Kafka Jobs with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 149 95
Rank change year-on-year -136 -54 +42
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 287 743 3,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 2.26% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.99% 6.94% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 230 587 1,253
10th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £92,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,483 £82,500
% change year-on-year -19.98% +6.04% +10.00%

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 7,187 10,711 34,988
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.73% 32.64% 44.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 8,589 17,752
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,351 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +4.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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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 26 July 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 47 (16.38%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.23%) Apache
3 7 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.44%) nginx
4 4 (1.39%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 156 (54.36%) AWS
2 75 (26.13%) Azure
3 44 (15.33%) GCP
4 24 (8.36%) Amazon S3
5 15 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (5.23%) Serverless
6 12 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (3.83%) SaaS
8 10 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.48%) GitHub
9 6 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.09%) Azure Pipelines
9 6 (2.09%) npm
9 6 (2.09%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.09%) Yarn
10 5 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.74%) Slack
11 4 (1.39%) Firebolt
11 4 (1.39%) Google Docs
11 4 (1.39%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.09%) HTTP
1 6 (2.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.74%) AMQP
3 2 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (24.39%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (13.94%) Relational Database
3 36 (12.54%) NoSQL
4 28 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
5 27 (9.41%) MongoDB
6 26 (9.06%) Redis
7 22 (7.67%) Big Data
7 22 (7.67%) MySQL
7 22 (7.67%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.97%) Hadoop
9 14 (4.88%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (2.79%) Azkaban
10 8 (2.79%) Spark SQL
11 7 (2.44%) Flink
11 7 (2.44%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.09%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.74%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 65 (22.65%) Git
2 23 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.18%) GitLab
3 12 (4.18%) Maven
4 11 (3.83%) JIRA
4 11 (3.83%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.48%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.48%) JUnit
6 8 (2.79%) RStudio
7 7 (2.44%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.74%) GDB
8 5 (1.74%) Mocha
8 5 (1.74%) Postman
8 5 (1.74%) Selenium
9 4 (1.39%) Mockito
10 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.70%) Gradle
10 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 107 (37.28%) Finance
2 94 (32.75%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.10%) Banking
4 21 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.97%) Retail
6 15 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.53%) Advertising
8 11 (3.83%) Games
9 9 (3.14%) Automotive
9 9 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.14%) Law
10 8 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.74%) Retail Finance
12 4 (1.39%) Marketing
12 4 (1.39%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.70%) Back Office
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
14 1 (0.35%) Legal
14 1 (0.35%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (40.42%) Senior
2 110 (38.33%) Developer
3 57 (19.86%) Senior Developer
4 55 (19.16%) Software Engineer
5 35 (12.20%) Lead
6 34 (11.85%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (10.10%) Java Developer
8 28 (9.76%) Data Engineer
9 18 (6.27%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.57%) Architect
10 16 (5.57%) Full Stack Engineer
10 16 (5.57%) Technical Leader
11 14 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 13 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) Java Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (3.83%) Backend Developer
14 11 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.83%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.95%) RabbitMQ
2 57 (19.86%) GraphQL
3 56 (19.51%) REST
4 49 (17.07%) gRPC
4 49 (17.07%) React
5 47 (16.38%) Web Services
6 43 (14.98%) .NET
6 43 (14.98%) AngularJS
7 39 (13.59%) Node.js
8 38 (13.24%) Spring
9 37 (12.89%) Spring Boot
10 30 (10.45%) RESTful
11 16 (5.57%) JSON
12 14 (4.88%) Jest
13 12 (4.18%) .NET Core
13 12 (4.18%) FastAPI
14 11 (3.83%) Django
15 10 (3.48%) OpenAPI
16 9 (3.14%) Middleware
16 9 (3.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.67%) Algorithms
2 21 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.27%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (5.57%) Client/Server
5 12 (4.18%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.83%) Cyberattack
6 11 (3.83%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.79%) Blog
7 8 (2.79%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.79%) Data Fabric
7 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.79%) Replication
7 8 (2.79%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (2.44%) Digital Currency
9 5 (1.74%) Sports Betting
10 4 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.39%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.10%) Linux
2 13 (4.53%) Solaris
2 13 (4.53%) Unix
2 13 (4.53%) Windows
3 12 (4.18%) CentOS
3 12 (4.18%) Ubuntu
3 12 (4.18%) zOS
4 4 (1.39%) Debian
4 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (41.11%) Microservices
2 116 (40.42%) Agile
3 98 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 77 (26.83%) CI/CD
5 69 (24.04%) TDD
6 48 (16.72%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (13.94%) Continuous Deployment
8 40 (13.94%) DevOps
9 39 (13.59%) Fintech
10 37 (12.89%) Regression Testing
11 33 (11.50%) Computer Science
11 33 (11.50%) Event-Driven
12 32 (11.15%) Design Patterns
13 27 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence
14 26 (9.06%) ETL
14 26 (9.06%) Full Stack Development
15 25 (8.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 25 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (8.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 106 (36.93%) Java
2 90 (31.36%) Python
3 68 (23.69%) Go
4 59 (20.56%) TypeScript
5 55 (19.16%) SQL
6 50 (17.42%) JavaScript
7 37 (12.89%) C#
8 26 (9.06%) Scala
9 18 (6.27%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.18%) Bash
11 10 (3.48%) Clojure
12 8 (2.79%) R
13 3 (1.05%) Rust
14 2 (0.70%) VBA
15 1 (0.35%) C
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) Ruby
15 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (9.41%) Degree
2 26 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.39%) CISM
6 4 (1.39%) CISSP
6 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.48%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.14%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.74%) QA
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.39%) NIST
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (36.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 100 (34.84%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.76%) Terraform
3 14 (4.88%) Ansible
4 12 (4.18%) Grafana
5 11 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Podman
6 3 (1.05%) Puppet
7 2 (0.70%) Argo
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.70%) Packer
7 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 24 (8.36%) Google
2 14 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.53%) Splunk
4 8 (2.79%) IBM
4 8 (2.79%) Oracle
5 7 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.09%) Apple
6 6 (2.09%) Databricks
7 4 (1.39%) Dell
7 4 (1.39%) Facebook
7 4 (1.39%) Qualys
8 3 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.70%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.70%) Informatica
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.70%) Teradata
9 2 (0.70%) YouTube
10 1 (0.35%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.35%) New Relic
10 1 (0.35%) Sybase