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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 119 196
Rank change year-on-year -19 +77 -100
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 389 351 336
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.88% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.99% 10.97% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 218 191 237
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 3,540 3,201 4,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.88% 26.24% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 2,206 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 11 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 11 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 +1 39 £90,000 -12.20% 38
West London - 17 £80,000 - 6
South London -19 6 - -
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 (24.68%) Apache Spark
2 73 (18.77%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (8.74%) Apache
4 13 (3.34%) Confluence
5 5 (1.29%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.03%) 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 (2.83%) 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 (61.70%) AWS
2 135 (34.70%) Azure
3 85 (21.85%) GCP
4 54 (13.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (12.60%) Serverless
6 39 (10.03%) dbt
7 34 (8.74%) Power Platform
8 33 (8.48%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (6.68%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.17%) Amazon Kinesis
11 24 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (5.66%) Datadog
13 21 (5.40%) Amazon EMR
13 21 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (4.37%) SaaS
15 15 (3.86%) GitHub
16 13 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (3.34%) OpenShift
17 12 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.80%) BGP
2 6 (1.54%) DNS
2 6 (1.54%) IPsec
2 6 (1.54%) VPN
3 5 (1.29%) Internet
4 4 (1.03%) 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
1 103 (26.48%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.34%) Relational Database
3 47 (12.08%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (9.77%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.25%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (9.00%) Big Data
8 33 (8.48%) Power BI
9 28 (7.20%) MongoDB
10 26 (6.68%) Tableau
11 25 (6.43%) MySQL
12 23 (5.91%) Hadoop
13 22 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (5.14%) BigQuery
15 18 (4.63%) Redis
16 17 (4.37%) Snowflake Schema
17 16 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (4.11%) DynamoDB
17 16 (4.11%) Looker
17 16 (4.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (13.37%) GitLab
2 34 (8.74%) Cucumber
2 34 (8.74%) Git
3 29 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.88%) MLflow
5 16 (4.11%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.08%) Selenium
7 8 (2.06%) JIRA
8 6 (1.54%) Maven
9 4 (1.03%) JUnit
9 4 (1.03%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.51%) git-flow
11 2 (0.51%) Postman
11 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.51%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.51%) Xcode
11 2 (0.51%) XCTest
11 2 (0.51%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 197 (50.64%) Finance
2 99 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 66 (16.97%) Banking
4 43 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (10.54%) Front Office
6 19 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.37%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.86%) Retail
9 13 (3.34%) Marketing
10 12 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.08%) Investment Banking
10 12 (3.08%) Law
11 9 (2.31%) Military
12 6 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.03%) Advertising
13 4 (1.03%) Billing
14 3 (0.77%) Publishing
14 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.26%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 114 (29.31%) Senior
2 89 (22.88%) Developer
3 80 (20.57%) Java Engineer
4 70 (17.99%) Software Engineer
5 57 (14.65%) Data Engineer
6 47 (12.08%) Lead
7 35 (9.00%) Architect
8 33 (8.48%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (7.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 28 (7.20%) Senior Java Engineer
11 27 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (6.68%) Principal Java Engineer
13 25 (6.43%) Java Developer
13 25 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (5.66%) Python Engineer
15 20 (5.14%) Lead Developer
15 20 (5.14%) Senior Developer
16 19 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (4.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 17 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (28.53%) Spring
2 99 (25.45%) Spring Boot
3 53 (13.62%) React
3 53 (13.62%) RESTful
4 52 (13.37%) Node.js
5 50 (12.85%) RabbitMQ
6 48 (12.34%) REST
7 31 (7.97%) GraphQL
8 28 (7.20%) Redux
9 23 (5.91%) .NET
10 22 (5.66%) PySpark
11 20 (5.14%) PyTorch
11 20 (5.14%) TensorFlow
12 19 (4.88%) gRPC
13 17 (4.37%) pgvector
14 16 (4.11%) LangChain
14 16 (4.11%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.11%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 132 (33.93%) Cloud Native
2 86 (22.11%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (12.34%) Public Cloud
4 33 (8.48%) Fixed Income
5 31 (7.97%) e-Learning
5 31 (7.97%) Onboarding
6 20 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (4.11%) Clustering
10 13 (3.34%) Data Structures
11 12 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (2.83%) Blockchain
12 11 (2.83%) Web3
13 10 (2.57%) AI Agents
13 10 (2.57%) EPoS
13 10 (2.57%) iSeries
14 9 (2.31%) Product Ownership
15 8 (2.06%) Algorithms
16 7 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.91%) Linux
2 9 (2.31%) Unix
3 6 (1.54%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (46.02%) CI/CD
2 167 (42.93%) Microservices
3 148 (38.05%) Agile
3 148 (38.05%) Event-Driven
4 140 (35.99%) Software Engineering
5 114 (29.31%) DevOps
6 111 (28.53%) AI
7 104 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 94 (24.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 87 (22.37%) Containerisation
9 87 (22.37%) Test Automation
10 85 (21.85%) Analytics
11 83 (21.34%) Data Pipeline
11 83 (21.34%) Mentoring
12 72 (18.51%) Data Modelling
13 70 (17.99%) Observability
14 66 (16.97%) Data Engineering
15 62 (15.94%) Machine Learning
16 59 (15.17%) Data Science
17 55 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 199 (51.16%) Java
2 179 (46.02%) Python
3 162 (41.65%) SQL
4 54 (13.88%) Go
4 54 (13.88%) TypeScript
5 50 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 34 (8.74%) C#
7 15 (3.86%) Scala
8 13 (3.34%) C++
9 10 (2.57%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.57%) RPG
10 7 (1.80%) Bash
10 7 (1.80%) PHP
10 7 (1.80%) Rust
11 6 (1.54%) C
11 6 (1.54%) Ruby
12 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Bicep
13 2 (0.51%) R
13 2 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (10.80%) AWS Certification
1 42 (10.80%) Degree
2 31 (7.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 30 (7.71%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.29%) PhD
8 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) CSPO
9 1 (0.26%) GIAC
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.26%) OCP
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.26%) SSCP
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.31%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.46%) GDPR
3 16 (4.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (2.06%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.06%) QA
5 5 (1.29%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (26.48%) Docker
2 8 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (33.42%) Kubernetes
2 79 (20.31%) Terraform
3 35 (9.00%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.14%) Grafana
5 14 (3.60%) Ansible
6 10 (2.57%) Istio
7 6 (1.54%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (1.29%) Argo
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) kaniko
9 2 (0.51%) Kibana
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (12.60%) Databricks
2 34 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.40%) IBM
4 16 (4.11%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.11%) Dell
5 14 (3.60%) Oracle
6 9 (2.31%) Confluent
7 8 (2.06%) Google
8 7 (1.80%) Solace
8 7 (1.80%) Talend
9 6 (1.54%) HP
9 6 (1.54%) SAP
9 6 (1.54%) Splunk
10 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.03%) WSO2
11 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.51%) Apple