Hybrid/Remote Kafka Specialist Contract Job Trends

Kafka Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Kafka Specialist daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 313 -
Rank change year-on-year -56 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.007% 0.010% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £669 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% - -
75th Percentile £538 £706 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £694 £875
% change year-on-year -24.32% -20.71% +48.94%

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 12,632 9,671 13,460
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 93.87% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,017 6,504 9,063
10th Percentile £353 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -1.87%
75th Percentile £620 £634 £634
90th Percentile £720 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 284 519
10th Percentile £17.19 £13.85 £14.98
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.12 £23.39
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.83 £44.74
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -22.16% -10.52%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.18 £74.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.87% -33.75% -5.88%

Kafka Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Kafka Specialist job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Kafka Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Kafka Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 July 2026, Kafka Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

Kafka Specialist 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent