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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 182 121
Rank change year-on-year +50 -61 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 312 314 477
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.36% 1.85% 2.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.19% 6.79% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 184 201 407
10th Percentile £69,125 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £142,500 £121,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 2,789 4,627 5,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.10% 27.22% 29.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,953 2,979 4,674
10th Percentile £50,095 £52,500 £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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +19 38 £112,500 +80.00% 14
South London +37 7 £95,000 +58.33% 1
West London +1 2 £76,250 +12.96% 2
East London -14 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 77 (24.68%) Apache Spark
2 34 (10.90%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (7.05%) Apache
4 10 (3.21%) Confluence
5 6 (1.92%) Apache Pulsar
5 6 (1.92%) nginx
6 5 (1.60%) IIS
6 5 (1.60%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.28%) Apache Synapse
8 3 (0.96%) Luigi
8 3 (0.96%) Mule
9 2 (0.64%) JBoss
9 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.64%) Traefik
9 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.32%) SAS
10 1 (0.32%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Actimize
3 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.32%) Endur
3 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 209 (66.99%) AWS
2 95 (30.45%) Azure
3 80 (25.64%) GCP
4 33 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (8.01%) Amazon Kinesis
6 23 (7.37%) Serverless
7 20 (6.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (6.41%) GitHub
8 14 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.85%) Snowflake
10 10 (3.21%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.21%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.92%) DNS
2 4 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.28%) VPN
3 3 (0.96%) FTP
4 2 (0.64%) AMQP
4 2 (0.64%) BGP
4 2 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.64%) DHCP
4 2 (0.64%) Firewall
4 2 (0.64%) ICMP
4 2 (0.64%) MQTT
4 2 (0.64%) OSPF
4 2 (0.64%) RTMP
4 2 (0.64%) VLAN
4 2 (0.64%) WAN
4 2 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.64%) Wireless
5 1 (0.32%) Broadband
5 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.63%) NoSQL
2 51 (16.35%) Big Data
3 48 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (12.18%) MongoDB
5 35 (11.22%) Hadoop
6 30 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (9.29%) Relational Database
8 21 (6.73%) Metadata
9 18 (5.77%) Redis
9 18 (5.77%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.17%) Flink
11 12 (3.85%) Power BI
11 12 (3.85%) RDBMS
12 11 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (3.53%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.53%) MySQL
13 10 (3.21%) Apache Hive
14 9 (2.88%) DynamoDB
14 9 (2.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 27 (8.65%) Git
3 17 (5.45%) GitLab
4 13 (4.17%) JIRA
5 11 (3.53%) MLflow
6 7 (2.24%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.24%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.92%) Selenium
7 6 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.60%) JUnit
9 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.28%) Jaeger
9 4 (1.28%) JMeter
9 4 (1.28%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.28%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.28%) VisualVM
9 4 (1.28%) Vite
General
1 176 (56.41%) Finance
2 94 (30.13%) Social Skills
3 57 (18.27%) Front Office
4 47 (15.06%) Banking
5 46 (14.74%) Law
6 44 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (13.14%) Financial Institution
8 36 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.13%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.49%) Marketing
11 10 (3.21%) Games
12 8 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.28%) Legal
16 3 (0.96%) Retail
17 2 (0.64%) Electronics
17 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (30.13%) Developer
2 88 (28.21%) Software Engineer
3 60 (19.23%) Senior
4 57 (18.27%) Lead
5 40 (12.82%) Data Engineer
6 39 (12.50%) Java Engineer
7 34 (10.90%) Java Developer
8 29 (9.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 26 (8.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 26 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (6.73%) Kafka Engineer
11 20 (6.41%) Lead Developer
12 19 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (5.13%) Architect
13 16 (5.13%) Kafka Developer
14 15 (4.81%) Lead Software Developer
14 15 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (4.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.76%) Spring
2 56 (17.95%) React
3 53 (16.99%) Spring Boot
4 48 (15.38%) RESTful
5 44 (14.10%) GraphQL
6 42 (13.46%) Node.js
7 39 (12.50%) REST
8 35 (11.22%) RabbitMQ
9 29 (9.29%) AngularJS
10 27 (8.65%) Redux
11 18 (5.77%) gRPC
12 17 (5.45%) Akka
13 15 (4.81%) RxJava
13 15 (4.81%) Spring WebFlux
14 13 (4.17%) JMS
15 11 (3.53%) Jest
15 11 (3.53%) Middleware
15 11 (3.53%) OAuth
15 11 (3.53%) OAuth2
16 10 (3.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 82 (26.28%) Distributed Systems
2 77 (24.68%) Cloud Native
3 30 (9.62%) Fixed Income
4 28 (8.97%) Algorithms
5 24 (7.69%) Product Ownership
6 21 (6.73%) Data Structures
7 19 (6.09%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (5.13%) Management Information System
9 14 (4.49%) FMCG
10 13 (4.17%) e-Learning
10 13 (4.17%) Hedge funds
10 13 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (3.53%) Public Cloud
12 10 (3.21%) Reference Data
13 9 (2.88%) Equities
13 9 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (2.56%) Virtual Team
15 7 (2.24%) AI Agents
15 7 (2.24%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.73%) Linux
2 9 (2.88%) Windows
3 7 (2.24%) Android
3 7 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (43.59%) CI/CD
2 126 (40.38%) Software Engineering
3 120 (38.46%) Agile
4 115 (36.86%) Microservices
5 104 (33.33%) DevOps
6 64 (20.51%) Fintech
7 62 (19.87%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (19.55%) Analytics
9 58 (18.59%) Computer Science
10 57 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (17.95%) Data Modelling
12 54 (17.31%) ETL
13 53 (16.99%) Machine Learning
14 51 (16.35%) Containerisation
14 51 (16.35%) Data Engineering
14 51 (16.35%) Low Latency
15 50 (16.03%) AI
16 48 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
17 47 (15.06%) Test Automation
18 44 (14.10%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 178 (57.05%) Java
2 134 (42.95%) Python
3 101 (32.37%) SQL
4 53 (16.99%) Go
5 48 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.54%) JavaScript
7 25 (8.01%) Scala
8 18 (5.77%) Kotlin
9 17 (5.45%) C#
10 14 (4.49%) Bash
11 11 (3.53%) C++
12 7 (2.24%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.28%) Groovy
14 2 (0.64%) Perl
14 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.32%) Korn
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (14.10%) Degree
2 30 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.81%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.53%) PhD
5 9 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.24%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.64%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.37%) QA
3 16 (5.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 86 (27.56%) Docker
2 8 (2.56%) HDFS
3 7 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.64%) NFS
Systems Management
1 123 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.97%) Terraform
3 17 (5.45%) Ansible
3 17 (5.45%) Prometheus
4 13 (4.17%) Grafana
5 12 (3.85%) Argo
6 8 (2.56%) Puppet
7 6 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.60%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.96%) Kibana
10 2 (0.64%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.64%) logstash
10 2 (0.64%) Mesos
10 2 (0.64%) Podman
11 1 (0.32%) Icinga
11 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.32%) Nagios
11 1 (0.32%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 42 (13.46%) Databricks
2 24 (7.69%) Oracle
3 16 (5.13%) SAP
4 11 (3.53%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.88%) Google
6 8 (2.56%) VMware
7 6 (1.92%) Confluent
7 6 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.28%) Dell
8 4 (1.28%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.28%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.28%) Nokia
8 4 (1.28%) Splunk
9 3 (0.96%) Solace
10 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.64%) Cisco
10 2 (0.64%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.64%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.64%) Ubiquiti