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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 107 193
Rank change year-on-year -31 +86 -100
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 387 377 341
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 3.07% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 11.53% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 236 212 247
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,625 £119,375
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £138,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £83,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +15.52% -17.14%

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 3,504 3,271 5,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.11% 26.67% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 2,272 3,802
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 0 39 £90,000 -8.63% 25
West London - 16 £80,000 - 5
South London -24 7 £105,000 +27.27%
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
1 100 (25.84%) Apache Spark
2 74 (19.12%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.27%) Apache
4 12 (3.10%) Confluence
5 5 (1.29%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.78%) Camunda
8 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 242 (62.53%) AWS
2 133 (34.37%) Azure
3 83 (21.45%) GCP
4 54 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 53 (13.70%) Serverless
6 42 (10.85%) dbt
7 34 (8.79%) Snowflake
8 32 (8.27%) Power Platform
9 28 (7.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (6.98%) Amazon S3
11 26 (6.72%) Datadog
12 24 (6.20%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (6.20%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.43%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.39%) SaaS
16 14 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.36%) OpenShift
18 12 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.81%) BGP
2 6 (1.55%) DNS
2 6 (1.55%) IPsec
2 6 (1.55%) VPN
3 5 (1.29%) Internet
4 4 (1.03%) Broadband
5 2 (0.52%) 4G
5 2 (0.52%) 5G
5 2 (0.52%) AMQP
5 2 (0.52%) MQTT
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) CTI
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (25.32%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.40%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (11.37%) Relational Database
4 39 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.56%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (9.04%) Big Data
8 31 (8.01%) Power BI
9 27 (6.98%) MongoDB
10 24 (6.20%) Tableau
11 22 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (5.43%) BigQuery
12 21 (5.43%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.43%) MySQL
13 17 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (4.39%) Redis
13 17 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (4.13%) Looker
14 16 (4.13%) Metadata
15 15 (3.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (13.18%) GitLab
2 32 (8.27%) Git
2 32 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.01%) Cucumber
4 19 (4.91%) CircleCI
4 19 (4.91%) MLflow
5 12 (3.10%) Selenium
6 6 (1.55%) JIRA
6 6 (1.55%) Maven
7 4 (1.03%) JUnit
7 4 (1.03%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.78%) WinDbg
9 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.52%) Postman
10 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.26%) Gatling
10 1 (0.26%) Gradle
10 1 (0.26%) Mockito
10 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 196 (50.65%) Finance
2 94 (24.29%) Social Skills
3 61 (15.76%) Banking
4 47 (12.14%) Front Office
5 40 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.62%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.62%) Retail
8 11 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.58%) Marketing
10 9 (2.33%) Military
11 8 (2.07%) Law
12 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.29%) Advertising
15 4 (1.03%) Billing
16 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
18 1 (0.26%) Back Office
18 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 110 (28.42%) Senior
2 97 (25.06%) Developer
3 77 (19.90%) Java Engineer
4 68 (17.57%) Software Engineer
5 59 (15.25%) Data Engineer
6 51 (13.18%) Lead
7 37 (9.56%) Architect
8 36 (9.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (8.01%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.72%) Java Developer
11 26 (6.72%) Senior Java Engineer
12 24 (6.20%) Lead Developer
12 24 (6.20%) Principal Java Engineer
13 23 (5.94%) Python Engineer
14 22 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (5.43%) Lead Software Developer
15 21 (5.43%) Senior Developer
16 18 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.61%) Spring
2 95 (24.55%) Spring Boot
3 61 (15.76%) React
4 60 (15.50%) Node.js
5 51 (13.18%) RabbitMQ
6 48 (12.40%) REST
6 48 (12.40%) RESTful
7 37 (9.56%) GraphQL
8 36 (9.30%) Redux
9 22 (5.68%) PySpark
10 20 (5.17%) .NET
10 20 (5.17%) gRPC
11 19 (4.91%) PyTorch
11 19 (4.91%) TensorFlow
12 17 (4.39%) pgvector
13 16 (4.13%) LangChain
13 16 (4.13%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.13%) scikit-learn
14 13 (3.36%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 125 (32.30%) Cloud Native
2 81 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (11.63%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.34%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.49%) Onboarding
6 28 (7.24%) e-Learning
7 18 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.13%) Clustering
9 14 (3.62%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (3.10%) Blockchain
10 12 (3.10%) Web3
11 10 (2.58%) EPoS
11 10 (2.58%) iSeries
12 8 (2.07%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (2.07%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.55%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.94%) Linux
2 8 (2.07%) Unix
3 7 (1.81%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (45.22%) CI/CD
2 159 (41.09%) Microservices
3 145 (37.47%) Agile
4 143 (36.95%) Software Engineering
5 139 (35.92%) Event-Driven
6 116 (29.97%) DevOps
7 108 (27.91%) AI
8 102 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (22.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 87 (22.48%) Containerisation
11 85 (21.96%) Analytics
12 84 (21.71%) Test Automation
13 82 (21.19%) Data Pipeline
14 79 (20.41%) Mentoring
15 74 (19.12%) Data Modelling
16 72 (18.60%) Observability
17 66 (17.05%) Data Engineering
18 57 (14.73%) Machine Learning
19 55 (14.21%) Computer Science
20 52 (13.44%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 195 (50.39%) Java
2 191 (49.35%) Python
3 163 (42.12%) SQL
4 63 (16.28%) Go
5 62 (16.02%) TypeScript
6 57 (14.73%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.53%) C#
8 16 (4.13%) Scala
9 15 (3.88%) C++
10 10 (2.58%) RPG
11 9 (2.33%) Bash
12 7 (1.81%) PHP
12 7 (1.81%) Rust
13 6 (1.55%) C
13 6 (1.55%) Ruby
14 5 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.52%) Bicep
16 2 (0.52%) R
17 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 39 (10.08%) Degree
2 38 (9.82%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 28 (7.24%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.62%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) PhD
9 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.75%) GDPR
3 16 (4.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.58%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.07%) QA
6 7 (1.81%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.52%) PSD2
8 2 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 102 (26.36%) Docker
2 8 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (33.85%) Kubernetes
2 82 (21.19%) Terraform
3 40 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 24 (6.20%) Grafana
5 15 (3.88%) Ansible
6 10 (2.58%) Istio
7 6 (1.55%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.78%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) Cilium
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) kaniko
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.40%) Databricks
2 33 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.43%) IBM
4 16 (4.13%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.13%) Dell
5 12 (3.10%) Oracle
6 9 (2.33%) Confluent
6 9 (2.33%) Solace
7 7 (1.81%) Splunk
7 7 (1.81%) Talend
8 6 (1.55%) Google
8 6 (1.55%) HP
8 6 (1.55%) SAP
9 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.03%) WSO2
10 3 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.52%) CheckPoint