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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 107 195
Rank change year-on-year -27 +88 -106
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 372 383 367
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.65% 3.11% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.81% 11.55% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 232 220 273
10th Percentile £62,625 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,563 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,625 £118,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -16.67%

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 3,440 3,316 5,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.23% 26.89% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 2,303 4,094
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £83,490
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% +4.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

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 23 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 23 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 -4 41 £90,000 -8.16% 23
West London - 16 £80,000 - 13
South London -14 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 96 (25.81%) Apache Spark
2 70 (18.82%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (7.80%) Apache
4 12 (3.23%) Confluence
5 5 (1.34%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.54%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 235 (63.17%) AWS
2 126 (33.87%) Azure
3 77 (20.70%) GCP
4 57 (15.32%) Serverless
5 56 (15.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (11.56%) dbt
7 34 (9.14%) Snowflake
8 31 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 30 (8.06%) Amazon S3
10 28 (7.53%) Datadog
11 27 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (6.99%) Amazon Kinesis
13 25 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (5.65%) Amazon EMR
16 17 (4.57%) SaaS
17 15 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (3.49%) OpenShift
20 12 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.88%) BGP
2 6 (1.61%) DNS
2 6 (1.61%) IPsec
2 6 (1.61%) VPN
3 5 (1.34%) Internet
4 4 (1.08%) Broadband
5 2 (0.54%) 4G
5 2 (0.54%) 5G
5 2 (0.54%) AMQP
5 2 (0.54%) MQTT
5 2 (0.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) CTI
6 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) LTE
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (25.81%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (9.68%) Big Data
3 36 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.41%) Data Lake
5 34 (9.14%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (8.06%) Power BI
7 26 (6.99%) MongoDB
8 25 (6.72%) Tableau
9 24 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (5.91%) BigQuery
11 21 (5.65%) Hadoop
12 19 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (5.11%) MySQL
13 18 (4.84%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (4.30%) DynamoDB
14 16 (4.30%) Looker
14 16 (4.30%) Metadata
15 15 (4.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (14.25%) GitLab
2 33 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.60%) Git
4 30 (8.06%) Cucumber
5 21 (5.65%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.11%) MLflow
7 10 (2.69%) Selenium
8 5 (1.34%) JIRA
8 5 (1.34%) Maven
9 4 (1.08%) JUnit
10 3 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.81%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.27%) Gatling
11 1 (0.27%) Gradle
11 1 (0.27%) Mockito
11 1 (0.27%) Postman
11 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 188 (50.54%) Finance
2 86 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 57 (15.32%) Banking
4 45 (12.10%) Front Office
5 38 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.49%) Retail
7 12 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.96%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.69%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.42%) Military
11 8 (2.15%) Marketing
12 6 (1.61%) Law
12 6 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Advertising
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.08%) Billing
15 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.54%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.27%) Back Office
17 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 101 (27.15%) Senior
2 97 (26.08%) Developer
3 73 (19.62%) Java Engineer
4 59 (15.86%) Software Engineer
5 57 (15.32%) Data Engineer
6 47 (12.63%) Lead
7 37 (9.95%) Architect
8 35 (9.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (7.26%) Java Developer
12 24 (6.45%) Principal Java Engineer
12 24 (6.45%) Senior Java Engineer
13 23 (6.18%) Lead Developer
13 23 (6.18%) Python Engineer
14 21 (5.65%) Senior Developer
15 20 (5.38%) Lead Software Developer
15 20 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
16 18 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (4.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (24.73%) Spring
2 90 (24.19%) Spring Boot
3 61 (16.40%) React
4 60 (16.13%) Node.js
5 49 (13.17%) RabbitMQ
6 47 (12.63%) REST
7 43 (11.56%) RESTful
8 36 (9.68%) Redux
9 34 (9.14%) GraphQL
10 23 (6.18%) PySpark
11 21 (5.65%) gRPC
12 19 (5.11%) .NET
13 18 (4.84%) PyTorch
13 18 (4.84%) TensorFlow
14 16 (4.30%) LangChain
14 16 (4.30%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.30%) pgvector
14 16 (4.30%) scikit-learn
15 13 (3.49%) AngularJS
15 13 (3.49%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 121 (32.53%) Cloud Native
2 71 (19.09%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (12.10%) Public Cloud
4 39 (10.48%) Fixed Income
5 28 (7.53%) e-Learning
6 26 (6.99%) Onboarding
7 19 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (4.30%) Clustering
8 16 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (3.76%) Data Structures
10 13 (3.49%) Blockchain
10 13 (3.49%) Web3
11 11 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (2.69%) EPoS
12 10 (2.69%) iSeries
13 7 (1.88%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.61%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
15 5 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.45%) Linux
2 8 (2.15%) Unix
3 7 (1.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (45.43%) CI/CD
2 151 (40.59%) Microservices
3 136 (36.56%) Agile
3 136 (36.56%) Software Engineering
4 126 (33.87%) Event-Driven
5 112 (30.11%) DevOps
6 101 (27.15%) AI
7 96 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 83 (22.31%) Containerisation
9 81 (21.77%) Analytics
10 79 (21.24%) Test Automation
11 78 (20.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 76 (20.43%) Data Pipeline
12 76 (20.43%) Mentoring
13 74 (19.89%) Data Modelling
14 66 (17.74%) Observability
15 63 (16.94%) Data Engineering
16 54 (14.52%) Computer Science
16 54 (14.52%) Machine Learning
17 50 (13.44%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.00%) Python
2 182 (48.92%) Java
3 165 (44.35%) SQL
4 63 (16.94%) Go
5 62 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 57 (15.32%) JavaScript
7 32 (8.60%) C#
8 15 (4.03%) C++
8 15 (4.03%) Scala
9 11 (2.96%) Bash
10 10 (2.69%) RPG
11 7 (1.88%) PHP
11 7 (1.88%) Rust
12 6 (1.61%) C
12 6 (1.61%) Ruby
13 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Bicep
14 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.54%) R
15 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (10.22%) AWS Certification
2 37 (9.95%) Degree
3 29 (7.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 27 (7.26%) Security Cleared
5 22 (5.91%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.34%) PhD
9 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) OCP
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) SSCP
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.33%) GDPR
3 16 (4.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.96%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.15%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.88%) QA
7 3 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (26.08%) Docker
2 8 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (33.60%) Kubernetes
2 82 (22.04%) Terraform
3 42 (11.29%) Prometheus
4 25 (6.72%) Grafana
5 16 (4.30%) Ansible
6 10 (2.69%) Istio
7 6 (1.61%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.81%) Argo
9 2 (0.54%) Cilium
9 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) Puppet
9 2 (0.54%) Salt
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 47 (12.63%) Databricks
2 32 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.65%) IBM
4 16 (4.30%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.30%) Dell
5 11 (2.96%) Oracle
6 9 (2.42%) Confluent
6 9 (2.42%) Solace
7 7 (1.88%) Splunk
7 7 (1.88%) Talend
8 6 (1.61%) HP
8 6 (1.61%) SAP
9 4 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.08%) Google
9 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.08%) WSO2
10 3 (0.81%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.54%) TIBCO