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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 108 276
Rank change year-on-year -158 +168 -152
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 157 500 383
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 3.36% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.58% 11.76% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 127 218 322
10th Percentile £55,890 £53,600 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £76,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% +5.17% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,991
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 3,431 4,251 8,903
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.73% 28.56% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,494 2,854 7,670
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -11.11%

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 June 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 28 (17.83%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (14.65%) Apache Spark
3 19 (12.10%) Apache
4 3 (1.91%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.27%) Camunda
5 2 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 126 (80.25%) AWS
2 51 (32.48%) GCP
3 47 (29.94%) Azure
4 27 (17.20%) Serverless
5 20 (12.74%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.55%) dbt
7 13 (8.28%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (8.28%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (8.28%) SaaS
8 11 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (6.37%) GitHub
9 10 (6.37%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.73%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.46%) Dagster
12 7 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.46%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.82%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.46%) Broadband
2 5 (3.18%) MQTT
3 2 (1.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.64%) 4G
4 1 (0.64%) 5G
4 1 (0.64%) AMQP
4 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.74%) NoSQL
1 20 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.83%) Metadata
3 15 (9.55%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.92%) MongoDB
5 13 (8.28%) SQL Server
6 12 (7.64%) BigQuery
7 11 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (6.37%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (6.37%) Tableau
9 9 (5.73%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (5.10%) Data Lake
10 8 (5.10%) DynamoDB
11 7 (4.46%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (4.46%) MySQL
12 6 (3.82%) Big Data
12 6 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (3.18%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (17.83%) Git
2 9 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.18%) GitLab
4 3 (1.91%) JIRA
5 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.64%) JUnit
6 1 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.64%) Postman
6 1 (0.64%) Selenium
6 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (33.76%) Finance
2 35 (22.29%) Front Office
3 21 (13.38%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.55%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Law
6 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Retail
7 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) Billing
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.64%) Games
10 1 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (37.58%) Developer
2 51 (32.48%) Lead
3 43 (27.39%) Data Engineer
4 41 (26.11%) Software Engineer
5 32 (20.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 31 (19.75%) Senior
7 28 (17.83%) Lead Developer
8 20 (12.74%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (12.74%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (11.46%) Java Engineer
10 14 (8.92%) Java Developer
10 14 (8.92%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (8.28%) React Developer
12 12 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (7.64%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
14 10 (6.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (5.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (33.12%) Node.js
2 47 (29.94%) React
3 34 (21.66%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.38%) Redux
5 23 (14.65%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (14.65%) REST
6 20 (12.74%) Spring
7 16 (10.19%) RESTful
7 16 (10.19%) Spring Boot
8 13 (8.28%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.37%) .NET
9 10 (6.37%) Vue
10 7 (4.46%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (4.46%) PySpark
11 6 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (2.55%) gRPC
12 4 (2.55%) WebSockets
13 3 (1.91%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.91%) Django
13 3 (1.91%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.02%) Fixed Income
2 26 (16.56%) Cloud Native
3 22 (14.01%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.82%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.82%) Social Media
6 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.55%) Blog
8 3 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.91%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.64%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.64%) Replication
10 1 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.73%) Linux
2 3 (1.91%) Android
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (50.32%) Agile
2 64 (40.76%) CI/CD
3 54 (34.39%) DevOps
4 49 (31.21%) Software Engineering
5 46 (29.30%) Event-Driven
6 43 (27.39%) Data Pipeline
6 43 (27.39%) Microservices
7 38 (24.20%) Data Modelling
8 36 (22.93%) Containerisation
9 35 (22.29%) Data Engineering
10 34 (21.66%) Investment Management
11 33 (21.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 32 (20.38%) ETL
12 32 (20.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (20.38%) Order Management
12 32 (20.38%) Portfolio Management
13 31 (19.75%) Analytics
14 29 (18.47%) AI
15 28 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (14.01%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 100 (63.69%) Python
2 81 (51.59%) Java
3 53 (33.76%) SQL
4 48 (30.57%) JavaScript
5 46 (29.30%) Go
5 46 (29.30%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.28%) Scala
7 9 (5.73%) Bash
7 9 (5.73%) C#
8 8 (5.10%) C++
9 6 (3.82%) Groovy
10 5 (3.18%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.55%) Rust
12 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.64%) Bicep
13 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.64%) PHP
13 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.28%) Degree
3 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) GIAC
7 1 (0.64%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.65%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.18%) QA
3 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (35.03%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (35.67%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.84%) Terraform
3 13 (8.28%) Ansible
4 8 (5.10%) Istio
4 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.46%) Grafana
6 5 (3.18%) Argo
7 4 (2.55%) Puppet
8 3 (1.91%) Packer
9 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.27%) Salt
10 1 (0.64%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.73%) Databricks
2 8 (5.10%) Confluent
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.18%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.91%) Splunk
5 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.27%) Foundry
5 2 (1.27%) Palantir
5 2 (1.27%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Informatica
6 1 (0.64%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.64%) Mavenir
6 1 (0.64%) Nokia
6 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle
6 1 (0.64%) Solace