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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 128 289
Rank change year-on-year -196 +161 -140
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 135 415 243
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 2.51% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 10.07% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 105 146 187
10th Percentile £54,173 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £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 4,504 4,123 6,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.26% 24.98% 28.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 2,805 5,261
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 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 30 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 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 15 (11.11%) Apache
3 14 (10.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.96%) Camunda
5 3 (2.22%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.22%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.22%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.74%) Confluence
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (66.67%) AWS
2 53 (39.26%) Azure
3 32 (23.70%) GCP
4 25 (18.52%) Serverless
5 19 (14.07%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (10.37%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (9.63%) GitHub
7 13 (9.63%) SaaS
8 12 (8.89%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.89%) OpenShift
9 10 (7.41%) Amazon MSK
9 10 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.67%) Power Platform
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Firewall
1 2 (1.48%) SSL
2 1 (0.74%) 4G
2 1 (0.74%) 5G
2 1 (0.74%) ATM
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) MQTT
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.78%) NoSQL
2 21 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (14.81%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (9.63%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.63%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.15%) DynamoDB
6 8 (5.93%) Big Data
6 8 (5.93%) MySQL
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.19%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.19%) Metadata
7 7 (5.19%) Power BI
8 5 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.70%) Tableau
9 4 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.96%) Flink
10 3 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (14.81%) Git
2 14 (10.37%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.96%) JIRA
4 3 (2.22%) GitLab
4 3 (2.22%) Postman
4 3 (2.22%) Selenium
5 2 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.48%) Poetry
5 2 (1.48%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.74%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.74%) ERwin
6 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.74%) JUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.74%) Mocha
6 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (25.19%) Finance
2 27 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.89%) Banking
5 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.41%) Front Office
6 6 (4.44%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Billing
7 3 (2.22%) Games
7 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.48%) iGaming
8 2 (1.48%) Law
8 2 (1.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.74%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (28.89%) Developer
2 35 (25.93%) Senior
3 34 (25.19%) Data Engineer
4 25 (18.52%) Lead
5 21 (15.56%) Software Engineer
6 16 (11.85%) Java Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Java Developer
8 13 (9.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (9.63%) Lead Developer
9 12 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.89%) Integration Developer
9 12 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Architect
10 9 (6.67%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.93%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 7 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.89%) Terraform
2 27 (20.00%) Node.js
2 27 (20.00%) REST
2 27 (20.00%) Spring
3 26 (19.26%) RabbitMQ
4 21 (15.56%) RESTful
5 19 (14.07%) React
5 19 (14.07%) Spring Boot
6 13 (9.63%) PySpark
7 10 (7.41%) GraphQL
8 9 (6.67%) .NET
8 9 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (5.93%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.93%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (5.93%) Redux
10 7 (5.19%) JWT
10 7 (5.19%) OAuth
11 5 (3.70%) Vue
12 4 (2.96%) JPA
12 4 (2.96%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.41%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.19%) AI Agents
4 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.48%) Blog
6 2 (1.48%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 61 (45.19%) Agile
3 56 (41.48%) DevOps
4 53 (39.26%) Event-Driven
5 42 (31.11%) Containerisation
5 42 (31.11%) Microservices
6 41 (30.37%) Software Engineering
7 39 (28.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 38 (28.15%) AI
9 37 (27.41%) Data Pipeline
10 36 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (21.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (20.74%) Data Engineering
13 25 (18.52%) Data Modelling
13 25 (18.52%) ETL
13 25 (18.52%) Mentoring
13 25 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (17.04%) Observability
15 21 (15.56%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.41%) Python
2 61 (45.19%) Java
3 46 (34.07%) SQL
4 25 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 22 (16.30%) JavaScript
6 19 (14.07%) Go
7 9 (6.67%) C#
8 8 (5.93%) Groovy
9 7 (5.19%) Scala
10 6 (4.44%) Bash
11 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.70%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.96%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.22%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.74%) Ada
14 1 (0.74%) Bicep
14 1 (0.74%) C
14 1 (0.74%) PHP
14 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.93%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.22%) Degree
6 2 (1.48%) OCP
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) GIAC
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) SSCP
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 51 (37.78%) Docker
2 8 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.41%) Istio
3 9 (6.67%) Ansible
4 7 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.44%) Argo
5 6 (4.44%) Grafana
6 4 (2.96%) Puppet
7 3 (2.22%) Cilium
7 3 (2.22%) Packer
8 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.48%) Salt
9 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.74%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) Databricks
3 8 (5.93%) Confluent
3 8 (5.93%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.44%) Informatica
5 5 (3.70%) HubSpot
5 5 (3.70%) Splunk
6 4 (2.96%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.96%) Google
7 3 (2.22%) webMethods
8 2 (1.48%) Oracle
8 2 (1.48%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.48%) Solace
9 1 (0.74%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.74%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.74%) Sparx
9 1 (0.74%) TIBCO