Kafka Jobs with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 108 100
Rank change year-on-year -133 -8 +36
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 442 1,302 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 3.02% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.93% 8.89% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 374 806 1,064
10th Percentile £50,686 £56,250 £53,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £67,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +6.06% +17.86%
75th Percentile £91,991 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,958 14,651 29,900
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.55% 33.95% 44.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,475 10,949 17,175
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Kafka salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (19.46%) Apache Spark
2 32 (7.24%) Apache
3 11 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.36%) Confluence
4 6 (1.36%) nginx
5 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 233 (52.71%) AWS
2 106 (23.98%) GCP
3 100 (22.62%) Azure
4 47 (10.63%) SaaS
5 39 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 39 (8.82%) GitHub
6 31 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (5.43%) Serverless
7 24 (5.43%) Slack
8 23 (5.20%) Google Docs
8 23 (5.20%) Lucidchart
8 23 (5.20%) Miro
9 19 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.85%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (2.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.26%) Firewall
2 6 (1.36%) AMQP
3 5 (1.13%) Network Security
4 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.45%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (22.62%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (15.84%) Big Data
3 69 (15.61%) Redis
4 67 (15.16%) Elasticsearch
5 59 (13.35%) NoSQL
5 59 (13.35%) Relational Database
6 58 (13.12%) MySQL
7 46 (10.41%) Hadoop
8 40 (9.05%) MongoDB
9 32 (7.24%) BigQuery
10 26 (5.88%) SQL Server
11 23 (5.20%) Scylla
12 20 (4.52%) Flink
13 18 (4.07%) Tableau
14 17 (3.85%) Data Lake
14 17 (3.85%) Power BI
15 16 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
16 15 (3.39%) CouchDB
17 14 (3.17%) Looker
18 12 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 73 (16.52%) Git
2 70 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 30 (6.79%) Maven
4 26 (5.88%) GitLab
5 24 (5.43%) JIRA
6 15 (3.39%) Spinnaker
7 12 (2.71%) JUnit
8 11 (2.49%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.26%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.04%) Selenium
11 8 (1.81%) Gradle
12 7 (1.58%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.58%) Eclipse
13 6 (1.36%) Mocha
13 6 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (1.13%) GDB
15 4 (0.90%) Mockito
15 4 (0.90%) Postman
16 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
16 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 173 (39.14%) Finance
2 130 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 88 (19.91%) Banking
4 37 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.69%) Retail
6 22 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.98%) Games
7 20 (4.52%) Law
8 14 (3.17%) Legal
9 13 (2.94%) Marketing
10 11 (2.49%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.26%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.04%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.81%) Automotive
13 8 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Advertising
14 5 (1.13%) Retail Finance
15 3 (0.68%) Front Office
16 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (37.78%) Developer
2 155 (35.07%) Senior
3 102 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 86 (19.46%) Senior Developer
5 50 (11.31%) Lead
6 45 (10.18%) Java Developer
7 38 (8.60%) Data Engineer
7 38 (8.60%) Java Engineer
8 37 (8.37%) .NET Developer
9 35 (7.92%) Principal Engineer
10 34 (7.69%) Architect
11 29 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (5.43%) Principal Software Engineer
13 24 (5.43%) Senior .NET Developer
14 23 (5.20%) Java Software Engineer
15 22 (4.98%) Python Engineer
16 20 (4.52%) Full Stack Engineer
17 19 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (26.92%) Spring Boot
2 98 (22.17%) Spring
3 79 (17.87%) AngularJS
4 76 (17.19%) RabbitMQ
5 71 (16.06%) GraphQL
5 71 (16.06%) React
6 69 (15.61%) REST
7 67 (15.16%) .NET
8 50 (11.31%) Web Services
9 49 (11.09%) RESTful
10 42 (9.50%) gRPC
11 37 (8.37%) Node.js
12 30 (6.79%) .NET Core
13 28 (6.33%) JSON
14 24 (5.43%) CSS
15 23 (5.20%) Django
16 15 (3.39%) ASP.NET Web API
16 15 (3.39%) HTML
17 13 (2.94%) Hibernate
18 12 (2.71%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.09%) Algorithms
2 41 (9.28%) Data Structures
3 36 (8.14%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (7.24%) Client/Server
5 16 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.39%) Blockchain
6 15 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.39%) PropTech
6 15 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 15 (3.39%) Robotics
7 12 (2.71%) Video\Live Streaming
8 11 (2.49%) Cyberattack
9 10 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.04%) Sports Betting
11 8 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.81%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.81%) Replication
12 7 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.60%) Linux
2 15 (3.39%) Unix
3 13 (2.94%) Solaris
3 13 (2.94%) Windows
4 12 (2.71%) CentOS
4 12 (2.71%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.71%) zOS
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (49.10%) Agile
2 197 (44.57%) Microservices
3 168 (38.01%) Software Engineering
4 129 (29.19%) CI/CD
5 109 (24.66%) TDD
6 81 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (15.16%) Design Patterns
8 66 (14.93%) DevOps
9 62 (14.03%) Continuous Integration
10 50 (11.31%) Fintech
11 48 (10.86%) SDLC
12 46 (10.41%) Analytics
12 46 (10.41%) Data Science
13 45 (10.18%) Artificial Intelligence
14 44 (9.95%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (9.73%) Full Stack Development
16 37 (8.37%) Data Engineering
16 37 (8.37%) Event-Driven
17 36 (8.14%) High Availability
17 36 (8.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 211 (47.74%) Java
2 143 (32.35%) Python
3 119 (26.92%) SQL
4 90 (20.36%) Go
5 78 (17.65%) C#
6 73 (16.52%) JavaScript
7 66 (14.93%) TypeScript
8 44 (9.95%) Scala
9 28 (6.33%) Bash
10 17 (3.85%) Kotlin
11 14 (3.17%) C
12 5 (1.13%) VBA
13 3 (0.68%) Clojure
13 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.68%) Rust
13 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) C++
14 1 (0.23%) Perl
14 1 (0.23%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (5.20%) Degree
2 9 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.81%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.90%) CISM
4 4 (0.90%) CISSP
4 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.26%) QA
1 10 (2.26%) SEPA
2 6 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.36%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.90%) ISO 20022
3 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.90%) NIST
4 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 200 (45.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 223 (50.45%) Kubernetes
2 43 (9.73%) Terraform
3 20 (4.52%) Ansible
4 11 (2.49%) Grafana
5 10 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.90%) Kibana
7 3 (0.68%) logstash
7 3 (0.68%) Rancher
8 2 (0.45%) Argo
8 2 (0.45%) Consul
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (13.57%) Google
2 24 (5.43%) Dell
3 19 (4.30%) Oracle
4 17 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 16 (3.62%) Databricks
6 15 (3.39%) IBM
7 11 (2.49%) Confluent
7 11 (2.49%) Splunk
7 11 (2.49%) Teradata
8 8 (1.81%) YouTube
9 4 (0.90%) Facebook
9 4 (0.90%) Qualys
10 3 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.68%) VMware
11 2 (0.45%) Apple
11 2 (0.45%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.45%) Informatica
12 1 (0.23%) Murex
12 1 (0.23%) Sybase