Hybrid/Remote Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends

Kafka Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 314 410
Rank change year-on-year +21 +96 +153
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 14 21 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.17% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.18% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 3
10th Percentile £443 £353 £375
25th Percentile £603 £503 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £570 £650
Median % change year-on-year +27.19% -12.31% -5.11%
75th Percentile £738 £623 £697
90th Percentile - £655 £710
UK median daily rate £663 £610 £638
% change year-on-year +8.61% -4.31% -8.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,061 11,696 18,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 93.46% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,926 7,389 12,895
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 260 414
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.73 £16.98
25th Percentile £20.62 £31.13 £24.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.55 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.16% -5.55% +71.15%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Kafka Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Kafka Engineer job vacancies

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kafka Engineer over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Kafka Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Kafka
2 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 11 (78.57%) C#
3 11 (78.57%) SQL
4 9 (64.29%) C++
4 9 (64.29%) Unix
4 9 (64.29%) Linux
4 9 (64.29%) Oracle
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Fintech
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 3 (21.43%) Spring
5 3 (21.43%) Java
6 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 2 (14.29%) .NET
6 2 (14.29%) OOP
6 2 (14.29%) OO
6 2 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 2 (14.29%) Cash Management

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
1 9 (64.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
1 12 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Fintech
2 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 2 (14.29%) API Development
3 2 (14.29%) Cash Management
3 2 (14.29%) Data Sharing
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) OO
3 2 (14.29%) OOP
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) SOLID
4 1 (7.14%) Data Privacy
4 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) C#
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce