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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 130 247
Rank change year-on-year -108 +117 -143
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 179 373 419
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.98% 2.68% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 9.23% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 149 248 354
10th Percentile £62,750 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £76,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +8.47% -15.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,991
90th Percentile £144,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.76% +6.45% -12.91%

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 3,172 4,041 8,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.45% 29.06% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,273 3,165 7,481
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 4 May 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 33 (18.44%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (15.64%) Apache Spark
3 20 (11.17%) Apache
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (1.68%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) Camunda
7 1 (0.56%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 143 (79.89%) AWS
2 66 (36.87%) GCP
3 59 (32.96%) Azure
4 25 (13.97%) Serverless
5 21 (11.73%) Amazon Kinesis
6 20 (11.17%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (10.61%) GitHub
8 18 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.94%) Amazon S3
10 15 (8.38%) dbt
10 15 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (7.26%) SaaS
12 12 (6.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (5.59%) OpenShift
14 9 (5.03%) Dagster
15 8 (4.47%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
17 6 (3.35%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Broadband
2 4 (2.23%) MQTT
3 2 (1.12%) AMQP
3 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.56%) 4G
4 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.73%) NoSQL
1 21 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.61%) Metadata
3 15 (8.38%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.82%) SQL Server
4 14 (7.82%) Tableau
5 13 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (6.15%) Apache Iceberg
7 11 (6.15%) BigQuery
7 11 (6.15%) Flink
7 11 (6.15%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (5.59%) MySQL
9 9 (5.03%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (3.91%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.91%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (17.32%) Git
2 13 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.79%) GitLab
4 3 (1.68%) JIRA
5 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) git-flow
6 1 (0.56%) Gradle
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.56%) Maven
6 1 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 66 (36.87%) Finance
2 41 (22.91%) Front Office
3 22 (12.29%) Banking
3 22 (12.29%) Social Skills
4 18 (10.06%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.03%) Law
5 9 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.91%) Retail
7 6 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Electronics
9 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.12%) Games
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (32.96%) Lead
2 58 (32.40%) Developer
3 44 (24.58%) Senior
4 42 (23.46%) Data Engineer
5 40 (22.35%) Software Engineer
6 32 (17.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 27 (15.08%) Lead Developer
8 20 (11.17%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (11.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (8.94%) Java Engineer
11 16 (8.94%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (7.82%) Java Developer
12 14 (7.82%) React Developer
13 12 (6.70%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (6.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (6.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.17%) Node.js
2 51 (28.49%) React
3 34 (18.99%) GraphQL
4 32 (17.88%) Redux
5 26 (14.53%) RESTful
6 25 (13.97%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (12.85%) REST
8 16 (8.94%) Spring
9 14 (7.82%) gRPC
10 13 (7.26%) Spring Boot
11 11 (6.15%) .NET
11 11 (6.15%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.59%) Vue
12 10 (5.59%) WebSockets
13 8 (4.47%) PySpark
14 7 (3.91%) OAuth
15 6 (3.35%) Apache NiFi
15 6 (3.35%) OAuth2
15 6 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
16 3 (1.68%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.67%) Fixed Income
2 35 (19.55%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (15.08%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.15%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.91%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.35%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.35%) Social Media
8 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.68%) Blog
9 3 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.68%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.56%) IoT
11 1 (0.56%) Replication
11 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
11 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.03%) Android
2 6 (3.35%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (46.37%) Agile
2 79 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 72 (40.22%) DevOps
4 52 (29.05%) Microservices
5 50 (27.93%) Event-Driven
6 49 (27.37%) Software Engineering
7 45 (25.14%) Data Pipeline
8 43 (24.02%) Data Engineering
9 40 (22.35%) Investment Management
10 39 (21.79%) Containerisation
11 38 (21.23%) Analytics
12 37 (20.67%) Data Modelling
13 35 (19.55%) AI
13 35 (19.55%) ETL
14 34 (18.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 33 (18.44%) Full-Stack Development
16 32 (17.88%) Order Management
16 32 (17.88%) Portfolio Management
16 32 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (14.53%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 107 (59.78%) Python
2 84 (46.93%) Java
3 60 (33.52%) Go
4 58 (32.40%) SQL
5 47 (26.26%) JavaScript
6 45 (25.14%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.38%) Scala
8 13 (7.26%) C++
9 12 (6.70%) C#
10 11 (6.15%) Bash
11 5 (2.79%) Groovy
11 5 (2.79%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.23%) Rust
13 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.56%) Bicep
14 1 (0.56%) Korn
14 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.56%) PHP
14 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.85%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.38%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.35%) QA
3 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 66 (36.87%) Docker
2 8 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (37.99%) Kubernetes
2 44 (24.58%) Terraform
3 16 (8.94%) Ansible
4 11 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.59%) Argo
5 10 (5.59%) Grafana
6 8 (4.47%) Istio
7 4 (2.23%) Puppet
8 3 (1.68%) Packer
9 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.12%) Salt
10 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.56%) Icinga
10 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (7.26%) Databricks
2 8 (4.47%) Confluent
3 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.23%) Ericsson
4 4 (2.23%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.23%) Mavenir
4 4 (2.23%) Nokia
5 3 (1.68%) Google
6 2 (1.12%) Foundry
6 2 (1.12%) Palantir
6 2 (1.12%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.12%) SAP
6 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) Solace
7 1 (0.56%) VMware