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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 167 125
Rank change year-on-year +17 -42 -51
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 271 316 464
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.99% 1.98% 2.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.18% 7.32% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 186 205 385
10th Percentile £69,375 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £141,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%

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 2,662 4,318 4,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.57% 27.09% 28.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,928 2,721 4,349
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,293 £51,950
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year - -2.26% -1.48%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 +18 37 £107,500 +72.00% 37
South London +32 5 £95,000 +58.33% 4
West London -4 3 £82,500 +22.22% 2
East London - 1 £75,000 - 6
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 73 (26.94%) Apache Spark
2 30 (11.07%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (8.49%) Apache
4 9 (3.32%) Confluence
5 5 (1.85%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.85%) IIS
5 5 (1.85%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.48%) nginx
7 3 (1.11%) Luigi
7 3 (1.11%) Mule
8 2 (0.74%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.74%) JBoss
8 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.37%) SAS
9 1 (0.37%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.74%) Endur
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Actimize
3 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 177 (65.31%) AWS
2 82 (30.26%) Azure
3 59 (21.77%) GCP
4 34 (12.55%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (11.81%) Amazon Kinesis
6 20 (7.38%) Serverless
7 17 (6.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (6.27%) GitHub
8 16 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.43%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.43%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.69%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (2.95%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) DNS
2 2 (0.74%) AMQP
2 2 (0.74%) BGP
2 2 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.74%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) FTP
2 2 (0.74%) MQTT
2 2 (0.74%) OSPF
2 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.74%) RTMP
2 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.74%) VLAN
2 2 (0.74%) VPN
2 2 (0.74%) WAN
2 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.74%) Wireless
3 1 (0.37%) Broadband
3 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.45%) Big Data
1 50 (18.45%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (14.76%) NoSQL
3 34 (12.55%) Hadoop
4 33 (12.18%) MongoDB
5 28 (10.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (7.75%) SQL Server
8 20 (7.38%) Metadata
9 18 (6.64%) Redis
9 18 (6.64%) Relational Database
10 13 (4.80%) Flink
11 12 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (4.43%) Power BI
11 12 (4.43%) RDBMS
12 10 (3.69%) Apache Hive
12 10 (3.69%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.69%) MySQL
13 9 (3.32%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.95%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (11.81%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.38%) Git
3 15 (5.54%) GitLab
4 12 (4.43%) JIRA
5 9 (3.32%) MLflow
6 7 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.21%) Selenium
7 6 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.85%) JMeter
8 5 (1.85%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.48%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.48%) Jaeger
9 4 (1.48%) JUnit
9 4 (1.48%) VisualVM
10 3 (1.11%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 132 (48.71%) Finance
2 85 (31.37%) Social Skills
3 54 (19.93%) Front Office
4 39 (14.39%) Financial Institution
5 38 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (10.70%) Banking
7 19 (7.01%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.17%) Law
9 8 (2.95%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.85%) Games
10 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.48%) Legal
11 4 (1.48%) Marketing
11 4 (1.48%) Retail
12 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (30.26%) Developer
2 59 (21.77%) Senior
3 50 (18.45%) Software Engineer
4 44 (16.24%) Lead
5 40 (14.76%) Data Engineer
6 27 (9.96%) Java Developer
7 26 (9.59%) Java Engineer
8 19 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (7.01%) Kafka Engineer
9 18 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (5.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 16 (5.90%) Kafka Developer
10 16 (5.90%) Python Developer
11 15 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 14 (5.17%) Lead Developer
13 13 (4.80%) Architect
13 13 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.06%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.45%) Spring
2 38 (14.02%) React
2 38 (14.02%) REST
3 34 (12.55%) RESTful
3 34 (12.55%) Spring Boot
4 33 (12.18%) GraphQL
5 32 (11.81%) Node.js
5 32 (11.81%) RabbitMQ
6 22 (8.12%) AngularJS
7 21 (7.75%) gRPC
8 19 (7.01%) Redux
9 15 (5.54%) Akka
10 13 (4.80%) PySpark
10 13 (4.80%) RxJava
10 13 (4.80%) Spring WebFlux
11 12 (4.43%) OAuth
11 12 (4.43%) OAuth2
12 11 (4.06%) JMS
13 10 (3.69%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (3.69%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 78 (28.78%) Distributed Systems
2 57 (21.03%) Cloud Native
3 22 (8.12%) Algorithms
3 22 (8.12%) Fixed Income
4 20 (7.38%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.90%) Data Structures
6 15 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (4.80%) e-Learning
9 12 (4.43%) FMCG
9 12 (4.43%) Hedge funds
9 12 (4.43%) Management Information System
10 11 (4.06%) Equities
11 10 (3.69%) Reference Data
12 9 (3.32%) AI Agents
12 9 (3.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (2.95%) Virtual Team
14 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (2.21%) Derivative
15 6 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.01%) Linux
2 9 (3.32%) Android
2 9 (3.32%) Windows
3 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.11%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (43.91%) CI/CD
2 104 (38.38%) DevOps
3 100 (36.90%) Microservices
4 87 (32.10%) Agile
5 79 (29.15%) Software Engineering
6 63 (23.25%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (22.88%) Computer Science
8 58 (21.40%) Analytics
9 57 (21.03%) Data Modelling
10 56 (20.66%) Data Engineering
11 55 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (19.19%) Machine Learning
13 51 (18.82%) ETL
13 51 (18.82%) Low Latency
14 49 (18.08%) Containerisation
15 47 (17.34%) AI
16 46 (16.97%) Fintech
17 43 (15.87%) Event-Driven
18 40 (14.76%) Data Governance
19 39 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 141 (52.03%) Java
2 127 (46.86%) Python
3 85 (31.37%) SQL
4 45 (16.61%) Go
5 32 (11.81%) TypeScript
6 26 (9.59%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.59%) Scala
7 16 (5.90%) C#
8 14 (5.17%) Bash
9 10 (3.69%) Kotlin
10 9 (3.32%) C++
11 7 (2.58%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.48%) Groovy
13 2 (0.74%) Perl
13 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.37%) Korn
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (17.34%) Degree
2 38 (14.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.80%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.95%) PhD
4 8 (2.95%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.95%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.18%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.01%) QA
3 15 (5.54%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 85 (31.37%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) HDFS
3 7 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.74%) NFS
Systems Management
1 98 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.86%) Terraform
3 17 (6.27%) Ansible
4 15 (5.54%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.43%) Argo
5 12 (4.43%) Grafana
6 8 (2.95%) Puppet
7 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.48%) Kibana
9 3 (1.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.74%) logstash
10 2 (0.74%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) Icinga
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) Nagios
11 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 40 (14.76%) Databricks
2 17 (6.27%) Oracle
3 14 (5.17%) SAP
4 8 (2.95%) VMware
5 7 (2.58%) Google
5 7 (2.58%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.85%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.85%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.85%) Nokia
7 5 (1.85%) Splunk
8 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.48%) Dell
9 3 (1.11%) Confluent
9 3 (1.11%) Solace
10 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.74%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.74%) Starlink
10 2 (0.74%) StreamSets
10 2 (0.74%) Ubiquiti