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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 121 274
Rank change year-on-year -157 +153 -135
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 160 463 324
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 2.81% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 10.86% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 127 191 263
10th Percentile £54,385 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £141,250 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £112,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -17.14%

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 4,030 4,265 7,913
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.69% 25.85% 25.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,048 2,910 6,617
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 19 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 (15.63%) Apache Spark
2 22 (13.75%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.75%) Apache
4 3 (1.88%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.25%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.25%) Camunda
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 125 (78.13%) AWS
2 51 (31.88%) Azure
3 47 (29.38%) GCP
4 25 (15.63%) Serverless
5 19 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.13%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (7.50%) dbt
8 11 (6.88%) SaaS
9 10 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
9 10 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.25%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.63%) GitHub
11 8 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.38%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (4.38%) Dagster
12 7 (4.38%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.75%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Broadband
2 5 (3.13%) MQTT
3 2 (1.25%) Firewall
3 2 (1.25%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) 4G
4 1 (0.63%) 5G
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) ATM
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) NoSQL
1 21 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 16 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.13%) Metadata
5 12 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.25%) Big Data
6 10 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 10 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.63%) DynamoDB
8 7 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.38%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.75%) MySQL
10 5 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.13%) Power BI
10 5 (3.13%) Tableau
11 3 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (14.38%) Git
2 10 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.13%) GitLab
4 4 (2.50%) JIRA
5 3 (1.88%) Postman
5 3 (1.88%) Selenium
6 2 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (35.00%) Finance
2 34 (21.25%) Front Office
3 26 (16.25%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.13%) Banking
6 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (6.25%) Law
8 8 (5.00%) Retail
9 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.88%) Billing
10 3 (1.88%) Marketing
11 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.63%) Games
12 1 (0.63%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.63%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (38.75%) Developer
2 44 (27.50%) Lead
3 42 (26.25%) Data Engineer
3 42 (26.25%) Software Engineer
4 35 (21.88%) Senior
5 32 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (17.50%) Lead Developer
7 20 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 20 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
8 19 (11.88%) Java Engineer
9 17 (10.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (6.88%) Integration Developer
13 10 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (6.25%) React Developer
13 10 (6.25%) Senior Developer
14 9 (5.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (30.00%) Node.js
2 41 (25.63%) React
3 33 (20.63%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.00%) Redux
5 24 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (15.00%) REST
5 24 (15.00%) Spring
6 22 (13.75%) Spring Boot
7 16 (10.00%) RESTful
8 12 (7.50%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.25%) PySpark
10 9 (5.63%) Vue
11 7 (4.38%) .NET
11 7 (4.38%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (3.13%) JWT
12 5 (3.13%) OAuth
13 4 (2.50%) JPA
14 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
14 3 (1.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.25%) Fixed Income
2 24 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.75%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.75%) Social Media
6 4 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.88%) Blog
7 3 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.88%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.25%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (51.25%) Agile
2 63 (39.38%) CI/CD
3 56 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 53 (33.13%) DevOps
5 46 (28.75%) Event-Driven
6 41 (25.63%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (25.63%) Microservices
7 39 (24.38%) Containerisation
8 37 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (21.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 32 (20.00%) Data Engineering
10 32 (20.00%) Investment Management
10 32 (20.00%) Order Management
10 32 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
11 31 (19.38%) ETL
11 31 (19.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (18.75%) Data Modelling
13 29 (18.13%) AI
14 26 (16.25%) Analytics
15 25 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 94 (58.75%) Python
2 88 (55.00%) Java
3 53 (33.13%) SQL
4 46 (28.75%) TypeScript
5 44 (27.50%) JavaScript
6 40 (25.00%) Go
7 12 (7.50%) Scala
8 7 (4.38%) Bash
8 7 (4.38%) C#
9 6 (3.75%) C++
9 6 (3.75%) Groovy
10 5 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.50%) Rust
12 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.25%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.63%) Ada
14 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.63%) Bicep
14 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.25%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) GIAC
7 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.13%) QA
3 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 48 (30.00%) Docker
2 8 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (35.63%) Kubernetes
2 38 (23.75%) Terraform
3 13 (8.13%) Ansible
4 9 (5.63%) Istio
4 9 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.00%) Grafana
6 5 (3.13%) Argo
7 4 (2.50%) Puppet
8 3 (1.88%) Packer
9 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.25%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) Cilium
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.00%) Confluent
2 8 (5.00%) Databricks
3 6 (3.75%) Informatica
4 5 (3.13%) HubSpot
4 5 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 5 (3.13%) Splunk
5 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.25%) Google
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle
7 2 (1.25%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.25%) Solace
7 2 (1.25%) webMethods
8 1 (0.63%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.63%) Exabeam
8 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) Talend