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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 187 125
Rank change year-on-year +65 -62 -49
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 350 308 507
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.73% 1.76% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.81% 6.59% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 182 187 437
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £108,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -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 2,963 4,677 5,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.07% 26.78% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,003 2,975 4,948
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £139,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +24 37 £112,500 +50.00% 114
South London +29 7 £95,000 - 4
West London -5 2 £76,250 +12.96% 3
East London -15 1 £75,000 - 4
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 82 (23.43%) Apache Spark
2 36 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (6.29%) Apache
4 10 (2.86%) Confluence
5 7 (2.00%) Apache Pulsar
5 7 (2.00%) nginx
6 4 (1.14%) Apache Synapse
6 4 (1.14%) Traefik
7 3 (0.86%) IIS
7 3 (0.86%) JBoss
7 3 (0.86%) Luigi
7 3 (0.86%) Mule
7 3 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.29%) SAS
9 1 (0.29%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.29%) Endur
3 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 232 (66.29%) AWS
2 102 (29.14%) Azure
3 90 (25.71%) GCP
4 32 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (7.71%) GitHub
6 26 (7.43%) Serverless
7 23 (6.57%) Amazon Kinesis
8 21 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.00%) Snowflake
11 12 (3.43%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.14%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.57%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.71%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.00%) DNS
2 6 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
2 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.71%) VPN
3 4 (1.14%) DHCP
3 4 (1.14%) FTP
3 4 (1.14%) ICMP
4 2 (0.57%) BGP
4 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.57%) Firewall
4 2 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.57%) OSPF
4 2 (0.57%) RTMP
4 2 (0.57%) VLAN
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
4 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.57%) Wireless
5 1 (0.29%) AMQP
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 52 (14.86%) Big Data
3 46 (13.14%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (12.00%) MongoDB
5 40 (11.43%) Relational Database
6 37 (10.57%) Hadoop
7 33 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (6.00%) Metadata
10 20 (5.71%) Redis
11 17 (4.86%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.00%) Flink
13 12 (3.43%) Data Lake
13 12 (3.43%) DynamoDB
13 12 (3.43%) MySQL
13 12 (3.43%) RDBMS
14 11 (3.14%) BigQuery
14 11 (3.14%) Oracle Database
14 11 (3.14%) Power BI
15 10 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (8.86%) Git
2 28 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.14%) GitLab
4 13 (3.71%) JIRA
5 11 (3.14%) JUnit
6 10 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.86%) MLflow
7 9 (2.57%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.29%) Vite
9 6 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.71%) Selenium
9 6 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.14%) git-flow
11 4 (1.14%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.14%) Mockito
11 4 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.14%) VisualVM
General
1 218 (62.29%) Finance
2 106 (30.29%) Social Skills
3 85 (24.29%) Law
4 77 (22.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (21.71%) Banking
6 55 (15.71%) Front Office
7 51 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (11.71%) Financial Institution
9 24 (6.86%) Marketing
10 12 (3.43%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.14%) Investment Banking
12 10 (2.86%) Games
13 7 (2.00%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.14%) Retail
16 3 (0.86%) Legal
16 3 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
17 2 (0.57%) Electronics
17 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (36.29%) Software Engineer
2 95 (27.14%) Developer
3 79 (22.57%) Lead
4 65 (18.57%) Senior
5 51 (14.57%) Java Engineer
6 45 (12.86%) Lead Software Engineer
7 43 (12.29%) Data Engineer
8 41 (11.71%) Java Software Engineer
9 36 (10.29%) Java Developer
10 28 (8.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 21 (6.00%) Python Engineer
12 20 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.71%) Lead Developer
13 19 (5.43%) Architect
14 18 (5.14%) Kafka Engineer
15 17 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
16 16 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (4.57%) Kafka Developer
16 16 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
16 16 (4.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (26.29%) Spring
2 72 (20.57%) Spring Boot
3 62 (17.71%) React
3 62 (17.71%) RESTful
4 45 (12.86%) GraphQL
5 43 (12.29%) Node.js
6 42 (12.00%) REST
7 41 (11.71%) RabbitMQ
8 32 (9.14%) AngularJS
9 27 (7.71%) Redux
10 20 (5.71%) Akka
11 16 (4.57%) gRPC
12 15 (4.29%) JMS
12 15 (4.29%) RxJava
12 15 (4.29%) Spring WebFlux
13 14 (4.00%) Jest
14 13 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (3.43%) Micronaut
15 12 (3.43%) Quarkus
16 10 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 104 (29.71%) Cloud Native
2 84 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.29%) Algorithms
4 29 (8.29%) Data Structures
5 28 (8.00%) Fixed Income
6 26 (7.43%) Product Ownership
7 23 (6.57%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (6.00%) Management Information System
9 17 (4.86%) Public Cloud
10 16 (4.57%) Mobile App
11 15 (4.29%) Client/Server
12 14 (4.00%) FMCG
12 14 (4.00%) Hedge funds
13 13 (3.71%) Distributed Applications
13 13 (3.71%) e-Learning
14 12 (3.43%) Equities
15 11 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (3.14%) Virtual Team
16 10 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (2.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.57%) Linux
2 7 (2.00%) Windows
3 5 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.14%) Android
4 4 (1.14%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (48.57%) Software Engineering
2 158 (45.14%) CI/CD
3 145 (41.43%) Agile
4 135 (38.57%) Microservices
5 102 (29.14%) DevOps
6 89 (25.43%) Fintech
7 68 (19.43%) SDLC
8 66 (18.86%) Analytics
9 65 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (18.00%) Test Automation
11 62 (17.71%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (16.86%) Data Modelling
13 53 (15.14%) Computer Science
13 53 (15.14%) ETL
13 53 (15.14%) Machine Learning
14 52 (14.86%) Containerisation
15 51 (14.57%) Data Engineering
15 51 (14.57%) Full-Stack Development
16 50 (14.29%) AI
17 49 (14.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 217 (62.00%) Java
2 147 (42.00%) Python
3 117 (33.43%) SQL
4 65 (18.57%) Go
5 51 (14.57%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.57%) JavaScript
7 34 (9.71%) Scala
8 29 (8.29%) Kotlin
9 14 (4.00%) C#
10 13 (3.71%) Bash
11 12 (3.43%) C++
12 6 (1.71%) Groovy
13 4 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.14%) Rust
14 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) Clojure
15 1 (0.29%) Perl
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (11.14%) Degree
2 24 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.57%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.14%) PhD
6 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.43%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.57%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.29%) QA
3 17 (4.86%) GDPR
4 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 88 (25.14%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) HDFS
3 6 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 149 (42.57%) Kubernetes
2 42 (12.00%) Terraform
3 21 (6.00%) Prometheus
4 17 (4.86%) Grafana
5 15 (4.29%) Ansible
6 14 (4.00%) Argo
7 8 (2.29%) Mesos
8 7 (2.00%) Puppet
9 5 (1.43%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.14%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.86%) Kibana
12 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.57%) logstash
12 2 (0.57%) Podman
13 1 (0.29%) Icinga
13 1 (0.29%) Nagios
13 1 (0.29%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (12.57%) Databricks
2 31 (8.86%) Oracle
3 16 (4.57%) SAP
4 13 (3.71%) Google
5 12 (3.43%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.71%) VMware
7 5 (1.43%) Confluent
7 5 (1.43%) Splunk
8 4 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.14%) Dell
8 4 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.86%) Ericsson
9 3 (0.86%) Mavenir
9 3 (0.86%) Nokia
9 3 (0.86%) Solace
10 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.57%) Informatica
10 2 (0.57%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.57%) Talend