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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 149 142
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -79
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 302 325 489
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.74% 2.46% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.24% 9.09% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 221 238 380
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,375
25th Percentile £81,250 £68,125 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £125,000
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 2,950 3,574 5,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.02% 27.06% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,103 2,477 4,750
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,931 £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 £101,250 £108,418 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,250 £123,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 21 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 21 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 -17 36 £87,500 +40.00% 42
West London - 7 £82,500 - 5
South London +12 6 £105,000 +27.27% 1
East London -17 1 £75,000 -18.92% 5
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 75 (24.83%) Apache Spark
2 59 (19.54%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.27%) Apache
4 5 (1.66%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.66%) Confluence
4 5 (1.66%) IIS
4 5 (1.66%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) Mule
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Actimize
2 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.33%) Endur
2 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 206 (68.21%) AWS
2 93 (30.79%) Azure
3 85 (28.15%) GCP
4 35 (11.59%) Serverless
5 33 (10.93%) Amazon Kinesis
6 31 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (9.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (9.93%) dbt
8 29 (9.60%) Amazon S3
9 23 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.62%) Snowflake
10 22 (7.28%) Datadog
11 20 (6.62%) Power Platform
12 18 (5.96%) GitHub
13 16 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (5.30%) OpenShift
14 15 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) Broadband
2 4 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.66%) AMQP
3 2 (0.66%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) 4G
4 1 (0.33%) 5G
4 1 (0.33%) CTI
4 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.56%) NoSQL
2 46 (15.23%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (10.26%) Big Data
4 28 (9.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (7.62%) Tableau
7 21 (6.95%) Relational Database
8 20 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (6.62%) Power BI
9 19 (6.29%) BigQuery
9 19 (6.29%) Redis
10 18 (5.96%) Data Lake
11 17 (5.63%) DynamoDB
11 17 (5.63%) SQL Server
12 16 (5.30%) Metadata
13 14 (4.64%) MongoDB
13 14 (4.64%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (4.30%) Flink
15 11 (3.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (12.25%) GitLab
2 35 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.61%) Git
4 20 (6.62%) CircleCI
5 15 (4.97%) MLflow
6 8 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.66%) JIRA
8 4 (1.32%) JUnit
9 3 (0.99%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.99%) Selenium
10 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.66%) Gradle
10 2 (0.66%) Mocha
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.66%) WinDbg
General
1 155 (51.32%) Finance
2 86 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 63 (20.86%) Front Office
4 49 (16.23%) Banking
5 33 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.95%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.97%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.32%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.32%) Law
10 6 (1.99%) Retail
11 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.32%) Advertising
12 4 (1.32%) Billing
13 3 (0.99%) Games
13 3 (0.99%) Legal
13 3 (0.99%) Marketing
14 2 (0.66%) Back Office
14 2 (0.66%) Electronics
14 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (33.77%) Developer
2 90 (29.80%) Senior
3 55 (18.21%) Data Engineer
3 55 (18.21%) Software Engineer
4 49 (16.23%) Lead
5 34 (11.26%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (11.26%) Java Engineer
6 32 (10.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 29 (9.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.95%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.62%) Lead Developer
10 22 (7.28%) Python Developer
11 21 (6.95%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (6.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (6.95%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (6.95%) Senior Developer
12 20 (6.62%) Lead Software Developer
13 19 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (5.30%) Architect
15 15 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.23%) Spring
2 46 (15.23%) React
3 45 (14.90%) RabbitMQ
4 44 (14.57%) RESTful
5 43 (14.24%) REST
6 42 (13.91%) Node.js
7 39 (12.91%) GraphQL
8 37 (12.25%) Spring Boot
9 35 (11.59%) Redux
10 29 (9.60%) gRPC
11 17 (5.63%) AngularJS
12 15 (4.97%) PySpark
13 14 (4.64%) OAuth
13 14 (4.64%) OAuth2
14 13 (4.30%) web3js
15 12 (3.97%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.97%) TensorFlow
16 11 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
16 11 (3.64%) LangChain
16 11 (3.64%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 78 (25.83%) Cloud Native
2 59 (19.54%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (13.58%) Fixed Income
4 18 (5.96%) Public Cloud
5 16 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.30%) Blockchain
6 13 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 13 (4.30%) Web3
7 12 (3.97%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.64%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.31%) Clustering
10 8 (2.65%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (2.32%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.99%) Derivative
12 6 (1.99%) Equities
12 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.95%) Linux
2 11 (3.64%) Windows
3 9 (2.98%) Android
4 6 (1.99%) Unix
5 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (46.03%) CI/CD
2 119 (39.40%) DevOps
3 118 (39.07%) Microservices
4 114 (37.75%) Software Engineering
5 100 (33.11%) Agile
6 77 (25.50%) Analytics
7 74 (24.50%) Containerisation
8 69 (22.85%) Data Pipeline
9 66 (21.85%) Data Modelling
10 65 (21.52%) Event-Driven
11 64 (21.19%) AI
12 62 (20.53%) Computer Science
13 61 (20.20%) Data Engineering
14 59 (19.54%) Low Latency
15 58 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (17.88%) Fintech
16 54 (17.88%) Investment Management
17 52 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (17.22%) Machine Learning
18 51 (16.89%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 180 (59.60%) Python
2 138 (45.70%) Java
3 125 (41.39%) SQL
4 87 (28.81%) Go
5 48 (15.89%) TypeScript
6 38 (12.58%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.95%) Bash
8 18 (5.96%) C#
8 18 (5.96%) C++
8 18 (5.96%) Scala
9 7 (2.32%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.99%) Rust
11 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.66%) Groovy
11 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.33%) Korn
12 1 (0.33%) Perl
12 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.91%) Degree
2 38 (12.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.64%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.66%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.28%) GDPR
3 10 (3.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (3.31%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.65%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.32%) QA
6 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (33.11%) Docker
2 8 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.32%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 116 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 62 (20.53%) Terraform
3 35 (11.59%) Prometheus
4 22 (7.28%) Ansible
4 22 (7.28%) Grafana
5 11 (3.64%) Argo
6 8 (2.65%) Istio
7 5 (1.66%) Puppet
8 4 (1.32%) Kibana
8 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.33%) Icinga
9 1 (0.33%) Nagios
9 1 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (10.60%) Databricks
2 14 (4.64%) Dell
3 10 (3.31%) Cloudera
3 10 (3.31%) Confluent
4 8 (2.65%) Oracle
4 8 (2.65%) VMware
5 6 (1.99%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.99%) Splunk
6 5 (1.66%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.66%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.66%) Nokia
6 5 (1.66%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.32%) Solace
8 3 (0.99%) Google
8 3 (0.99%) Talend
9 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.66%) PayPal
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.66%) SAP