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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 104 186
Rank change year-on-year -37 +82 -108
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 352 394 424
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 3.16% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.31% 11.87% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 227 233 328
10th Percentile £63,250 £60,000 £62,125
25th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £127,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £123,250
England median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +16.13% -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 3,415 3,319 5,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.45% 26.66% 25.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 2,316 4,734
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 7 July 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 7 July 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 38 £92,500 -1.33% 17
West London - 15 £80,000 - 9
South London -7 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 89 (25.28%) Apache Spark
2 75 (21.31%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (9.38%) Apache
4 11 (3.13%) Confluence
5 4 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Pig
7 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.57%) Camunda
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 223 (63.35%) AWS
2 121 (34.38%) Azure
3 78 (22.16%) GCP
4 55 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 52 (14.77%) Serverless
6 45 (12.78%) dbt
7 34 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 33 (9.38%) Snowflake
9 29 (8.24%) Datadog
10 28 (7.95%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (6.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 23 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (6.53%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (5.40%) Amazon EMR
14 17 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (4.26%) SaaS
17 11 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.42%) BGP
1 5 (1.42%) Broadband
2 4 (1.14%) DNS
2 4 (1.14%) IPsec
2 4 (1.14%) VPN
3 3 (0.85%) Internet
3 3 (0.85%) Network Security
4 2 (0.57%) 4G
4 2 (0.57%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) CTI
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (24.15%) NoSQL
2 47 (13.35%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (9.66%) Data Lake
4 34 (9.66%) Relational Database
5 33 (9.38%) Big Data
6 32 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (7.67%) Power BI
7 27 (7.67%) Tableau
8 25 (7.10%) BigQuery
9 22 (6.25%) MongoDB
10 19 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (5.11%) MySQL
11 18 (5.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (4.83%) DynamoDB
12 17 (4.83%) Hadoop
13 16 (4.55%) Looker
13 16 (4.55%) Metadata
14 12 (3.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (14.49%) GitLab
2 32 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 30 (8.52%) Git
4 27 (7.67%) Cucumber
5 23 (6.53%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.40%) MLflow
7 7 (1.99%) Selenium
8 5 (1.42%) JIRA
8 5 (1.42%) Maven
9 4 (1.14%) JUnit
10 3 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.85%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.28%) Gatling
11 1 (0.28%) Gradle
11 1 (0.28%) Mockito
11 1 (0.28%) Postman
11 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 177 (50.28%) Finance
2 81 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.34%) Banking
4 43 (12.22%) Front Office
5 34 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.84%) Financial Institution
6 10 (2.84%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.84%) Retail
7 9 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.27%) Law
9 7 (1.99%) Military
10 6 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.42%) Advertising
11 5 (1.42%) Billing
11 5 (1.42%) Marketing
11 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Back Office
13 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 101 (28.69%) Senior
2 95 (26.99%) Developer
3 62 (17.61%) Java Engineer
4 60 (17.05%) Data Engineer
5 57 (16.19%) Software Engineer
6 49 (13.92%) Lead
7 36 (10.23%) Architect
8 35 (9.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (7.67%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (7.39%) Java Developer
12 23 (6.53%) Lead Developer
12 23 (6.53%) Python Engineer
12 23 (6.53%) Senior Developer
13 21 (5.97%) Principal Java Engineer
13 21 (5.97%) Senior Java Engineer
14 20 (5.68%) Lead Software Developer
14 20 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.73%) Spring
2 78 (22.16%) Spring Boot
3 54 (15.34%) React
4 53 (15.06%) Node.js
5 48 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
6 43 (12.22%) REST
7 36 (10.23%) RESTful
8 35 (9.94%) Redux
9 33 (9.38%) GraphQL
10 23 (6.53%) PySpark
11 22 (6.25%) gRPC
12 19 (5.40%) .NET
13 16 (4.55%) LangChain
13 16 (4.55%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.55%) pgvector
13 16 (4.55%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.55%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.55%) TensorFlow
14 15 (4.26%) web3js
15 11 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 113 (32.10%) Cloud Native
2 57 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (11.93%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.51%) Fixed Income
5 25 (7.10%) e-Learning
6 19 (5.40%) Onboarding
7 18 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (4.55%) Clustering
9 15 (4.26%) Blockchain
9 15 (4.26%) Web3
10 13 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (3.41%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.56%) EPoS
12 9 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (2.56%) iSeries
13 7 (1.99%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.53%) Linux
2 7 (1.99%) Unix
3 6 (1.70%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (42.61%) CI/CD
2 135 (38.35%) Microservices
3 130 (36.93%) Software Engineering
4 123 (34.94%) Agile
5 113 (32.10%) Event-Driven
6 103 (29.26%) DevOps
7 90 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 84 (23.86%) AI
9 80 (22.73%) Analytics
10 77 (21.88%) Containerisation
11 73 (20.74%) Test Automation
12 72 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
13 69 (19.60%) Data Modelling
14 68 (19.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 65 (18.47%) Mentoring
16 64 (18.18%) Data Engineering
17 63 (17.90%) Observability
18 52 (14.77%) ETL
19 51 (14.49%) Data Governance
20 50 (14.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 182 (51.70%) Python
2 164 (46.59%) Java
3 155 (44.03%) SQL
4 66 (18.75%) Go
5 58 (16.48%) TypeScript
6 53 (15.06%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.52%) C#
8 15 (4.26%) Bash
8 15 (4.26%) C++
9 12 (3.41%) Scala
10 9 (2.56%) RPG
11 7 (1.99%) Rust
12 6 (1.70%) PHP
13 4 (1.14%) C
13 4 (1.14%) Ruby
14 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.57%) Bicep
15 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (9.66%) Degree
2 33 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 26 (7.39%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.85%) PhD
8 1 (0.28%) CISSP
8 1 (0.28%) GIAC
8 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.28%) SSCP
8 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.95%) GDPR
3 16 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.27%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.99%) QA
7 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) SEPA
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (26.70%) Docker
2 8 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (33.81%) Kubernetes
2 84 (23.86%) Terraform
3 40 (11.36%) Prometheus
4 23 (6.53%) Grafana
5 15 (4.26%) Ansible
6 10 (2.84%) Istio
7 4 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.85%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Cilium
9 2 (0.57%) Puppet
9 2 (0.57%) Salt
10 1 (0.28%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (12.50%) Databricks
2 25 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.55%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.55%) Dell
4 14 (3.98%) IBM
5 9 (2.56%) Confluent
6 8 (2.27%) Solace
7 7 (1.99%) Talend
8 6 (1.70%) Oracle
8 6 (1.70%) Splunk
9 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.14%) HP
9 4 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.14%) SAP
9 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.14%) WSO2
10 3 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.57%) PayPal