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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 108 261
Rank change year-on-year -149 +153 -159
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 159 506 384
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 3.49% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.66% 12.06% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 131 224 324
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £78,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +8.62% -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% -13.89%

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 3,413 4,196 8,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.91% 28.91% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,776 7,565
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 27 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 28 (17.61%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (13.84%) Apache Spark
3 19 (11.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.26%) Camunda
5 2 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 130 (81.76%) AWS
2 53 (33.33%) GCP
3 45 (28.30%) Azure
4 28 (17.61%) Serverless
5 21 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (10.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (8.81%) dbt
7 14 (8.81%) GitHub
8 13 (8.18%) SaaS
9 10 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.29%) OpenShift
10 8 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.03%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (4.40%) Dagster
12 6 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.77%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.40%) Broadband
2 5 (3.14%) MQTT
3 2 (1.26%) Firewall
3 2 (1.26%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) 4G
4 1 (0.63%) 5G
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.58%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.32%) Metadata
3 17 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.18%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.18%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
5 12 (7.55%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.92%) Tableau
7 10 (6.29%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (5.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (5.03%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.03%) DynamoDB
8 8 (5.03%) Flink
9 7 (4.40%) MySQL
10 6 (3.77%) Big Data
10 6 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (18.87%) Git
2 9 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.14%) GitLab
4 4 (2.52%) JIRA
5 2 (1.26%) Selenium
5 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.63%) MLflow
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (36.48%) Finance
2 38 (23.90%) Front Office
3 19 (11.95%) Banking
4 18 (11.32%) Social Skills
5 10 (6.29%) Law
6 9 (5.66%) Retail
7 7 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.26%) Billing
10 2 (1.26%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (37.74%) Developer
2 54 (33.96%) Lead
3 41 (25.79%) Data Engineer
3 41 (25.79%) Software Engineer
4 32 (20.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 31 (19.50%) Senior
6 28 (17.61%) Lead Developer
7 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (11.32%) Java Engineer
9 15 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (9.43%) Java Developer
10 14 (8.81%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (8.81%) React Developer
11 13 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
14 9 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.33%) Node.js
2 50 (31.45%) React
3 34 (21.38%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.13%) Redux
5 23 (14.47%) RabbitMQ
6 21 (13.21%) REST
7 19 (11.95%) Spring
8 18 (11.32%) RESTful
9 15 (9.43%) Spring Boot
10 13 (8.18%) AngularJS
11 10 (6.29%) .NET
11 10 (6.29%) Vue
12 7 (4.40%) PySpark
13 6 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (3.14%) gRPC
14 5 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (3.14%) WebSockets
15 3 (1.89%) .NET Framework
15 3 (1.89%) Django
15 3 (1.89%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.38%) Fixed Income
2 25 (15.72%) Cloud Native
3 23 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.40%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.77%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.77%) Social Media
7 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.52%) Blog
9 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.89%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.63%) Replication
11 1 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.03%) Linux
2 4 (2.52%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (48.43%) Agile
2 68 (42.77%) CI/CD
3 58 (36.48%) DevOps
4 48 (30.19%) Software Engineering
5 45 (28.30%) Event-Driven
5 45 (28.30%) Microservices
6 42 (26.42%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (23.27%) Investment Management
8 36 (22.64%) Data Engineering
8 36 (22.64%) Data Modelling
9 34 (21.38%) Containerisation
10 33 (20.75%) ETL
10 33 (20.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 32 (20.13%) Analytics
11 32 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (20.13%) Order Management
11 32 (20.13%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (19.50%) AI
13 30 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (13.84%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 103 (64.78%) Python
2 82 (51.57%) Java
3 54 (33.96%) SQL
4 50 (31.45%) JavaScript
5 49 (30.82%) Go
6 46 (28.93%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.18%) Scala
8 9 (5.66%) Bash
8 9 (5.66%) C#
8 9 (5.66%) C++
9 5 (3.14%) Groovy
9 5 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.52%) Rust
11 2 (1.26%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.63%) Bicep
12 1 (0.63%) Korn
12 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.06%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.81%) Degree
3 11 (6.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.14%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) GIAC
7 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (35.85%) Docker
2 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (36.48%) Kubernetes
2 42 (26.42%) Terraform
3 13 (8.18%) Ansible
4 8 (5.03%) Istio
5 7 (4.40%) Argo
5 7 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.77%) Grafana
7 4 (2.52%) Puppet
8 3 (1.89%) Packer
9 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.26%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Confluent
1 8 (5.03%) Databricks
2 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.14%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.89%) Splunk
5 2 (1.26%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.26%) Foundry
5 2 (1.26%) Palantir
5 2 (1.26%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.63%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.63%) Mavenir
6 1 (0.63%) Nokia
6 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle
6 1 (0.63%) Solace