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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 179 119
Rank change year-on-year +43 -60 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 294 317 480
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.22% 1.88% 2.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.80% 6.90% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 186 202 410
10th Percentile £69,375 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,313 £66,563 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £141,875 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £142,250 £120,250
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 2,722 4,592 5,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.59% 27.17% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 2,953 4,691
10th Percentile £50,000 £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 £137,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +22 36 £111,250 +78.00% 13
South London +34 7 £95,000 +58.33% 1
West London 0 2 £76,250 +12.96% 2
East London -14 1 £75,000 - 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 75 (25.51%) Apache Spark
2 34 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (7.82%) Apache
4 10 (3.40%) Confluence
5 5 (1.70%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.70%) IIS
5 5 (1.70%) nginx
5 5 (1.70%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.36%) Apache Synapse
7 3 (1.02%) Luigi
7 3 (1.02%) Mule
8 2 (0.68%) JBoss
8 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.34%) TPMS
9 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 13 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.68%) Endur
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Actimize
3 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 200 (68.03%) AWS
2 89 (30.27%) Azure
3 72 (24.49%) GCP
4 34 (11.56%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
6 20 (6.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (6.80%) GitHub
6 20 (6.80%) Serverless
7 16 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.08%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.74%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.40%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.40%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.70%) DNS
2 3 (1.02%) FTP
2 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.02%) VPN
3 2 (0.68%) AMQP
3 2 (0.68%) BGP
3 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) MQTT
3 2 (0.68%) OSPF
3 2 (0.68%) RTMP
3 2 (0.68%) VLAN
3 2 (0.68%) WAN
3 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.68%) Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) Broadband
4 1 (0.34%) DHCP
4 1 (0.34%) ICMP
4 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.35%) Big Data
2 50 (17.01%) NoSQL
3 48 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (11.90%) Hadoop
4 35 (11.90%) MongoDB
5 31 (10.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (8.50%) Relational Database
8 21 (7.14%) Metadata
9 19 (6.46%) SQL Server
10 18 (6.12%) Redis
11 13 (4.42%) Flink
12 12 (4.08%) RDBMS
13 11 (3.74%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.74%) Power BI
14 10 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (3.40%) Apache Hive
14 10 (3.40%) MySQL
15 9 (3.06%) Delta Lake
16 8 (2.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (10.54%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.16%) Git
3 16 (5.44%) GitLab
4 13 (4.42%) JIRA
5 11 (3.74%) MLflow
6 7 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.04%) Selenium
7 6 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.70%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.70%) JUnit
9 4 (1.36%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.36%) Jaeger
9 4 (1.36%) JMeter
9 4 (1.36%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.36%) VisualVM
10 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 159 (54.08%) Finance
2 90 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 59 (20.07%) Front Office
4 42 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (13.95%) Financial Institution
6 39 (13.27%) Banking
7 33 (11.22%) Law
8 23 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.44%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.40%) Marketing
11 9 (3.06%) Games
12 8 (2.72%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.36%) Legal
15 3 (1.02%) Retail
16 2 (0.68%) Electronics
16 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (31.29%) Developer
2 74 (25.17%) Software Engineer
3 58 (19.73%) Senior
4 54 (18.37%) Lead
5 39 (13.27%) Data Engineer
6 36 (12.24%) Java Engineer
7 32 (10.88%) Java Developer
8 26 (8.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 25 (8.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 21 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
10 21 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (6.80%) Lead Developer
12 18 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (5.44%) Kafka Developer
14 15 (5.10%) Architect
14 15 (5.10%) Lead Software Developer
14 15 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (4.76%) Python Developer
16 13 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.43%) Spring
2 51 (17.35%) React
3 47 (15.99%) Spring Boot
4 42 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 40 (13.61%) Node.js
5 40 (13.61%) RESTful
6 36 (12.24%) REST
7 32 (10.88%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (9.52%) AngularJS
9 27 (9.18%) Redux
10 18 (6.12%) gRPC
11 17 (5.78%) Akka
12 15 (5.10%) RxJava
12 15 (5.10%) Spring WebFlux
13 12 (4.08%) JMS
14 11 (3.74%) OAuth
14 11 (3.74%) OAuth2
15 10 (3.40%) ActiveMQ
15 10 (3.40%) Middleware
15 10 (3.40%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 79 (26.87%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (22.79%) Cloud Native
3 30 (10.20%) Fixed Income
4 26 (8.84%) Algorithms
5 23 (7.82%) Product Ownership
6 19 (6.46%) Data Structures
6 19 (6.46%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (4.76%) FMCG
7 14 (4.76%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (4.42%) e-Learning
8 13 (4.42%) Hedge funds
9 10 (3.40%) Public Cloud
9 10 (3.40%) Reference Data
10 9 (3.06%) Equities
10 9 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.72%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.38%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.38%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.14%) Linux
2 9 (3.06%) Windows
3 7 (2.38%) Android
3 7 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.02%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (43.54%) CI/CD
2 109 (37.07%) Agile
3 108 (36.73%) Software Engineering
4 107 (36.39%) Microservices
5 104 (35.37%) DevOps
6 63 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 59 (20.07%) Analytics
8 57 (19.39%) Computer Science
9 56 (19.05%) Fintech
9 56 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (18.71%) Data Modelling
11 54 (18.37%) Data Engineering
11 54 (18.37%) ETL
12 51 (17.35%) Machine Learning
13 49 (16.67%) Low Latency
14 48 (16.33%) AI
15 47 (15.99%) Containerisation
16 45 (15.31%) Full-Stack Development
17 42 (14.29%) Event-Driven
18 39 (13.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 164 (55.78%) Java
2 132 (44.90%) Python
3 97 (32.99%) SQL
4 51 (17.35%) Go
5 44 (14.97%) TypeScript
6 34 (11.56%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.82%) Scala
8 17 (5.78%) C#
9 14 (4.76%) Bash
9 14 (4.76%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.40%) C++
11 7 (2.38%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.36%) Groovy
13 2 (0.68%) Perl
13 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.34%) Korn
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (14.97%) Degree
2 30 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (5.10%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.74%) PhD
5 8 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.38%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.14%) QA
3 15 (5.10%) GDPR
4 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 84 (28.57%) Docker
2 8 (2.72%) HDFS
3 7 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
Systems Management
1 113 (38.44%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.84%) Terraform
3 17 (5.78%) Ansible
4 15 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.42%) Argo
6 12 (4.08%) Grafana
7 8 (2.72%) Puppet
8 6 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.70%) Kubeflow
10 3 (1.02%) Kibana
11 2 (0.68%) logstash
11 2 (0.68%) Podman
12 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.34%) Icinga
12 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.34%) Mesos
12 1 (0.34%) Nagios
12 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 42 (14.29%) Databricks
2 21 (7.14%) Oracle
3 16 (5.44%) SAP
4 9 (3.06%) Google
4 9 (3.06%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.72%) VMware
6 6 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.70%) Confluent
8 4 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.36%) Dell
8 4 (1.36%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.36%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.36%) Nokia
8 4 (1.36%) Splunk
9 3 (1.02%) Solace
10 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco
10 2 (0.68%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.68%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.68%) Ubiquiti