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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 93 244
Rank change year-on-year -145 +151 -143
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 170 527 407
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 3.62% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.12% 12.12% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 144 240 345
10th Percentile £60,250 £54,875 £50,911
25th Percentile £74,375 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.34% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,991
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% +6.45% -12.41%

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 3,322 4,347 8,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 29.88% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,408 3,113 7,534
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 12 May 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 33 (19.41%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (15.88%) Apache Spark
3 20 (11.76%) Apache
4 3 (1.76%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (1.76%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.59%) Camunda
6 1 (0.59%) Confluence
6 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 138 (81.18%) AWS
2 60 (35.29%) GCP
3 56 (32.94%) Azure
4 25 (14.71%) Serverless
5 20 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 19 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (9.41%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.82%) dbt
9 15 (8.82%) GitHub
10 14 (8.24%) SaaS
11 13 (7.65%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (5.29%) Dagster
14 9 (5.29%) OpenShift
15 8 (4.71%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (4.12%) Power Platform
17 6 (3.53%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Broadband
2 4 (2.35%) MQTT
3 2 (1.18%) Firewall
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.59%) 4G
4 1 (0.59%) 5G
4 1 (0.59%) AMQP
4 1 (0.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) Metadata
1 19 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.59%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 13 (7.65%) Tableau
5 12 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (7.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (7.06%) MongoDB
6 11 (6.47%) Apache Iceberg
6 11 (6.47%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.47%) Relational Database
7 10 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.88%) Flink
8 9 (5.29%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (5.29%) MySQL
9 7 (4.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (4.12%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (17.06%) Git
2 10 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.35%) GitLab
4 3 (1.76%) JIRA
5 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) git-flow
6 1 (0.59%) JMeter
6 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.59%) MLflow
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 61 (35.88%) Finance
2 40 (23.53%) Front Office
3 21 (12.35%) Banking
4 20 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 13 (7.65%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.29%) Law
7 7 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.12%) Retail
8 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Games
9 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Billing
10 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.59%) International Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (34.12%) Lead
2 57 (33.53%) Developer
3 42 (24.71%) Data Engineer
4 38 (22.35%) Software Engineer
5 37 (21.76%) Senior
6 32 (18.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 27 (15.88%) Lead Developer
8 20 (11.76%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (9.41%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (8.82%) Java Engineer
12 14 (8.24%) React Developer
13 13 (7.65%) Java Developer
14 12 (7.06%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (6.47%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 10 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
16 10 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.41%) Node.js
1 50 (29.41%) React
2 33 (19.41%) GraphQL
3 32 (18.82%) Redux
4 22 (12.94%) RESTful
5 21 (12.35%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (12.35%) REST
6 14 (8.24%) Spring
7 12 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.47%) .NET
8 11 (6.47%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.47%) gRPC
9 10 (5.88%) Vue
10 8 (4.71%) WebSockets
11 7 (4.12%) PySpark
12 6 (3.53%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (2.94%) OAuth
13 5 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (2.35%) OAuth2
15 3 (1.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.18%) Fixed Income
2 29 (17.06%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (15.29%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.88%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.12%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.53%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.53%) Social Media
8 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.76%) Blog
9 3 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.76%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.59%) IoT
11 1 (0.59%) Replication
11 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Android
2 6 (3.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.88%) Agile
2 74 (43.53%) CI/CD
3 66 (38.82%) DevOps
4 47 (27.65%) Event-Driven
5 46 (27.06%) Microservices
5 46 (27.06%) Software Engineering
6 45 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
7 42 (24.71%) Data Engineering
8 39 (22.94%) Investment Management
9 37 (21.76%) Analytics
9 37 (21.76%) Containerisation
9 37 (21.76%) Data Modelling
10 35 (20.59%) ETL
11 33 (19.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (18.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 32 (18.82%) Order Management
12 32 (18.82%) Portfolio Management
13 30 (17.65%) AI
14 29 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (14.71%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 105 (61.76%) Python
2 80 (47.06%) Java
3 56 (32.94%) Go
4 55 (32.35%) SQL
5 47 (27.65%) JavaScript
6 43 (25.29%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.24%) Scala
8 13 (7.65%) C++
9 12 (7.06%) C#
10 10 (5.88%) Bash
11 5 (2.94%) Groovy
11 5 (2.94%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.35%) Rust
13 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.59%) Bicep
14 1 (0.59%) Korn
14 1 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.59%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (12.35%) Degree
2 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.24%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CISSP
7 1 (0.59%) GIAC
7 1 (0.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.53%) QA
3 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 61 (35.88%) Docker
2 8 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (37.06%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.29%) Terraform
3 15 (8.82%) Ansible
4 9 (5.29%) Argo
4 9 (5.29%) Grafana
4 9 (5.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.71%) Istio
6 4 (2.35%) Puppet
7 3 (1.76%) Packer
8 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.18%) Salt
9 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (7.06%) Databricks
2 8 (4.71%) Confluent
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.35%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.76%) Ericsson
5 3 (1.76%) Mavenir
5 3 (1.76%) Nokia
6 2 (1.18%) Foundry
6 2 (1.18%) Palantir
6 2 (1.18%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.59%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.59%) IBM
7 1 (0.59%) Informatica
7 1 (0.59%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) Solace
7 1 (0.59%) Splunk