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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 126 285
Rank change year-on-year -208 +159 -123
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 121 400 237
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 2.46% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 10.36% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 91 133 177
10th Percentile £54,808 £51,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,063 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +33.33% -20.59%
75th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £118,750
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 4,502 3,861 6,792
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.40% 23.73% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,325 2,562 4,814
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 20 September 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 (14.88%) Apache Spark
2 16 (13.22%) Apache
3 13 (10.74%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.48%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.48%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.48%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.48%) Camunda
5 2 (1.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (61.16%) AWS
2 46 (38.02%) Azure
3 25 (20.66%) Serverless
4 22 (18.18%) GCP
5 19 (15.70%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (14.05%) GitHub
7 15 (12.40%) SaaS
8 14 (11.57%) Amazon S3
8 14 (11.57%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.61%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (6.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (5.79%) Azure AKS
11 7 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (4.96%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) 4G
1 1 (0.83%) 5G
1 1 (0.83%) ATM
1 1 (0.83%) Broadband
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
1 1 (0.83%) MQTT
1 1 (0.83%) Network Security
1 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 22 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.92%) Relational Database
4 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.09%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.44%) Big Data
7 7 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.79%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.79%) MySQL
8 6 (4.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (4.96%) Metadata
8 6 (4.96%) Power BI
9 5 (4.13%) Tableau
10 4 (3.31%) Flink
10 4 (3.31%) Redis
10 4 (3.31%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (13.22%) Git
2 14 (11.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.13%) Poetry
4 3 (2.48%) GitLab
4 3 (2.48%) JIRA
4 3 (2.48%) Postman
4 3 (2.48%) Selenium
5 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.83%) ERwin
6 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.83%) JUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.83%) Mocha
6 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.53%) Finance
3 16 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Retail
6 4 (3.31%) Banking
6 4 (3.31%) Front Office
7 3 (2.48%) Billing
7 3 (2.48%) iGaming
7 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.65%) Games
8 2 (1.65%) Law
8 2 (1.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.83%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (28.10%) Senior
2 33 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 30 (24.79%) Developer
4 22 (18.18%) Lead
5 16 (13.22%) Java Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (10.74%) Software Engineer
8 12 (9.92%) Integration Developer
8 12 (9.92%) Java Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Architect
10 8 (6.61%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Java Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Kafka Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.31%) Integration Architect
14 4 (3.31%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.62%) Terraform
2 30 (24.79%) Spring
3 27 (22.31%) RabbitMQ
4 26 (21.49%) REST
5 22 (18.18%) RESTful
6 20 (16.53%) Node.js
7 19 (15.70%) Spring Boot
8 14 (11.57%) PySpark
9 13 (10.74%) React
10 8 (6.61%) .NET
10 8 (6.61%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (5.79%) JWT
11 7 (5.79%) OAuth
12 6 (4.96%) AngularJS
13 4 (3.31%) JPA
13 4 (3.31%) OpenAPI
13 4 (3.31%) WebSockets
14 3 (2.48%) Swagger
14 3 (2.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.96%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.48%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.65%) Blog
7 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.83%) Derivative
8 1 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (3.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 57 (47.11%) Event-Driven
3 53 (43.80%) Agile
4 46 (38.02%) Microservices
5 45 (37.19%) DevOps
6 41 (33.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 39 (32.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (32.23%) Software Engineering
8 38 (31.40%) AI
9 36 (29.75%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (28.93%) Containerisation
11 30 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (23.97%) Observability
13 28 (23.14%) Mentoring
14 27 (22.31%) Data Engineering
15 25 (20.66%) Data Modelling
16 24 (19.83%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (17.36%) Analytics
17 21 (17.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 56 (46.28%) Java
2 50 (41.32%) Python
3 43 (35.54%) SQL
4 17 (14.05%) TypeScript
5 15 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.61%) C#
7 7 (5.79%) Groovy
7 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.79%) Scala
8 6 (4.96%) Bash
9 4 (3.31%) Go
9 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.48%) DataWeave
10 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.83%) Ada
11 1 (0.83%) C
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.26%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.65%) Degree
5 2 (1.65%) OCP
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) GIAC
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) SSCP
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 47 (38.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (42.98%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Ansible
3 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.96%) Grafana
5 5 (4.13%) Argo
6 3 (2.48%) Cilium
6 3 (2.48%) Packer
7 2 (1.65%) Istio
7 2 (1.65%) Puppet
8 1 (0.83%) Control-M
8 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) QRadar
8 1 (0.83%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.61%) Databricks
2 8 (6.61%) MuleSoft
3 7 (5.79%) Informatica
4 5 (4.13%) HubSpot
4 5 (4.13%) Splunk
5 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.31%) Google
6 3 (2.48%) Solace
6 3 (2.48%) webMethods
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle
7 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.65%) Talend
8 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.83%) Dell
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.83%) Yahoo!