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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 124 190
Rank change year-on-year -40 +66 -79
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 357 331 330
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.41% 2.79% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.10% 9.96% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 179 169 209
10th Percentile £55,945 £62,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £135,500 £142,500 £140,500
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 3,922 3,323 5,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.50% 28.06% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,491 2,249 3,736
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,625
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £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 £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 21 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 21 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 -3 28 £90,000 -20.00% 52
West London -4 12 £80,000 -3.03% 15
South London -14 2 - - 3
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 76 (21.29%) Apache Spark
2 43 (12.04%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (7.56%) Apache
4 13 (3.64%) 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 (3.08%) 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
1 203 (56.86%) AWS
2 125 (35.01%) Azure
3 54 (15.13%) GCP
4 52 (14.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (12.61%) Serverless
6 28 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 24 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (6.44%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (6.16%) Amazon Kinesis
10 21 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 21 (5.88%) GitHub
11 18 (5.04%) Amazon EMR
11 18 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (5.04%) Azure Databricks
12 17 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (4.76%) Snowflake
13 16 (4.48%) dbt
14 15 (4.20%) SaaS
15 14 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.96%) BGP
1 7 (1.96%) DNS
2 6 (1.68%) IPsec
2 6 (1.68%) 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
1 108 (30.25%) NoSQL
2 54 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.17%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.52%) Big Data
4 34 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 33 (9.24%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (7.56%) Power BI
7 26 (7.28%) Data Lake
7 26 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (6.72%) Redis
9 23 (6.44%) Hadoop
10 22 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (5.88%) Tableau
12 20 (5.60%) MySQL
13 17 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (3.92%) Metadata
14 14 (3.92%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (3.36%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (15.13%) GitLab
2 48 (13.45%) Git
3 45 (12.61%) Cucumber
4 41 (11.48%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.36%) Selenium
6 9 (2.52%) JIRA
7 7 (1.96%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.96%) Maven
7 7 (1.96%) MLflow
8 6 (1.68%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.12%) JUnit
9 4 (1.12%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.56%) git-flow
10 2 (0.56%) Gradle
10 2 (0.56%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.56%) Mockito
10 2 (0.56%) Postman
10 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 168 (47.06%) Finance
2 90 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 59 (16.53%) Banking
4 32 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.16%) Financial Institution
7 19 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 17 (4.76%) Front Office
9 16 (4.48%) Retail
10 15 (4.20%) Marketing
11 10 (2.80%) Law
12 9 (2.52%) Military
13 7 (1.96%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.68%) 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 (31.09%) Senior
2 79 (22.13%) Java Engineer
3 59 (16.53%) Developer
4 56 (15.69%) Software Engineer
5 46 (12.89%) Data Engineer
6 38 (10.64%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (9.80%) Architect
8 34 (9.52%) Lead
9 32 (8.96%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (8.12%) Principal Java Engineer
10 29 (8.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (6.72%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.60%) Java Developer
13 18 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (4.48%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.08%) Backend Developer
15 11 (3.08%) Consultant
16 10 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (35.01%) Spring
2 112 (31.37%) Spring Boot
3 65 (18.21%) Terraform
4 53 (14.85%) RESTful
5 52 (14.57%) REST
6 46 (12.89%) RabbitMQ
7 31 (8.68%) React
8 30 (8.40%) Node.js
9 26 (7.28%) .NET
10 24 (6.72%) PySpark
11 16 (4.48%) gRPC
12 13 (3.64%) Middleware
12 13 (3.64%) Playwright
13 11 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.08%) Keycloak
14 10 (2.80%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (2.80%) PyTorch
14 10 (2.80%) Swagger
14 10 (2.80%) TensorFlow
15 9 (2.52%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 131 (36.69%) Cloud Native
2 110 (30.81%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (13.17%) Public Cloud
4 40 (11.20%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.96%) Onboarding
6 24 (6.72%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (3.92%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.36%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.80%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.80%) EPoS
11 10 (2.80%) Equities
11 10 (2.80%) iSeries
11 10 (2.80%) Replication
12 9 (2.52%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.52%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.96%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.88%) Linux
2 6 (1.68%) 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
1 187 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 174 (48.74%) Microservices
3 173 (48.46%) Event-Driven
4 150 (42.02%) Agile
5 114 (31.93%) Software Engineering
6 112 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 109 (30.53%) DevOps
8 108 (30.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 105 (29.41%) AI
10 99 (27.73%) Test Automation
11 88 (24.65%) Mentoring
12 78 (21.85%) Observability
13 67 (18.77%) Data Pipeline
14 64 (17.93%) Containerisation
15 63 (17.65%) Roadmaps
16 62 (17.37%) Analytics
16 62 (17.37%) Data Modelling
17 54 (15.13%) BDD
18 52 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
19 51 (14.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 189 (52.94%) Java
2 140 (39.22%) SQL
3 127 (35.57%) Python
4 32 (8.96%) C#
5 31 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.40%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.32%) Scala
8 16 (4.48%) Go
9 14 (3.92%) Bash
10 13 (3.64%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.80%) RPG
12 9 (2.52%) Groovy
13 6 (1.68%) C
13 6 (1.68%) PHP
13 6 (1.68%) Ruby
14 5 (1.40%) C++
14 5 (1.40%) R
15 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (14.57%) AWS Certification
2 47 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 42 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 40 (11.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (10.92%) Degree
6 17 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.40%) PhD
10 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) CSPO
12 1 (0.28%) GIAC
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.28%) OCP
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.20%) GDPR
3 12 (3.36%) QA
4 6 (1.68%) 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 97 (27.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (36.41%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.80%) Prometheus
3 25 (7.00%) Grafana
4 9 (2.52%) Rancher
5 8 (2.24%) Argo
6 7 (1.96%) Ansible
7 6 (1.68%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.12%) Cilium
9 3 (0.84%) Istio
10 2 (0.56%) Control-M
10 2 (0.56%) kaniko
10 2 (0.56%) Kibana
11 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Puppet
11 1 (0.28%) QRadar
11 1 (0.28%) Salt
Vendors
1 41 (11.48%) Databricks
2 35 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.00%) IBM
4 20 (5.60%) Oracle
5 13 (3.64%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.24%) Google
8 6 (1.68%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.68%) Dell
8 6 (1.68%) HP
8 6 (1.68%) SAP
8 6 (1.68%) Solace
8 6 (1.68%) Splunk
9 5 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.12%) Talend
10 4 (1.12%) WSO2
11 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.56%) Apple
12 2 (0.56%) Confluent