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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 123 279
Rank change year-on-year -214 +156 -126
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 125 402 239
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 2.48% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 10.33% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 138 185
10th Percentile £54,491 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +30.77% -23.53%
75th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £114,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -17.65%

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 4,489 3,891 6,752
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.03% 24.03% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,331 2,605 5,058
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 September 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 17 (13.60%) Apache
2 16 (12.80%) Apache Spark
3 15 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.20%) Camunda
5 3 (2.40%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.40%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.40%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.80%) Confluence
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 81 (64.80%) AWS
2 50 (40.00%) Azure
3 27 (21.60%) GCP
4 25 (20.00%) Serverless
5 19 (15.20%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 15 (12.00%) GitHub
6 15 (12.00%) SaaS
7 14 (11.20%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (7.20%) Amazon MSK
9 9 (7.20%) OpenShift
10 8 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.40%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (6.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (5.60%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.80%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) 4G
1 1 (0.80%) 5G
1 1 (0.80%) ATM
1 1 (0.80%) Broadband
1 1 (0.80%) Firewall
1 1 (0.80%) MQTT
1 1 (0.80%) Network Security
1 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.20%) NoSQL
2 21 (16.80%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (9.60%) Relational Database
5 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
6 11 (8.80%) DynamoDB
7 8 (6.40%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (6.40%) Big Data
7 8 (6.40%) MySQL
8 7 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.80%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (4.80%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.80%) Metadata
10 5 (4.00%) Power BI
11 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.20%) Flink
11 4 (3.20%) Tableau
12 3 (2.40%) Redis
12 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 13 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.00%) Poetry
4 3 (2.40%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) JIRA
4 3 (2.40%) Postman
4 3 (2.40%) Selenium
5 2 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.80%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.80%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.80%) ERwin
6 1 (0.80%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.80%) JUnit
6 1 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.80%) Mocha
6 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Finance
3 17 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.00%) Banking
5 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Retail
7 3 (2.40%) Billing
7 3 (2.40%) Games
7 3 (2.40%) iGaming
7 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.60%) Front Office
8 2 (1.60%) Law
8 2 (1.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.80%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (30.40%) Senior
2 34 (27.20%) Data Engineer
3 30 (24.00%) Developer
4 20 (16.00%) Lead
5 16 (12.80%) Java Engineer
6 15 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (10.40%) Software Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Integration Developer
8 12 (9.60%) Java Developer
9 10 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (7.20%) Architect
10 9 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (6.40%) Lead Developer
11 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.60%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (4.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 6 (4.80%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.60%) Terraform
2 29 (23.20%) Spring
3 28 (22.40%) REST
4 27 (21.60%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (16.80%) RESTful
6 20 (16.00%) Spring Boot
7 19 (15.20%) Node.js
8 14 (11.20%) PySpark
9 11 (8.80%) React
10 9 (7.20%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (6.40%) .NET
11 8 (6.40%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (5.60%) JWT
12 7 (5.60%) OAuth
13 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.20%) JPA
14 4 (3.20%) OpenAPI
15 3 (2.40%) SOAP
15 3 (2.40%) Spring MVC
15 3 (2.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.60%) AI Agents
3 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.60%) Blog
5 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.60%) CI/CD
2 54 (43.20%) Event-Driven
3 51 (40.80%) Agile
3 51 (40.80%) DevOps
4 43 (34.40%) Microservices
5 40 (32.00%) AI
5 40 (32.00%) Containerisation
6 39 (31.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 38 (30.40%) Software Engineering
8 37 (29.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (29.60%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (22.40%) Data Engineering
11 26 (20.80%) Observability
12 25 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 25 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (19.20%) Data Modelling
14 22 (17.60%) Analytics
14 22 (17.60%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 56 (44.80%) Python
2 55 (44.00%) Java
3 45 (36.00%) SQL
4 17 (13.60%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.20%) Go
7 8 (6.40%) C#
7 8 (6.40%) Groovy
8 6 (4.80%) Bash
8 6 (4.80%) Scala
9 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.40%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.80%) Ada
12 1 (0.80%) C
12 1 (0.80%) PHP
12 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.60%) Degree
5 2 (1.60%) OCP
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.80%) CISSP
6 1 (0.80%) GIAC
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.80%) SSCP
6 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 51 (40.80%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (43.20%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.40%) Ansible
2 8 (6.40%) Istio
3 7 (5.60%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.80%) Argo
4 6 (4.80%) Grafana
5 3 (2.40%) Cilium
5 3 (2.40%) Packer
5 3 (2.40%) Puppet
6 2 (1.60%) Salt
7 1 (0.80%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.80%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) MuleSoft
3 7 (5.60%) Databricks
4 6 (4.80%) Confluent
4 6 (4.80%) Informatica
5 5 (4.00%) HubSpot
5 5 (4.00%) Splunk
6 4 (3.20%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.20%) Google
7 3 (2.40%) webMethods
8 2 (1.60%) Oracle
8 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.60%) Solace
9 1 (0.80%) Exabeam
9 1 (0.80%) IBM
9 1 (0.80%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.80%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.80%) Sparx