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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 156 231
Rank change year-on-year -76 +75 -131
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 181 299 450
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.01% 2.21% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 7.45% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 151 251 378
10th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £76,500 £58,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% +10.34% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,991
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% +6.45% -13.89%

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 3,174 4,015 8,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.65% 29.72% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,280 3,222 7,501
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 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,400 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 25 April 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 (18.23%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (14.92%) Apache Spark
3 20 (11.05%) Apache
4 5 (2.76%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) Camunda
6 1 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 146 (80.66%) AWS
2 69 (38.12%) GCP
3 62 (34.25%) Azure
4 23 (12.71%) Serverless
5 22 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (12.15%) Amazon Kinesis
6 20 (11.05%) GitHub
7 16 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.29%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.29%) dbt
9 14 (7.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (7.18%) SaaS
11 12 (6.63%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.52%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.97%) Dagster
14 8 (4.42%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (3.87%) Power Platform
16 6 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (3.31%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Broadband
2 4 (2.21%) MQTT
3 2 (1.10%) AMQP
3 2 (1.10%) Firewall
3 2 (1.10%) SSL
4 1 (0.55%) 4G
4 1 (0.55%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.60%) NoSQL
1 21 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.50%) Metadata
3 15 (8.29%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.73%) SQL Server
4 14 (7.73%) Tableau
5 13 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.63%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (6.08%) Apache Iceberg
7 11 (6.08%) BigQuery
7 11 (6.08%) Flink
7 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.52%) MySQL
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (3.87%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.31%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.31%) Power BI
12 5 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (17.13%) Git
2 12 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.76%) GitLab
4 3 (1.66%) JIRA
5 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.55%) git-flow
6 1 (0.55%) Gradle
6 1 (0.55%) JMeter
6 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.55%) Maven
6 1 (0.55%) MLflow
6 1 (0.55%) Selenium
6 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 67 (37.02%) Finance
2 42 (23.20%) Front Office
3 23 (12.71%) Banking
4 22 (12.15%) Social Skills
5 21 (11.60%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.97%) Law
6 9 (4.97%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.87%) Retail
8 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.66%) Legal
9 3 (1.66%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Electronics
10 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.10%) Games
10 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Billing
11 1 (0.55%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (33.70%) Lead
2 57 (31.49%) Developer
3 47 (25.97%) Senior
4 41 (22.65%) Data Engineer
5 39 (21.55%) Software Engineer
6 32 (17.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 27 (14.92%) Lead Developer
8 20 (11.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (11.05%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (11.05%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (8.84%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (7.73%) Java Developer
11 14 (7.73%) Java Engineer
11 14 (7.73%) React Developer
12 13 (7.18%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (6.63%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.83%) Node.js
2 51 (28.18%) React
3 34 (18.78%) GraphQL
4 32 (17.68%) Redux
5 27 (14.92%) RESTful
6 25 (13.81%) RabbitMQ
7 24 (13.26%) REST
8 16 (8.84%) gRPC
9 15 (8.29%) Spring
10 12 (6.63%) Spring Boot
11 11 (6.08%) .NET
11 11 (6.08%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.08%) WebSockets
12 10 (5.52%) Vue
13 9 (4.97%) OAuth
14 8 (4.42%) OAuth2
14 8 (4.42%) PySpark
15 6 (3.31%) Apache NiFi
15 6 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
16 4 (2.21%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.99%) Fixed Income
2 36 (19.89%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (15.47%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.63%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.31%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.31%) Social Media
7 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.66%) Blog
8 3 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.55%) Replication
10 1 (0.55%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.52%) Android
2 6 (3.31%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (45.86%) Agile
2 80 (44.20%) CI/CD
3 74 (40.88%) DevOps
4 53 (29.28%) Microservices
5 50 (27.62%) Event-Driven
6 48 (26.52%) Software Engineering
7 44 (24.31%) Data Pipeline
8 43 (23.76%) Data Engineering
9 41 (22.65%) Investment Management
10 40 (22.10%) Containerisation
11 39 (21.55%) Analytics
12 38 (20.99%) AI
13 35 (19.34%) Data Modelling
13 35 (19.34%) ETL
14 33 (18.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 33 (18.23%) Full-Stack Development
15 32 (17.68%) Order Management
15 32 (17.68%) Portfolio Management
15 32 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (15.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 107 (59.12%) Python
2 83 (45.86%) Java
3 64 (35.36%) Go
4 59 (32.60%) SQL
5 46 (25.41%) JavaScript
6 44 (24.31%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.29%) Scala
8 13 (7.18%) C#
8 13 (7.18%) C++
9 11 (6.08%) Bash
10 5 (2.76%) Groovy
10 5 (2.76%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.21%) Rust
12 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.55%) Bicep
13 1 (0.55%) Korn
13 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.55%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.36%) Degree
2 21 (11.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (10.50%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.73%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.57%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.31%) QA
3 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 66 (36.46%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (38.12%) Kubernetes
2 42 (23.20%) Terraform
3 15 (8.29%) Ansible
4 12 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.08%) Argo
5 11 (6.08%) Grafana
6 8 (4.42%) Istio
7 4 (2.21%) Puppet
8 2 (1.10%) Packer
8 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.10%) Salt
9 1 (0.55%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.55%) Icinga
9 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (7.18%) Databricks
2 8 (4.42%) Confluent
3 5 (2.76%) Ericsson
3 5 (2.76%) Mavenir
3 5 (2.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.76%) Nokia
4 3 (1.66%) Google
4 3 (1.66%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.10%) Foundry
5 2 (1.10%) Palantir
5 2 (1.10%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.10%) SAP
5 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.55%) IBM
6 1 (0.55%) Informatica
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle
6 1 (0.55%) Solace
6 1 (0.55%) VMware