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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 152 216
Rank change year-on-year -61 +64 -111
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 184 293 455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 2.27% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.90% 7.07% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 150 242 378
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £49,625
25th Percentile £76,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £91,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +25.86% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £82,865 £77,500
% change year-on-year +20.68% +6.92% -13.65%

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 3,119 4,147 8,603
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.33% 32.17% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 3,300 7,448
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,220 £39,658
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +10.37% -9.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 6 April 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 32 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (13.59%) Apache Spark
3 20 (10.87%) Apache
4 5 (2.72%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) Camunda
6 1 (0.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Actimize
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 147 (79.89%) AWS
2 73 (39.67%) GCP
3 66 (35.87%) Azure
4 25 (13.59%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (13.59%) GitHub
5 21 (11.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 19 (10.33%) Serverless
7 17 (9.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (9.24%) SaaS
8 15 (8.15%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.15%) dbt
9 13 (7.07%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.98%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.43%) Amazon MSK
12 9 (4.89%) Dagster
13 7 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.26%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.35%) Broadband
2 4 (2.17%) MQTT
3 2 (1.09%) AMQP
3 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 2 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 20 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.24%) Metadata
4 15 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (8.15%) Tableau
5 13 (7.07%) MongoDB
6 11 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.98%) BigQuery
6 11 (5.98%) MySQL
7 10 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (5.43%) Flink
7 10 (5.43%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.89%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.26%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.26%) Power BI
11 5 (2.72%) Big Data
11 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (16.30%) Git
2 12 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.26%) GitLab
4 5 (2.72%) git-flow
5 3 (1.63%) JIRA
5 3 (1.63%) JMeter
6 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.09%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.09%) Selenium
6 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.54%) Gradle
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.54%) MLflow
7 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (37.50%) Finance
2 43 (23.37%) Front Office
3 26 (14.13%) Social Skills
4 24 (13.04%) Banking
5 20 (10.87%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.89%) Law
7 8 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.26%) Retail
9 5 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.63%) Legal
10 3 (1.63%) Marketing
11 2 (1.09%) Electronics
11 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.09%) Games
11 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) International Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (32.61%) Developer
2 56 (30.43%) Lead
3 50 (27.17%) Senior
4 40 (21.74%) Software Engineer
5 38 (20.65%) Data Engineer
6 32 (17.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 24 (13.04%) Lead Developer
8 21 (11.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (10.87%) Lead Software Developer
9 20 (10.87%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (8.15%) Java Developer
11 15 (8.15%) Java Engineer
12 14 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (7.61%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (7.61%) React Developer
13 11 (5.98%) Senior Developer
14 10 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.98%) React
2 51 (27.72%) Node.js
3 35 (19.02%) GraphQL
4 34 (18.48%) Redux
5 27 (14.67%) RESTful
6 25 (13.59%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (12.50%) REST
8 16 (8.70%) gRPC
8 16 (8.70%) Spring
9 15 (8.15%) .NET
10 14 (7.61%) Spring Boot
11 10 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.43%) Vue
11 10 (5.43%) WebSockets
12 9 (4.89%) OAuth
13 8 (4.35%) OAuth2
13 8 (4.35%) PySpark
14 6 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
14 6 (3.26%) CSS
14 6 (3.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.65%) Fixed Income
2 35 (19.02%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (18.48%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.52%) AI Agents
5 10 (5.43%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.80%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.26%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.26%) Social Media
9 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.63%) Blog
10 3 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.54%) Derivative
12 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.54%) Replication
12 1 (0.54%) Video on Demand
12 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.43%) Android
2 6 (3.26%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (48.37%) Agile
2 80 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 78 (42.39%) DevOps
4 59 (32.07%) Microservices
5 51 (27.72%) Software Engineering
6 48 (26.09%) Event-Driven
7 42 (22.83%) Data Engineering
7 42 (22.83%) Investment Management
8 41 (22.28%) Data Pipeline
9 40 (21.74%) AI
9 40 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
10 39 (21.20%) Analytics
11 34 (18.48%) Containerisation
11 34 (18.48%) ETL
12 32 (17.39%) Data Modelling
12 32 (17.39%) Order Management
12 32 (17.39%) Portfolio Management
13 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (16.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 26 (14.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 102 (55.43%) Python
2 85 (46.20%) Java
3 65 (35.33%) Go
4 59 (32.07%) SQL
5 48 (26.09%) TypeScript
6 45 (24.46%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.15%) C#
8 14 (7.61%) Scala
9 13 (7.07%) C++
10 11 (5.98%) Bash
11 5 (2.72%) Groovy
12 4 (2.17%) Rust
13 3 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.54%) Bicep
15 1 (0.54%) Korn
15 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.54%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 28 (15.22%) Degree
2 23 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (10.33%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.89%) QA
3 3 (1.63%) GDPR
4 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (34.78%) Docker
2 8 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (19.02%) Terraform
3 12 (6.52%) Ansible
3 12 (6.52%) Argo
4 11 (5.98%) Grafana
4 11 (5.98%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.35%) Istio
6 4 (2.17%) Puppet
7 3 (1.63%) Kibana
8 2 (1.09%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.09%) Salt
9 1 (0.54%) Control-M
9 1 (0.54%) Icinga
9 1 (0.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (7.61%) Databricks
2 8 (4.35%) Confluent
3 5 (2.72%) Ericsson
3 5 (2.72%) Mavenir
3 5 (2.72%) Nokia
4 4 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.63%) Google
5 3 (1.63%) Oracle
6 2 (1.09%) Foundry
6 2 (1.09%) IBM
6 2 (1.09%) Palantir
6 2 (1.09%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.09%) SAP
6 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.54%) Informatica
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) VMware