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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 113 284
Rank change year-on-year -173 +171 -159
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 155 482 352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 2.97% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 11.19% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 122 210 294
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,625 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,250 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% +24.14% -14.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £127,500 £92,500
90th Percentile - £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -14.29%

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 3,860 4,309 8,710
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.44% 26.60% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,920 2,929 7,384
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

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 5 July 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 24 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (13.55%) Apache Spark
3 14 (9.03%) Apache
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.29%) Camunda
5 2 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 121 (78.06%) AWS
2 49 (31.61%) GCP
3 47 (30.32%) Azure
4 25 (16.13%) Serverless
5 19 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (8.39%) dbt
7 11 (7.10%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.45%) Amazon MSK
8 10 (6.45%) GitHub
8 10 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 10 (6.45%) SaaS
9 8 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.16%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (5.16%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (4.52%) Dagster
11 6 (3.87%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (3.87%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.52%) Broadband
2 5 (3.23%) MQTT
3 2 (1.29%) Firewall
3 2 (1.29%) SSL
4 1 (0.65%) 4G
4 1 (0.65%) 5G
4 1 (0.65%) AMQP
4 1 (0.65%) ATM
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.32%) Relational Database
4 15 (9.68%) Metadata
4 15 (9.68%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.74%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.10%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (5.16%) DynamoDB
8 8 (5.16%) Tableau
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.52%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.87%) MySQL
10 6 (3.87%) Power BI
11 5 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (3.23%) Big Data
12 4 (2.58%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 23 (14.84%) Git
2 10 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.23%) GitLab
4 4 (2.58%) JIRA
5 3 (1.94%) Postman
5 3 (1.94%) Selenium
6 2 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (35.48%) Finance
2 33 (21.29%) Front Office
3 25 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.03%) Banking
5 11 (7.10%) Law
6 10 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (5.16%) Retail
9 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.29%) Billing
10 2 (1.29%) Marketing
10 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.65%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (38.71%) Developer
2 46 (29.68%) Lead
3 41 (26.45%) Software Engineer
4 38 (24.52%) Data Engineer
5 32 (20.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 29 (18.71%) Senior
7 28 (18.06%) Lead Developer
8 20 (12.90%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (12.90%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (12.26%) Java Developer
10 18 (11.61%) Java Engineer
11 13 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (7.74%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 10 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (6.45%) Integration Developer
14 10 (6.45%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (6.45%) React Developer
15 9 (5.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (30.97%) Node.js
2 41 (26.45%) React
3 34 (21.94%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.65%) Redux
5 24 (15.48%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (15.48%) Spring
6 23 (14.84%) REST
7 21 (13.55%) Spring Boot
8 13 (8.39%) AngularJS
8 13 (8.39%) RESTful
9 10 (6.45%) Vue
10 9 (5.81%) .NET
11 7 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (3.87%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (3.87%) PySpark
13 4 (2.58%) JPA
14 3 (1.94%) .NET Framework
14 3 (1.94%) Hibernate
14 3 (1.94%) OAuth
14 3 (1.94%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.29%) Fixed Income
2 26 (16.77%) Cloud Native
3 19 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.16%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.87%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.87%) Social Media
6 4 (2.58%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.58%) Blog
6 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.29%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) Replication
9 1 (0.65%) Robotics
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (52.90%) Agile
2 61 (39.35%) CI/CD
3 53 (34.19%) Software Engineering
4 50 (32.26%) DevOps
5 45 (29.03%) Event-Driven
6 40 (25.81%) Microservices
7 38 (24.52%) Containerisation
8 36 (23.23%) Data Pipeline
9 33 (21.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 32 (20.65%) Data Modelling
10 32 (20.65%) Investment Management
10 32 (20.65%) Order Management
10 32 (20.65%) Portfolio Management
11 30 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (17.42%) AI
12 27 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (17.42%) Data Engineering
12 27 (17.42%) ETL
13 25 (16.13%) Analytics
14 24 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 92 (59.35%) Python
2 84 (54.19%) Java
3 48 (30.97%) SQL
4 46 (29.68%) TypeScript
5 44 (28.39%) JavaScript
6 41 (26.45%) Go
7 12 (7.74%) Scala
8 9 (5.81%) Bash
9 8 (5.16%) C#
10 6 (3.87%) C++
11 5 (3.23%) Groovy
11 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.23%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.58%) Rust
13 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.65%) Bicep
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.81%) Degree
4 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) GIAC
7 1 (0.65%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.87%) QA
3 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (32.26%) Docker
2 8 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 39 (25.16%) Terraform
3 13 (8.39%) Ansible
4 9 (5.81%) Istio
4 9 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.16%) Grafana
6 5 (3.23%) Argo
7 4 (2.58%) Puppet
8 3 (1.94%) Packer
9 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.29%) Salt
10 1 (0.65%) Cilium
10 1 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.16%) Confluent
2 8 (5.16%) Databricks
3 5 (3.23%) HubSpot
3 5 (3.23%) Splunk
4 4 (2.58%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.94%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.29%) Foundry
6 2 (1.29%) Informatica
6 2 (1.29%) Oracle
6 2 (1.29%) Palantir
6 2 (1.29%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.65%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) Talend
7 1 (0.65%) webMethods
7 1 (0.65%) Yahoo!