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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 183 114
Rank change year-on-year +66 -69 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 326 312 496
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.48% 1.79% 2.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.41% 6.63% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 183 198 424
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £66,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £149,000 £142,500 £120,000
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 2,856 4,706 5,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.70% 27.01% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,966 3,030 4,779
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,993 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
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% -

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 29 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 29 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 +3 35 £112,500 +80.00% 13
South London +37 7 £95,000 +58.33% 2
West London 0 2 £76,250 +12.96% 2
East London -12 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 79 (24.23%) Apache Spark
2 36 (11.04%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (7.06%) Apache
4 9 (2.76%) Confluence
5 7 (2.15%) Apache Pulsar
5 7 (2.15%) nginx
6 5 (1.53%) IIS
6 5 (1.53%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.23%) Apache Synapse
8 3 (0.92%) Luigi
8 3 (0.92%) Mule
8 3 (0.92%) Traefik
9 2 (0.61%) JBoss
9 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.31%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 219 (67.18%) AWS
2 99 (30.37%) Azure
3 85 (26.07%) GCP
4 34 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (7.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 23 (7.06%) GitHub
6 23 (7.06%) Serverless
7 20 (6.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.68%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.68%) Snowflake
11 10 (3.07%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.76%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.84%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) DNS
2 5 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.53%) VPN
3 4 (1.23%) FTP
4 3 (0.92%) DHCP
4 3 (0.92%) ICMP
5 2 (0.61%) AMQP
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 (0.31%) Broadband
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.40%) NoSQL
2 51 (15.64%) Big Data
3 48 (14.72%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (11.66%) MongoDB
5 36 (11.04%) Hadoop
6 34 (10.43%) Relational Database
7 32 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (9.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (6.75%) Metadata
10 19 (5.83%) Redis
11 17 (5.21%) SQL Server
12 15 (4.60%) Flink
13 12 (3.68%) Data Lake
13 12 (3.68%) MySQL
13 12 (3.68%) Power BI
13 12 (3.68%) RDBMS
14 11 (3.37%) Oracle Database
15 10 (3.07%) Apache Hive
15 10 (3.07%) BigQuery
16 9 (2.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (9.51%) Jenkins
2 30 (9.20%) Git
3 16 (4.91%) GitLab
4 13 (3.99%) JIRA
5 10 (3.07%) MLflow
6 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.15%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.15%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.15%) JUnit
7 6 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.84%) Selenium
7 6 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.84%) Vite
8 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.23%) Jaeger
8 4 (1.23%) JMeter
8 4 (1.23%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.23%) VisualVM
General
1 191 (58.59%) Finance
2 98 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 63 (19.33%) Law
4 58 (17.79%) Banking
5 57 (17.48%) Front Office
6 54 (16.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (12.58%) Financial Institution
9 19 (5.83%) Marketing
10 15 (4.60%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.07%) Games
12 9 (2.76%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.23%) Legal
16 3 (0.92%) Retail
17 2 (0.61%) Electronics
17 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.61%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (31.60%) Software Engineer
2 94 (28.83%) Developer
3 66 (20.25%) Lead
4 60 (18.40%) Senior
5 43 (13.19%) Java Engineer
6 42 (12.88%) Data Engineer
7 34 (10.43%) Java Developer
7 34 (10.43%) Lead Software Engineer
8 33 (10.12%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (8.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 21 (6.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (6.44%) Kafka Engineer
11 20 (6.13%) Lead Developer
12 19 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (5.52%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.91%) Architect
14 16 (4.91%) Kafka Developer
14 16 (4.91%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (4.60%) Lead Software Developer
15 15 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (24.54%) Spring
2 60 (18.40%) Spring Boot
3 59 (18.10%) React
4 54 (16.56%) RESTful
5 44 (13.50%) GraphQL
6 42 (12.88%) Node.js
7 41 (12.58%) REST
8 36 (11.04%) RabbitMQ
9 32 (9.82%) AngularJS
10 27 (8.28%) Redux
11 17 (5.21%) Akka
11 17 (5.21%) gRPC
12 15 (4.60%) RxJava
12 15 (4.60%) Spring WebFlux
13 14 (4.29%) JMS
14 13 (3.99%) Jest
15 11 (3.37%) Middleware
15 11 (3.37%) OAuth
15 11 (3.37%) OAuth2
15 11 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 87 (26.69%) Cloud Native
2 84 (25.77%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (9.20%) Fixed Income
4 29 (8.90%) Algorithms
5 25 (7.67%) Product Ownership
6 24 (7.36%) Data Structures
7 19 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (5.52%) Management Information System
9 14 (4.29%) FMCG
9 14 (4.29%) Hedge funds
10 13 (3.99%) e-Learning
10 13 (3.99%) Public Cloud
10 13 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (3.07%) Distributed Applications
11 10 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (3.07%) Mobile App
11 10 (3.07%) Reference Data
12 9 (2.76%) Client/Server
12 9 (2.76%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.06%) Linux
2 9 (2.76%) Windows
3 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.84%) Android
5 5 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (44.48%) CI/CD
2 141 (43.25%) Software Engineering
3 132 (40.49%) Agile
4 122 (37.42%) Microservices
5 104 (31.90%) DevOps
6 75 (23.01%) Fintech
7 63 (19.33%) Analytics
7 63 (19.33%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (17.79%) Data Modelling
10 57 (17.48%) Computer Science
11 54 (16.56%) Machine Learning
11 54 (16.56%) SDLC
12 53 (16.26%) ETL
12 53 (16.26%) Test Automation
13 52 (15.95%) Containerisation
13 52 (15.95%) Data Engineering
14 50 (15.34%) AI
14 50 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
15 48 (14.72%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 192 (58.90%) Java
2 140 (42.94%) Python
3 109 (33.44%) SQL
4 57 (17.48%) Go
5 49 (15.03%) TypeScript
6 37 (11.35%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.59%) Scala
8 22 (6.75%) Kotlin
9 16 (4.91%) C#
10 15 (4.60%) Bash
11 11 (3.37%) C++
12 6 (1.84%) Groovy
12 6 (1.84%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.61%) Perl
14 2 (0.61%) Rust
15 1 (0.31%) Clojure
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (13.50%) Degree
2 29 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.91%) Master's Degree
4 12 (3.68%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.37%) PhD
6 7 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.15%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.61%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.06%) QA
3 16 (4.91%) GDPR
4 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.61%) SEPA
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 88 (26.99%) Docker
2 8 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.45%) HDFS
3 6 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 136 (41.72%) Kubernetes
2 31 (9.51%) Terraform
3 18 (5.52%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.21%) Ansible
5 15 (4.60%) Grafana
6 14 (4.29%) Argo
7 8 (2.45%) Puppet
8 6 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.53%) Kubeflow
10 4 (1.23%) Mesos
11 3 (0.92%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.92%) Kibana
12 2 (0.61%) logstash
12 2 (0.61%) Podman
13 1 (0.31%) Icinga
13 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.31%) Nagios
13 1 (0.31%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 43 (13.19%) Databricks
2 27 (8.28%) Oracle
3 16 (4.91%) SAP
4 11 (3.37%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.07%) Google
6 8 (2.45%) VMware
7 6 (1.84%) Confluent
7 6 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.53%) Splunk
9 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.23%) Dell
9 4 (1.23%) Ericsson
9 4 (1.23%) Mavenir
9 4 (1.23%) Nokia
10 3 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.92%) Solace
11 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco
11 2 (0.61%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.61%) Sonatype