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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 106 185
Rank change year-on-year -37 +79 -97
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 360 387 415
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.62% 3.10% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.52% 11.64% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 227 226 315
10th Percentile £63,250 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £73,125 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -16.67%

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 3,422 3,325 5,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.38% 26.64% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 2,321 4,523
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £108,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
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 15 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 15 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 -3 39 £90,000 -6.49% 14
West London - 16 £80,000 - 4
South London -12 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 94 (26.11%) Apache Spark
2 73 (20.28%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.89%) Apache
4 12 (3.33%) Confluence
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.11%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.56%) Camunda
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 231 (64.17%) AWS
2 121 (33.61%) Azure
3 76 (21.11%) GCP
4 57 (15.83%) Serverless
5 56 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (12.22%) dbt
7 33 (9.17%) Snowflake
8 32 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 29 (8.06%) Power Platform
10 28 (7.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 28 (7.78%) Datadog
11 26 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (7.22%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (5.83%) Amazon EMR
14 16 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (4.44%) SaaS
15 15 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.06%) Lucidchart
16 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.94%) BGP
2 6 (1.67%) DNS
2 6 (1.67%) IPsec
2 6 (1.67%) VPN
3 5 (1.39%) Broadband
3 5 (1.39%) Internet
4 3 (0.83%) Network Security
5 2 (0.56%) 4G
5 2 (0.56%) 5G
5 2 (0.56%) AMQP
5 2 (0.56%) MQTT
6 1 (0.28%) CTI
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (25.56%) NoSQL
2 47 (13.06%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (10.00%) Big Data
3 36 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (9.44%) Data Lake
4 34 (9.44%) Relational Database
5 33 (9.17%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (7.78%) Power BI
7 26 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (7.22%) Tableau
8 24 (6.67%) BigQuery
8 24 (6.67%) MongoDB
9 21 (5.83%) Hadoop
10 19 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (5.28%) MySQL
11 18 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (4.72%) DynamoDB
13 16 (4.44%) Looker
13 16 (4.44%) Metadata
14 13 (3.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (14.44%) GitLab
2 32 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.61%) Git
4 29 (8.06%) Cucumber
5 22 (6.11%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.28%) MLflow
7 8 (2.22%) Selenium
8 5 (1.39%) JIRA
8 5 (1.39%) Maven
9 4 (1.11%) JUnit
10 3 (0.83%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.28%) Gatling
11 1 (0.28%) Gradle
11 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.28%) Mockito
11 1 (0.28%) Postman
11 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 180 (50.00%) Finance
2 82 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.72%) Banking
4 43 (11.94%) Front Office
5 35 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.78%) Retail
8 9 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.50%) Military
8 9 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.22%) Marketing
10 7 (1.94%) Law
11 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Advertising
12 4 (1.11%) Billing
12 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.56%) Back Office
13 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 101 (28.06%) Senior
2 96 (26.67%) Developer
3 66 (18.33%) Java Engineer
4 59 (16.39%) Data Engineer
5 57 (15.83%) Software Engineer
6 47 (13.06%) Lead
7 37 (10.28%) Architect
8 35 (9.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
10 29 (8.06%) Principal Engineer
11 27 (7.50%) Java Developer
12 23 (6.39%) Lead Developer
12 23 (6.39%) Principal Java Engineer
12 23 (6.39%) Python Engineer
13 22 (6.11%) Senior Developer
13 22 (6.11%) Senior Java Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) Lead Software Developer
14 20 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (4.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (23.61%) Spring
2 83 (23.06%) Spring Boot
3 58 (16.11%) Node.js
4 56 (15.56%) React
5 48 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
6 44 (12.22%) REST
7 36 (10.00%) RESTful
8 35 (9.72%) Redux
9 33 (9.17%) GraphQL
10 22 (6.11%) PySpark
11 21 (5.83%) gRPC
12 18 (5.00%) .NET
13 16 (4.44%) LangChain
13 16 (4.44%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.44%) pgvector
13 16 (4.44%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.44%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.44%) TensorFlow
14 14 (3.89%) web3js
15 12 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (31.67%) Cloud Native
2 64 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (12.22%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.28%) Fixed Income
5 27 (7.50%) e-Learning
6 25 (6.94%) Onboarding
7 19 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (4.44%) Clustering
9 15 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (3.89%) Blockchain
10 14 (3.89%) Web3
11 13 (3.61%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.78%) EPoS
12 10 (2.78%) iSeries
13 9 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.94%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
16 5 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.67%) Linux
2 7 (1.94%) Unix
3 6 (1.67%) Windows
4 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (43.61%) CI/CD
2 142 (39.44%) Microservices
3 130 (36.11%) Software Engineering
4 127 (35.28%) Agile
5 118 (32.78%) Event-Driven
6 104 (28.89%) DevOps
7 93 (25.83%) AI
7 93 (25.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 82 (22.78%) Analytics
9 77 (21.39%) Containerisation
10 75 (20.83%) Test Automation
11 72 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
11 72 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 72 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 71 (19.72%) Data Modelling
13 63 (17.50%) Data Engineering
13 63 (17.50%) Observability
14 55 (15.28%) Computer Science
15 51 (14.17%) Data Governance
15 51 (14.17%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 182 (50.56%) Python
2 171 (47.50%) Java
3 160 (44.44%) SQL
4 65 (18.06%) Go
5 59 (16.39%) TypeScript
6 54 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.61%) C#
8 15 (4.17%) C++
9 14 (3.89%) Bash
10 13 (3.61%) Scala
11 10 (2.78%) RPG
12 8 (2.22%) PHP
13 7 (1.94%) Rust
14 6 (1.67%) C
14 6 (1.67%) Ruby
15 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.56%) Bicep
16 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (10.56%) Degree
2 37 (10.28%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 26 (7.22%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.39%) PhD
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) GIAC
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.28%) SSCP
10 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.06%) GDPR
3 16 (4.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (3.06%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.22%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.94%) QA
7 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.83%) 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 (26.11%) Docker
2 8 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (32.78%) Kubernetes
2 83 (23.06%) Terraform
3 39 (10.83%) Prometheus
4 23 (6.39%) Grafana
5 15 (4.17%) Ansible
6 10 (2.78%) Istio
7 6 (1.67%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.83%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) Cilium
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Salt
10 1 (0.28%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (12.22%) Databricks
2 28 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.28%) IBM
4 16 (4.44%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.44%) Dell
5 9 (2.50%) Confluent
6 8 (2.22%) Oracle
6 8 (2.22%) Solace
7 7 (1.94%) Talend
8 6 (1.67%) HP
8 6 (1.67%) SAP
8 6 (1.67%) Splunk
9 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.11%) WSO2
10 3 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.56%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.56%) PayPal