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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 129 289
Rank change year-on-year -214 +160 -123
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 122 394 222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 2.34% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 10.39% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 93 126 160
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £91,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.62% +35.19% -18.18%
75th Percentile £97,500 £141,875 £93,125
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £118,750
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 4,458 3,792 6,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.92% 22.50% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 2,466 4,566
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -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 4 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 19 (15.57%) Apache Spark
2 15 (12.30%) Apache
3 10 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.46%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.46%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.46%) Camunda
4 3 (2.46%) Confluence
4 3 (2.46%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.64%) CMS
6 1 (0.82%) JBoss
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Actimize
1 1 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (62.30%) AWS
2 46 (37.70%) Azure
3 23 (18.85%) Serverless
4 21 (17.21%) GCP
5 20 (16.39%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (13.93%) GitHub
7 15 (12.30%) Amazon S3
8 14 (11.48%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (9.84%) SaaS
10 11 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (7.38%) Power Platform
12 8 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (6.56%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (6.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (5.74%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.74%) Azure AKS
13 7 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.92%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) 4G
1 1 (0.82%) 5G
1 1 (0.82%) ATM
1 1 (0.82%) Broadband
1 1 (0.82%) MQTT
1 1 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.21%) MongoDB
1 21 (17.21%) NoSQL
1 21 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.30%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 11 (9.02%) DynamoDB
4 11 (9.02%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.38%) Big Data
6 8 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (6.56%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.74%) Power BI
8 6 (4.92%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (4.92%) Metadata
9 5 (4.10%) MySQL
9 5 (4.10%) Tableau
10 4 (3.28%) Flink
10 4 (3.28%) Redis
10 4 (3.28%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (12.30%) Git
2 13 (10.66%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.10%) JIRA
3 5 (4.10%) Poetry
4 3 (2.46%) GitLab
4 3 (2.46%) JUnit
4 3 (2.46%) Postman
4 3 (2.46%) Selenium
5 2 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.64%) Mockito
6 1 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.82%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.82%) ERwin
6 1 (0.82%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.82%) Mocha
6 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.21%) Finance
3 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.74%) Retail
6 5 (4.10%) Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Front Office
8 3 (2.46%) Billing
8 3 (2.46%) iGaming
8 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.64%) Games
9 2 (1.64%) Law
9 2 (1.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.82%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.82%) Military
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (29.51%) Senior
2 33 (27.05%) Data Engineer
3 31 (25.41%) Developer
4 22 (18.03%) Lead
5 18 (14.75%) Java Engineer
6 16 (13.11%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (11.48%) Software Engineer
8 13 (10.66%) Java Developer
9 12 (9.84%) Integration Developer
10 10 (8.20%) Architect
11 8 (6.56%) Lead Developer
12 7 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.74%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.74%) Senior Java Engineer
13 6 (4.92%) Kafka Developer
14 5 (4.10%) Integration Engineer
14 5 (4.10%) Lead Data Engineer
14 5 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (4.10%) Technical Leader
15 4 (3.28%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.87%) Spring
2 30 (24.59%) Terraform
3 28 (22.95%) REST
4 26 (21.31%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (18.85%) Spring Boot
6 21 (17.21%) RESTful
7 18 (14.75%) Node.js
8 14 (11.48%) PySpark
9 11 (9.02%) React
10 8 (6.56%) .NET
10 8 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (5.74%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (4.92%) JWT
12 6 (4.92%) OAuth
13 5 (4.10%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.28%) JPA
14 4 (3.28%) OpenAPI
14 4 (3.28%) WebSockets
15 3 (2.46%) SOAP
15 3 (2.46%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.21%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.10%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.46%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.64%) Blog
7 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.82%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.82%) Derivative
8 1 (0.82%) Equities
8 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (56.56%) CI/CD
2 54 (44.26%) Event-Driven
3 53 (43.44%) Agile
4 49 (40.16%) Microservices
5 45 (36.89%) DevOps
6 40 (32.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (32.79%) Software Engineering
7 39 (31.97%) AI
8 38 (31.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 35 (28.69%) Containerisation
10 34 (27.87%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (24.59%) Mentoring
12 29 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (23.77%) Observability
13 28 (22.95%) Data Engineering
14 26 (21.31%) Data Modelling
15 24 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (18.85%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (17.21%) ETL
17 21 (17.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 59 (48.36%) Java
2 50 (40.98%) Python
3 43 (35.25%) SQL
4 15 (12.30%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.30%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.74%) C#
6 7 (5.74%) Scala
7 6 (4.92%) Bash
7 6 (4.92%) Groovy
8 4 (3.28%) Go
8 4 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.46%) DataWeave
9 3 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.82%) Ada
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) PHP
10 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.64%) Degree
5 2 (1.64%) OCP
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.82%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) GIAC
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.82%) SSCP
6 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 49 (40.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.74%) Prometheus
3 6 (4.92%) Ansible
3 6 (4.92%) Grafana
4 4 (3.28%) Argo
5 3 (2.46%) Cilium
5 3 (2.46%) Packer
6 2 (1.64%) Istio
7 1 (0.82%) Control-M
7 1 (0.82%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.82%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.38%) Databricks
2 9 (7.38%) MuleSoft
3 7 (5.74%) Informatica
4 5 (4.10%) HubSpot
4 5 (4.10%) Splunk
5 4 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.28%) Google
5 4 (3.28%) Oracle
6 3 (2.46%) Solace
6 3 (2.46%) webMethods
7 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.64%) Talend
8 1 (0.82%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.82%) Dell
8 1 (0.82%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.82%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.82%) VMware