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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 124 193
Rank change year-on-year -25 +69 -92
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 380 343 331
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.83% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.79% 10.73% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 210 185 229
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,625 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £121,875 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £140,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -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 3,522 3,197 4,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.69% 26.36% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,290 2,191 3,579
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -1 36 £90,000 -19.10% 23
West London - 16 £80,000 - 7
South London -15 5 - - 1
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 91 (23.95%) Apache Spark
2 68 (17.89%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (8.68%) Apache
4 13 (3.42%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.05%) Camunda
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
7 2 (0.53%) Tornado
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 229 (60.26%) AWS
2 137 (36.05%) Azure
3 81 (21.32%) GCP
4 53 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (12.63%) Serverless
6 35 (9.21%) dbt
7 34 (8.95%) Power Platform
8 32 (8.42%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (6.58%) Amazon S3
11 23 (6.05%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (6.05%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (5.53%) Datadog
13 20 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
13 20 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (4.47%) GitHub
14 17 (4.47%) SaaS
15 13 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.42%) OpenShift
16 12 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.84%) BGP
2 6 (1.58%) DNS
2 6 (1.58%) IPsec
2 6 (1.58%) VPN
3 5 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.53%) AMQP
4 2 (0.53%) MQTT
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) 4G
5 1 (0.26%) 5G
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (27.11%) NoSQL
2 49 (12.89%) Relational Database
3 46 (12.11%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.74%) Data Lake
5 37 (9.74%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (9.21%) Big Data
7 33 (8.68%) Power BI
8 29 (7.63%) MongoDB
9 26 (6.84%) Tableau
10 25 (6.58%) MySQL
11 23 (6.05%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (4.74%) Redis
14 17 (4.47%) BigQuery
14 17 (4.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (4.21%) Looker
16 15 (3.95%) DynamoDB
17 12 (3.16%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 52 (13.68%) GitLab
2 36 (9.47%) Cucumber
3 33 (8.68%) Git
4 30 (7.89%) Jenkins
5 19 (5.00%) MLflow
6 15 (3.95%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.16%) Selenium
8 8 (2.11%) JIRA
9 7 (1.84%) Maven
10 5 (1.32%) JUnit
11 4 (1.05%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.53%) git-flow
13 2 (0.53%) Gradle
13 2 (0.53%) Postman
13 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.53%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.53%) Xcode
13 2 (0.53%) XCTest
13 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 191 (50.26%) Finance
2 99 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 67 (17.63%) Banking
4 42 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.42%) Front Office
6 19 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.74%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.95%) Retail
9 14 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.68%) Marketing
10 12 (3.16%) Investment Banking
11 10 (2.63%) Law
12 9 (2.37%) Military
13 6 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Billing
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
15 2 (0.53%) Advertising
15 2 (0.53%) Prime Brokerage
15 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (29.74%) Senior
2 78 (20.53%) Developer
2 78 (20.53%) Java Engineer
3 67 (17.63%) Software Engineer
4 53 (13.95%) Data Engineer
5 42 (11.05%) Lead
6 35 (9.21%) Architect
7 33 (8.68%) Principal Engineer
8 29 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (7.37%) Senior Java Engineer
10 26 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (6.84%) Principal Java Engineer
11 22 (5.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 21 (5.53%) Python Engineer
13 19 (5.00%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.74%) Senior Developer
15 17 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (4.21%) Lead Developer
16 16 (4.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 16 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (29.47%) Spring
2 98 (25.79%) Spring Boot
3 53 (13.95%) RESTful
4 51 (13.42%) RabbitMQ
5 48 (12.63%) REST
6 46 (12.11%) React
7 44 (11.58%) Node.js
8 24 (6.32%) .NET
8 24 (6.32%) GraphQL
9 22 (5.79%) PySpark
10 20 (5.26%) PyTorch
10 20 (5.26%) Redux
10 20 (5.26%) TensorFlow
11 18 (4.74%) gRPC
11 18 (4.74%) pgvector
12 17 (4.47%) LangChain
13 16 (4.21%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.21%) scikit-learn
14 12 (3.16%) Middleware
14 12 (3.16%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 133 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 89 (23.42%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (12.89%) Public Cloud
4 32 (8.42%) e-Learning
4 32 (8.42%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.05%) Fixed Income
6 20 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.21%) Clustering
9 13 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (3.16%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.63%) Blockchain
11 10 (2.63%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.63%) EPoS
11 10 (2.63%) iSeries
11 10 (2.63%) Web3
12 9 (2.37%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.11%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.05%) Linux
2 9 (2.37%) Unix
3 4 (1.05%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 165 (43.42%) Microservices
3 152 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 141 (37.11%) Agile
5 134 (35.26%) Software Engineering
6 111 (29.21%) AI
7 110 (28.95%) DevOps
8 106 (27.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (25.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 86 (22.63%) Test Automation
11 85 (22.37%) Mentoring
12 83 (21.84%) Analytics
12 83 (21.84%) Containerisation
13 79 (20.79%) Data Pipeline
14 72 (18.95%) Observability
15 67 (17.63%) Data Modelling
16 61 (16.05%) Data Engineering
16 61 (16.05%) Machine Learning
17 57 (15.00%) Data Science
18 56 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 188 (49.47%) Java
2 169 (44.47%) Python
3 154 (40.53%) SQL
4 47 (12.37%) TypeScript
5 46 (12.11%) Go
6 42 (11.05%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.95%) C#
8 13 (3.42%) Kotlin
8 13 (3.42%) Scala
9 10 (2.63%) RPG
10 9 (2.37%) Bash
10 9 (2.37%) C++
11 7 (1.84%) PHP
12 6 (1.58%) C
12 6 (1.58%) Ruby
12 6 (1.58%) Rust
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Bicep
14 2 (0.53%) R
14 2 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (11.32%) AWS Certification
2 42 (11.05%) Degree
3 32 (8.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 32 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.11%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.32%) PhD
8 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) CSPO
9 1 (0.26%) GIAC
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.26%) OCP
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.26%) SSCP
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.63%) GDPR
3 16 (4.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.37%) QA
5 8 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.79%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.53%) PSD2
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (27.37%) Docker
2 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (34.74%) Kubernetes
2 79 (20.79%) Terraform
3 36 (9.47%) Prometheus
4 22 (5.79%) Grafana
5 15 (3.95%) Ansible
6 11 (2.89%) Istio
7 6 (1.58%) Argo
7 6 (1.58%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.05%) Cilium
9 2 (0.53%) kaniko
9 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.63%) Databricks
2 35 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.53%) IBM
4 16 (4.21%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.21%) Dell
5 15 (3.95%) Oracle
6 9 (2.37%) Confluent
6 9 (2.37%) Google
7 7 (1.84%) Solace
7 7 (1.84%) Talend
8 6 (1.58%) HP
8 6 (1.58%) SAP
8 6 (1.58%) Splunk
9 4 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.05%) WSO2
10 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.53%) Apple