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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 120 199
Rank change year-on-year -31 +79 -100
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 379 346 331
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 2.84% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.79% 10.77% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 209 188 229
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £74,375 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £122,500 £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 3,512 3,214 4,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.69% 26.34% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,283 2,209 3,577
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £118,750 £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 17 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 17 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 36 £90,000 -19.10% 18
West London - 16 £80,000 - 7
South London -16 6 - - 3
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 92 (24.27%) Apache Spark
2 69 (18.21%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (8.71%) Apache
4 13 (3.43%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.06%) 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 (2.90%) 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
1 227 (59.89%) AWS
2 136 (35.88%) Azure
3 81 (21.37%) GCP
4 51 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (12.66%) Serverless
6 36 (9.50%) dbt
7 34 (8.97%) Power Platform
8 32 (8.44%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (6.60%) Amazon S3
11 23 (6.07%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (6.07%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (5.54%) Datadog
13 20 (5.28%) Amazon EMR
13 20 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (4.49%) GitHub
14 17 (4.49%) SaaS
15 13 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.43%) OpenShift
16 12 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) 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%) Broadband
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%) 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
1 101 (26.65%) NoSQL
2 49 (12.93%) Relational Database
3 46 (12.14%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (9.76%) Data Lake
5 37 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (9.23%) Big Data
7 33 (8.71%) Power BI
8 29 (7.65%) MongoDB
9 26 (6.86%) Tableau
10 25 (6.60%) MySQL
11 23 (6.07%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (4.75%) BigQuery
13 18 (4.75%) Redis
14 17 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (4.22%) Looker
16 15 (3.96%) DynamoDB
17 13 (3.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (13.46%) GitLab
2 34 (8.97%) Cucumber
2 34 (8.97%) Git
3 30 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.01%) MLflow
5 15 (3.96%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.17%) Selenium
7 8 (2.11%) JIRA
8 7 (1.85%) Maven
9 5 (1.32%) JUnit
10 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.53%) git-flow
12 2 (0.53%) Gradle
12 2 (0.53%) Postman
12 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.53%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.53%) Xcode
12 2 (0.53%) XCTest
12 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 189 (49.87%) Finance
2 100 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.41%) Banking
4 42 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.44%) Front Office
6 19 (5.01%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.49%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.96%) Retail
9 14 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.69%) Marketing
10 12 (3.17%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.90%) 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 (29.82%) Senior
2 78 (20.58%) Developer
3 76 (20.05%) Java Engineer
4 67 (17.68%) Software Engineer
5 54 (14.25%) Data Engineer
6 42 (11.08%) Lead
7 35 (9.23%) Architect
8 32 (8.44%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (7.12%) Senior Java Engineer
11 26 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (6.60%) Principal Java Engineer
13 22 (5.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 21 (5.54%) Python Engineer
15 20 (5.28%) Java Developer
16 18 (4.75%) Senior Developer
17 17 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (4.22%) Lead Developer
18 16 (4.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 16 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (29.29%) Spring
2 97 (25.59%) Spring Boot
3 52 (13.72%) RESTful
4 50 (13.19%) RabbitMQ
5 48 (12.66%) REST
6 46 (12.14%) React
7 44 (11.61%) Node.js
8 24 (6.33%) GraphQL
9 23 (6.07%) .NET
10 22 (5.80%) PySpark
11 20 (5.28%) PyTorch
11 20 (5.28%) Redux
11 20 (5.28%) TensorFlow
12 18 (4.75%) gRPC
12 18 (4.75%) pgvector
13 17 (4.49%) LangChain
14 16 (4.22%) LlamaIndex
14 16 (4.22%) scikit-learn
15 12 (3.17%) Middleware
15 12 (3.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 131 (34.56%) Cloud Native
2 86 (22.69%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (12.40%) Public Cloud
4 32 (8.44%) Onboarding
5 30 (7.92%) e-Learning
6 23 (6.07%) Fixed Income
7 19 (5.01%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (4.22%) Clustering
11 13 (3.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (3.17%) AI Agents
13 11 (2.90%) Data Structures
14 10 (2.64%) Blockchain
14 10 (2.64%) EPoS
14 10 (2.64%) iSeries
14 10 (2.64%) Web3
15 9 (2.37%) Algorithms
15 9 (2.37%) Product Ownership
16 7 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.33%) Linux
2 9 (2.37%) Unix
3 5 (1.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (46.70%) CI/CD
2 163 (43.01%) Microservices
3 149 (39.31%) Event-Driven
4 138 (36.41%) Agile
5 134 (35.36%) Software Engineering
6 112 (29.55%) AI
7 111 (29.29%) DevOps
8 103 (27.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 95 (25.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 84 (22.16%) Analytics
10 84 (22.16%) Containerisation
10 84 (22.16%) Mentoring
11 83 (21.90%) Test Automation
12 80 (21.11%) Data Pipeline
13 72 (19.00%) Observability
14 69 (18.21%) Data Modelling
15 62 (16.36%) Data Engineering
16 61 (16.09%) Machine Learning
17 58 (15.30%) Data Science
18 55 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 187 (49.34%) Java
2 171 (45.12%) Python
3 154 (40.63%) SQL
4 47 (12.40%) TypeScript
5 46 (12.14%) Go
6 42 (11.08%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.71%) C#
8 14 (3.69%) Scala
9 13 (3.43%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.64%) C++
10 10 (2.64%) RPG
11 9 (2.37%) Bash
12 7 (1.85%) PHP
13 6 (1.58%) C
13 6 (1.58%) Ruby
13 6 (1.58%) Rust
14 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 2 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (11.35%) Degree
2 41 (10.82%) AWS Certification
3 32 (8.44%) Security Cleared
4 30 (7.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (7.12%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.69%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.32%) PhD
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.35%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.65%) GDPR
3 16 (4.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.37%) QA
5 8 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.06%) 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
1 103 (27.18%) Docker
2 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (34.56%) Kubernetes
2 79 (20.84%) Terraform
3 36 (9.50%) Prometheus
4 22 (5.80%) Grafana
5 15 (3.96%) Ansible
6 11 (2.90%) Istio
7 6 (1.58%) Argo
7 6 (1.58%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.06%) 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 (12.66%) Databricks
2 35 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.54%) IBM
4 16 (4.22%) Cloudera
4 16 (4.22%) Dell
5 15 (3.96%) Oracle
6 9 (2.37%) Confluent
6 9 (2.37%) Google
7 7 (1.85%) Solace
7 7 (1.85%) Talend
8 6 (1.58%) HP
8 6 (1.58%) SAP
8 6 (1.58%) Splunk
9 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.06%) WSO2
10 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.53%) Apple