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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 123 198
Rank change year-on-year -28 +75 -90
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 378 335 322
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.57% 2.78% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.55% 9.67% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 200 179 217
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% -17.65%

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 3,960 3,463 5,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.46% 28.75% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,570 2,374 3,953
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%

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 26 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 26 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 0 34 £90,000 -20.00% 22
West London - 16 £80,000 - 20
South London -14 5 - - 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 90 (23.81%) Apache Spark
2 65 (17.20%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (8.47%) Apache
4 13 (3.44%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.32%) Camunda
6 4 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
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 (2.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 224 (59.26%) AWS
2 143 (37.83%) Azure
3 80 (21.16%) GCP
4 53 (14.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (12.70%) Serverless
6 38 (10.05%) Power Platform
7 33 (8.73%) dbt
8 30 (7.94%) Snowflake
9 29 (7.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (6.61%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.35%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (5.82%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (5.03%) Amazon EMR
14 19 (5.03%) Datadog
15 17 (4.50%) GitHub
15 17 (4.50%) SaaS
16 14 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) BGP
2 6 (1.59%) DNS
2 6 (1.59%) IPsec
2 6 (1.59%) 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
1 106 (28.04%) NoSQL
2 49 (12.96%) Relational Database
3 46 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (10.05%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 37 (9.79%) Power BI
6 35 (9.26%) Big Data
7 32 (8.47%) MongoDB
8 27 (7.14%) Tableau
9 24 (6.35%) MySQL
10 23 (6.08%) Hadoop
11 21 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (4.50%) BigQuery
14 16 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (4.23%) Looker
14 16 (4.23%) Redis
15 14 (3.70%) DynamoDB
16 12 (3.17%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 53 (14.02%) GitLab
2 39 (10.32%) Cucumber
3 35 (9.26%) Git
4 32 (8.47%) Jenkins
5 19 (5.03%) MLflow
6 13 (3.44%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.17%) Selenium
8 8 (2.12%) JIRA
8 8 (2.12%) Maven
9 6 (1.59%) JUnit
10 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.79%) Gradle
11 3 (0.79%) Mockito
12 2 (0.53%) git-flow
12 2 (0.53%) Postman
12 2 (0.53%) Xcode
12 2 (0.53%) XCTest
12 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 183 (48.41%) Finance
2 96 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.46%) Banking
4 41 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.35%) Front Office
6 20 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.03%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.97%) Marketing
8 15 (3.97%) Retail
9 11 (2.91%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.65%) Law
11 9 (2.38%) Military
12 6 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Aviation
13 3 (0.79%) Billing
13 3 (0.79%) Publishing
14 2 (0.53%) Advertising
14 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (30.95%) Senior
2 79 (20.90%) Java Engineer
3 71 (18.78%) Developer
4 62 (16.40%) Software Engineer
5 52 (13.76%) Data Engineer
6 37 (9.79%) Lead
7 35 (9.26%) Architect
8 34 (8.99%) Principal Engineer
9 30 (7.94%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (7.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (7.14%) Principal Java Engineer
12 24 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (5.29%) Java Developer
13 20 (5.29%) Python Engineer
13 20 (5.29%) Senior Developer
14 16 (4.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 16 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 13 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (31.22%) Spring
2 104 (27.51%) Spring Boot
3 75 (19.84%) Terraform
4 53 (14.02%) RESTful
5 52 (13.76%) RabbitMQ
5 52 (13.76%) REST
6 37 (9.79%) Node.js
6 37 (9.79%) React
7 24 (6.35%) .NET
8 23 (6.08%) PySpark
9 20 (5.29%) PyTorch
9 20 (5.29%) TensorFlow
10 19 (5.03%) pgvector
11 18 (4.76%) LangChain
12 17 (4.50%) GraphQL
12 17 (4.50%) gRPC
13 16 (4.23%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.23%) scikit-learn
14 12 (3.17%) Middleware
14 12 (3.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 138 (36.51%) Cloud Native
2 96 (25.40%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (13.49%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.99%) e-Learning
5 32 (8.47%) Onboarding
6 21 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (4.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (4.23%) Clustering
9 16 (4.23%) Fixed Income
10 15 (3.97%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (3.44%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.91%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.91%) Product Ownership
13 10 (2.65%) EPoS
13 10 (2.65%) iSeries
14 9 (2.38%) Algorithms
14 9 (2.38%) Blockchain
14 9 (2.38%) Web3
15 8 (2.12%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.82%) Linux
2 8 (2.12%) Unix
3 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.79%) Windows
5 2 (0.53%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (46.83%) CI/CD
2 173 (45.77%) Microservices
3 163 (43.12%) Event-Driven
4 139 (36.77%) Agile
5 126 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 116 (30.69%) AI
7 112 (29.63%) DevOps
8 106 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 101 (26.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 88 (23.28%) Test Automation
11 85 (22.49%) Mentoring
12 82 (21.69%) Analytics
13 80 (21.16%) Containerisation
14 79 (20.90%) Data Pipeline
15 71 (18.78%) Observability
16 70 (18.52%) Data Modelling
17 63 (16.67%) Data Engineering
18 62 (16.40%) Machine Learning
19 57 (15.08%) Data Science
20 54 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 190 (50.26%) Java
2 157 (41.53%) Python
3 154 (40.74%) SQL
4 38 (10.05%) TypeScript
5 37 (9.79%) Go
6 33 (8.73%) JavaScript
7 32 (8.47%) C#
8 15 (3.97%) Scala
9 14 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.65%) RPG
11 8 (2.12%) Bash
12 7 (1.85%) C++
12 7 (1.85%) PHP
13 6 (1.59%) C
13 6 (1.59%) Ruby
14 4 (1.06%) Rust
15 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.53%) Bicep
16 2 (0.53%) R
16 2 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (11.90%) AWS Certification
2 44 (11.64%) Degree
3 34 (8.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 34 (8.99%) Security Cleared
4 29 (7.67%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.32%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.64%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.41%) GDPR
3 16 (4.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.65%) QA
5 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.53%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (26.72%) Docker
2 8 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (34.66%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.73%) Prometheus
3 20 (5.29%) Grafana
4 14 (3.70%) Ansible
5 11 (2.91%) Istio
6 8 (2.12%) Argo
7 6 (1.59%) 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 49 (12.96%) Databricks
2 38 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.08%) IBM
4 17 (4.50%) Oracle
5 16 (4.23%) Cloudera
5 16 (4.23%) Dell
6 9 (2.38%) Confluent
7 8 (2.12%) Google
8 7 (1.85%) Talend
9 6 (1.59%) HP
9 6 (1.59%) SAP
9 6 (1.59%) Solace
9 6 (1.59%) Splunk
10 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.06%) WSO2
12 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.53%) Apple