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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 346 | 124 | 286 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -222 | +162 | -116 |
| Permanent jobs citing Kafka | 126 | 383 | 193 |
| As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options | 0.50% | 2.34% | 0.95% |
| As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category | 2.76% | 10.29% | 2.96% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 93 | 113 | 139 |
| 10th Percentile | £50,750 | £52,700 | £48,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £62,376 | £67,500 | £53,750 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £77,000 | £100,000 | £70,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -23.00% | +42.86% | -12.50% |
| 75th Percentile | £95,000 | £142,500 | £97,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £115,000 | - | £112,500 |
| UK median annual salary | £75,000 | £87,500 | £72,500 |
| % change year-on-year | -14.29% | +20.69% | -10.77% |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills | 4,570 | 3,723 | 6,523 |
| As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option | 18.07% | 22.77% | 32.04% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 3,278 | 2,412 | 4,372 |
| 10th Percentile | £42,500 | £40,000 | £40,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £50,000 | £51,250 | £50,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | £67,500 | £67,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -3.70% | - | +3.29% |
| 75th Percentile | £87,500 | £87,500 | £88,188 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £118,750 | £120,000 |
| UK median annual salary | £67,500 | £69,000 | £65,000 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.17% | +6.15% | -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 Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs
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 18 October 2026.
Kafka Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring | 32.5% | 41 |
| 2 | REST | 26.2% | 33 |
| 3 | Spring Boot | 23.8% | 30 |
| 4 | RabbitMQ | 22.2% | 28 |
| 5 | Terraform | 19.8% | 25 |
| 6 | RESTful | 16.7% | 21 |
| 7 | Node.js | 12.7% | 16 |
| 8 | PySpark | 10.3% | 13 |
| 9 | React | 8.7% | 11 |
| 10 | .NET | 6.3% | 8 |
| 11 | Apache NiFi | 5.6% | 7 |
| 12 | JWT | 4.8% | 6 |
| 12 | OAuth | 4.8% | 6 |
| 14 | OpenAPI | 4.0% | 5 |
| 14 | OpenTelemetry | 4.0% | 5 |
| 16 | AngularJS | 3.2% | 4 |
| 16 | JPA | 3.2% | 4 |
| 16 | Swagger | 3.2% | 4 |
| 19 | EDI | 2.4% | 3 |
| 19 | Hibernate | 2.4% | 3 |