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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 125 188
Rank change year-on-year -38 +63 -81
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 356 332 337
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.42% 2.78% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.07% 9.87% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 178 170 216
10th Percentile £55,918 £62,375 £58,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.53% +3.07%
75th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £119,063
90th Percentile £138,250 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -14.71%

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 3,926 3,364 5,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.62% 28.15% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 2,283 3,763
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £65,000
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 £111,250 £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 18 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 18 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 29 £90,000 -20.00% 47
West London -2 12 £80,000 -3.03% 17
South London -14 2 - - 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 77 (21.63%) Apache Spark
2 45 (12.64%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (7.58%) Apache
4 13 (3.65%) Confluence
5 5 (1.40%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.12%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.12%) Camunda
7 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.56%) Luigi
7 2 (0.56%) Tornado
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 202 (56.74%) AWS
2 126 (35.39%) Azure
3 56 (15.73%) GCP
4 52 (14.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (12.08%) Serverless
6 28 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 22 (6.18%) Amazon Kinesis
7 22 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (6.18%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (5.90%) Amazon S3
8 21 (5.90%) GitHub
9 18 (5.06%) Amazon EMR
9 18 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (5.06%) dbt
9 18 (5.06%) Snowflake
10 17 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (4.78%) Azure Databricks
11 15 (4.21%) SaaS
12 14 (3.93%) Datadog
13 13 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.97%) BGP
1 7 (1.97%) DNS
2 6 (1.69%) IPsec
2 6 (1.69%) VPN
3 5 (1.40%) Internet
4 2 (0.56%) 4G
4 2 (0.56%) 5G
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) HTTP
4 2 (0.56%) MQTT
4 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (30.06%) NoSQL
2 51 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (12.92%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.55%) Big Data
4 34 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (9.55%) MongoDB
5 27 (7.58%) Data Lake
5 27 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
5 27 (7.58%) Power BI
6 23 (6.46%) Hadoop
7 21 (5.90%) Redis
7 21 (5.90%) Tableau
8 20 (5.62%) MySQL
9 19 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (3.93%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.65%) Metadata
13 12 (3.37%) Apache Hive
13 12 (3.37%) DynamoDB
14 11 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 54 (15.17%) GitLab
2 45 (12.64%) Cucumber
3 44 (12.36%) Git
4 37 (10.39%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.37%) Selenium
6 9 (2.53%) JIRA
7 8 (2.25%) MLflow
8 7 (1.97%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.97%) Maven
9 6 (1.69%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.12%) JUnit
10 4 (1.12%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.56%) git-flow
11 2 (0.56%) Gradle
11 2 (0.56%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.56%) Mockito
11 2 (0.56%) Postman
11 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 169 (47.47%) Finance
2 90 (25.28%) Social Skills
3 59 (16.57%) Banking
4 33 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.18%) Financial Institution
6 20 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 17 (4.78%) Front Office
9 16 (4.49%) Retail
10 15 (4.21%) Marketing
11 10 (2.81%) Law
12 9 (2.53%) Military
13 7 (1.97%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Aviation
16 3 (0.84%) Billing
16 3 (0.84%) Prime Brokerage
16 3 (0.84%) Publishing
16 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 111 (31.18%) Senior
2 79 (22.19%) Java Engineer
3 60 (16.85%) Developer
4 56 (15.73%) Software Engineer
5 46 (12.92%) Data Engineer
6 38 (10.67%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.83%) Architect
8 34 (9.55%) Lead
9 32 (8.99%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (8.15%) Principal Java Engineer
10 29 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (6.74%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.62%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.49%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.09%) Backend Developer
15 11 (3.09%) Consultant
16 9 (2.53%) Lead Data Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (35.11%) Spring
2 112 (31.46%) Spring Boot
3 62 (17.42%) Terraform
4 53 (14.89%) REST
4 53 (14.89%) RESTful
5 46 (12.92%) RabbitMQ
6 31 (8.71%) React
7 30 (8.43%) Node.js
8 26 (7.30%) .NET
9 23 (6.46%) PySpark
10 16 (4.49%) gRPC
11 13 (3.65%) Middleware
11 13 (3.65%) Playwright
12 11 (3.09%) PyTorch
12 11 (3.09%) TensorFlow
13 10 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (2.81%) pgvector
13 10 (2.81%) Swagger
14 9 (2.53%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.53%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 133 (37.36%) Cloud Native
2 110 (30.90%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (13.48%) Public Cloud
4 40 (11.24%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.99%) Onboarding
6 24 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (3.93%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.37%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.81%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.81%) EPoS
11 10 (2.81%) Equities
11 10 (2.81%) iSeries
12 9 (2.53%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.53%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.97%) Clustering
14 7 (1.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.69%) Unix
3 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.84%) Windows
5 2 (0.56%) Android
5 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (51.69%) CI/CD
2 175 (49.16%) Microservices
3 173 (48.60%) Event-Driven
4 146 (41.01%) Agile
5 116 (32.58%) Software Engineering
6 109 (30.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 108 (30.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 107 (30.06%) AI
9 105 (29.49%) DevOps
10 96 (26.97%) Test Automation
11 87 (24.44%) Mentoring
12 75 (21.07%) Observability
13 67 (18.82%) Data Pipeline
14 64 (17.98%) Analytics
14 64 (17.98%) Containerisation
15 63 (17.70%) Data Modelling
16 60 (16.85%) Roadmaps
17 54 (15.17%) BDD
18 51 (14.33%) Data Engineering
18 51 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 189 (53.09%) Java
2 142 (39.89%) SQL
3 126 (35.39%) Python
4 32 (8.99%) C#
5 31 (8.71%) TypeScript
6 29 (8.15%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.06%) Scala
8 16 (4.49%) Go
9 13 (3.65%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.09%) Bash
11 10 (2.81%) RPG
12 6 (1.69%) C
12 6 (1.69%) Groovy
12 6 (1.69%) PHP
12 6 (1.69%) Ruby
13 5 (1.40%) C++
14 4 (1.12%) R
15 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (14.61%) AWS Certification
2 43 (12.08%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 40 (11.24%) Degree
4 38 (10.67%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.40%) PhD
8 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CSPO
10 1 (0.28%) GIAC
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.28%) OCP
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.52%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.49%) GDPR
3 12 (3.37%) QA
4 7 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.56%) Basel III
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) PSD2
8 1 (0.28%) SEPA
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (26.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 126 (35.39%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.99%) Prometheus
3 22 (6.18%) Grafana
4 8 (2.25%) Argo
5 7 (1.97%) Ansible
6 6 (1.69%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (1.69%) Rancher
7 4 (1.12%) Cilium
8 3 (0.84%) Istio
9 2 (0.56%) Control-M
9 2 (0.56%) kaniko
9 2 (0.56%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) logstash
10 1 (0.28%) Puppet
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
10 1 (0.28%) Salt
Vendors
1 41 (11.52%) Databricks
2 35 (9.83%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.02%) IBM
4 20 (5.62%) Oracle
5 10 (2.81%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.25%) Google
8 7 (1.97%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.97%) Dell
9 6 (1.69%) HP
9 6 (1.69%) SAP
9 6 (1.69%) Solace
9 6 (1.69%) Splunk
10 5 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.40%) Talend
11 4 (1.12%) WSO2
12 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.56%) Apple
13 2 (0.56%) Confluent