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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 101 257
Rank change year-on-year -142 +156 -156
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 167 524 403
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 3.54% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 11.64% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 139 238 340
10th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £51,194
25th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +13.79% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,948
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% +10.00% -15.24%

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 3,349 4,503 8,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 30.40% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 3,035 7,529
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,592 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 16 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 31 (18.56%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (14.97%) Apache Spark
3 20 (11.98%) Apache
4 3 (1.80%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.20%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Camunda
6 1 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 135 (80.84%) AWS
2 57 (34.13%) GCP
3 53 (31.74%) Azure
4 24 (14.37%) Serverless
5 19 (11.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 17 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (9.58%) dbt
8 15 (8.98%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.78%) GitHub
9 13 (7.78%) SaaS
10 12 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.99%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.79%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.19%) Dagster
13 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.59%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) Broadband
2 4 (2.40%) MQTT
3 2 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) 4G
4 1 (0.60%) 5G
4 1 (0.60%) AMQP
4 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.38%) Metadata
2 18 (10.78%) NoSQL
3 17 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (8.38%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.78%) Tableau
6 12 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (7.19%) BigQuery
6 12 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (7.19%) MongoDB
7 11 (6.59%) Apache Iceberg
7 11 (6.59%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (5.39%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (5.39%) Flink
10 8 (4.79%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.79%) MySQL
11 6 (3.59%) Big Data
11 6 (3.59%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (17.37%) Git
2 10 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.40%) GitLab
4 3 (1.80%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.60%) MLflow
6 1 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 61 (36.53%) Finance
2 39 (23.35%) Front Office
3 21 (12.57%) Banking
4 19 (11.38%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Law
5 10 (5.99%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.79%) Retail
7 7 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Games
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) International Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (34.13%) Lead
2 56 (33.53%) Developer
3 44 (26.35%) Data Engineer
4 39 (23.35%) Software Engineer
5 33 (19.76%) Senior
6 32 (19.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 27 (16.17%) Lead Developer
8 20 (11.98%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (11.98%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (9.58%) Java Engineer
10 16 (9.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (8.38%) React Developer
13 13 (7.78%) Java Developer
14 12 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (5.99%) AWS DevOps
16 10 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 10 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.94%) Node.js
2 49 (29.34%) React
3 33 (19.76%) GraphQL
4 32 (19.16%) Redux
5 21 (12.57%) RabbitMQ
6 19 (11.38%) REST
6 19 (11.38%) RESTful
7 15 (8.98%) Spring
8 13 (7.78%) Spring Boot
9 11 (6.59%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.99%) .NET
10 10 (5.99%) Vue
11 8 (4.79%) gRPC
11 8 (4.79%) PySpark
12 6 (3.59%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (3.59%) WebSockets
13 5 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (2.40%) OAuth
15 3 (1.80%) .NET Framework
15 3 (1.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.96%) Fixed Income
2 27 (16.17%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (14.37%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.79%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.19%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.59%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.59%) Social Media
8 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.40%) Blog
10 3 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.80%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.60%) IoT
12 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (46.11%) Agile
2 68 (40.72%) CI/CD
3 62 (37.13%) DevOps
4 46 (27.54%) Software Engineering
5 45 (26.95%) Event-Driven
6 44 (26.35%) Data Pipeline
7 43 (25.75%) Microservices
8 41 (24.55%) Data Engineering
9 38 (22.75%) Investment Management
10 36 (21.56%) Analytics
10 36 (21.56%) Data Modelling
10 36 (21.56%) ETL
11 33 (19.76%) Containerisation
12 32 (19.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 32 (19.16%) Order Management
12 32 (19.16%) Portfolio Management
13 31 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (17.37%) AI
16 25 (14.97%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 106 (63.47%) Python
2 82 (49.10%) Java
3 56 (33.53%) SQL
4 53 (31.74%) Go
5 47 (28.14%) JavaScript
6 42 (25.15%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.38%) Scala
8 10 (5.99%) Bash
8 10 (5.99%) C#
8 10 (5.99%) C++
9 5 (2.99%) Groovy
9 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.40%) Rust
11 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) PHP
12 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.78%) Degree
2 17 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) CISSP
5 1 (0.60%) GIAC
5 1 (0.60%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.99%) QA
3 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (34.13%) Docker
2 8 (4.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (35.93%) Kubernetes
2 42 (25.15%) Terraform
3 13 (7.78%) Ansible
4 8 (4.79%) Argo
4 8 (4.79%) Istio
4 8 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.19%) Grafana
6 4 (2.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.80%) Packer
8 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.20%) Salt
9 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (7.78%) Databricks
2 8 (4.79%) Confluent
3 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.40%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.20%) Ericsson
5 2 (1.20%) Foundry
5 2 (1.20%) Mavenir
5 2 (1.20%) Nokia
5 2 (1.20%) Palantir
5 2 (1.20%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.20%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) Informatica
6 1 (0.60%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) Solace