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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 132 268
Rank change year-on-year -205 +136 -107
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 123 398 243
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 2.44% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 10.25% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 95 132 186
10th Percentile £54,885 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £61,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +35.85% -22.06%
75th Percentile £104,125 £138,125 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £113,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +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 4,467 3,884 6,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.66% 23.85% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,296 2,591 4,913
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,313 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 13 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 17 (13.82%) Apache Spark
2 16 (13.01%) Apache
3 14 (11.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.44%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.44%) Camunda
5 2 (1.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Confluence
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (65.04%) AWS
2 50 (40.65%) Azure
3 27 (21.95%) GCP
4 25 (20.33%) Serverless
5 19 (15.45%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (13.01%) GitHub
7 15 (12.20%) SaaS
8 14 (11.38%) Amazon S3
8 14 (11.38%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (7.32%) Amazon MSK
10 9 (7.32%) OpenShift
11 8 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.50%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (6.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (6.50%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) 4G
1 1 (0.81%) 5G
1 1 (0.81%) ATM
1 1 (0.81%) Broadband
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
1 1 (0.81%) MQTT
1 1 (0.81%) Network Security
1 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.70%) NoSQL
2 21 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (15.45%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.38%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (9.76%) Relational Database
6 11 (8.94%) DynamoDB
6 11 (8.94%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.32%) Big Data
8 7 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.69%) MySQL
9 6 (4.88%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.88%) Metadata
9 6 (4.88%) Power BI
10 5 (4.07%) Tableau
11 4 (3.25%) Flink
11 4 (3.25%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (13.01%) Git
2 14 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.07%) Poetry
4 3 (2.44%) GitLab
4 3 (2.44%) Postman
4 3 (2.44%) Selenium
5 2 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.63%) JIRA
6 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.81%) ERwin
6 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.81%) JUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.81%) Mocha
6 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.33%) Finance
3 16 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.13%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.88%) Retail
7 3 (2.44%) Billing
7 3 (2.44%) iGaming
7 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.63%) Front Office
8 2 (1.63%) Games
8 2 (1.63%) Law
8 2 (1.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.81%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (30.08%) Senior
2 33 (26.83%) Data Engineer
3 30 (24.39%) Developer
4 19 (15.45%) Lead
5 15 (12.20%) Java Engineer
5 15 (12.20%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (10.57%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.76%) Integration Developer
7 12 (9.76%) Java Developer
8 10 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.32%) Architect
10 8 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.50%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.08%) Terraform
2 28 (22.76%) Spring
3 27 (21.95%) RabbitMQ
3 27 (21.95%) REST
4 21 (17.07%) RESTful
5 20 (16.26%) Node.js
5 20 (16.26%) Spring Boot
6 14 (11.38%) PySpark
7 11 (8.94%) React
8 8 (6.50%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (6.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (5.69%) .NET
9 7 (5.69%) JWT
9 7 (5.69%) OAuth
10 6 (4.88%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.25%) JPA
11 4 (3.25%) OpenAPI
12 3 (2.44%) Spring MVC
12 3 (2.44%) Swagger
12 3 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.88%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.44%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) Blog
6 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Robotics
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 54 (43.90%) Event-Driven
3 50 (40.65%) DevOps
4 49 (39.84%) Agile
5 42 (34.15%) Microservices
6 40 (32.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 39 (31.71%) Containerisation
8 38 (30.89%) AI
8 38 (30.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (30.89%) Software Engineering
9 36 (29.27%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (21.95%) Data Engineering
12 26 (21.14%) Observability
13 25 (20.33%) Data Modelling
13 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (19.51%) Mentoring
14 24 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (17.07%) ETL
16 20 (16.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.72%) Python
2 53 (43.09%) Java
3 43 (34.96%) SQL
4 17 (13.82%) TypeScript
5 15 (12.20%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.13%) Go
7 7 (5.69%) C#
7 7 (5.69%) Groovy
7 7 (5.69%) Scala
8 6 (4.88%) Bash
8 6 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.25%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.44%) DataWeave
10 3 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.81%) Ada
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) PHP
11 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.63%) Degree
5 2 (1.63%) OCP
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) CISSP
6 1 (0.81%) GIAC
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) SSCP
6 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 50 (40.65%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.32%) Ansible
3 8 (6.50%) Istio
4 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.88%) Argo
5 6 (4.88%) Grafana
6 3 (2.44%) Cilium
6 3 (2.44%) Packer
6 3 (2.44%) Puppet
7 2 (1.63%) Salt
8 1 (0.81%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) Databricks
2 8 (6.50%) MuleSoft
3 7 (5.69%) Informatica
4 6 (4.88%) Confluent
5 5 (4.07%) HubSpot
5 5 (4.07%) Splunk
6 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.25%) Google
7 3 (2.44%) webMethods
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle
8 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.63%) Solace
8 2 (1.63%) Talend
9 1 (0.81%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.81%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.81%) Sparx