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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 120 191
Rank change year-on-year -45 +71 -76
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 342 329 333
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.32% 2.78% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.75% 10.13% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 168 169 208
10th Percentile £55,725 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £94,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +11.11% +5.00%
75th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £122,875 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -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 3,910 3,247 5,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.09% 27.47% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,470 2,190 3,643
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,475 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.31%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -10 26 £90,000 -20.00% 46
West London -3 10 £80,000 -3.03% 9
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 66 (19.30%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.06%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (7.60%) Apache
4 14 (4.09%) Confluence
5 5 (1.46%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.17%) Camunda
7 2 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.58%) Luigi
7 2 (0.58%) Tornado
8 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Actimize
2 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (57.02%) AWS
2 117 (34.21%) Azure
3 56 (16.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (14.04%) GCP
5 43 (12.57%) Serverless
6 24 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (6.73%) GitHub
7 23 (6.73%) Power Platform
8 22 (6.43%) Amazon Kinesis
9 21 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (5.26%) Azure Databricks
11 16 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.09%) Datadog
13 13 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.80%) SaaS
14 11 (3.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.05%) DNS
2 6 (1.75%) BGP
2 6 (1.75%) IPsec
2 6 (1.75%) VPN
3 5 (1.46%) Internet
4 2 (0.58%) 4G
4 2 (0.58%) 5G
4 2 (0.58%) AMQP
4 2 (0.58%) HTTP
4 2 (0.58%) MQTT
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) LTE
5 1 (0.29%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) SSH
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (32.75%) NoSQL
2 55 (16.08%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.74%) Relational Database
4 35 (10.23%) MongoDB
5 30 (8.77%) Big Data
6 27 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (6.73%) Hadoop
8 22 (6.43%) Power BI
8 22 (6.43%) Redis
9 21 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (5.85%) Data Lake
11 19 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (5.26%) MySQL
13 17 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (4.39%) Tableau
15 14 (4.09%) Metadata
15 14 (4.09%) SQL Server
16 12 (3.51%) Apache Hive
16 12 (3.51%) DynamoDB
17 11 (3.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (16.96%) GitLab
2 49 (14.33%) Cucumber
3 47 (13.74%) Git
4 41 (11.99%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.92%) JIRA
5 10 (2.92%) Selenium
6 7 (2.05%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.05%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.05%) Maven
7 4 (1.17%) JUnit
7 4 (1.17%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.58%) git-flow
8 2 (0.58%) Gradle
8 2 (0.58%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.58%) Mockito
8 2 (0.58%) Postman
8 2 (0.58%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.58%) Xcode
8 2 (0.58%) XCTest
8 2 (0.58%) XCUITest
General
1 166 (48.54%) Finance
2 87 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 63 (18.42%) Banking
4 26 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.31%) Financial Institution
6 23 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.68%) Front Office
8 16 (4.68%) Retail
9 15 (4.39%) Marketing
10 10 (2.92%) Law
11 9 (2.63%) Military
12 7 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.46%) Aviation
15 3 (0.88%) Billing
15 3 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
15 3 (0.88%) Publishing
15 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 105 (30.70%) Senior
2 79 (23.10%) Java Engineer
3 57 (16.67%) Developer
4 55 (16.08%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.87%) Data Engineer
6 40 (11.70%) Principal Engineer
7 36 (10.53%) Architect
8 33 (9.65%) Lead
8 33 (9.65%) Senior Java Engineer
9 31 (9.06%) Principal Java Engineer
10 28 (8.19%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (6.73%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.85%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (4.39%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.22%) Backend Developer
15 11 (3.22%) Consultant
16 10 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (37.43%) Spring
2 115 (33.63%) Spring Boot
3 63 (18.42%) Terraform
4 52 (15.20%) RESTful
5 51 (14.91%) REST
6 45 (13.16%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (8.48%) React
8 28 (8.19%) Node.js
9 27 (7.89%) .NET
10 24 (7.02%) PySpark
11 15 (4.39%) gRPC
12 13 (3.80%) Middleware
13 11 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.22%) Keycloak
13 11 (3.22%) Playwright
14 10 (2.92%) Swagger
15 9 (2.63%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
15 9 (2.63%) GraphQL
15 9 (2.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 126 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 114 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (13.16%) Public Cloud
4 44 (12.87%) e-Learning
5 30 (8.77%) Onboarding
6 26 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 14 (4.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (4.09%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.22%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.92%) EPoS
10 10 (2.92%) Equities
10 10 (2.92%) iSeries
10 10 (2.92%) Replication
11 9 (2.63%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.63%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.14%) Linux
2 6 (1.75%) Unix
3 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.58%) Android
4 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (54.97%) CI/CD
2 178 (52.05%) Microservices
3 172 (50.29%) Event-Driven
4 153 (44.74%) Agile
5 113 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 110 (32.16%) Software Engineering
7 108 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 106 (30.99%) DevOps
9 101 (29.53%) AI
10 100 (29.24%) Test Automation
11 88 (25.73%) Mentoring
12 76 (22.22%) Observability
13 65 (19.01%) Containerisation
14 61 (17.84%) Roadmaps
15 58 (16.96%) BDD
16 57 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
17 56 (16.37%) Data Modelling
18 55 (16.08%) Analytics
19 52 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
20 49 (14.33%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 191 (55.85%) Java
2 134 (39.18%) SQL
3 115 (33.63%) Python
4 31 (9.06%) C#
5 30 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.19%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.56%) Scala
8 15 (4.39%) Go
9 14 (4.09%) Bash
10 12 (3.51%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.92%) RPG
12 9 (2.63%) Groovy
13 6 (1.75%) C
13 6 (1.75%) PHP
13 6 (1.75%) Ruby
14 5 (1.46%) R
15 4 (1.17%) C++
16 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (16.37%) AWS Certification
2 47 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 44 (12.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 42 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 39 (11.40%) Degree
6 17 (4.97%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.46%) PhD
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) CSPO
12 1 (0.29%) GIAC
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) OCP
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.22%) QA
3 9 (2.63%) GDPR
4 6 (1.75%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.58%) Basel III
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.58%) PSD2
7 1 (0.29%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (28.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 127 (37.13%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.65%) Prometheus
3 24 (7.02%) Grafana
4 9 (2.63%) Rancher
5 7 (2.05%) Argo
6 6 (1.75%) Ansible
6 6 (1.75%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (0.88%) Cilium
8 2 (0.58%) Control-M
8 2 (0.58%) Istio
8 2 (0.58%) kaniko
8 2 (0.58%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.29%) logstash
9 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (10.23%) Databricks
1 35 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.31%) IBM
3 20 (5.85%) Oracle
4 13 (3.80%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.34%) Google
7 6 (1.75%) HP
7 6 (1.75%) SAP
7 6 (1.75%) Splunk
8 5 (1.46%) Solace
9 4 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.17%) Talend
10 3 (0.88%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.88%) WSO2
11 2 (0.58%) Apple
11 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.58%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.58%) TIBCO