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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 133 278
Rank change year-on-year -213 +145 -113
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 121 394 234
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 2.37% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 10.28% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 91 127 171
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £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 £101,250 £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% -15.15%

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 4,512 3,833 6,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.20% 23.10% 29.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,321 2,515 4,650
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £49,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 27 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 15 (12.40%) Apache
3 12 (9.92%) 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
5 2 (1.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) JBoss
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (62.81%) AWS
2 47 (38.84%) 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%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (17.36%) MongoDB
2 21 (17.36%) NoSQL
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 4 (3.31%) JIRA
5 3 (2.48%) GitLab
5 3 (2.48%) Postman
5 3 (2.48%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) JUnit
7 1 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.83%) Mocha
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.70%) 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 32 (26.45%) Data Engineer
3 30 (24.79%) Developer
4 21 (17.36%) Lead
5 16 (13.22%) Java Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (11.57%) Software Engineer
8 12 (9.92%) Integration Developer
8 12 (9.92%) Java Developer
9 10 (8.26%) Architect
10 8 (6.61%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Java Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Kafka Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 4 (3.31%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.62%) Spring
1 31 (25.62%) Terraform
2 27 (22.31%) RabbitMQ
3 26 (21.49%) REST
4 22 (18.18%) RESTful
5 20 (16.53%) Node.js
5 20 (16.53%) Spring Boot
6 14 (11.57%) PySpark
6 14 (11.57%) React
7 8 (6.61%) .NET
7 8 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (5.79%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (5.79%) JWT
8 7 (5.79%) OAuth
9 6 (4.96%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.31%) JPA
10 4 (3.31%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.31%) WebSockets
11 3 (2.48%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.48%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.13%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
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%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (55.37%) CI/CD
2 56 (46.28%) Event-Driven
3 54 (44.63%) Agile
4 47 (38.84%) Microservices
5 46 (38.02%) DevOps
6 41 (33.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 40 (33.06%) Software Engineering
8 39 (32.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (30.58%) AI
10 35 (28.93%) Containerisation
10 35 (28.93%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (23.97%) Observability
13 28 (23.14%) Mentoring
14 26 (21.49%) Data Engineering
15 25 (20.66%) Data Modelling
16 23 (19.01%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (16.53%) Analytics
17 20 (16.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 56 (46.28%) Java
2 49 (40.50%) Python
3 42 (34.71%) SQL
4 18 (14.88%) TypeScript
5 16 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.61%) C#
7 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.79%) Scala
8 6 (4.96%) Bash
8 6 (4.96%) Groovy
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 29 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) 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 17 (14.05%) 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 48 (39.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (43.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.79%) Ansible
2 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
3 6 (4.96%) Grafana
4 4 (3.31%) Argo
5 3 (2.48%) Cilium
5 3 (2.48%) Packer
6 2 (1.65%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Control-M
7 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.83%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.44%) MuleSoft
3 8 (6.61%) Databricks
4 7 (5.79%) Informatica
5 5 (4.13%) HubSpot
5 5 (4.13%) Splunk
6 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.31%) Google
7 3 (2.48%) Solace
7 3 (2.48%) webMethods
8 2 (1.65%) Oracle
8 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.65%) Talend
9 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.83%) Dell
9 1 (0.83%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.83%) VMware