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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 134 158
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 -93
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 324 342 457
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.67% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.32% 10.19% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 229 258 356
10th Percentile £68,500 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +7.59% -12.22%

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 3,140 3,356 5,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.92% 26.16% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,187 2,475 4,715
10th Percentile £52,460 £50,454 £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 £129,000 £125,750
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 26 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 26 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 -24 37 £85,000 +33.33% 29
West London - 9 £82,500 - 2
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 81 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 76 (23.46%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.80%) Apache
4 6 (1.85%) Apache Pulsar
4 6 (1.85%) Confluence
5 5 (1.54%) IIS
5 5 (1.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
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 (65.74%) AWS
2 105 (32.41%) Azure
3 91 (28.09%) GCP
4 42 (12.96%) dbt
4 42 (12.96%) Serverless
5 38 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (9.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 32 (9.88%) Amazon S3
7 30 (9.26%) Snowflake
8 27 (8.33%) Datadog
9 26 (8.02%) Power Platform
10 24 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.25%) GitHub
13 16 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) Broadband
2 4 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (0.62%) 4G
3 2 (0.62%) 5G
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) AMQP
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 59 (18.21%) NoSQL
2 48 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (10.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.26%) Tableau
5 28 (8.64%) Big Data
6 26 (8.02%) Power BI
6 26 (8.02%) Relational Database
7 25 (7.72%) BigQuery
7 25 (7.72%) Data Lake
8 24 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (6.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (5.56%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.56%) MySQL
11 18 (5.56%) SQL Server
12 17 (5.25%) Metadata
12 17 (5.25%) Redis
13 16 (4.94%) Looker
14 15 (4.63%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (12.35%) GitLab
2 36 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.64%) Git
4 22 (6.79%) CircleCI
5 21 (6.48%) MLflow
6 11 (3.40%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.85%) JIRA
8 5 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.54%) Selenium
9 3 (0.93%) JUnit
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.93%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.31%) Gradle
10 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.31%) Mocha
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 156 (48.15%) Finance
2 82 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.90%) Front Office
4 48 (14.81%) Banking
5 39 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.72%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.47%) Retail
8 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.16%) Law
9 6 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.54%) Billing
11 4 (1.23%) Advertising
11 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.93%) Legal
12 3 (0.93%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Back Office
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (32.10%) Senior
2 100 (30.86%) Developer
3 60 (18.52%) Data Engineer
4 57 (17.59%) Lead
5 52 (16.05%) Software Engineer
6 41 (12.65%) Java Engineer
7 35 (10.80%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (9.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 26 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (7.41%) Lead Developer
11 23 (7.10%) Java Developer
12 22 (6.79%) Python Engineer
12 22 (6.79%) Senior Developer
13 21 (6.48%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (6.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (6.17%) Lead Software Developer
14 20 (6.17%) Python Developer
15 17 (5.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 16 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.43%) React
1 50 (15.43%) Spring
2 48 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
2 48 (14.81%) RESTful
3 44 (13.58%) REST
3 44 (13.58%) Spring Boot
4 42 (12.96%) Node.js
5 34 (10.49%) GraphQL
6 33 (10.19%) Redux
7 31 (9.57%) gRPC
8 17 (5.25%) PySpark
8 17 (5.25%) scikit-learn
8 17 (5.25%) TensorFlow
9 16 (4.94%) LangChain
9 16 (4.94%) LlamaIndex
9 16 (4.94%) pgvector
9 16 (4.94%) PyTorch
10 15 (4.63%) web3js
11 12 (3.70%) OAuth
12 11 (3.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 89 (27.47%) Cloud Native
2 58 (17.90%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (12.96%) Fixed Income
4 26 (8.02%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.94%) Clustering
6 15 (4.63%) Blockchain
6 15 (4.63%) Web3
7 13 (4.01%) AI Agents
7 13 (4.01%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.40%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.85%) Equities
12 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.54%) Derivative
13 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.56%) Linux
2 10 (3.09%) Windows
3 9 (2.78%) Android
4 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (44.14%) CI/CD
2 121 (37.35%) DevOps
3 117 (36.11%) Microservices
3 117 (36.11%) Software Engineering
4 100 (30.86%) Agile
5 86 (26.54%) Analytics
6 82 (25.31%) Event-Driven
7 81 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 79 (24.38%) Containerisation
9 73 (22.53%) Data Engineering
10 71 (21.91%) AI
11 68 (20.99%) Data Modelling
12 64 (19.75%) Computer Science
13 63 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 61 (18.83%) Low Latency
15 57 (17.59%) ETL
16 56 (17.28%) Investment Management
17 55 (16.98%) Machine Learning
18 52 (16.05%) Data Governance
19 51 (15.74%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 190 (58.64%) Python
2 140 (43.21%) SQL
3 135 (41.67%) Java
4 88 (27.16%) Go
5 47 (14.51%) TypeScript
6 38 (11.73%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.41%) Bash
8 21 (6.48%) C#
9 19 (5.86%) C++
10 17 (5.25%) Scala
11 7 (2.16%) Rust
12 6 (1.85%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.62%) Bicep
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) Korn
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (12.96%) Degree
2 36 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.01%) AWS Certification
3 13 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (3.40%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.47%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.95%) GDPR
3 16 (4.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.09%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.47%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.54%) 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 (32.72%) Docker
2 8 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (38.58%) Kubernetes
2 72 (22.22%) Terraform
3 36 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.10%) Grafana
5 20 (6.17%) Ansible
6 11 (3.40%) Argo
7 9 (2.78%) Istio
8 6 (1.85%) Puppet
9 4 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.62%) Kibana
10 2 (0.62%) Salt
11 1 (0.31%) Cilium
11 1 (0.31%) Icinga
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (11.11%) Databricks
2 16 (4.94%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.94%) Dell
3 11 (3.40%) Confluent
4 7 (2.16%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.16%) Solace
5 6 (1.85%) Oracle
5 6 (1.85%) VMware
6 5 (1.54%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.54%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.54%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.54%) Nokia
6 5 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.54%) Talend
7 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.23%) Splunk
8 3 (0.93%) Google
8 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce