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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 108 188
Rank change year-on-year -31 +80 -91
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 391 372 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 3.01% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.11% 11.30% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 234 209 246
10th Percentile £59,500 £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% -1.30%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £140,000
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 3,520 3,292 4,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 26.67% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 2,287 3,675
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,543
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 £113,750
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 3 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 3 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 -2 39 £90,000 -9.32% 30
West London - 16 £80,000 - 5
South London -25 6 - -
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 (25.58%) Apache Spark
2 74 (18.93%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (8.44%) Apache
4 12 (3.07%) Confluence
5 5 (1.28%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.77%) Camunda
8 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) Luigi
9 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.26%) Tornado
Applications
1 11 (2.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 243 (62.15%) AWS
2 135 (34.53%) Azure
3 86 (21.99%) GCP
4 54 (13.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 53 (13.55%) Serverless
6 42 (10.74%) dbt
7 34 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 33 (8.44%) Power Platform
9 28 (7.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (6.91%) Amazon S3
11 26 (6.65%) Datadog
12 24 (6.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.37%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (4.35%) SaaS
16 14 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.32%) GitHub
17 13 (3.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) BGP
2 6 (1.53%) DNS
2 6 (1.53%) IPsec
2 6 (1.53%) VPN
3 5 (1.28%) Internet
4 4 (1.02%) Broadband
5 2 (0.51%) 4G
5 2 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) MQTT
5 2 (0.51%) 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
1 100 (25.58%) NoSQL
2 48 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (11.51%) Relational Database
4 41 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.46%) Data Lake
6 36 (9.21%) Big Data
6 36 (9.21%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (8.18%) Power BI
8 27 (6.91%) MongoDB
9 25 (6.39%) Tableau
10 23 (5.88%) MySQL
11 22 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (5.63%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.37%) BigQuery
13 17 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (4.35%) Redis
13 17 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (4.09%) Looker
14 16 (4.09%) Metadata
15 15 (3.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (13.30%) GitLab
2 33 (8.44%) Git
3 32 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 31 (7.93%) Cucumber
5 19 (4.86%) CircleCI
5 19 (4.86%) MLflow
6 12 (3.07%) Selenium
7 6 (1.53%) JIRA
7 6 (1.53%) Maven
8 4 (1.02%) JUnit
8 4 (1.02%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.77%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.51%) Postman
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
11 1 (0.26%) Gradle
11 1 (0.26%) Mocha
11 1 (0.26%) Mockito
11 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 198 (50.64%) Finance
2 98 (25.06%) Social Skills
3 63 (16.11%) Banking
4 48 (12.28%) Front Office
5 42 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.58%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.58%) Retail
8 12 (3.07%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.81%) Marketing
10 10 (2.56%) Law
11 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.30%) Military
12 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.28%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
15 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.26%) Back Office
17 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (28.39%) Senior
2 100 (25.58%) Developer
3 77 (19.69%) Java Engineer
4 71 (18.16%) Software Engineer
5 59 (15.09%) Data Engineer
6 53 (13.55%) Lead
7 37 (9.46%) Architect
7 37 (9.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 31 (7.93%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (7.42%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (6.91%) Java Developer
11 26 (6.65%) Senior Java Engineer
12 25 (6.39%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.14%) Lead Software Engineer
13 24 (6.14%) Principal Java Engineer
14 23 (5.88%) Python Engineer
15 22 (5.63%) Lead Software Developer
16 21 (5.37%) Senior Developer
17 20 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
18 18 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.34%) Spring
2 94 (24.04%) Spring Boot
3 62 (15.86%) React
4 61 (15.60%) Node.js
5 51 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
6 49 (12.53%) RESTful
7 48 (12.28%) REST
8 38 (9.72%) GraphQL
9 36 (9.21%) Redux
10 22 (5.63%) PySpark
11 21 (5.37%) .NET
12 20 (5.12%) gRPC
13 19 (4.86%) PyTorch
13 19 (4.86%) TensorFlow
14 17 (4.35%) pgvector
15 16 (4.09%) LangChain
15 16 (4.09%) LlamaIndex
15 16 (4.09%) scikit-learn
16 14 (3.58%) AngularJS
17 12 (3.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 126 (32.23%) Cloud Native
2 79 (20.20%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (11.51%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.23%) Fixed Income
5 30 (7.67%) Onboarding
6 28 (7.16%) e-Learning
7 18 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.09%) Clustering
9 14 (3.58%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (3.07%) Blockchain
10 12 (3.07%) Web3
11 10 (2.56%) EPoS
11 10 (2.56%) iSeries
12 8 (2.05%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.63%) Linux
2 8 (2.05%) Unix
3 7 (1.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (45.01%) CI/CD
2 160 (40.92%) Microservices
3 147 (37.60%) Agile
4 145 (37.08%) Software Engineering
5 140 (35.81%) Event-Driven
6 116 (29.67%) DevOps
7 110 (28.13%) AI
8 103 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (22.76%) Containerisation
9 89 (22.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 86 (21.99%) Analytics
11 84 (21.48%) Test Automation
12 82 (20.97%) Data Pipeline
13 81 (20.72%) Mentoring
14 75 (19.18%) Data Modelling
15 73 (18.67%) Observability
16 67 (17.14%) Data Engineering
17 59 (15.09%) Machine Learning
18 56 (14.32%) Computer Science
19 53 (13.55%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 198 (50.64%) Java
2 192 (49.10%) Python
3 164 (41.94%) SQL
4 64 (16.37%) Go
5 63 (16.11%) TypeScript
6 58 (14.83%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.44%) C#
8 16 (4.09%) Scala
9 15 (3.84%) C++
10 10 (2.56%) RPG
11 9 (2.30%) Bash
12 7 (1.79%) PHP
12 7 (1.79%) Rust
13 6 (1.53%) C
13 6 (1.53%) Ruby
14 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.51%) Bicep
16 2 (0.51%) R
17 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (10.49%) Degree
2 39 (9.97%) AWS Certification
3 29 (7.42%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.14%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.58%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.32%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.28%) PhD
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) GIAC
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) OCP
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) SSCP
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.93%) GDPR
3 16 (4.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.05%) QA
6 7 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) PSD2
8 2 (0.51%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (26.34%) Docker
2 8 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (33.50%) Kubernetes
2 82 (20.97%) Terraform
3 40 (10.23%) Prometheus
4 24 (6.14%) Grafana
5 15 (3.84%) Ansible
6 10 (2.56%) Istio
7 6 (1.53%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.02%) Argo
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) kaniko
9 2 (0.51%) Kibana
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (12.28%) Databricks
2 33 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.37%) IBM
4 16 (4.09%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.09%) Dell
5 13 (3.32%) Oracle
6 9 (2.30%) Confluent
6 9 (2.30%) Solace
7 7 (1.79%) Google
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
7 7 (1.79%) Talend
8 6 (1.53%) HP
8 6 (1.53%) SAP
9 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.02%) WSO2
10 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint