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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 138 162
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 -98
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 323 340 459
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.68% 2.63% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.38% 9.82% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 227 256 355
10th Percentile £72,200 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,625 £69,375 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £133,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £84,115 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.89% +5.14% -11.11%

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 3,112 3,462 5,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.22% 26.82% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,167 2,500 4,731
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 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -28 36 £85,000 +33.33% 38
West London - 9 £82,500 - 4
South London -1 8 £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 83 (25.70%) Apache Spark
2 75 (23.22%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.84%) Apache
4 6 (1.86%) Confluence
5 5 (1.55%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.55%) IIS
5 5 (1.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.62%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 212 (65.63%) AWS
2 104 (32.20%) Azure
3 90 (27.86%) GCP
4 41 (12.69%) dbt
4 41 (12.69%) Serverless
5 34 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
5 34 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (9.29%) Amazon S3
6 30 (9.29%) Snowflake
7 26 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (8.05%) Datadog
7 26 (8.05%) Power Platform
8 24 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (5.57%) GitHub
11 16 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (4.64%) OpenShift
13 14 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Broadband
2 4 (1.24%) DNS
3 2 (0.62%) AMQP
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) 4G
4 1 (0.31%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) BGP
4 1 (0.31%) CTI
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.31%) LTE
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.34%) NoSQL
2 50 (15.48%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (10.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (9.60%) Big Data
5 30 (9.29%) Tableau
6 26 (8.05%) Power BI
7 25 (7.74%) BigQuery
7 25 (7.74%) Relational Database
8 24 (7.43%) Data Lake
8 24 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (7.12%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (6.19%) Redis
11 20 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (5.57%) DynamoDB
12 18 (5.57%) SQL Server
13 16 (4.95%) Flink
13 16 (4.95%) Looker
13 16 (4.95%) Metadata
13 16 (4.95%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (11.46%) GitLab
2 36 (11.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (8.36%) Git
4 21 (6.50%) CircleCI
4 21 (6.50%) MLflow
5 9 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.86%) JIRA
7 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.55%) Selenium
8 4 (1.24%) JUnit
9 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.93%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.62%) Mocha
10 2 (0.62%) webpack
11 1 (0.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 155 (47.99%) Finance
2 83 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 60 (18.58%) Front Office
4 48 (14.86%) Banking
5 40 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.43%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.17%) Law
7 7 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.17%) Retail
8 4 (1.24%) Advertising
8 4 (1.24%) Billing
8 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
9 3 (0.93%) Marketing
10 2 (0.62%) Back Office
10 2 (0.62%) Electronics
10 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (31.27%) Developer
2 100 (30.96%) Senior
3 60 (18.58%) Data Engineer
4 54 (16.72%) Lead
5 52 (16.10%) Software Engineer
6 36 (11.15%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.15%) Java Engineer
7 32 (9.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 28 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.43%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.12%) Lead Developer
11 21 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (6.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (6.50%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (6.50%) Python Developer
11 21 (6.50%) Senior Developer
12 20 (6.19%) Lead Software Developer
12 20 (6.19%) Python Engineer
13 17 (5.26%) Architect
13 17 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.10%) React
2 49 (15.17%) Spring
3 47 (14.55%) RESTful
4 45 (13.93%) REST
5 44 (13.62%) RabbitMQ
6 43 (13.31%) Node.js
7 41 (12.69%) Spring Boot
8 36 (11.15%) GraphQL
9 34 (10.53%) Redux
10 31 (9.60%) gRPC
11 17 (5.26%) PySpark
11 17 (5.26%) scikit-learn
11 17 (5.26%) TensorFlow
12 16 (4.95%) LangChain
12 16 (4.95%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (4.95%) pgvector
12 16 (4.95%) PyTorch
13 14 (4.33%) web3js
14 13 (4.02%) AngularJS
14 13 (4.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 85 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 56 (17.34%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (13.00%) Fixed Income
4 24 (7.43%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.95%) Clustering
6 14 (4.33%) Blockchain
6 14 (4.33%) Web3
7 13 (4.02%) AI Agents
7 13 (4.02%) Data Structures
7 13 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (3.10%) e-Learning
8 10 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.86%) Equities
11 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.55%) Derivative
12 5 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.88%) Linux
2 11 (3.41%) Windows
3 9 (2.79%) Android
4 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (43.65%) CI/CD
2 122 (37.77%) DevOps
3 115 (35.60%) Microservices
4 114 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 101 (31.27%) Agile
6 84 (26.01%) Analytics
7 79 (24.46%) Data Pipeline
8 78 (24.15%) Event-Driven
9 75 (23.22%) Containerisation
10 72 (22.29%) Data Engineering
11 70 (21.67%) AI
12 69 (21.36%) Data Modelling
13 66 (20.43%) Computer Science
14 60 (18.58%) Low Latency
15 58 (17.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 57 (17.65%) ETL
17 56 (17.34%) Investment Management
18 53 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
19 52 (16.10%) Data Governance
19 52 (16.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 192 (59.44%) Python
2 139 (43.03%) SQL
3 137 (42.41%) Java
4 88 (27.24%) Go
5 49 (15.17%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.07%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.43%) Bash
8 20 (6.19%) C#
9 19 (5.88%) C++
9 19 (5.88%) Scala
10 7 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.17%) Rust
11 6 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.62%) Bicep
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) Groovy
13 1 (0.31%) Perl
13 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 43 (13.31%) Degree
2 38 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.79%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.24%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.29%) GDPR
3 16 (4.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.10%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.48%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.86%) QA
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (32.82%) Docker
2 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (38.70%) Kubernetes
2 71 (21.98%) Terraform
3 36 (11.15%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.12%) Grafana
5 21 (6.50%) Ansible
6 12 (3.72%) Argo
7 9 (2.79%) Istio
8 6 (1.86%) Puppet
9 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.93%) Kibana
11 2 (0.62%) Salt
12 1 (0.31%) Cilium
12 1 (0.31%) Icinga
12 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (11.46%) Databricks
2 16 (4.95%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.95%) Dell
3 11 (3.41%) Confluent
4 7 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.17%) VMware
5 6 (1.86%) Oracle
5 6 (1.86%) Solace
6 5 (1.55%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.55%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.55%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.55%) Nokia
6 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.24%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.24%) Splunk
7 4 (1.24%) Talend
8 3 (0.93%) Google
8 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce