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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 123 195
Rank change year-on-year -30 +72 -86
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 364 329 322
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.51% 2.75% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.30% 9.60% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 193 172 212
10th Percentile £55,725 £60,000 £61,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £76,125 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £120,313
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%

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 3,913 3,427 5,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.21% 28.66% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,529 2,345 3,836
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +1 31 £90,000 -20.00% 35
West London - 14 £80,000 - 19
South London -16 3 - - 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 82 (22.53%) Apache Spark
2 55 (15.11%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (8.52%) Apache
4 13 (3.57%) Confluence
5 5 (1.37%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.37%) Camunda
6 4 (1.10%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.55%) Luigi
7 2 (0.55%) Tornado
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 210 (57.69%) AWS
2 138 (37.91%) Azure
3 70 (19.23%) GCP
4 54 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (12.64%) Serverless
6 30 (8.24%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 23 (6.32%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.32%) dbt
8 22 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (6.04%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.49%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.22%) Datadog
12 18 (4.95%) GitHub
13 17 (4.67%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (4.67%) SaaS
14 15 (4.12%) Azure Databricks
15 14 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) BGP
2 6 (1.65%) DNS
2 6 (1.65%) IPsec
2 6 (1.65%) VPN
3 5 (1.37%) Internet
4 2 (0.55%) AMQP
4 2 (0.55%) MQTT
5 1 (0.27%) 4G
5 1 (0.27%) 5G
5 1 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (29.40%) NoSQL
2 50 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (12.91%) Relational Database
4 39 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (9.62%) Big Data
6 33 (9.07%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (7.97%) Data Lake
8 29 (7.97%) Power BI
9 23 (6.32%) Hadoop
9 23 (6.32%) MySQL
10 21 (5.77%) Tableau
11 18 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (4.67%) Redis
13 14 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (3.85%) DynamoDB
14 13 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (3.57%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.30%) Apache Hive
16 11 (3.02%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 54 (14.84%) GitLab
2 41 (11.26%) Cucumber
3 37 (10.16%) Git
4 35 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.30%) CircleCI
5 12 (3.30%) MLflow
5 12 (3.30%) Selenium
6 8 (2.20%) JIRA
7 7 (1.92%) Maven
8 5 (1.37%) JUnit
9 4 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.10%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.82%) Mockito
11 2 (0.55%) Gradle
11 2 (0.55%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.55%) Postman
11 2 (0.55%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.55%) Xcode
11 2 (0.55%) XCTest
11 2 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 172 (47.25%) Finance
2 97 (26.65%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.58%) Banking
4 34 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.49%) Financial Institution
5 20 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.12%) Front Office
7 15 (4.12%) Marketing
7 15 (4.12%) Retail
8 10 (2.75%) Law
9 9 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.47%) Military
10 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Aviation
12 3 (0.82%) Billing
12 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (0.82%) Publishing
13 2 (0.55%) Advertising
13 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 115 (31.59%) Senior
2 77 (21.15%) Java Engineer
3 64 (17.58%) Developer
4 54 (14.84%) Software Engineer
5 49 (13.46%) Data Engineer
6 36 (9.89%) Architect
7 35 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (8.79%) Lead
9 30 (8.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (7.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (7.69%) Principal Java Engineer
12 24 (6.59%) Senior Developer
13 21 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (5.77%) Java Developer
14 19 (5.22%) Python Engineer
15 16 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
17 12 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 11 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (32.97%) Spring
2 106 (29.12%) Spring Boot
3 70 (19.23%) Terraform
4 54 (14.84%) REST
5 53 (14.56%) RESTful
6 50 (13.74%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (7.97%) Node.js
7 29 (7.97%) React
8 25 (6.87%) .NET
9 21 (5.77%) PySpark
10 17 (4.67%) gRPC
11 14 (3.85%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.85%) TensorFlow
12 13 (3.57%) pgvector
13 12 (3.30%) LangChain
13 12 (3.30%) Middleware
13 12 (3.30%) Playwright
14 11 (3.02%) Swagger
15 10 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
15 10 (2.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 135 (37.09%) Cloud Native
2 100 (27.47%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (12.91%) Public Cloud
4 36 (9.89%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.79%) Onboarding
6 22 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.57%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.57%) Product Ownership
11 11 (3.02%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.75%) Clustering
12 10 (2.75%) EPoS
12 10 (2.75%) iSeries
13 9 (2.47%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.20%) Blockchain
14 8 (2.20%) Equities
14 8 (2.20%) Fixed Income
14 8 (2.20%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.49%) Linux
2 6 (1.65%) Unix
3 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (49.45%) CI/CD
2 177 (48.63%) Microservices
3 166 (45.60%) Event-Driven
4 135 (37.09%) Agile
5 119 (32.69%) Software Engineering
6 110 (30.22%) AI
7 109 (29.95%) DevOps
8 108 (29.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 91 (25.00%) Test Automation
11 86 (23.63%) Mentoring
12 75 (20.60%) Analytics
12 75 (20.60%) Containerisation
12 75 (20.60%) Observability
13 69 (18.96%) Data Pipeline
14 64 (17.58%) Data Modelling
15 57 (15.66%) Roadmaps
16 54 (14.84%) Data Engineering
16 54 (14.84%) Machine Learning
17 52 (14.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 184 (50.55%) Java
2 144 (39.56%) SQL
3 139 (38.19%) Python
4 31 (8.52%) C#
5 30 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.14%) Go
7 25 (6.87%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.12%) Scala
9 13 (3.57%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.75%) Bash
10 10 (2.75%) RPG
11 6 (1.65%) C
11 6 (1.65%) PHP
11 6 (1.65%) Ruby
12 5 (1.37%) C++
13 3 (0.82%) Groovy
13 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.55%) R
14 2 (0.55%) Rust
14 2 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (12.91%) AWS Certification
2 42 (11.54%) Degree
3 38 (10.44%) Security Cleared
4 36 (9.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.07%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.37%) PhD
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) CSPO
11 1 (0.27%) GIAC
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.27%) OCP
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.77%) GDPR
3 11 (3.02%) QA
4 10 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
9 1 (0.27%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (27.20%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.34%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.77%) Grafana
4 12 (3.30%) Ansible
5 9 (2.47%) Istio
6 8 (2.20%) Argo
7 6 (1.65%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.10%) Cilium
9 3 (0.82%) Rancher
10 2 (0.55%) kaniko
10 2 (0.55%) Kibana
10 2 (0.55%) Puppet
10 2 (0.55%) Salt
11 1 (0.27%) Control-M
11 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.27%) logstash
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (10.99%) Databricks
2 36 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.59%) IBM
4 19 (5.22%) Oracle
5 10 (2.75%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.75%) Dell
6 8 (2.20%) Google
7 7 (1.92%) Confluent
7 7 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.92%) Talend
8 6 (1.65%) HP
8 6 (1.65%) SAP
8 6 (1.65%) Splunk
9 5 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.37%) Solace
10 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.10%) WSO2
11 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.55%) Apple