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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 131 161
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 -97
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 323 339 452
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 2.62% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.31% 9.81% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 229 255 352
10th Percentile £69,750 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £134,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -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 3,132 3,456 5,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.09% 26.75% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,185 2,497 4,677
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 £128,750 £127,500 £125,000
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 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 21 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 -29 36 £85,000 +33.33% 32
West London - 9 £82,500 - 3
South London -3 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 82 (25.39%) 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
1 213 (65.94%) AWS
2 104 (32.20%) Azure
3 90 (27.86%) GCP
4 43 (13.31%) Serverless
5 41 (12.69%) dbt
6 35 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
8 31 (9.60%) Amazon S3
9 30 (9.29%) Snowflake
10 27 (8.36%) Datadog
11 26 (8.05%) Power Platform
12 25 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (5.57%) GitHub
15 16 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (4.64%) OpenShift
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 57 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 48 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (10.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.29%) Big Data
4 30 (9.29%) Tableau
5 26 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (8.05%) Power BI
5 26 (8.05%) Relational Database
6 25 (7.74%) BigQuery
7 24 (7.43%) Data Lake
8 23 (7.12%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (6.81%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (5.88%) DynamoDB
11 19 (5.88%) Redis
11 19 (5.88%) SQL Server
12 18 (5.57%) MySQL
13 16 (4.95%) Flink
13 16 (4.95%) Looker
13 16 (4.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (11.76%) GitLab
2 37 (11.46%) Jenkins
3 27 (8.36%) Git
4 22 (6.81%) CircleCI
5 21 (6.50%) MLflow
6 9 (2.79%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.86%) JIRA
8 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.55%) Selenium
9 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.93%) JUnit
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%) Gradle
11 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (47.37%) Finance
2 83 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 59 (18.27%) Front Office
4 48 (14.86%) Banking
5 39 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.43%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.48%) Retail
8 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.17%) Law
8 7 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.24%) Advertising
9 4 (1.24%) Billing
9 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (31.27%) Developer
1 101 (31.27%) Senior
2 60 (18.58%) Data Engineer
3 55 (17.03%) Lead
4 54 (16.72%) Software Engineer
5 36 (11.15%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (11.15%) Java Engineer
6 32 (9.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 27 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.43%) Lead Developer
9 23 (7.12%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.81%) Python Engineer
10 22 (6.81%) Senior Developer
11 21 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (6.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (6.50%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (6.19%) Lead Software Developer
12 20 (6.19%) Python Developer
13 17 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 16 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.10%) React
2 49 (15.17%) RESTful
3 48 (14.86%) RabbitMQ
3 48 (14.86%) Spring
4 44 (13.62%) REST
5 43 (13.31%) Node.js
6 41 (12.69%) Spring Boot
7 35 (10.84%) GraphQL
8 34 (10.53%) Redux
9 32 (9.91%) gRPC
10 17 (5.26%) PySpark
10 17 (5.26%) scikit-learn
10 17 (5.26%) TensorFlow
11 16 (4.95%) LangChain
11 16 (4.95%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (4.95%) pgvector
11 16 (4.95%) PyTorch
12 15 (4.64%) web3js
13 13 (4.02%) OAuth
14 12 (3.72%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 87 (26.93%) 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 15 (4.64%) Blockchain
6 15 (4.64%) Web3
7 13 (4.02%) AI Agents
7 13 (4.02%) Data Structures
8 12 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.10%) e-Learning
9 10 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.86%) Equities
12 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.55%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.57%) Linux
2 10 (3.10%) 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
1 144 (44.58%) CI/CD
2 123 (38.08%) DevOps
3 116 (35.91%) Software Engineering
4 115 (35.60%) Microservices
5 102 (31.58%) Agile
6 84 (26.01%) Analytics
7 80 (24.77%) Event-Driven
8 79 (24.46%) Containerisation
8 79 (24.46%) Data Pipeline
9 72 (22.29%) Data Engineering
10 70 (21.67%) AI
11 68 (21.05%) Data Modelling
12 65 (20.12%) Computer Science
13 61 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 61 (18.89%) Low Latency
14 57 (17.65%) Investment Management
15 56 (17.34%) ETL
16 54 (16.72%) Machine Learning
17 53 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
18 51 (15.79%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 191 (59.13%) Python
2 138 (42.72%) SQL
3 136 (42.11%) Java
4 89 (27.55%) Go
5 49 (15.17%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.07%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.43%) Bash
8 21 (6.50%) 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 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Korn
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 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
1 108 (33.44%) 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
1 126 (39.01%) Kubernetes
2 71 (21.98%) Terraform
3 36 (11.15%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.12%) Grafana
5 20 (6.19%) 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
5 6 (1.86%) Oracle
5 6 (1.86%) Solace
5 6 (1.86%) VMware
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%) MuleSoft