 42 (12.46%) Node.js
7 39 (11.57%) RESTful
8 33 (9.79%) Redux
9 32 (9.50%) GraphQL
10 24 (7.12%) gRPC
10 24 (7.12%) PySpark
11 18 (5.34%) .NET
12 17 (5.04%) web3js
13 16 (4.75%) LangChain
13 16 (4.75%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.75%) pgvector
13 16 (4.75%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.75%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.75%) TensorFlow
14 10 (2.97%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 107 (31.75%) Cloud Native
2 54 (16.02%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.28%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.98%) Fixed Income
5 21 (6.23%) e-Learning
6 17 (5.04%) Blockchain
6 17 (5.04%) Web3
7 16 (4.75%) Clustering
8 15 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.26%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.97%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.37%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.19%) Anti-Piracy
14 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.64%) Linux
2 7 (2.08%) Unix
3 6 (1.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Android
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.92%) CI/CD
2 127 (37.69%) Microservices
3 126 (37.39%) Software Engineering
4 113 (33.53%) Agile
5 107 (31.75%) DevOps
6 105 (31.16%) Event-Driven
7 86 (25.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (23.44%) Analytics
9 78 (23.15%) Containerisation
10 76 (22.55%) Data Pipeline
11 74 (21.96%) AI
12 70 (20.77%) Data Engineering
12 70 (20.77%) Data Modelling
13 69 (20.47%) Test Automation
14 63 (18.69%) Observability
15 61 (18.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 58 (17.21%) Mentoring
17 54 (16.02%) ETL
18 51 (15.13%) Investment Management
19 50 (14.84%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 184 (54.60%) Python
2 148 (43.92%) Java
3 146 (43.32%) SQL
4 73 (21.66%) Go
5 54 (16.02%) TypeScript
6 51 (15.13%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.12%) C#
8 18 (5.34%) Bash
9 16 (4.75%) C++
10 14 (4.15%) Scala
11 7 (2.08%) Rust
12 4 (1.19%) RPG
13 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.59%) Bicep
14 2 (0.59%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (8.01%) Degree
2 25 (7.42%) AWS Certification
3 24 (7.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 24 (7.12%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.34%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) GIAC
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) SSCP
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.24%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.01%) GDPR
3 16 (4.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.97%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.37%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.48%) QA
7 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.89%) 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
1 101 (29.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 85 (25.22%) Terraform
3 40 (11.87%) Prometheus
4 23 (6.82%) Grafana
5 15 (4.45%) Ansible
6 10 (2.97%) Istio
7 5 (1.48%) Argo
8 2 (0.59%) Cilium
8 2 (0.59%) Kibana
8 2 (0.59%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.76%) Databricks
2 21 (6.23%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.75%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.75%) Dell
4 9 (2.67%) Confluent
5 8 (2.37%) Solace
6 7 (2.08%) Splunk
7 5 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.48%) Talend
8 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.19%) IBM
8 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.19%) WSO2
9 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.59%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.59%) Google
10 2 (0.59%) OpenText
10 2 (0.59%) PayPal
10 2 (0.59%) Salesforce