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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 106 284
Rank change year-on-year -170 +178 -159
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 152 495 374
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 3.20% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.18% 11.63% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 120 216 313
10th Percentile £55,725 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +3.45% -16.07%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £92,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 3,639 4,256 9,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.06% 27.50% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,696 2,861 7,831
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 20 June 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 27 (17.76%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (14.47%) Apache Spark
3 17 (11.18%) Apache
4 3 (1.97%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.32%) Camunda
5 2 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 124 (81.58%) AWS
2 50 (32.89%) GCP
3 48 (31.58%) Azure
4 26 (17.11%) Serverless
5 20 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.87%) dbt
7 14 (9.21%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (7.89%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.89%) SaaS
9 10 (6.58%) Amazon Kinesis
9 10 (6.58%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.92%) Amazon MSK
10 9 (5.92%) GitHub
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.61%) Dagster
13 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) Broadband
2 5 (3.29%) MQTT
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.66%) 4G
4 1 (0.66%) 5G
4 1 (0.66%) AMQP
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.16%) NoSQL
1 20 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.18%) Metadata
3 16 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.55%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.24%) BigQuery
6 11 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (6.58%) Tableau
8 9 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.26%) Data Lake
9 8 (5.26%) DynamoDB
10 7 (4.61%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (3.95%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.95%) MySQL
11 6 (3.95%) Power BI
12 5 (3.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 26 (17.11%) Git
2 9 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.29%) GitLab
4 3 (1.97%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) Postman
5 2 (1.32%) Selenium
5 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.66%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (35.53%) Finance
2 33 (21.71%) Front Office
3 24 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.21%) Banking
5 10 (6.58%) Law
5 10 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Retail
7 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Billing
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (37.50%) Developer
2 49 (32.24%) Lead
3 41 (26.97%) Data Engineer
3 41 (26.97%) Software Engineer
4 32 (21.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 28 (18.42%) Lead Developer
5 28 (18.42%) Senior
6 20 (13.16%) Lead Software Developer
6 20 (13.16%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (11.84%) Java Engineer
8 15 (9.87%) Java Developer
9 13 (8.55%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (7.89%) React Developer
10 12 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (5.92%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (32.89%) Node.js
2 43 (28.29%) React
3 34 (22.37%) GraphQL
4 32 (21.05%) Redux
5 24 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
6 23 (15.13%) Spring
7 22 (14.47%) REST
8 19 (12.50%) Spring Boot
9 13 (8.55%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.55%) RESTful
10 10 (6.58%) .NET
10 10 (6.58%) Vue
11 7 (4.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.61%) PySpark
12 6 (3.95%) Apache NiFi
13 3 (1.97%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.97%) JPA
14 2 (1.32%) Django
14 2 (1.32%) Entity Framework
14 2 (1.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.71%) Fixed Income
2 26 (17.11%) Cloud Native
3 21 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.61%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.95%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.95%) Social Media
7 4 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.63%) Blog
7 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.97%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.66%) Replication
10 1 (0.66%) Robotics
10 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.58%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (52.63%) Agile
2 61 (40.13%) CI/CD
3 51 (33.55%) Software Engineering
4 48 (31.58%) DevOps
5 47 (30.92%) Event-Driven
6 41 (26.97%) Microservices
7 39 (25.66%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (23.68%) Containerisation
8 36 (23.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 35 (23.03%) Data Modelling
10 32 (21.05%) Investment Management
10 32 (21.05%) Order Management
10 32 (21.05%) Portfolio Management
11 31 (20.39%) Data Engineering
12 30 (19.74%) ETL
12 30 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (19.08%) Analytics
14 27 (17.76%) AI
15 26 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 95 (62.50%) Python
2 81 (53.29%) Java
3 50 (32.89%) SQL
4 46 (30.26%) JavaScript
4 46 (30.26%) TypeScript
5 41 (26.97%) Go
6 13 (8.55%) Scala
7 9 (5.92%) Bash
7 9 (5.92%) C#
8 6 (3.95%) C++
9 5 (3.29%) Groovy
9 5 (3.29%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.63%) Rust
11 3 (1.97%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.66%) Bicep
13 1 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Degree
4 8 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) GIAC
7 1 (0.66%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.95%) QA
3 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (33.55%) Docker
2 8 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (36.18%) Kubernetes
2 39 (25.66%) Terraform
3 13 (8.55%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) Istio
4 9 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.26%) Grafana
6 4 (2.63%) Argo
6 4 (2.63%) Puppet
7 3 (1.97%) Packer
8 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.32%) Salt
9 1 (0.66%) Cilium
9 1 (0.66%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.92%) Databricks
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.26%) Confluent
3 5 (3.29%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.63%) Splunk
5 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.32%) Foundry
6 2 (1.32%) Informatica
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle
6 2 (1.32%) Palantir
6 2 (1.32%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.66%) Solace
7 1 (0.66%) Talend