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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 127 274
Rank change year-on-year -190 +147 -124
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 151 435 260
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.63% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.63% 10.76% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 116 161 203
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -20.59%
75th Percentile £127,500 £125,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 4,163 4,041 6,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.36% 24.43% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,132 2,710 5,231
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

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 9 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 24 (15.89%) Apache Spark
2 17 (11.26%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (9.27%) Apache
4 4 (2.65%) Camunda
5 3 (1.99%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.99%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.99%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.66%) Confluence
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (72.19%) AWS
2 55 (36.42%) Azure
3 43 (28.48%) GCP
4 26 (17.22%) Serverless
5 20 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.93%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (7.95%) OpenShift
7 12 (7.95%) SaaS
8 10 (6.62%) Amazon MSK
8 10 (6.62%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.96%) dbt
9 9 (5.96%) GitHub
9 9 (5.96%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (5.30%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) Broadband
2 3 (1.99%) MQTT
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.66%) 4G
4 1 (0.66%) 5G
4 1 (0.66%) ATM
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.23%) NoSQL
2 20 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (12.58%) MongoDB
4 14 (9.27%) Relational Database
4 14 (9.27%) SQL Server
5 12 (7.95%) Metadata
6 11 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.96%) Big Data
7 9 (5.96%) DynamoDB
8 8 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (4.64%) Data Lake
9 7 (4.64%) MySQL
9 7 (4.64%) Power BI
10 6 (3.97%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.31%) Tableau
12 4 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.65%) Flink
13 3 (1.99%) Redis
13 3 (1.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (15.23%) Git
2 11 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.65%) GitLab
3 4 (2.65%) JIRA
4 3 (1.99%) Postman
4 3 (1.99%) Selenium
5 2 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.66%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.66%) ERwin
6 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.66%) Mocha
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (31.79%) Finance
2 27 (17.88%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.22%) Front Office
4 17 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.95%) Banking
6 11 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.64%) Law
8 6 (3.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.99%) Billing
9 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.66%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (38.41%) Developer
2 38 (25.17%) Data Engineer
3 36 (23.84%) Lead
4 33 (21.85%) Software Engineer
5 32 (21.19%) Senior
6 24 (15.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 23 (15.23%) Lead Developer
8 19 (12.58%) Java Developer
9 17 (11.26%) Java Engineer
10 15 (9.93%) Lead Software Developer
10 15 (9.93%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (9.93%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (7.95%) Integration Developer
13 10 (6.62%) Senior Developer
14 9 (5.96%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (5.96%) React Developer
15 8 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
15 8 (5.30%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (27.15%) Node.js
2 35 (23.18%) React
3 26 (17.22%) GraphQL
4 25 (16.56%) REST
5 24 (15.89%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (15.89%) Redux
5 24 (15.89%) Spring
6 20 (13.25%) RESTful
7 19 (12.58%) Spring Boot
8 11 (7.28%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.28%) PySpark
9 10 (6.62%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (5.96%) .NET
11 8 (5.30%) Vue
12 7 (4.64%) JWT
12 7 (4.64%) OAuth
12 7 (4.64%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (2.65%) JPA
14 3 (1.99%) EDI
14 3 (1.99%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.22%) Fixed Income
2 22 (14.57%) Cloud Native
3 18 (11.92%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.96%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.30%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.97%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.31%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (3.31%) Social Media
8 4 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.66%) IoT
11 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.96%) Linux
2 4 (2.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.32%) Agile
2 62 (41.06%) CI/CD
3 55 (36.42%) DevOps
4 50 (33.11%) Event-Driven
5 49 (32.45%) Software Engineering
6 43 (28.48%) Containerisation
7 41 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (27.15%) Microservices
8 37 (24.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 36 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (23.18%) AI
11 31 (20.53%) Data Engineering
11 31 (20.53%) Data Modelling
11 31 (20.53%) ETL
12 26 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (16.56%) Analytics
13 25 (16.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (15.89%) Mentoring
14 24 (15.89%) Order Management
14 24 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.64%) Python
2 80 (52.98%) Java
3 50 (33.11%) SQL
4 39 (25.83%) JavaScript
5 38 (25.17%) TypeScript
6 33 (21.85%) Go
7 12 (7.95%) Scala
8 9 (5.96%) C#
9 8 (5.30%) Groovy
10 5 (3.31%) C++
10 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.31%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.65%) Bash
12 3 (1.99%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.99%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.32%) Rust
14 1 (0.66%) Ada
14 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.66%) PHP
14 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.96%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.31%) Degree
6 2 (1.32%) OCP
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) GIAC
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.66%) SSCP
7 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.99%) GDPR
2 3 (1.99%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (32.45%) Docker
2 8 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (37.75%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.18%) Terraform
3 11 (7.28%) Ansible
4 9 (5.96%) Istio
5 7 (4.64%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.97%) Grafana
7 5 (3.31%) Argo
8 4 (2.65%) Puppet
9 3 (1.99%) Packer
10 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.32%) Salt
11 1 (0.66%) Cilium
11 1 (0.66%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.96%) Databricks
3 8 (5.30%) Confluent
4 7 (4.64%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.97%) Informatica
6 5 (3.31%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.31%) Splunk
7 4 (2.65%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.99%) Google
8 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.99%) webMethods
9 2 (1.32%) Oracle
9 2 (1.32%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.32%) Solace
10 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.66%) Exabeam
10 1 (0.66%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.66%) Sparx