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 16 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 300 328
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 18 8 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.082% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.088% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £480 - £323
25th Percentile £561 £738 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +47.62% -22.22%
75th Percentile £747 £813 £625
90th Percentile £800 - £626
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £613
% change year-on-year -10.26% -4.49% -5.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 11,958 9,109 13,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 93.92% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,618 6,162 9,235
10th Percentile £350 £330 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £637 £634
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 239 566
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.00 £14.27
25th Percentile £31.59 £16.25 £22.59
Median hourly rate £57.50 £33.99 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.19% -21.87% -13.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%

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 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 2026, 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 18 (100.00%) Kafka
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Linux
4 7 (38.89%) Python
5 6 (33.33%) C#
5 6 (33.33%) C++
5 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 6 (33.33%) Git
5 6 (33.33%) Oracle
5 6 (33.33%) Unix
6 5 (27.78%) Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Big Data
6 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) Databricks
6 5 (27.78%) ETL
6 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
6 5 (27.78%) Grafana
6 5 (27.78%) Snowflake
6 5 (27.78%) Use Case
7 4 (22.22%) AI
7 4 (22.22%) AWS
7 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 4 (22.22%) Fintech
7 4 (22.22%) Power BI
7 4 (22.22%) Power Platform

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Snowflake
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Big Data
2 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (11.11%) Flink
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
General
1 8 (44.44%) Banking
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Micronaut
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
1 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
1 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) ETL
3 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
3 5 (27.78%) Use Case
4 4 (22.22%) AI
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Fintech
4 4 (22.22%) User Experience
4 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Low Latency
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Databricks
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