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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 127 174
Rank change year-on-year -15 +47 -108
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 330 338 440
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.62% 2.68% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.22% 10.35% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 234 253 349
10th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £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 £131,000
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 3,230 3,267 5,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.85% 25.88% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 2,412 4,706
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £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 £125,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -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 9 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 9 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 -22 40 £90,000 +38.46% 34
West London - 10 £81,250 - 5
South London -6 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 82 (24.85%) Apache Spark
2 79 (23.94%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (11.52%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 4 (1.21%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.91%) IIS
6 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.30%) Camunda
8 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
2 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 211 (63.94%) AWS
2 111 (33.64%) Azure
3 84 (25.45%) GCP
4 45 (13.64%) Serverless
5 44 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 42 (12.73%) dbt
7 37 (11.21%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.39%) Snowflake
9 30 (9.09%) Datadog
10 28 (8.48%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (8.18%) Power Platform
12 25 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 24 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (4.55%) GitHub
18 13 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
18 13 (3.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Broadband
2 3 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.61%) 4G
3 2 (0.61%) 5G
3 2 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) AMQP
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) CTI
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.30%) LTE
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (18.48%) NoSQL
2 46 (13.94%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (9.09%) Tableau
5 29 (8.79%) Big Data
6 28 (8.48%) Data Lake
7 26 (7.88%) Power BI
7 26 (7.88%) Relational Database
8 25 (7.58%) BigQuery
8 25 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (5.76%) MySQL
13 18 (5.45%) DynamoDB
14 17 (5.15%) Metadata
15 16 (4.85%) Looker
16 15 (4.55%) SQL Server
17 14 (4.24%) MongoDB
18 13 (3.94%) Flink
Development Applications
1 43 (13.03%) GitLab
2 35 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 29 (8.79%) Git
4 24 (7.27%) CircleCI
5 21 (6.36%) MLflow
6 15 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.82%) Selenium
8 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.21%) JIRA
8 4 (1.21%) Maven
9 3 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.91%) JUnit
9 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.91%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.30%) Mocha
11 1 (0.30%) Mockito
11 1 (0.30%) Postman
11 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 157 (47.58%) Finance
2 79 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.67%) Front Office
4 50 (15.15%) Banking
5 38 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.42%) Retail
8 7 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.12%) Law
9 5 (1.52%) Billing
10 4 (1.21%) Advertising
10 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.21%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.61%) Back Office
11 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Legal
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) International Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (30.61%) Senior
2 100 (30.30%) Developer
3 60 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 57 (17.27%) Lead
5 53 (16.06%) Software Engineer
6 46 (13.94%) Java Engineer
7 33 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 25 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (6.97%) Lead Developer
9 23 (6.97%) Senior Developer
10 22 (6.67%) Python Engineer
11 21 (6.36%) Architect
11 21 (6.36%) Java Developer
11 21 (6.36%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (6.06%) Lead Software Developer
13 19 (5.76%) Python Developer
14 18 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 17 (5.15%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.06%) React
2 52 (15.76%) Spring
3 49 (14.85%) RabbitMQ
3 49 (14.85%) Spring Boot
4 46 (13.94%) RESTful
5 43 (13.03%) REST
6 39 (11.82%) Node.js
7 33 (10.00%) GraphQL
7 33 (10.00%) Redux
8 30 (9.09%) gRPC
9 20 (6.06%) PySpark
10 17 (5.15%) scikit-learn
10 17 (5.15%) TensorFlow
10 17 (5.15%) web3js
11 16 (4.85%) .NET
11 16 (4.85%) LangChain
11 16 (4.85%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (4.85%) pgvector
11 16 (4.85%) PyTorch
12 10 (3.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (29.39%) Cloud Native
2 51 (15.45%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (12.12%) Fixed Income
4 30 (9.09%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.15%) Blockchain
5 17 (5.15%) Web3
6 16 (4.85%) Clustering
7 14 (4.24%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.33%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 10 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.42%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.82%) Equities
11 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.52%) Derivative
13 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.85%) Linux
2 9 (2.73%) Windows
3 7 (2.12%) Android
4 4 (1.21%) Unix
5 3 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (43.64%) CI/CD
2 121 (36.67%) Microservices
2 121 (36.67%) Software Engineering
3 119 (36.06%) DevOps
4 101 (30.61%) Agile
5 89 (26.97%) Event-Driven
6 86 (26.06%) Analytics
7 82 (24.85%) Data Pipeline
8 79 (23.94%) Containerisation
9 74 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 73 (22.12%) Data Engineering
11 69 (20.91%) AI
11 69 (20.91%) Data Modelling
12 58 (17.58%) Test Automation
13 57 (17.27%) Computer Science
13 57 (17.27%) ETL
14 56 (16.97%) Investment Management
14 56 (16.97%) Low Latency
15 55 (16.67%) Observability
16 51 (15.45%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 189 (57.27%) Python
2 144 (43.64%) SQL
3 135 (40.91%) Java
4 83 (25.15%) Go
5 48 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 43 (13.03%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.88%) C#
8 21 (6.36%) Bash
8 21 (6.36%) C++
9 14 (4.24%) Scala
10 7 (2.12%) Rust
11 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) RPG
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 37 (11.21%) Degree
2 29 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.15%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 17 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) GIAC
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) SSCP
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.88%) GDPR
3 16 (4.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.42%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.82%) QA
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (31.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (37.27%) Kubernetes
2 79 (23.94%) Terraform
3 36 (10.91%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.67%) Grafana
5 17 (5.15%) Ansible
6 9 (2.73%) Argo
6 9 (2.73%) Istio
7 4 (1.21%) Puppet
8 2 (0.61%) Kibana
8 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.61%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Cilium
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 39 (11.82%) Databricks
2 16 (4.85%) Cloudera
2 16 (4.85%) Dell
3 14 (4.24%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.33%) Confluent
5 7 (2.12%) Solace
6 6 (1.82%) Splunk
7 5 (1.52%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.52%) Talend
8 4 (1.21%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.21%) Oracle
8 4 (1.21%) WSO2
9 3 (0.91%) Ericsson
9 3 (0.91%) Mavenir
9 3 (0.91%) Nokia
9 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.91%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.91%) VMware
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow