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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 121 189
Rank change year-on-year -27 +68 -90
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 392 347 336
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.65% 2.85% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.08% 10.79% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 219 191 237
10th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £127,500 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £141,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 3,538 3,217 4,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.87% 26.38% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 2,214 3,609
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 38 £90,000 -12.20% 29
West London - 17 £80,000 - 7
South London -18 6 - - 2
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 96 (24.49%) Apache Spark
2 73 (18.62%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (8.67%) Apache
4 13 (3.32%) Confluence
5 5 (1.28%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.02%) Camunda
7 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.51%) Luigi
7 2 (0.51%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 240 (61.22%) AWS
2 136 (34.69%) Azure
3 86 (21.94%) GCP
4 54 (13.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (12.76%) Serverless
6 39 (9.95%) dbt
7 34 (8.67%) Power Platform
8 33 (8.42%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (6.89%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
11 24 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (5.61%) Datadog
13 21 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
14 17 (4.34%) GitHub
14 17 (4.34%) SaaS
15 13 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) BGP
2 6 (1.53%) DNS
2 6 (1.53%) IPsec
2 6 (1.53%) VPN
3 5 (1.28%) Internet
4 4 (1.02%) Broadband
5 2 (0.51%) 4G
5 2 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) MQTT
5 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (26.53%) NoSQL
2 49 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 47 (11.99%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (10.97%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (9.69%) Data Lake
6 37 (9.44%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (8.93%) Big Data
8 33 (8.42%) Power BI
9 29 (7.40%) MongoDB
10 26 (6.63%) Tableau
11 25 (6.38%) MySQL
12 23 (5.87%) Hadoop
13 22 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (5.10%) BigQuery
15 18 (4.59%) Redis
16 17 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (4.34%) Snowflake Schema
17 16 (4.08%) DynamoDB
17 16 (4.08%) Looker
17 16 (4.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (13.78%) GitLab
2 35 (8.93%) Cucumber
2 35 (8.93%) Git
3 31 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.85%) MLflow
5 16 (4.08%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.06%) Selenium
7 8 (2.04%) JIRA
8 7 (1.79%) Maven
9 5 (1.28%) JUnit
10 4 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.51%) git-flow
12 2 (0.51%) Gradle
12 2 (0.51%) Postman
12 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.51%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.51%) Xcode
12 2 (0.51%) XCTest
12 2 (0.51%) XCUITest
General
1 198 (50.51%) Finance
2 101 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 67 (17.09%) Banking
4 44 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (10.71%) Front Office
6 19 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.34%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.83%) Retail
9 14 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.57%) Marketing
10 13 (3.32%) Investment Banking
10 13 (3.32%) Law
11 9 (2.30%) Military
12 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.02%) Advertising
13 4 (1.02%) Billing
14 3 (0.77%) Publishing
14 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 114 (29.08%) Senior
2 90 (22.96%) Developer
3 80 (20.41%) Java Engineer
4 72 (18.37%) Software Engineer
5 57 (14.54%) Data Engineer
6 48 (12.24%) Lead
7 35 (8.93%) Architect
8 33 (8.42%) Principal Engineer
9 30 (7.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 28 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 27 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (6.63%) Principal Java Engineer
12 26 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (6.12%) Java Developer
14 22 (5.61%) Python Engineer
15 21 (5.36%) Lead Developer
16 20 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
17 19 (4.85%) Senior Developer
18 18 (4.59%) Lead Software Developer
19 17 (4.34%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (28.83%) Spring
2 100 (25.51%) Spring Boot
3 53 (13.52%) React
3 53 (13.52%) RESTful
4 52 (13.27%) Node.js
5 51 (13.01%) RabbitMQ
6 49 (12.50%) REST
7 32 (8.16%) GraphQL
8 28 (7.14%) Redux
9 23 (5.87%) .NET
10 22 (5.61%) PySpark
11 20 (5.10%) PyTorch
11 20 (5.10%) TensorFlow
12 19 (4.85%) gRPC
13 18 (4.59%) pgvector
14 17 (4.34%) LangChain
15 16 (4.08%) LlamaIndex
15 16 (4.08%) scikit-learn
16 12 (3.06%) AngularJS
16 12 (3.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 132 (33.67%) Cloud Native
2 86 (21.94%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (12.24%) Public Cloud
4 33 (8.42%) Fixed Income
5 32 (8.16%) Onboarding
6 31 (7.91%) e-Learning
7 20 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (4.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (4.08%) Clustering
11 13 (3.32%) Data Structures
12 12 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (2.81%) AI Agents
13 11 (2.81%) Blockchain
13 11 (2.81%) Web3
14 10 (2.55%) EPoS
14 10 (2.55%) iSeries
15 9 (2.30%) Algorithms
15 9 (2.30%) Product Ownership
16 7 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.12%) Linux
2 9 (2.30%) Unix
3 6 (1.53%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (46.17%) CI/CD
2 167 (42.60%) Microservices
3 150 (38.27%) Agile
3 150 (38.27%) Event-Driven
4 141 (35.97%) Software Engineering
5 115 (29.34%) DevOps
6 112 (28.57%) AI
7 105 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 95 (24.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 88 (22.45%) Containerisation
10 87 (22.19%) Analytics
10 87 (22.19%) Test Automation
11 84 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
12 83 (21.17%) Mentoring
13 74 (18.88%) Data Modelling
14 73 (18.62%) Observability
15 66 (16.84%) Data Engineering
16 62 (15.82%) Machine Learning
17 60 (15.31%) Data Science
18 57 (14.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 200 (51.02%) Java
2 181 (46.17%) Python
3 162 (41.33%) SQL
4 55 (14.03%) Go
5 54 (13.78%) TypeScript
6 50 (12.76%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.67%) C#
8 16 (4.08%) Scala
9 13 (3.32%) C++
10 12 (3.06%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.55%) RPG
12 8 (2.04%) Bash
13 7 (1.79%) PHP
13 7 (1.79%) Rust
14 6 (1.53%) C
14 6 (1.53%) Ruby
15 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.51%) Bicep
16 2 (0.51%) R
16 2 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (11.22%) Degree
2 42 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 32 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 31 (7.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (6.89%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.28%) PhD
9 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.48%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.40%) GDPR
3 16 (4.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.30%) QA
5 8 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.51%) PSD2
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (26.79%) Docker
2 8 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (33.67%) Kubernetes
2 80 (20.41%) Terraform
3 37 (9.44%) Prometheus
4 22 (5.61%) Grafana
5 14 (3.57%) Ansible
6 10 (2.55%) Istio
7 6 (1.53%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (1.28%) Argo
9 3 (0.77%) Cilium
10 2 (0.51%) kaniko
10 2 (0.51%) Kibana
10 2 (0.51%) Puppet
10 2 (0.51%) Salt
11 1 (0.26%) Control-M
11 1 (0.26%) logstash
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (12.50%) Databricks
2 34 (8.67%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.36%) IBM
4 16 (4.08%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.08%) Dell
5 15 (3.83%) Oracle
6 9 (2.30%) Confluent
6 9 (2.30%) Google
7 7 (1.79%) Solace
7 7 (1.79%) Talend
8 6 (1.53%) HP
8 6 (1.53%) SAP
8 6 (1.53%) Splunk
9 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.02%) WSO2
10 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.51%) Apple