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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 196 110
Rank change year-on-year +74 -86 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 332 332 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.79% 1.72% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.91% 6.78% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 169 211 582
10th Percentile £62,250 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +3.07% +2.41%
75th Percentile £137,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +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 3,044 4,898 6,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.56% 25.42% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,052 3,324 5,878
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +18 34 £112,500 +32.35% 15
South London +27 17 £82,500 -24.14% 3
West London +38 1 £82,500 +22.22% 2
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 69 (20.78%) Apache Spark
2 30 (9.04%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (6.02%) Apache
4 10 (3.01%) Confluence
5 9 (2.71%) nginx
6 4 (1.20%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.20%) Apache Synapse
6 4 (1.20%) JBoss
6 4 (1.20%) Luigi
6 4 (1.20%) Traefik
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.90%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.60%) Mule
8 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.30%) GemFire
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Maya
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 232 (69.88%) AWS
2 95 (28.61%) Azure
3 83 (25.00%) GCP
4 36 (10.84%) Serverless
5 24 (7.23%) GitHub
6 22 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (6.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 21 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.02%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.52%) Snowflake
10 13 (3.92%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.61%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.41%) dbt
14 7 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
1 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
1 6 (1.81%) VPN
2 4 (1.20%) DHCP
2 4 (1.20%) DNS
2 4 (1.20%) FTP
2 4 (1.20%) ICMP
2 4 (1.20%) Network Security
3 2 (0.60%) BGP
3 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.60%) Firewall
3 2 (0.60%) MQTT
3 2 (0.60%) OSPF
3 2 (0.60%) RTMP
3 2 (0.60%) VLAN
3 2 (0.60%) WAN
3 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.60%) Wireless
4 1 (0.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.88%) NoSQL
2 40 (12.05%) Big Data
3 36 (10.84%) MongoDB
4 35 (10.54%) Relational Database
5 33 (9.94%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (9.94%) Hadoop
6 31 (9.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (6.63%) Metadata
9 16 (4.82%) Redis
9 16 (4.82%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (3.61%) BigQuery
11 12 (3.61%) MySQL
11 12 (3.61%) Power BI
12 11 (3.31%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.31%) DynamoDB
12 11 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (3.31%) Oracle Database
13 9 (2.71%) Flink
Development Applications
1 32 (9.64%) Git
2 31 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.52%) JIRA
4 13 (3.92%) JUnit
5 12 (3.61%) GitLab
6 11 (3.31%) CircleCI
7 10 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.41%) Maven
8 8 (2.41%) MLflow
8 8 (2.41%) Mockito
8 8 (2.41%) Vite
9 7 (2.11%) Selenium
10 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.51%) Postman
10 5 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.20%) git-flow
11 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.20%) Subversion
11 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 213 (64.16%) Finance
2 92 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 90 (27.11%) Law
4 79 (23.80%) Banking
5 78 (23.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (12.95%) Front Office
8 40 (12.05%) Financial Institution
9 22 (6.63%) Marketing
10 11 (3.31%) Investment Banking
11 10 (3.01%) Games
12 6 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.90%) Retail
14 3 (0.90%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.60%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (38.55%) Software Engineer
2 87 (26.20%) Developer
3 79 (23.80%) Lead
4 62 (18.67%) Senior
5 57 (17.17%) Java Engineer
6 49 (14.76%) Java Software Engineer
7 47 (14.16%) Lead Software Engineer
8 39 (11.75%) Data Engineer
9 32 (9.64%) Java Developer
10 28 (8.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 25 (7.53%) Architect
12 23 (6.93%) Python Engineer
13 19 (5.72%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (5.42%) Lead Developer
15 17 (5.12%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (4.52%) Lead Software Developer
16 15 (4.52%) Python Software Engineer
17 14 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
18 13 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (25.90%) Spring
2 78 (23.49%) Spring Boot
3 65 (19.58%) React
4 52 (15.66%) RESTful
5 44 (13.25%) GraphQL
6 39 (11.75%) Node.js
6 39 (11.75%) RabbitMQ
7 38 (11.45%) AngularJS
7 38 (11.45%) REST
8 25 (7.53%) Akka
9 24 (7.23%) Redux
10 21 (6.33%) RxJava
10 21 (6.33%) Spring WebFlux
11 15 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (3.92%) Micronaut
13 12 (3.61%) Quarkus
14 11 (3.31%) gRPC
15 10 (3.01%) Jest
15 10 (3.01%) Spark Streaming
16 9 (2.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 89 (26.81%) Cloud Native
2 62 (18.67%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (9.94%) Algorithms
4 28 (8.43%) Product Ownership
5 27 (8.13%) Data Structures
6 25 (7.53%) Fixed Income
7 20 (6.02%) Management Information System
8 19 (5.72%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (5.12%) Public Cloud
10 16 (4.82%) Mobile App
11 14 (4.22%) Client/Server
11 14 (4.22%) FMCG
12 13 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
13 12 (3.61%) Hedge funds
14 11 (3.31%) Equities
15 9 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (2.71%) Mobile Banking
15 9 (2.71%) Virtual Team
16 7 (2.11%) e-Learning
16 7 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.82%) Linux
2 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.20%) Unix
3 3 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (51.81%) Software Engineering
2 139 (41.87%) Agile
3 137 (41.27%) CI/CD
4 121 (36.45%) Microservices
5 90 (27.11%) DevOps
6 82 (24.70%) Fintech
7 65 (19.58%) Analytics
8 60 (18.07%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (18.07%) SDLC
9 58 (17.47%) Data Modelling
10 56 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (16.87%) Test Automation
11 54 (16.27%) Multithreading
12 48 (14.46%) ETL
13 47 (14.16%) Data Engineering
14 46 (13.86%) Containerisation
14 46 (13.86%) TDD
15 45 (13.55%) Mentoring
16 43 (12.95%) Full-Stack Development
16 43 (12.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 202 (60.84%) Java
2 132 (39.76%) Python
3 107 (32.23%) SQL
4 59 (17.77%) Go
5 50 (15.06%) TypeScript
6 38 (11.45%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.73%) Scala
8 25 (7.53%) Kotlin
9 14 (4.22%) C#
10 10 (3.01%) Bash
11 8 (2.41%) C++
12 6 (1.81%) Groovy
13 5 (1.51%) Rust
14 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.60%) R
16 1 (0.30%) Clojure
16 1 (0.30%) COBOL
16 1 (0.30%) Perl
16 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (9.94%) Degree
2 16 (4.82%) AWS Certification
2 16 (4.82%) Master's Degree
3 14 (4.22%) PhD
4 12 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (1.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.81%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.72%) GDPR
2 19 (5.72%) QA
3 5 (1.51%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) MiFID
6 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (30.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.51%) HDFS
3 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.60%) NFS
5 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 157 (47.29%) Kubernetes
2 53 (15.96%) Terraform
3 21 (6.33%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.12%) Grafana
5 12 (3.61%) Ansible
5 12 (3.61%) Argo
6 8 (2.41%) Mesos
7 5 (1.51%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.51%) Kustomize
7 5 (1.51%) Puppet
8 4 (1.20%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.20%) Istio
9 3 (0.90%) Packer
9 3 (0.90%) Podman
10 2 (0.60%) logstash
10 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.30%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 43 (12.95%) Databricks
2 27 (8.13%) Oracle
3 18 (5.42%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.82%) Google
5 14 (4.22%) SAP
6 8 (2.41%) Confluent
7 5 (1.51%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (1.51%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.20%) Splunk
9 3 (0.90%) Solace
10 2 (0.60%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.60%) Facebook
10 2 (0.60%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.60%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.60%) Starlink
10 2 (0.60%) Talend
10 2 (0.60%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.60%) WSO2