Hybrid/Remote Kafka Job Trends

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 135 285
Rank change year-on-year -205 +150 -117
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 119 388 214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 2.31% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 10.36% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 90 121 153
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +33.33% -19.40%
75th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £117,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -15.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,454 3,745 6,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 22.34% 30.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,273 2,424 4,493
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kafka job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kafka over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Kafka salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kafka
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 18 (15.13%) Apache Spark
2 14 (11.76%) Apache
3 9 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.52%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.52%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.52%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.52%) Camunda
4 3 (2.52%) Confluence
4 3 (2.52%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.84%) JBoss
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Actimize
1 1 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (63.03%) AWS
2 44 (36.97%) Azure
3 22 (18.49%) Serverless
4 20 (16.81%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (16.81%) GCP
5 17 (14.29%) GitHub
6 15 (12.61%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (10.08%) SaaS
9 11 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (7.56%) Power Platform
11 8 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.72%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (6.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (5.04%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) 4G
1 1 (0.84%) 5G
1 1 (0.84%) ATM
1 1 (0.84%) Broadband
1 1 (0.84%) MQTT
1 1 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.81%) MongoDB
1 20 (16.81%) NoSQL
1 20 (16.81%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.24%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.40%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (6.72%) Big Data
7 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.88%) Power BI
8 6 (5.04%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (5.04%) Metadata
9 5 (4.20%) MySQL
9 5 (4.20%) Tableau
10 4 (3.36%) Flink
10 4 (3.36%) Redis
10 4 (3.36%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) Git
2 13 (10.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.20%) JIRA
3 5 (4.20%) Poetry
4 3 (2.52%) GitLab
4 3 (2.52%) JUnit
4 3 (2.52%) Postman
4 3 (2.52%) Selenium
5 2 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.68%) Mockito
6 1 (0.84%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.84%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.84%) ERwin
6 1 (0.84%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.84%) Mocha
6 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.04%) Retail
6 5 (4.20%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Front Office
8 3 (2.52%) Billing
8 3 (2.52%) iGaming
8 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.68%) Games
9 2 (1.68%) Law
9 2 (1.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.84%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.84%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.84%) Legal
10 1 (0.84%) Military
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (29.41%) Senior
2 32 (26.89%) Data Engineer
3 30 (25.21%) Developer
4 21 (17.65%) Lead
5 18 (15.13%) Java Engineer
6 15 (12.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (11.76%) Software Engineer
8 13 (10.92%) Java Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Integration Developer
10 10 (8.40%) Architect
11 7 (5.88%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Kafka Developer
13 5 (4.20%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.36%) Integration Architect
14 4 (3.36%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.57%) Spring
2 30 (25.21%) Terraform
3 28 (23.53%) REST
4 25 (21.01%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (19.33%) Spring Boot
6 20 (16.81%) RESTful
7 18 (15.13%) Node.js
8 13 (10.92%) PySpark
9 11 (9.24%) React
10 8 (6.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (5.88%) .NET
11 7 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (5.04%) JWT
12 6 (5.04%) OAuth
13 5 (4.20%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.36%) JPA
14 4 (3.36%) OpenAPI
14 4 (3.36%) WebSockets
15 3 (2.52%) Spring MVC
15 3 (2.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.33%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.20%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.68%) Blog
7 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Linux
2 5 (4.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 52 (43.70%) Event-Driven
3 51 (42.86%) Agile
4 49 (41.18%) Microservices
5 44 (36.97%) DevOps
6 40 (33.61%) Software Engineering
7 39 (32.77%) AI
7 39 (32.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (30.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 34 (28.57%) Containerisation
10 33 (27.73%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (24.37%) Mentoring
12 28 (23.53%) Observability
13 26 (21.85%) Data Engineering
14 25 (21.01%) Data Modelling
15 23 (19.33%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (16.81%) Analytics
17 20 (16.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 59 (49.58%) Java
2 48 (40.34%) Python
3 40 (33.61%) SQL
4 15 (12.61%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.61%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.88%) Scala
7 6 (5.04%) Bash
7 6 (5.04%) C#
7 6 (5.04%) Groovy
8 4 (3.36%) Go
8 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.52%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.84%) Ada
11 1 (0.84%) C
11 1 (0.84%) PHP
11 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) Degree
5 2 (1.68%) OCP
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.84%) CISSP
6 1 (0.84%) GIAC
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.84%) SSCP
6 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 48 (40.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.04%) Ansible
2 6 (5.04%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.20%) Grafana
4 4 (3.36%) Argo
5 3 (2.52%) Cilium
5 3 (2.52%) Packer
6 2 (1.68%) Istio
7 1 (0.84%) Control-M
7 1 (0.84%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.84%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.56%) MuleSoft
3 8 (6.72%) Databricks
4 7 (5.88%) Informatica
5 5 (4.20%) HubSpot
5 5 (4.20%) Splunk
6 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.36%) Google
6 4 (3.36%) Oracle
7 3 (2.52%) Solace
7 3 (2.52%) webMethods
8 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.68%) Talend
9 1 (0.84%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.84%) Dell
9 1 (0.84%) IBM
9 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.84%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.84%) Yahoo!