Kafka Jobs with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 108 94
Rank change year-on-year -152 -14 +41
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 409 1,268 2,616
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 3.06% 3.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% 9.02% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 347 782 1,089
10th Percentile £51,024 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £91,991 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £143,625 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £88,990 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.72% +11.24% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,985 14,063 30,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.61% 33.91% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,525 10,564 17,074
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Kafka salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (19.80%) Apache Spark
2 24 (5.87%) Apache
3 11 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.71%) Confluence
5 6 (1.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 224 (54.77%) AWS
2 93 (22.74%) Azure
3 92 (22.49%) GCP
4 42 (10.27%) SaaS
5 39 (9.54%) Amazon S3
6 30 (7.33%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (6.11%) GitHub
7 25 (6.11%) Serverless
8 24 (5.87%) Slack
9 23 (5.62%) Google Docs
9 23 (5.62%) Lucidchart
9 23 (5.62%) Miro
10 19 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.20%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.20%) Firewall
2 6 (1.47%) AMQP
2 6 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.22%) Network Security
4 2 (0.49%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (23.23%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (16.14%) Redis
3 64 (15.65%) Elasticsearch
4 56 (13.69%) Big Data
5 54 (13.20%) Relational Database
6 51 (12.47%) NoSQL
7 50 (12.22%) MySQL
8 48 (11.74%) Hadoop
9 42 (10.27%) MongoDB
10 29 (7.09%) SQL Server
11 23 (5.62%) BigQuery
11 23 (5.62%) Scylla
12 20 (4.89%) Flink
13 15 (3.67%) CouchDB
14 14 (3.42%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.44%) RDBMS
16 10 (2.44%) Tableau
17 9 (2.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (18.58%) Git
2 56 (13.69%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.09%) Maven
4 27 (6.60%) GitLab
5 25 (6.11%) JIRA
6 11 (2.69%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.69%) JUnit
7 10 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.44%) Spinnaker
8 8 (1.96%) Gradle
8 8 (1.96%) Selenium
9 7 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.71%) Eclipse
10 6 (1.47%) Mocha
10 6 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.22%) GDB
12 3 (0.73%) Postman
13 2 (0.49%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.49%) Mockito
13 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 150 (36.67%) Finance
2 136 (33.25%) Social Skills
3 62 (15.16%) Banking
4 37 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.87%) Retail
6 22 (5.38%) Games
7 20 (4.89%) Law
8 16 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.18%) Marketing
10 11 (2.69%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.20%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.96%) Automotive
14 6 (1.47%) Legal
15 5 (1.22%) Advertising
15 5 (1.22%) Retail Finance
16 4 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.73%) Front Office
18 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (38.88%) Developer
2 145 (35.45%) Senior
3 95 (23.23%) Software Engineer
4 79 (19.32%) Senior Developer
5 40 (9.78%) Lead
6 39 (9.54%) Java Developer
7 37 (9.05%) Data Engineer
8 35 (8.56%) Principal Engineer
9 34 (8.31%) .NET Developer
10 33 (8.07%) Java Engineer
11 28 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (6.11%) Architect
13 24 (5.87%) Principal Software Engineer
14 23 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (5.38%) Python Engineer
16 21 (5.13%) Full Stack Engineer
17 19 (4.65%) Senior .NET Developer
17 19 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
18 18 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
19 17 (4.16%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (23.96%) Spring Boot
2 79 (19.32%) RabbitMQ
3 76 (18.58%) Spring
4 74 (18.09%) GraphQL
5 69 (16.87%) REST
6 67 (16.38%) AngularJS
7 64 (15.65%) .NET
8 61 (14.91%) React
9 53 (12.96%) Web Services
10 49 (11.98%) RESTful
11 47 (11.49%) gRPC
12 37 (9.05%) Node.js
13 28 (6.85%) .NET Core
14 26 (6.36%) JSON
15 24 (5.87%) CSS
16 23 (5.62%) Django
17 15 (3.67%) HTML
18 12 (2.93%) Apache Beam
18 12 (2.93%) ASP.NET Web API
18 12 (2.93%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.98%) Algorithms
2 41 (10.02%) Data Structures
3 34 (8.31%) Client/Server
4 33 (8.07%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.67%) PropTech
6 12 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.69%) Cyberattack
7 11 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
8 10 (2.44%) Blockchain
8 10 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.44%) Robotics
9 9 (2.20%) Sports Betting
10 8 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.96%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.96%) Data Fabric
10 8 (1.96%) Replication
11 5 (1.22%) Blog
11 5 (1.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.29%) Linux
2 14 (3.42%) Unix
3 13 (3.18%) Solaris
3 13 (3.18%) Windows
4 12 (2.93%) CentOS
4 12 (2.93%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.93%) zOS
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (46.70%) Agile
2 181 (44.25%) Microservices
3 160 (39.12%) Software Engineering
4 118 (28.85%) CI/CD
5 107 (26.16%) TDD
6 80 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (15.89%) Continuous Integration
7 65 (15.89%) Design Patterns
8 58 (14.18%) DevOps
9 47 (11.49%) Data Science
9 47 (11.49%) Fintech
10 40 (9.78%) Continuous Deployment
11 38 (9.29%) Analytics
12 37 (9.05%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (9.05%) High Availability
12 37 (9.05%) Regression Testing
13 35 (8.56%) SDLC
14 34 (8.31%) Artificial Intelligence
14 34 (8.31%) Computer Science
14 34 (8.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 188 (45.97%) Java
2 134 (32.76%) Python
3 116 (28.36%) SQL
4 95 (23.23%) Go
5 74 (18.09%) C#
6 66 (16.14%) JavaScript
7 60 (14.67%) TypeScript
8 46 (11.25%) Scala
9 26 (6.36%) Bash
10 20 (4.89%) Kotlin
11 14 (3.42%) C
12 6 (1.47%) Clojure
13 5 (1.22%) VBA
14 3 (0.73%) Rust
14 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.24%) C++
16 1 (0.24%) Perl
16 1 (0.24%) PHP
16 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (5.87%) Degree
2 11 (2.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.98%) CISM
4 4 (0.98%) CISSP
5 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.20%) QA
3 6 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.98%) NIST
4 4 (0.98%) SEPA
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 176 (43.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 195 (47.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.80%) Terraform
3 19 (4.65%) Ansible
4 13 (3.18%) Grafana
5 12 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.98%) Kibana
7 3 (0.73%) logstash
7 3 (0.73%) Rancher
8 2 (0.49%) Argo
8 2 (0.49%) Istio
8 2 (0.49%) Podman
8 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) Consul
9 1 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 49 (11.98%) Google
2 24 (5.87%) Dell
3 19 (4.65%) Oracle
4 17 (4.16%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.67%) Databricks
6 13 (3.18%) Splunk
7 12 (2.93%) IBM
8 11 (2.69%) Teradata
9 8 (1.96%) YouTube
10 7 (1.71%) Confluent
11 4 (0.98%) Facebook
11 4 (0.98%) Qualys
12 3 (0.73%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (0.49%) Apple
13 2 (0.49%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.49%) Informatica
13 2 (0.49%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.24%) Murex