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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 124 194
Rank change year-on-year -29 +70 -88
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 368 330 320
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.50% 2.78% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.36% 9.86% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 193 169 206
10th Percentile £55,725 £60,000 £60,625
25th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +3.07%
75th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £143,750
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 3,930 3,347 5,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.06% 28.24% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,535 2,269 3,754
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £64,603
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 £115,000
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 8 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 8 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 31 £90,000 -20.00% 30
West London -6 14 £80,000 -3.03% 16
South London -18 3 - - 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 83 (22.55%) Apache Spark
2 55 (14.95%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (8.42%) Apache
4 13 (3.53%) Confluence
5 5 (1.36%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.36%) Camunda
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.54%) Luigi
7 2 (0.54%) Tornado
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (57.61%) AWS
2 139 (37.77%) Azure
3 70 (19.02%) GCP
4 56 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (12.50%) Serverless
6 31 (8.42%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 23 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (6.25%) dbt
8 22 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.43%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.16%) Datadog
12 18 (4.89%) GitHub
13 17 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (4.62%) SaaS
14 16 (4.35%) Azure Databricks
15 15 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) BGP
1 7 (1.90%) DNS
2 6 (1.63%) IPsec
2 6 (1.63%) VPN
3 5 (1.36%) Internet
4 2 (0.54%) 4G
4 2 (0.54%) 5G
4 2 (0.54%) AMQP
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) MQTT
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) SSH
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (30.16%) NoSQL
2 51 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 40 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (9.78%) Big Data
6 34 (9.24%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (8.15%) Power BI
9 29 (7.88%) Data Lake
10 24 (6.52%) MySQL
11 23 (6.25%) Hadoop
12 22 (5.98%) Tableau
13 18 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (4.89%) Redis
14 14 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (3.80%) DynamoDB
15 13 (3.53%) SQL Server
16 12 (3.26%) Apache Hive
16 12 (3.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (15.49%) GitLab
2 43 (11.68%) Cucumber
3 39 (10.60%) Git
4 37 (10.05%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.53%) Selenium
6 12 (3.26%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.26%) MLflow
7 8 (2.17%) JIRA
8 7 (1.90%) Maven
9 5 (1.36%) JUnit
10 4 (1.09%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.82%) Mockito
12 2 (0.54%) git-flow
12 2 (0.54%) Gradle
12 2 (0.54%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.54%) Postman
12 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.54%) Xcode
12 2 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 175 (47.55%) Finance
2 98 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 65 (17.66%) Banking
4 34 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 20 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.08%) Front Office
8 15 (4.08%) Marketing
8 15 (4.08%) Retail
9 10 (2.72%) Law
10 9 (2.45%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.45%) Military
11 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.36%) Aviation
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
13 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.54%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 118 (32.07%) Senior
2 79 (21.47%) Java Engineer
3 65 (17.66%) Developer
4 54 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 50 (13.59%) Data Engineer
6 36 (9.78%) Architect
6 36 (9.78%) Principal Engineer
7 32 (8.70%) Lead
8 31 (8.42%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (7.88%) Principal Java Engineer
9 29 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (6.79%) Senior Developer
11 21 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.71%) Java Developer
12 19 (5.16%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (33.15%) Spring
2 108 (29.35%) Spring Boot
3 70 (19.02%) Terraform
4 55 (14.95%) REST
5 54 (14.67%) RESTful
6 51 (13.86%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (7.88%) Node.js
7 29 (7.88%) React
8 25 (6.79%) .NET
9 22 (5.98%) PySpark
10 17 (4.62%) gRPC
11 14 (3.80%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.80%) TensorFlow
12 13 (3.53%) pgvector
12 13 (3.53%) Playwright
13 12 (3.26%) LangChain
13 12 (3.26%) Middleware
14 11 (2.99%) Swagger
15 10 (2.72%) FIX Protocol
15 10 (2.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 137 (37.23%) Cloud Native
2 102 (27.72%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (13.32%) Public Cloud
4 38 (10.33%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.70%) Onboarding
6 23 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (3.53%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.53%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.99%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.72%) Clustering
12 10 (2.72%) EPoS
12 10 (2.72%) iSeries
13 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.17%) Equities
14 8 (2.17%) Fixed Income
14 8 (2.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.71%) Linux
2 6 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.54%) Android
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 179 (48.64%) Microservices
3 169 (45.92%) Event-Driven
4 139 (37.77%) Agile
5 121 (32.88%) Software Engineering
6 111 (30.16%) AI
6 111 (30.16%) DevOps
6 111 (30.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 106 (28.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 94 (25.54%) Test Automation
9 87 (23.64%) Mentoring
10 76 (20.65%) Observability
11 75 (20.38%) Analytics
11 75 (20.38%) Containerisation
12 70 (19.02%) Data Pipeline
13 65 (17.66%) Data Modelling
14 57 (15.49%) Roadmaps
15 55 (14.95%) Data Engineering
16 54 (14.67%) Machine Learning
17 53 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.54%) Java
2 148 (40.22%) SQL
3 141 (38.32%) Python
4 31 (8.42%) C#
5 30 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.07%) Go
8 16 (4.35%) Scala
9 13 (3.53%) Kotlin
10 11 (2.99%) Bash
11 10 (2.72%) RPG
12 6 (1.63%) C
12 6 (1.63%) PHP
12 6 (1.63%) Ruby
13 5 (1.36%) C++
14 3 (0.82%) Groovy
14 3 (0.82%) R
14 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.54%) Rust
15 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (13.32%) AWS Certification
2 42 (11.41%) Degree
3 39 (10.60%) Security Cleared
4 38 (10.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (9.24%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.36%) PhD
10 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.27%) CISSP
12 1 (0.27%) CSPO
12 1 (0.27%) GIAC
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.27%) OCP
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.68%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.71%) GDPR
3 12 (3.26%) QA
4 10 (2.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
9 1 (0.27%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (27.45%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (35.60%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.51%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.98%) Grafana
4 12 (3.26%) Ansible
5 9 (2.45%) Istio
6 8 (2.17%) Argo
7 6 (1.63%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.09%) Cilium
9 3 (0.82%) Rancher
10 2 (0.54%) kaniko
10 2 (0.54%) Kibana
10 2 (0.54%) Puppet
10 2 (0.54%) Salt
11 1 (0.27%) Control-M
11 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.27%) logstash
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (11.14%) Databricks
2 36 (9.78%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.52%) IBM
4 19 (5.16%) Oracle
5 10 (2.72%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.72%) Dell
6 8 (2.17%) Google
7 7 (1.90%) Confluent
7 7 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.90%) Talend
8 6 (1.63%) HP
8 6 (1.63%) SAP
8 6 (1.63%) Splunk
9 5 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.36%) Solace
10 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.09%) WSO2
11 3 (0.82%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.54%) Apple