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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 152 125
Rank change year-on-year -16 -27 -58
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 254 347 501
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 2.31% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.12% 8.67% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 181 240 402
10th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £61,375
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £110,000
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% -4.49%

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 2,784 4,004 5,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.18% 26.67% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 2,523 4,851
10th Percentile £50,775 £52,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,959 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 February 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 February 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 -4 32 £100,000 +60.00% 27
West London -1 3 £82,500 +22.22% 4
South London +25 2 £105,000 +27.27% 5
East London - 1 £75,000 - 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 66 (25.98%) Apache Spark
2 37 (14.57%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (11.81%) Apache
4 6 (2.36%) Confluence
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.97%) IIS
5 5 (1.97%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.57%) nginx
7 3 (1.18%) Luigi
7 3 (1.18%) Mule
8 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) Actimize
3 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.39%) Endur
3 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 170 (66.93%) AWS
2 67 (26.38%) Azure
3 58 (22.83%) GCP
4 36 (14.17%) Amazon Kinesis
5 30 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (10.63%) Serverless
7 23 (9.06%) Amazon S3
8 22 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (6.69%) GitHub
11 15 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (5.12%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (5.12%) Datadog
13 11 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.94%) dbt
15 9 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) DNS
2 3 (1.18%) Broadband
3 2 (0.79%) AMQP
3 2 (0.79%) BGP
3 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) MQTT
3 2 (0.79%) OSPF
3 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.79%) RTMP
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
3 2 (0.79%) WAN
3 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.79%) Wireless
4 1 (0.39%) CTI
4 1 (0.39%) FTP
4 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.54%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (16.14%) NoSQL
3 38 (14.96%) Big Data
4 29 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (10.63%) MongoDB
6 24 (9.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (8.27%) Hadoop
8 20 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (7.48%) Relational Database
10 17 (6.69%) Metadata
10 17 (6.69%) SQL Server
11 16 (6.30%) Redis
12 14 (5.51%) DynamoDB
13 13 (5.12%) Flink
14 12 (4.72%) Tableau
15 10 (3.94%) Apache Hive
16 9 (3.54%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (3.54%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (3.54%) Data Lake
16 9 (3.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.02%) GitLab
3 21 (8.27%) Git
4 11 (4.33%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.15%) Cucumber
5 8 (3.15%) JIRA
6 7 (2.76%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.36%) MLflow
8 5 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.97%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.97%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.97%) Selenium
9 4 (1.57%) Jaeger
9 4 (1.57%) JMeter
9 4 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.57%) VisualVM
10 3 (1.18%) JUnit
11 2 (0.79%) JConsole
11 2 (0.79%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) YourKit
General
1 121 (47.64%) Finance
2 81 (31.89%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.35%) Front Office
4 35 (13.78%) Banking
5 29 (11.42%) Financial Institution
6 25 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (9.06%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.54%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.15%) Law
10 7 (2.76%) Retail
11 4 (1.57%) Billing
11 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.57%) Legal
12 3 (1.18%) Games
12 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Marketing
13 2 (0.79%) Advertising
13 2 (0.79%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.79%) Electronics
13 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (27.95%) Developer
2 65 (25.59%) Senior
3 48 (18.90%) Data Engineer
4 40 (15.75%) Lead
5 35 (13.78%) Software Engineer
6 25 (9.84%) Java Engineer
7 20 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.09%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.09%) Python Developer
9 16 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (6.30%) Kafka Engineer
10 15 (5.91%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
12 13 (5.12%) Architect
12 13 (5.12%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (5.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.72%) AWS Data Engineer
14 11 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.69%) Spring
2 43 (16.93%) RabbitMQ
3 39 (15.35%) REST
4 38 (14.96%) RESTful
5 36 (14.17%) Spring Boot
6 27 (10.63%) gRPC
7 22 (8.66%) React
8 20 (7.87%) GraphQL
8 20 (7.87%) Node.js
9 13 (5.12%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.12%) OAuth
9 13 (5.12%) OAuth2
9 13 (5.12%) PySpark
10 12 (4.72%) Akka
10 12 (4.72%) JMS
11 11 (4.33%) Redux
12 10 (3.94%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (3.94%) RxJava
12 10 (3.94%) Spring WebFlux
13 9 (3.54%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 72 (28.35%) Distributed Systems
2 65 (25.59%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (6.30%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.91%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.91%) e-Learning
6 14 (5.51%) Fixed Income
7 13 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (5.12%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.94%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.54%) Reference Data
10 8 (3.15%) Blockchain
10 8 (3.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (3.15%) Hedge funds
10 8 (3.15%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.15%) Web3
11 7 (2.76%) Equities
11 7 (2.76%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.76%) Virtual Team
12 6 (2.36%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.27%) Linux
2 9 (3.54%) Android
3 8 (3.15%) Windows
4 5 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (49.21%) CI/CD
2 105 (41.34%) Microservices
3 101 (39.76%) DevOps
4 75 (29.53%) Software Engineering
5 73 (28.74%) Agile
6 60 (23.62%) Data Pipeline
7 58 (22.83%) Analytics
8 57 (22.44%) Computer Science
8 57 (22.44%) Event-Driven
9 55 (21.65%) Data Engineering
10 52 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (20.08%) Containerisation
11 51 (20.08%) Data Modelling
11 51 (20.08%) Fintech
11 51 (20.08%) Low Latency
12 44 (17.32%) AI
13 43 (16.93%) Machine Learning
14 41 (16.14%) ETL
15 39 (15.35%) Data Governance
15 39 (15.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 126 (49.61%) Java
1 126 (49.61%) Python
2 90 (35.43%) SQL
3 46 (18.11%) Go
4 25 (9.84%) Scala
5 23 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.87%) Bash
7 13 (5.12%) C#
7 13 (5.12%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.94%) C++
9 7 (2.76%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.79%) Groovy
11 2 (0.79%) Perl
11 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) R
12 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.35%) Degree
2 35 (13.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.33%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.54%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.15%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.76%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PhD
9 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.91%) GDPR
3 11 (4.33%) QA
4 6 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.79%) SEPA
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (34.65%) Docker
2 8 (3.15%) HDFS
3 7 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 100 (39.37%) Kubernetes
2 37 (14.57%) Terraform
3 25 (9.84%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.09%) Ansible
5 16 (6.30%) Grafana
6 12 (4.72%) Argo
7 6 (2.36%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.36%) Puppet
8 4 (1.57%) Kibana
9 2 (0.79%) logstash
10 1 (0.39%) Icinga
10 1 (0.39%) Nagios
10 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 29 (11.42%) Databricks
2 14 (5.51%) Oracle
3 8 (3.15%) VMware
4 7 (2.76%) SAP
5 6 (2.36%) Google
5 6 (2.36%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.36%) Splunk
6 5 (1.97%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.97%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.97%) Nokia
6 5 (1.97%) Solace
7 4 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.57%) Dell
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.79%) Confluent
9 2 (0.79%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.79%) Starlink
9 2 (0.79%) StreamSets