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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 105 263
Rank change year-on-year -157 +158 -162
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 159 507 381
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 3.43% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 11.85% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 131 225 321
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.34% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,991
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 3,437 4,278 8,738
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.91% 28.90% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 2,848 7,612
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,733 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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

Kafka
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 30 May 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 28 (17.61%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (13.84%) Apache Spark
3 20 (12.58%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.26%) Camunda
5 2 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 129 (81.13%) AWS
2 53 (33.33%) GCP
3 45 (28.30%) Azure
4 28 (17.61%) Serverless
5 21 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (10.06%) Amazon Kinesis
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (8.81%) dbt
8 13 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (8.18%) GitHub
8 13 (8.18%) SaaS
9 10 (6.29%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (4.40%) Dagster
13 6 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.77%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.40%) Broadband
2 5 (3.14%) MQTT
3 2 (1.26%) Firewall
3 2 (1.26%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) 4G
4 1 (0.63%) 5G
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.21%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.32%) Metadata
2 18 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.43%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.18%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
5 12 (7.55%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.92%) Tableau
7 10 (6.29%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (5.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (5.03%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.03%) DynamoDB
9 7 (4.40%) Flink
9 7 (4.40%) MySQL
10 6 (3.77%) Big Data
10 6 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (18.87%) Git
2 9 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.14%) GitLab
4 4 (2.52%) JIRA
5 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.63%) MLflow
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (35.85%) Finance
2 37 (23.27%) Front Office
3 18 (11.32%) Banking
3 18 (11.32%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.29%) Law
5 9 (5.66%) Retail
6 7 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Billing
9 2 (1.26%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) International Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (37.74%) Developer
2 54 (33.96%) Lead
3 42 (26.42%) Data Engineer
4 41 (25.79%) Software Engineer
5 32 (20.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 31 (19.50%) Senior
7 28 (17.61%) Lead Developer
8 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (11.32%) Java Engineer
10 15 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (9.43%) Java Developer
10 15 (9.43%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (8.81%) React Developer
12 12 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.33%) Node.js
2 50 (31.45%) React
3 34 (21.38%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.13%) Redux
5 23 (14.47%) RabbitMQ
6 21 (13.21%) REST
7 19 (11.95%) Spring
8 18 (11.32%) RESTful
9 15 (9.43%) Spring Boot
10 13 (8.18%) AngularJS
11 10 (6.29%) .NET
11 10 (6.29%) Vue
12 7 (4.40%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (4.40%) PySpark
13 5 (3.14%) gRPC
13 5 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (3.14%) WebSockets
14 3 (1.89%) Django
14 3 (1.89%) FastAPI
14 3 (1.89%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.75%) Fixed Income
2 26 (16.35%) Cloud Native
3 23 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.40%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.77%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.77%) Social Media
7 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.52%) Blog
9 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.89%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.63%) IoT
11 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.66%) Linux
2 4 (2.52%) Android
3 2 (1.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (49.06%) Agile
2 68 (42.77%) CI/CD
3 58 (36.48%) DevOps
4 48 (30.19%) Software Engineering
5 45 (28.30%) Event-Driven
5 45 (28.30%) Microservices
6 43 (27.04%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (23.27%) Data Engineering
8 36 (22.64%) Data Modelling
8 36 (22.64%) Investment Management
9 34 (21.38%) Containerisation
9 34 (21.38%) ETL
10 33 (20.75%) Analytics
10 33 (20.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 32 (20.13%) AI
11 32 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (20.13%) Order Management
11 32 (20.13%) Portfolio Management
12 30 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (14.47%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 102 (64.15%) Python
2 82 (51.57%) Java
3 55 (34.59%) SQL
4 49 (30.82%) Go
4 49 (30.82%) JavaScript
5 46 (28.93%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.18%) Scala
7 10 (6.29%) Bash
8 9 (5.66%) C#
8 9 (5.66%) C++
9 6 (3.77%) Groovy
10 5 (3.14%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.52%) Rust
12 3 (1.89%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.63%) Bicep
14 1 (0.63%) Korn
14 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.63%) PHP
14 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.81%) Degree
3 11 (6.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CISSP
6 1 (0.63%) GIAC
6 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (35.85%) Docker
2 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (36.48%) Kubernetes
2 42 (26.42%) Terraform
3 13 (8.18%) Ansible
4 8 (5.03%) Istio
5 7 (4.40%) Argo
5 7 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.77%) Grafana
7 4 (2.52%) Puppet
8 3 (1.89%) Packer
9 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.26%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Confluent
1 8 (5.03%) Databricks
2 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.14%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.89%) Splunk
5 2 (1.26%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.26%) Foundry
5 2 (1.26%) Palantir
5 2 (1.26%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.63%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.63%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.63%) Exabeam
6 1 (0.63%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.63%) Nokia
6 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle