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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 128 287
Rank change year-on-year -199 +159 -134
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 142 418 254
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 2.52% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.14% 10.12% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 112 148 195
10th Percentile £53,856 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,406 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% -20.59%
75th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +17.86% -17.65%

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 4,519 4,132 6,947
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.57% 24.92% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,372 2,803 5,458
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 23 August 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 18 (12.68%) Apache Spark
2 14 (9.86%) Apache
3 13 (9.15%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.82%) Camunda
5 3 (2.11%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.11%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.11%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.70%) Confluence
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (69.01%) AWS
2 54 (38.03%) Azure
3 35 (24.65%) GCP
4 26 (18.31%) Serverless
5 20 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (10.56%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (9.15%) GitHub
7 13 (9.15%) SaaS
8 12 (8.45%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.75%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.04%) Amazon MSK
10 10 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (5.63%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Firewall
1 2 (1.41%) MQTT
1 2 (1.41%) SSL
2 1 (0.70%) 4G
2 1 (0.70%) 5G
2 1 (0.70%) ATM
2 1 (0.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.90%) NoSQL
2 21 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (14.08%) MongoDB
4 14 (9.86%) SQL Server
5 13 (9.15%) Relational Database
6 12 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (7.75%) DynamoDB
8 8 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (5.63%) Big Data
8 8 (5.63%) MySQL
9 7 (4.93%) Data Lake
9 7 (4.93%) Metadata
9 7 (4.93%) Power BI
10 5 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.52%) Tableau
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.82%) Flink
12 3 (2.11%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (15.49%) Git
2 14 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.82%) GitLab
3 4 (2.82%) JIRA
4 3 (2.11%) Postman
4 3 (2.11%) Selenium
5 2 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.70%) ERwin
6 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.70%) JUnit
6 1 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.70%) Mocha
6 1 (0.70%) Poetry
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (28.87%) Finance
2 25 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.68%) Front Office
4 17 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.45%) Banking
6 10 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.23%) Retail
8 3 (2.11%) Billing
8 3 (2.11%) Games
8 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.41%) Law
9 2 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) iGaming
10 1 (0.70%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.70%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (34.51%) Developer
2 33 (23.24%) Data Engineer
3 32 (22.54%) Senior
4 30 (21.13%) Lead
5 28 (19.72%) Software Engineer
6 18 (12.68%) Lead Developer
7 17 (11.97%) Java Engineer
8 16 (11.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 16 (11.27%) Java Developer
9 13 (9.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (8.45%) Integration Developer
11 11 (7.75%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (7.04%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (6.34%) Senior Developer
14 8 (5.63%) Architect
14 8 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (5.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.46%) Terraform
2 35 (24.65%) Node.js
3 28 (19.72%) React
4 26 (18.31%) RabbitMQ
4 26 (18.31%) REST
4 26 (18.31%) Spring
5 22 (15.49%) RESTful
6 18 (12.68%) GraphQL
6 18 (12.68%) Spring Boot
7 16 (11.27%) Redux
8 12 (8.45%) PySpark
9 10 (7.04%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.34%) .NET
10 9 (6.34%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (5.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (4.93%) JWT
12 7 (4.93%) OAuth
12 7 (4.93%) Vue
13 4 (2.82%) JPA
13 4 (2.82%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.68%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.93%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.11%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.41%) Blog
8 2 (1.41%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.75%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (48.59%) Agile
2 67 (47.18%) CI/CD
3 57 (40.14%) DevOps
4 52 (36.62%) Event-Driven
5 46 (32.39%) Software Engineering
6 43 (30.28%) Containerisation
6 43 (30.28%) Microservices
7 39 (27.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 37 (26.06%) AI
8 37 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (25.35%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (19.01%) Data Engineering
12 26 (18.31%) Data Modelling
12 26 (18.31%) Mentoring
12 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (17.61%) ETL
13 25 (17.61%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (16.20%) Observability
15 20 (14.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 71 (50.00%) Python
2 68 (47.89%) Java
3 46 (32.39%) SQL
4 33 (23.24%) TypeScript
5 31 (21.83%) JavaScript
6 26 (18.31%) Go
7 9 (6.34%) C#
8 8 (5.63%) Groovy
9 7 (4.93%) Scala
10 6 (4.23%) Bash
11 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.52%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.82%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.11%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.70%) Ada
14 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.70%) Bicep
14 1 (0.70%) C
14 1 (0.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.45%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.82%) Degree
6 2 (1.41%) OCP
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) GIAC
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) SSCP
7 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 52 (36.62%) Docker
2 8 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (40.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.04%) Ansible
2 10 (7.04%) Istio
3 8 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.93%) Grafana
5 6 (4.23%) Argo
6 4 (2.82%) Puppet
7 3 (2.11%) Cilium
7 3 (2.11%) Packer
8 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.41%) Salt
9 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.34%) Databricks
3 8 (5.63%) Confluent
4 7 (4.93%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.23%) Informatica
6 5 (3.52%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.52%) Splunk
7 4 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.82%) Google
8 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.11%) webMethods
9 2 (1.41%) Oracle
9 2 (1.41%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.41%) Solace
10 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.70%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.70%) Sparx
10 1 (0.70%) TIBCO