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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 126 275
Rank change year-on-year -185 +149 -123
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 147 427 259
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 2.57% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.55% 10.90% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 112 156 200
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% -20.59%
75th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £92,125
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,138 3,919 6,441
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.12% 23.63% 26.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,121 2,612 5,165
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,263
Median % change year-on-year - +2.75% -3.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 16 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 24 (16.33%) Apache Spark
2 17 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (9.52%) Apache
4 4 (2.72%) Camunda
5 3 (2.04%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 103 (70.07%) AWS
2 55 (37.41%) Azure
3 41 (27.89%) GCP
4 26 (17.69%) Serverless
5 20 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (8.16%) OpenShift
7 12 (8.16%) SaaS
8 11 (7.48%) GitHub
9 10 (6.80%) Amazon MSK
9 10 (6.80%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.12%) dbt
10 9 (6.12%) Power Platform
11 8 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.44%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Broadband
2 3 (2.04%) MQTT
3 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 2 (1.36%) SSL
4 1 (0.68%) 4G
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
4 1 (0.68%) ATM
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.33%) NoSQL
2 21 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (13.61%) MongoDB
4 14 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 14 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.16%) Metadata
6 11 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (6.80%) DynamoDB
8 9 (6.12%) Big Data
9 8 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (5.44%) MySQL
10 7 (4.76%) Data Lake
10 7 (4.76%) Power BI
11 6 (4.08%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.40%) Tableau
13 4 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.72%) Flink
14 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (15.65%) Git
2 13 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.40%) GitLab
4 4 (2.72%) JIRA
5 3 (2.04%) Postman
5 3 (2.04%) Selenium
6 2 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.68%) ERwin
7 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.68%) JUnit
7 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.68%) Mocha
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (27.89%) Finance
2 29 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.24%) Front Office
4 17 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.16%) Banking
6 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.76%) Law
8 6 (4.08%) Retail
9 3 (2.04%) Billing
9 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.36%) Games
10 2 (1.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) iGaming
11 1 (0.68%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.68%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Military
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Developer
2 38 (25.85%) Data Engineer
3 35 (23.81%) Senior
4 30 (20.41%) Lead
5 27 (18.37%) Software Engineer
6 18 (12.24%) Lead Developer
7 17 (11.56%) Java Engineer
8 16 (10.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 16 (10.88%) Java Developer
9 15 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (8.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (8.16%) Integration Developer
12 10 (6.80%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
14 8 (5.44%) Architect
14 8 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (5.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (5.44%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.13%) Node.js
2 28 (19.05%) React
3 26 (17.69%) RabbitMQ
3 26 (17.69%) REST
3 26 (17.69%) Spring
4 21 (14.29%) RESTful
5 18 (12.24%) GraphQL
5 18 (12.24%) Spring Boot
6 16 (10.88%) Redux
7 11 (7.48%) PySpark
8 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.80%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (6.12%) .NET
10 8 (5.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.76%) JWT
11 7 (4.76%) OAuth
11 7 (4.76%) Vue
12 4 (2.72%) JPA
12 4 (2.72%) OpenAPI
13 3 (2.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.24%) Fixed Income
4 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.44%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.76%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.40%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (3.40%) Social Media
8 4 (2.72%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.04%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.36%) Blog
10 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.48%) Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.62%) Agile
2 66 (44.90%) CI/CD
3 56 (38.10%) DevOps
4 51 (34.69%) Event-Driven
5 44 (29.93%) Software Engineering
6 43 (29.25%) Containerisation
6 43 (29.25%) Microservices
7 41 (27.89%) Data Pipeline
8 38 (25.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (25.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 37 (25.17%) AI
10 31 (21.09%) Data Engineering
10 31 (21.09%) Data Modelling
10 31 (21.09%) ETL
11 27 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (17.01%) Analytics
13 25 (17.01%) Mentoring
13 25 (17.01%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (14.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 77 (52.38%) Python
2 73 (49.66%) Java
3 50 (34.01%) SQL
4 32 (21.77%) TypeScript
5 31 (21.09%) JavaScript
6 26 (17.69%) Go
7 12 (8.16%) Scala
8 9 (6.12%) C#
9 8 (5.44%) Groovy
10 6 (4.08%) Bash
11 5 (3.40%) C++
11 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.40%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.04%) DataWeave
14 2 (1.36%) Rust
15 1 (0.68%) Ada
15 1 (0.68%) Bicep
15 1 (0.68%) C
15 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.84%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.40%) Degree
6 2 (1.36%) OCP
6 2 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) GIAC
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) SSCP
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.04%) GDPR
2 3 (2.04%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (34.69%) Docker
2 8 (5.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (39.46%) Kubernetes
2 38 (25.85%) Terraform
3 11 (7.48%) Ansible
4 10 (6.80%) Istio
5 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.44%) Grafana
7 6 (4.08%) Argo
8 4 (2.72%) Puppet
9 3 (2.04%) Cilium
9 3 (2.04%) Packer
10 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.36%) Salt
11 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.68%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.12%) Databricks
3 8 (5.44%) Confluent
4 7 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.08%) Informatica
6 5 (3.40%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.40%) Splunk
7 4 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.72%) Google
8 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.04%) webMethods
9 2 (1.36%) Oracle
9 2 (1.36%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.36%) Solace
10 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.68%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.68%) Sparx
10 1 (0.68%) TIBCO