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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 184 116
Rank change year-on-year +60 -68 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 329 314 506
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.54% 1.78% 2.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.45% 6.63% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 183 193 431
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £79,375 £71,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £144,500 £142,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £97,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +21.88% -3.03% -2.94%

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 2,874 4,736 5,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.18% 26.87% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,975 3,042 4,863
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £101,185
90th Percentile £136,250 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +1.50%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +23 34 £112,500 +55.17% 126
South London +33 7 £95,000 - 3
West London +1 2 £76,250 +12.96% 6
East London -13 1 £75,000 - 8
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 79 (24.01%) Apache Spark
2 34 (10.33%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (6.69%) Apache
4 11 (3.34%) Confluence
5 7 (2.13%) Apache Pulsar
6 6 (1.82%) nginx
7 4 (1.22%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (1.22%) IIS
7 4 (1.22%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.91%) JBoss
8 3 (0.91%) Luigi
8 3 (0.91%) Mule
8 3 (0.91%) Traefik
9 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.30%) SAS
10 1 (0.30%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 221 (67.17%) AWS
2 99 (30.09%) Azure
3 86 (26.14%) GCP
4 32 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (7.60%) Serverless
6 24 (7.29%) GitHub
7 23 (6.99%) Amazon Kinesis
8 21 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.65%) Snowflake
12 11 (3.34%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.34%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.82%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.13%) DNS
2 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.52%) VPN
3 4 (1.22%) FTP
4 3 (0.91%) DHCP
4 3 (0.91%) ICMP
5 2 (0.61%) BGP
5 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.61%) Firewall
5 2 (0.61%) MQTT
5 2 (0.61%) OSPF
5 2 (0.61%) RTMP
5 2 (0.61%) VLAN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.61%) Wireless
6 1 (0.30%) AMQP
6 1 (0.30%) Broadband
6 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (18.84%) NoSQL
2 51 (15.50%) Big Data
3 46 (13.98%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (11.85%) MongoDB
5 36 (10.94%) Hadoop
6 35 (10.64%) Relational Database
7 31 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (8.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (6.38%) Metadata
10 20 (6.08%) Redis
11 16 (4.86%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.95%) Flink
13 12 (3.65%) Data Lake
13 12 (3.65%) RDBMS
14 11 (3.34%) DynamoDB
14 11 (3.34%) MySQL
14 11 (3.34%) Power BI
15 10 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (3.04%) Apache Hive
15 10 (3.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (8.81%) Git
1 29 (8.81%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.86%) GitLab
3 14 (4.26%) JIRA
4 10 (3.04%) MLflow
5 8 (2.43%) CircleCI
5 8 (2.43%) JUnit
6 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.82%) Selenium
6 6 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.82%) Vite
7 5 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.22%) JMeter
8 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.22%) Mockito
8 4 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.22%) VisualVM
General
1 195 (59.27%) Finance
2 101 (30.70%) Social Skills
3 66 (20.06%) Law
4 62 (18.84%) Banking
5 57 (17.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (17.02%) Front Office
7 46 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (12.46%) Financial Institution
9 20 (6.08%) Marketing
10 15 (4.56%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.04%) Games
12 9 (2.74%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.13%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.22%) Legal
15 4 (1.22%) Retail
16 3 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
17 2 (0.61%) Electronics
17 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (33.13%) Software Engineer
2 95 (28.88%) Developer
3 67 (20.36%) Lead
4 63 (19.15%) Senior
5 45 (13.68%) Java Engineer
6 41 (12.46%) Data Engineer
7 36 (10.94%) Lead Software Engineer
8 35 (10.64%) Java Developer
8 35 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (8.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 20 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (6.08%) Kafka Engineer
10 20 (6.08%) Lead Developer
11 18 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (5.17%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.86%) Architect
13 16 (4.86%) Kafka Developer
13 16 (4.86%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (4.56%) Lead Software Developer
14 15 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (25.23%) Spring
2 65 (19.76%) Spring Boot
3 60 (18.24%) React
4 56 (17.02%) RESTful
5 45 (13.68%) GraphQL
6 43 (13.07%) Node.js
7 42 (12.77%) REST
8 38 (11.55%) RabbitMQ
9 31 (9.42%) AngularJS
10 27 (8.21%) Redux
11 17 (5.17%) Akka
11 17 (5.17%) gRPC
12 15 (4.56%) RxJava
12 15 (4.56%) Spring WebFlux
13 14 (4.26%) JMS
14 12 (3.65%) Jest
14 12 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
15 11 (3.34%) Middleware
16 10 (3.04%) ActiveMQ
16 10 (3.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 90 (27.36%) Cloud Native
2 83 (25.23%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (9.12%) Algorithms
4 29 (8.81%) Fixed Income
5 25 (7.60%) Data Structures
6 24 (7.29%) Product Ownership
7 19 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (5.47%) Management Information System
9 15 (4.56%) Public Cloud
10 14 (4.26%) FMCG
10 14 (4.26%) Hedge funds
11 13 (3.95%) e-Learning
12 11 (3.34%) Distributed Applications
12 11 (3.34%) Mobile App
12 11 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (3.04%) Client/Server
13 10 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (3.04%) Reference Data
14 9 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (2.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.99%) Linux
2 8 (2.43%) Windows
3 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.52%) Android
5 4 (1.22%) Unix
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (44.68%) Software Engineering
2 146 (44.38%) CI/CD
3 132 (40.12%) Agile
4 126 (38.30%) Microservices
5 100 (30.40%) DevOps
6 78 (23.71%) Fintech
7 63 (19.15%) Analytics
8 62 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (18.24%) Data Pipeline
10 56 (17.02%) Data Modelling
11 55 (16.72%) Computer Science
11 55 (16.72%) SDLC
11 55 (16.72%) Test Automation
12 53 (16.11%) Machine Learning
13 52 (15.81%) ETL
14 50 (15.20%) AI
14 50 (15.20%) Containerisation
14 50 (15.20%) Data Engineering
14 50 (15.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (14.89%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 198 (60.18%) Java
2 138 (41.95%) Python
3 107 (32.52%) SQL
4 60 (18.24%) Go
5 49 (14.89%) TypeScript
6 37 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.51%) Scala
8 23 (6.99%) Kotlin
9 15 (4.56%) C#
10 13 (3.95%) Bash
11 11 (3.34%) C++
12 6 (1.82%) Groovy
13 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.91%) Rust
14 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) Clojure
15 1 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (12.77%) Degree
2 27 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.86%) Master's Degree
4 13 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.34%) PhD
6 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.52%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.61%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.69%) QA
3 16 (4.86%) GDPR
4 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.61%) SEPA
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 86 (26.14%) Docker
2 8 (2.43%) HDFS
3 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 136 (41.34%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.33%) Terraform
3 20 (6.08%) Prometheus
4 16 (4.86%) Ansible
5 15 (4.56%) Grafana
6 14 (4.26%) Argo
7 8 (2.43%) Puppet
8 6 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.52%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.52%) Mesos
10 3 (0.91%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.91%) Kibana
11 2 (0.61%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.61%) logstash
11 2 (0.61%) Podman
12 1 (0.30%) Icinga
12 1 (0.30%) Nagios
12 1 (0.30%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (12.77%) Databricks
2 27 (8.21%) Oracle
3 16 (4.86%) SAP
4 11 (3.34%) Google
4 11 (3.34%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.13%) VMware
6 5 (1.52%) Confluent
6 5 (1.52%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.22%) Dell
7 4 (1.22%) Ericsson
7 4 (1.22%) Mavenir
7 4 (1.22%) Nokia
7 4 (1.22%) Splunk
8 3 (0.91%) Solace
9 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco
9 2 (0.61%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.61%) Sonatype