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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 287 161
Rank change year-on-year +46 -126 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 173 179 459
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 0.90% 2.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 3.04% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 110 118 388
10th Percentile £53,400 £48,421 £50,686
25th Percentile £70,625 £56,250 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £142,500 £97,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £142,750 £118,750 £111,625
UK median annual salary £92,500 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.42% -7.81% -5.88%

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 3,146 5,886 7,045
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.84% 29.65% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,252 3,828 5,926
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £86,313 £86,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%

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 November 2025.

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 12 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.36%) Apache
2 11 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) Confluence
4 3 (1.73%) Luigi
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (79.77%) AWS
2 75 (43.35%) Azure
3 48 (27.75%) GCP
4 15 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (8.09%) GitHub
5 14 (8.09%) SaaS
6 11 (6.36%) Serverless
7 10 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.05%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.89%) Amazon MSK
11 5 (2.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.89%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) FTP
2 2 (1.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.59%) SQL Server
2 31 (17.92%) MongoDB
3 24 (13.87%) NoSQL
4 21 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.62%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.89%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.31%) Big Data
8 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.31%) MySQL
8 4 (2.31%) Redis
8 4 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.73%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.73%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.73%) Flink
9 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.73%) Tableau
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (23.12%) Cucumber
1 40 (23.12%) JIRA
1 40 (23.12%) Selenium
2 39 (22.54%) GitLab
3 38 (21.97%) SonarQube
3 38 (21.97%) Sonatype Nexus
4 36 (20.81%) Bitbucket
4 36 (20.81%) Maven
5 16 (9.25%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.05%) JMeter
7 5 (2.89%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.89%) Git
7 5 (2.89%) git-flow
8 4 (2.31%) JUnit
9 2 (1.16%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.16%) MLflow
9 2 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.16%) Spock
9 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 85 (49.13%) Finance
2 45 (26.01%) Banking
3 41 (23.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (21.39%) Retail
5 36 (20.81%) Corporate Banking
5 36 (20.81%) Investment Banking
6 33 (19.08%) Front Office
7 27 (15.61%) Social Skills
8 6 (3.47%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.89%) Law
10 4 (2.31%) Games
10 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.73%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.16%) Billing
12 2 (1.16%) Legal
12 2 (1.16%) Marketing
13 1 (0.58%) Electronics
13 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (50.29%) Software Engineer
2 51 (29.48%) Developer
3 31 (17.92%) Lead
4 24 (13.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 22 (12.72%) Senior
6 19 (10.98%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (10.40%) Lead Developer
8 16 (9.25%) Java Engineer
9 15 (8.67%) Lead Software Developer
9 15 (8.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (7.51%) Principal Software Engineer
11 12 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 12 (6.94%) Java Developer
12 11 (6.36%) Architect
12 11 (6.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Python Engineer
14 8 (4.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (4.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (52.02%) React
2 67 (38.73%) Redux
3 62 (35.84%) Spring Boot
4 60 (34.68%) Spring
5 53 (30.64%) RESTful
6 48 (27.75%) REST
7 46 (26.59%) CSS
8 45 (26.01%) HTML
9 42 (24.28%) Jest
10 38 (21.97%) HTML5
11 37 (21.39%) CSS3
12 36 (20.81%) JPA
12 36 (20.81%) Sass
13 35 (20.23%) GraphQL
13 35 (20.23%) Node.js
14 27 (15.61%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (12.14%) .NET
16 11 (6.36%) AngularJS
17 8 (4.62%) Vue
18 6 (3.47%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.32%) Product Ownership
2 39 (22.54%) Cloud Native
3 37 (21.39%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (19.65%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (15.61%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.36%) Data Structures
7 9 (5.20%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.31%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.73%) Derivative
9 3 (1.73%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (69.94%) Agile
2 103 (59.54%) Software Engineering
3 95 (54.91%) Microservices
4 84 (48.55%) CI/CD
5 77 (44.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (43.35%) DevOps
7 73 (42.20%) Mentoring
8 50 (28.90%) Containerisation
9 47 (27.17%) SDLC
10 46 (26.59%) Test Automation
11 45 (26.01%) Front End Development
12 41 (23.70%) Performance Optimisation
13 40 (23.12%) Migration
13 40 (23.12%) User Experience
14 39 (22.54%) Strategic Thinking
15 36 (20.81%) Responsive Web Design
16 30 (17.34%) AI
17 27 (15.61%) Investment Management
18 24 (13.87%) Order Management
18 24 (13.87%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (66.47%) Java
2 82 (47.40%) TypeScript
3 72 (41.62%) JavaScript
4 68 (39.31%) SQL
5 57 (32.95%) Python
6 31 (17.92%) Go
7 28 (16.18%) C#
8 7 (4.05%) Scala
9 3 (1.73%) Groovy
10 2 (1.16%) Bash
10 2 (1.16%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Clojure
11 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) LookML
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.25%) Degree
2 12 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.16%) PhD
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.58%) CISSP
6 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.28%) QA
2 36 (20.81%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.47%) GDPR
4 5 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.16%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (36.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (43.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.47%) Kibana
3 5 (2.89%) Terraform
4 4 (2.31%) Ansible
4 4 (2.31%) Grafana
4 4 (2.31%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.73%) Argo
5 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.16%) Control-M
6 2 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.16%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.16%) Puppet
7 1 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 39 (22.54%) Solace
2 8 (4.62%) Google
3 6 (3.47%) Databricks
3 6 (3.47%) Splunk
4 5 (2.89%) Oracle
5 3 (1.73%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.73%) VMware
6 2 (1.16%) IBM
6 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.58%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.58%) Facebook
7 1 (0.58%) Informatica
7 1 (0.58%) Mavenir
7 1 (0.58%) Nokia
7 1 (0.58%) Reuters
7 1 (0.58%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Talend