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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 105 186
Rank change year-on-year -38 +81 -114
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 340 383 437
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.56% 3.14% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.03% 11.78% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 223 227 336
10th Percentile £63,750 £59,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 3,390 3,252 6,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.56% 26.67% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 2,254 4,768
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £138,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -9 38 £92,500 - 12
West London - 13 £80,000 - 6
South London -9 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 84 (24.71%) Apache Spark
2 76 (22.35%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.29%) Apache
4 9 (2.65%) Confluence
5 4 (1.18%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.59%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (62.94%) AWS
2 117 (34.41%) Azure
3 77 (22.65%) GCP
4 53 (15.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (14.12%) Serverless
6 44 (12.94%) dbt
7 37 (10.88%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.41%) Snowflake
9 29 (8.53%) Datadog
10 28 (8.24%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (5.59%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (4.71%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (4.41%) SaaS
18 11 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
18 11 (3.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) Broadband
2 3 (0.88%) BGP
2 3 (0.88%) Network Security
3 2 (0.59%) 4G
3 2 (0.59%) 5G
3 2 (0.59%) DNS
3 2 (0.59%) IPsec
3 2 (0.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.29%) CTI
4 1 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) LTE
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (22.65%) NoSQL
2 47 (13.82%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 34 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 33 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (8.82%) Big Data
6 29 (8.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (8.53%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (8.24%) Tableau
8 27 (7.94%) Power BI
9 25 (7.35%) BigQuery
10 21 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (6.18%) MongoDB
11 19 (5.59%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (5.29%) DynamoDB
12 18 (5.29%) MySQL
13 17 (5.00%) Metadata
14 16 (4.71%) Looker
15 11 (3.24%) Hadoop
15 11 (3.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (14.41%) GitLab
2 32 (9.41%) Git
2 32 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.06%) CircleCI
3 24 (7.06%) Cucumber
4 19 (5.59%) MLflow
5 6 (1.76%) Selenium
6 5 (1.47%) JIRA
6 5 (1.47%) Maven
7 4 (1.18%) JUnit
8 3 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.88%) WinDbg
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.29%) Gatling
9 1 (0.29%) Gradle
9 1 (0.29%) Mockito
9 1 (0.29%) Postman
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 169 (49.71%) Finance
2 80 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 53 (15.59%) Banking
4 43 (12.65%) Front Office
5 34 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.35%) Law
8 8 (2.35%) Retail
9 6 (1.76%) Billing
9 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.47%) Advertising
11 4 (1.18%) Military
12 3 (0.88%) Marketing
13 2 (0.59%) Back Office
13 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Legal
14 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (29.12%) Senior
2 94 (27.65%) Developer
3 62 (18.24%) Data Engineer
4 57 (16.76%) Java Engineer
4 57 (16.76%) Software Engineer
5 50 (14.71%) Lead
6 35 (10.29%) Architect
6 35 (10.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 31 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.06%) Java Developer
8 24 (7.06%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (7.06%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.76%) Lead Developer
9 23 (6.76%) Python Engineer
10 20 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
11 19 (5.59%) Principal Java Engineer
12 17 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.06%) Spring
2 72 (21.18%) Spring Boot
3 52 (15.29%) React
4 50 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
5 49 (14.41%) Node.js
6 42 (12.35%) REST
7 37 (10.88%) RESTful
8 35 (10.29%) Redux
9 32 (9.41%) GraphQL
10 24 (7.06%) PySpark
11 23 (6.76%) gRPC
12 18 (5.29%) .NET
13 16 (4.71%) LangChain
13 16 (4.71%) LlamaIndex
13 16 (4.71%) pgvector
13 16 (4.71%) PyTorch
13 16 (4.71%) scikit-learn
13 16 (4.71%) TensorFlow
13 16 (4.71%) web3js
14 11 (3.24%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 107 (31.47%) Cloud Native
2 50 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.47%) Public Cloud
4 37 (10.88%) Fixed Income
5 22 (6.47%) e-Learning
6 16 (4.71%) Blockchain
6 16 (4.71%) Clustering
6 16 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.71%) Web3
7 13 (3.82%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.24%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (2.06%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.06%) EPoS
11 7 (2.06%) iSeries
12 5 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.47%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.18%) Linux
2 7 (2.06%) Unix
3 6 (1.76%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (42.94%) CI/CD
2 129 (37.94%) Microservices
2 129 (37.94%) Software Engineering
3 118 (34.71%) Agile
4 108 (31.76%) Event-Driven
5 103 (30.29%) DevOps
6 87 (25.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 80 (23.53%) Analytics
8 77 (22.65%) AI
8 77 (22.65%) Containerisation
9 73 (21.47%) Data Pipeline
10 69 (20.29%) Test Automation
11 68 (20.00%) Data Modelling
12 66 (19.41%) Data Engineering
13 65 (19.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 62 (18.24%) Observability
15 58 (17.06%) Mentoring
16 53 (15.59%) ETL
17 51 (15.00%) Data Governance
18 49 (14.41%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 179 (52.65%) Python
2 152 (44.71%) Java
3 148 (43.53%) SQL
4 68 (20.00%) Go
5 57 (16.76%) TypeScript
6 52 (15.29%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.65%) C#
8 16 (4.71%) Bash
9 14 (4.12%) C++
10 12 (3.53%) Scala
11 7 (2.06%) RPG
11 7 (2.06%) Rust
12 4 (1.18%) PHP
13 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Bicep
14 2 (0.59%) C
14 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.59%) Ruby
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.94%) AWS Certification
1 27 (7.94%) Degree
2 25 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
8 1 (0.29%) GIAC
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.29%) SSCP
8 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.94%) GDPR
3 16 (4.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.35%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.06%) QA
7 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) SEPA
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (28.24%) Docker
2 8 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 84 (24.71%) Terraform
3 40 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.47%) Grafana
5 15 (4.41%) Ansible
6 10 (2.94%) Istio
7 3 (0.88%) Argo
8 2 (0.59%) Cilium
8 2 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.59%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Salt
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.65%) Databricks
2 23 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.71%) Cloudera
3 16 (4.71%) Dell
4 10 (2.94%) IBM
5 9 (2.65%) Confluent
6 8 (2.35%) Solace
7 6 (1.76%) Splunk
7 6 (1.76%) Talend
8 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle
8 4 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.18%) WSO2
9 3 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.59%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.59%) HP
10 2 (0.59%) PayPal
10 2 (0.59%) SAP