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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 148 132
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 -68
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 292 337 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.77% 2.40% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.14% 8.86% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 207 243 401
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
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 2,881 3,803 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.43% 27.06% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,057 2,538 4,826
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £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 £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,875 £120,000
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 8 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 8 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 -11 34 £91,250 +46.00% 27
South London +13 5 £105,000 +27.27% 1
West London -2 5 £80,000 +18.52% 5
East London -7 1 £75,000 -18.92% 8
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 70 (23.97%) Apache Spark
2 51 (17.47%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (10.27%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) Confluence
5 5 (1.71%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.71%) IIS
5 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.03%) Mule
6 3 (1.03%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 197 (67.47%) AWS
2 75 (25.68%) Azure
3 73 (25.00%) GCP
4 33 (11.30%) Amazon Kinesis
5 31 (10.62%) Serverless
6 30 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (9.25%) Amazon S3
8 25 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (8.22%) dbt
10 23 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (6.51%) Snowflake
12 18 (6.16%) GitHub
13 17 (5.82%) Datadog
14 16 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (4.79%) Power Platform
16 13 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
19 10 (3.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) Broadband
2 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) AMQP
3 2 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) 4G
4 1 (0.34%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) BGP
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.34%) CTI
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
4 1 (0.34%) OSPF
4 1 (0.34%) RTMP
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VLAN
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.73%) NoSQL
2 39 (13.36%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (10.27%) Big Data
4 24 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (7.19%) MongoDB
7 20 (6.85%) Redis
7 20 (6.85%) Relational Database
8 19 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (6.51%) Tableau
9 18 (6.16%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.82%) Metadata
11 16 (5.48%) Data Lake
11 16 (5.48%) DynamoDB
12 15 (5.14%) BigQuery
13 14 (4.79%) Power BI
14 13 (4.45%) Flink
15 10 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (11.64%) GitLab
2 31 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.25%) Git
4 15 (5.14%) CircleCI
5 12 (4.11%) MLflow
6 8 (2.74%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.05%) JIRA
8 5 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.37%) VisualVM
10 3 (1.03%) Jaeger
10 3 (1.03%) JUnit
10 3 (1.03%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.68%) webpack
11 2 (0.68%) YourKit
General
1 150 (51.37%) Finance
2 82 (28.08%) Social Skills
3 66 (22.60%) Front Office
4 43 (14.73%) Banking
5 30 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.22%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.85%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.40%) Law
9 7 (2.40%) Retail
10 5 (1.71%) Billing
11 4 (1.37%) Advertising
11 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
12 3 (1.03%) Games
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Back Office
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (35.27%) Developer
2 81 (27.74%) Senior
3 57 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 50 (17.12%) Data Engineer
4 50 (17.12%) Lead
5 33 (11.30%) Java Engineer
6 32 (10.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 25 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (8.56%) Java Developer
8 24 (8.22%) Lead Developer
9 21 (7.19%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (6.85%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (6.85%) Python Developer
10 20 (6.85%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (4.79%) Architect
13 13 (4.45%) AWS Data Engineer
13 13 (4.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.47%) Spring
2 47 (16.10%) React
3 44 (15.07%) Node.js
4 42 (14.38%) RabbitMQ
4 42 (14.38%) RESTful
5 41 (14.04%) GraphQL
6 40 (13.70%) REST
7 39 (13.36%) Spring Boot
8 35 (11.99%) Redux
9 29 (9.93%) gRPC
10 18 (6.16%) AngularJS
11 15 (5.14%) PySpark
12 13 (4.45%) OAuth
12 13 (4.45%) OAuth2
13 12 (4.11%) FIX Protocol
14 11 (3.77%) web3js
15 10 (3.42%) TensorFlow
15 10 (3.42%) WebSockets
16 9 (3.08%) Pandas
16 9 (3.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 75 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 66 (22.60%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (14.04%) Fixed Income
4 17 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (5.14%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.79%) Public Cloud
7 12 (4.11%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.77%) Algorithms
8 11 (3.77%) Blockchain
8 11 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (3.77%) Web3
9 10 (3.42%) AI Agents
10 9 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (3.08%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.40%) Derivative
12 7 (2.40%) Reference Data
12 7 (2.40%) Virtual Team
13 6 (2.05%) Clustering
13 6 (2.05%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.88%) Linux
2 11 (3.77%) Windows
3 9 (3.08%) Android
4 7 (2.40%) Unix
5 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (45.55%) CI/CD
2 112 (38.36%) DevOps
3 111 (38.01%) Microservices
4 106 (36.30%) Software Engineering
5 101 (34.59%) Agile
6 67 (22.95%) Data Pipeline
7 66 (22.60%) Analytics
8 63 (21.58%) Containerisation
8 63 (21.58%) Event-Driven
9 60 (20.55%) Data Engineering
9 60 (20.55%) Data Modelling
10 58 (19.86%) Computer Science
10 58 (19.86%) Low Latency
11 55 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (18.15%) AI
12 53 (18.15%) Investment Management
13 52 (17.81%) Fintech
13 52 (17.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 47 (16.10%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (15.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 164 (56.16%) Python
2 146 (50.00%) Java
3 112 (38.36%) SQL
4 76 (26.03%) Go
5 48 (16.44%) TypeScript
6 38 (13.01%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.53%) Bash
8 20 (6.85%) Scala
9 18 (6.16%) C++
10 17 (5.82%) C#
11 8 (2.74%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.71%) Rust
14 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.68%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (13.36%) Degree
2 38 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.08%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.74%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.36%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.51%) GDPR
3 8 (2.74%) QA
4 7 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.71%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (32.53%) Docker
2 7 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.37%) HDFS
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 109 (37.33%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.12%) Terraform
3 32 (10.96%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.85%) Grafana
5 18 (6.16%) Ansible
6 11 (3.77%) Argo
7 4 (1.37%) Kibana
7 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
9 1 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (10.96%) Databricks
2 11 (3.77%) Oracle
3 10 (3.42%) Dell
4 8 (2.74%) VMware
5 6 (2.05%) Cloudera
5 6 (2.05%) Google
5 6 (2.05%) Solace
5 6 (2.05%) Splunk
6 5 (1.71%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.71%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.71%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.71%) Nokia
6 5 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.37%) Confluent
8 3 (1.03%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.68%) PayPal
9 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.34%) StreamSets