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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 139 137
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -74
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 295 329 491
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.73% 2.48% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.09% 9.14% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 216 240 384
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £67,188 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% -5.37%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%

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 2,923 3,601 5,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.11% 27.10% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,080 2,485 4,762
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
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 £102,500 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,250 £122,500
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 18 March 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 March 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 -18 33 £90,000 +44.00% 34
West London - 6 £82,500 - 6
South London +16 5 £105,000 +27.27% 1
East London -16 1 £75,000 -18.92% 7
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 70 (23.73%) Apache Spark
2 51 (17.29%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.49%) Apache
4 5 (1.69%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.69%) Confluence
4 5 (1.69%) IIS
4 5 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) Mule
6 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 202 (68.47%) AWS
2 86 (29.15%) Azure
3 79 (26.78%) GCP
4 34 (11.53%) Serverless
5 33 (11.19%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (11.19%) Amazon Kinesis
6 29 (9.83%) Amazon S3
6 29 (9.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (8.14%) dbt
8 23 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (7.12%) Datadog
10 19 (6.44%) Snowflake
11 18 (6.10%) GitHub
12 16 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (5.42%) OpenShift
13 15 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (5.08%) Power Platform
14 13 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) Broadband
2 4 (1.36%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) AMQP
3 2 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) 4G
4 1 (0.34%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) CTI
4 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.27%) NoSQL
2 39 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (10.17%) Big Data
4 25 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (6.78%) Redis
6 20 (6.78%) Relational Database
7 19 (6.44%) Tableau
8 17 (5.76%) DynamoDB
8 17 (5.76%) SQL Server
9 16 (5.42%) Metadata
10 15 (5.08%) BigQuery
10 15 (5.08%) MongoDB
10 15 (5.08%) Power BI
11 14 (4.75%) Data Lake
12 13 (4.41%) Flink
13 11 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (3.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (12.20%) GitLab
2 34 (11.53%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.81%) Git
4 19 (6.44%) CircleCI
5 11 (3.73%) MLflow
6 8 (2.71%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.69%) JIRA
8 4 (1.36%) JUnit
9 3 (1.02%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.02%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.68%) Gradle
10 2 (0.68%) Mocha
10 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.68%) VisualVM
10 2 (0.68%) WinDbg
General
1 152 (51.53%) Finance
2 85 (28.81%) Social Skills
3 64 (21.69%) Front Office
4 50 (16.95%) Banking
5 29 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.14%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.42%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.37%) Law
10 6 (2.03%) Retail
11 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.36%) Advertising
12 4 (1.36%) Billing
13 3 (1.02%) Games
13 3 (1.02%) Legal
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Back Office
14 2 (0.68%) Electronics
14 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (34.92%) Developer
2 85 (28.81%) Senior
3 55 (18.64%) Software Engineer
4 52 (17.63%) Data Engineer
5 49 (16.61%) Lead
6 34 (11.53%) Java Engineer
7 33 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (10.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 28 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (8.14%) Java Developer
11 23 (7.80%) Lead Developer
12 22 (7.46%) Python Developer
13 21 (7.12%) Lead Software Engineer
13 21 (7.12%) Senior Developer
14 20 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (6.78%) Lead Software Developer
15 19 (6.44%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (5.08%) Architect
16 15 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (16.95%) Spring
2 47 (15.93%) React
3 44 (14.92%) RabbitMQ
3 44 (14.92%) RESTful
4 42 (14.24%) Node.js
4 42 (14.24%) REST
5 39 (13.22%) GraphQL
6 38 (12.88%) Spring Boot
7 35 (11.86%) Redux
8 30 (10.17%) gRPC
9 17 (5.76%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.08%) PySpark
11 14 (4.75%) OAuth
11 14 (4.75%) OAuth2
12 13 (4.41%) web3js
13 11 (3.73%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.39%) WebSockets
15 9 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (2.71%) scikit-learn
16 8 (2.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (24.75%) Cloud Native
2 61 (20.68%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (13.90%) Fixed Income
4 16 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.75%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.75%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.41%) Blockchain
6 13 (4.41%) Web3
7 11 (3.73%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.73%) e-Learning
7 11 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (3.05%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.37%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.03%) Clustering
11 6 (2.03%) Derivative
11 6 (2.03%) Equities
11 6 (2.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.14%) Linux
2 11 (3.73%) Windows
3 9 (3.05%) Android
4 6 (2.03%) Unix
5 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (46.44%) CI/CD
2 120 (40.68%) DevOps
3 115 (38.98%) Microservices
4 111 (37.63%) Software Engineering
5 101 (34.24%) Agile
6 72 (24.41%) Containerisation
7 70 (23.73%) Analytics
8 65 (22.03%) Event-Driven
9 64 (21.69%) Data Pipeline
10 60 (20.34%) Computer Science
10 60 (20.34%) Data Modelling
11 59 (20.00%) Low Latency
12 57 (19.32%) Data Engineering
13 56 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (18.64%) AI
15 54 (18.31%) Investment Management
16 53 (17.97%) Fintech
17 51 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
19 47 (15.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 172 (58.31%) Python
2 140 (47.46%) Java
3 118 (40.00%) SQL
4 86 (29.15%) Go
5 49 (16.61%) TypeScript
6 38 (12.88%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.80%) Bash
8 18 (6.10%) C++
8 18 (6.10%) Scala
9 17 (5.76%) C#
10 7 (2.37%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.03%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.03%) Rust
12 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.68%) Groovy
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Korn
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (13.56%) Degree
2 38 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.73%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.78%) GDPR
3 9 (3.05%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.37%) QA
4 7 (2.37%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (34.24%) Docker
2 8 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.37%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 116 (39.32%) Kubernetes
2 61 (20.68%) Terraform
3 35 (11.86%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.12%) Grafana
5 20 (6.78%) Ansible
6 10 (3.39%) Argo
7 8 (2.71%) Istio
8 4 (1.36%) Kibana
8 4 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
9 1 (0.34%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 28 (9.49%) Databricks
2 10 (3.39%) Confluent
2 10 (3.39%) Dell
3 8 (2.71%) Oracle
3 8 (2.71%) VMware
4 6 (2.03%) Cloudera
4 6 (2.03%) Splunk
5 5 (1.69%) Ericsson
5 5 (1.69%) Mavenir
5 5 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.69%) Nokia
5 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.69%) Solace
6 4 (1.36%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.36%) Google
7 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.68%) PayPal
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.68%) SAP