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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 132 167
Rank change year-on-year -12 +35 -101
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 321 327 445
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 2.64% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.97% 10.26% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 226 248 351
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £69,375 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -13.89%

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 3,219 3,186 5,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.81% 25.71% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,215 2,357 4,702
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +10.38% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -27 39 £90,000 +38.46% 35
West London - 9 £82,500 - 4
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 79 (24.61%) Apache Spark
2 76 (23.68%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (11.21%) Apache
4 4 (1.25%) Confluence
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 205 (63.86%) AWS
2 105 (32.71%) Azure
3 81 (25.23%) GCP
4 45 (14.02%) Serverless
5 44 (13.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (13.40%) dbt
7 37 (11.53%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.66%) Snowflake
9 30 (9.35%) Datadog
10 27 (8.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 25 (7.79%) Power Platform
12 24 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (5.30%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (4.67%) GitHub
16 12 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (3.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.56%) Broadband
2 3 (0.93%) Network Security
3 2 (0.62%) 4G
3 2 (0.62%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) AMQP
4 1 (0.31%) BGP
4 1 (0.31%) CTI
4 1 (0.31%) DNS
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.31%) LTE
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (19.00%) NoSQL
2 44 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 29 (9.03%) Big Data
4 29 (9.03%) Tableau
5 28 (8.72%) Data Lake
6 25 (7.79%) BigQuery
6 25 (7.79%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.79%) Relational Database
7 24 (7.48%) Power BI
8 23 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (6.23%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (5.61%) DynamoDB
11 18 (5.61%) MySQL
12 16 (4.98%) Looker
12 16 (4.98%) Metadata
13 15 (4.67%) MongoDB
14 14 (4.36%) SQL Server
15 13 (4.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (13.08%) GitLab
2 33 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.72%) Git
4 24 (7.48%) CircleCI
5 20 (6.23%) MLflow
6 15 (4.67%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.87%) Selenium
8 5 (1.56%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.93%) JIRA
9 3 (0.93%) JUnit
9 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.93%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 158 (49.22%) Finance
2 75 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 52 (16.20%) Front Office
4 49 (15.26%) Banking
5 36 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.36%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.49%) Law
7 8 (2.49%) Retail
8 7 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.18%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.56%) Billing
9 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.25%) Advertising
10 4 (1.25%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) International Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (30.53%) Developer
2 97 (30.22%) Senior
3 58 (18.07%) Data Engineer
3 58 (18.07%) Lead
4 54 (16.82%) Software Engineer
5 47 (14.64%) Java Engineer
6 33 (10.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 32 (9.97%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (7.17%) Lead Developer
9 23 (7.17%) Senior Developer
10 22 (6.85%) Architect
10 22 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.85%) Python Engineer
11 21 (6.54%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (6.23%) Lead Software Developer
13 18 (5.61%) Python Developer
14 17 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (5.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 17 (5.30%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.82%) React
2 53 (16.51%) Spring
3 50 (15.58%) RabbitMQ
3 50 (15.58%) Spring Boot
4 42 (13.08%) RESTful
5 40 (12.46%) REST
6 39 (12.15%) Node.js
7 33 (10.28%) GraphQL
7 33 (10.28%) Redux
8 28 (8.72%) gRPC
9 18 (5.61%) PySpark
10 17 (5.30%) scikit-learn
10 17 (5.30%) TensorFlow
10 17 (5.30%) web3js
11 16 (4.98%) .NET
11 16 (4.98%) LangChain
11 16 (4.98%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (4.98%) pgvector
11 16 (4.98%) PyTorch
12 10 (3.12%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 93 (28.97%) Cloud Native
2 48 (14.95%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (12.15%) Fixed Income
4 30 (9.35%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.30%) Blockchain
5 17 (5.30%) Web3
6 16 (4.98%) Clustering
7 14 (4.36%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.43%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.80%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.49%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.25%) Blog
12 4 (1.25%) Derivative
12 4 (1.25%) Equities
12 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.98%) Linux
2 8 (2.49%) Windows
3 5 (1.56%) Android
4 4 (1.25%) Unix
5 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (42.68%) CI/CD
2 122 (38.01%) Software Engineering
3 117 (36.45%) Microservices
4 111 (34.58%) DevOps
5 97 (30.22%) Agile
6 86 (26.79%) Event-Driven
7 83 (25.86%) Analytics
8 76 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
9 73 (22.74%) Containerisation
10 72 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 68 (21.18%) AI
11 68 (21.18%) Data Engineering
12 65 (20.25%) Data Modelling
13 57 (17.76%) Test Automation
14 55 (17.13%) Investment Management
15 54 (16.82%) Computer Science
15 54 (16.82%) ETL
15 54 (16.82%) Observability
16 51 (15.89%) Low Latency
17 50 (15.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 183 (57.01%) Python
2 140 (43.61%) SQL
3 133 (41.43%) Java
4 80 (24.92%) Go
5 49 (15.26%) TypeScript
6 44 (13.71%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.48%) C#
8 20 (6.23%) Bash
9 18 (5.61%) C++
10 13 (4.05%) Scala
11 7 (2.18%) Rust
12 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.62%) Bicep
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) Korn
15 1 (0.31%) RPG
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (10.59%) Degree
2 26 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.30%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 17 (5.30%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) GIAC
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) SSCP
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.64%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.10%) GDPR
3 16 (4.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.12%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.49%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.87%) QA
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (30.84%) Docker
2 8 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 118 (36.76%) Kubernetes
2 80 (24.92%) Terraform
3 36 (11.21%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.54%) Grafana
5 16 (4.98%) Ansible
6 9 (2.80%) Istio
7 8 (2.49%) Argo
8 3 (0.93%) Puppet
9 2 (0.62%) Kibana
9 2 (0.62%) Salt
10 1 (0.31%) Cilium
10 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 37 (11.53%) Databricks
2 16 (4.98%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.98%) Dell
3 15 (4.67%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.12%) Confluent
5 7 (2.18%) Solace
6 5 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.56%) Splunk
6 5 (1.56%) Talend
7 4 (1.25%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.25%) WSO2
8 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle
9 2 (0.62%) Ericsson
9 2 (0.62%) Nokia
9 2 (0.62%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.62%) VMware