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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 123 286
Rank change year-on-year -165 +163 -144
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 162 450 286
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 2.73% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 10.75% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 130 178 231
10th Percentile £54,702 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% +8.93% -17.65%
75th Percentile £140,000 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +14.58% -15.98%

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 4,090 4,186 7,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.73% 25.40% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,083 2,839 5,833
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +5.76% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,125 £85,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 26 July 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 25 (15.43%) Apache Spark
2 20 (12.35%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.64%) Apache
4 3 (1.85%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.85%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.85%) Camunda
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 122 (75.31%) AWS
2 55 (33.95%) Azure
3 46 (28.40%) GCP
4 26 (16.05%) Serverless
5 20 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (7.41%) SaaS
8 11 (6.79%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.17%) Amazon MSK
9 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.17%) dbt
10 9 (5.56%) GitHub
11 8 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.94%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (4.94%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.32%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Broadband
2 5 (3.09%) MQTT
3 2 (1.23%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) SSL
4 1 (0.62%) 4G
4 1 (0.62%) 5G
4 1 (0.62%) AMQP
4 1 (0.62%) ATM
4 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.20%) NoSQL
2 19 (11.73%) MongoDB
2 19 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.02%) Metadata
5 12 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.56%) Big Data
7 9 (5.56%) DynamoDB
8 8 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (4.32%) BigQuery
9 7 (4.32%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.70%) MySQL
10 6 (3.70%) Power BI
11 5 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.09%) Tableau
12 4 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.85%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (14.81%) Git
2 11 (6.79%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.09%) GitLab
4 4 (2.47%) JIRA
5 3 (1.85%) Postman
5 3 (1.85%) Selenium
6 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.62%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.62%) JUnit
7 1 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (35.19%) Finance
2 34 (20.99%) Front Office
3 27 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.41%) Banking
6 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.94%) Law
8 6 (3.70%) Retail
9 3 (1.85%) Billing
9 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.62%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (38.89%) Developer
2 44 (27.16%) Lead
3 41 (25.31%) Data Engineer
3 41 (25.31%) Software Engineer
4 35 (21.60%) Senior
5 32 (19.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (17.28%) Lead Developer
7 20 (12.35%) Java Engineer
7 20 (12.35%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (12.35%) Lead Software Engineer
8 19 (11.73%) Java Developer
9 16 (9.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (7.41%) Integration Developer
12 11 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (6.79%) React Developer
12 11 (6.79%) Senior Developer
13 10 (6.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (30.25%) Node.js
2 42 (25.93%) React
3 33 (20.37%) GraphQL
4 32 (19.75%) Redux
5 26 (16.05%) REST
5 26 (16.05%) Spring
6 25 (15.43%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (14.20%) Spring Boot
8 19 (11.73%) RESTful
9 12 (7.41%) AngularJS
10 11 (6.79%) PySpark
11 9 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (5.56%) Vue
12 7 (4.32%) .NET
12 7 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (3.70%) JWT
13 6 (3.70%) OAuth
14 4 (2.47%) JPA
15 3 (1.85%) Spring MVC
15 3 (1.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.99%) Fixed Income
2 22 (13.58%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.56%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.70%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.70%) Social Media
7 5 (3.09%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.85%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.23%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (53.70%) Agile
2 66 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 58 (35.80%) DevOps
4 57 (35.19%) Software Engineering
5 50 (30.86%) Event-Driven
6 44 (27.16%) Microservices
7 43 (26.54%) Data Pipeline
8 42 (25.93%) Containerisation
9 39 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (22.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 34 (20.99%) AI
12 33 (20.37%) Data Engineering
13 32 (19.75%) Data Modelling
13 32 (19.75%) ETL
13 32 (19.75%) Investment Management
13 32 (19.75%) Order Management
13 32 (19.75%) Portfolio Management
14 31 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (16.05%) Analytics
15 26 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 93 (57.41%) Python
2 88 (54.32%) Java
3 53 (32.72%) SQL
4 46 (28.40%) JavaScript
4 46 (28.40%) TypeScript
5 40 (24.69%) Go
6 13 (8.02%) Scala
7 8 (4.94%) Groovy
8 7 (4.32%) C#
9 6 (3.70%) C++
10 5 (3.09%) Bash
10 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.47%) Rust
12 3 (1.85%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.85%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.62%) Bicep
13 1 (0.62%) C
13 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 8 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) CISSP
7 1 (0.62%) GIAC
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) OCP
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.62%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.09%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (31.48%) Docker
2 8 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (36.42%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.22%) Terraform
3 13 (8.02%) Ansible
4 9 (5.56%) Istio
4 9 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.94%) Grafana
6 5 (3.09%) Argo
7 4 (2.47%) Puppet
8 3 (1.85%) Packer
9 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.23%) Salt
10 1 (0.62%) Cilium
10 1 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (6.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.56%) Databricks
3 8 (4.94%) Confluent
4 7 (4.32%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.70%) Informatica
6 5 (3.09%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.09%) Splunk
7 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.85%) webMethods
9 2 (1.23%) Google
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle
9 2 (1.23%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.23%) Solace
10 1 (0.62%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.62%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.62%) Talend