Hybrid/Remote Kafka Engineer Job Trends

Kafka Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Kafka Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 - 515
Rank change year-on-year - - +334
Permanent jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 3 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.019% - 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% - 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £73,000 - £81,250
25th Percentile £83,125 - £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.48%
75th Percentile £107,500 - £98,125
90th Percentile £112,000 - £125,000
UK median annual salary £97,500 £112,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,995 22,448 24,990
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 96.24% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9,052 14,743 20,612
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,106 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,850 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -4.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,875 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Kafka Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Kafka Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kafka Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Kafka Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Kafka Engineer job vacancies

Kafka Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kafka Engineer over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Kafka Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Kafka Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (66.67%) Data Development
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks