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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 115 281
Rank change year-on-year -169 +166 -147
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 165 476 342
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 2.88% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.13% 11.00% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 130 201 283
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £140,000 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £112,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -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 4,000 4,328 8,288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.71% 26.17% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 2,950 6,966
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -7.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.60%

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 12 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 26 (15.76%) Apache Spark
2 23 (13.94%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (10.30%) Apache
4 3 (1.82%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.21%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.21%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.21%) Camunda
6 1 (0.61%) Confluence
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 128 (77.58%) AWS
2 54 (32.73%) Azure
3 49 (29.70%) GCP
4 25 (15.15%) Serverless
5 19 (11.52%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (7.88%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (7.88%) dbt
7 11 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
8 10 (6.06%) GitHub
8 10 (6.06%) OpenShift
8 10 (6.06%) SaaS
9 8 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.85%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.24%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (4.24%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (4.24%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.24%) Broadband
2 5 (3.03%) MQTT
3 2 (1.21%) Firewall
3 2 (1.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.61%) 4G
4 1 (0.61%) 5G
4 1 (0.61%) AMQP
4 1 (0.61%) ATM
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.55%) NoSQL
2 22 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.52%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.30%) Relational Database
5 15 (9.09%) Metadata
6 12 (7.27%) SQL Server
7 11 (6.67%) BigQuery
7 11 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (6.06%) Big Data
9 9 (5.45%) DynamoDB
10 8 (4.85%) Data Lake
11 7 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (4.24%) Tableau
12 6 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (3.64%) MySQL
12 6 (3.64%) Power BI
13 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.42%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.82%) Flink
Development Applications
1 23 (13.94%) Git
2 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.03%) GitLab
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
5 3 (1.82%) Postman
5 3 (1.82%) Selenium
6 2 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (34.55%) Finance
2 33 (20.00%) Front Office
3 27 (16.36%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.48%) Banking
4 14 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.67%) Law
6 8 (4.85%) Retail
7 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.82%) Billing
8 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.61%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 61 (36.97%) Developer
2 46 (27.88%) Data Engineer
3 45 (27.27%) Lead
4 42 (25.45%) Software Engineer
5 36 (21.82%) Senior
6 32 (19.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 28 (16.97%) Lead Developer
8 20 (12.12%) Java Developer
8 20 (12.12%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (12.12%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (10.91%) Java Engineer
10 17 (10.30%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (6.67%) Integration Developer
13 11 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
14 10 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (6.06%) Senior Developer
15 9 (5.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (29.09%) Node.js
2 40 (24.24%) React
3 34 (20.61%) GraphQL
4 32 (19.39%) Redux
5 25 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
5 25 (15.15%) REST
5 25 (15.15%) Spring
6 22 (13.33%) Spring Boot
7 14 (8.48%) RESTful
8 13 (7.88%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.06%) PySpark
9 10 (6.06%) Vue
10 9 (5.45%) .NET
10 9 (5.45%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (4.24%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (3.03%) JWT
12 5 (3.03%) OAuth
13 4 (2.42%) JPA
14 3 (1.82%) EDI
14 3 (1.82%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 26 (15.76%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.45%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.64%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.64%) Social Media
7 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.42%) Blog
7 4 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.21%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.88%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (51.52%) Agile
2 63 (38.18%) CI/CD
3 56 (33.94%) DevOps
3 56 (33.94%) Software Engineering
4 46 (27.88%) Event-Driven
5 44 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (24.85%) Microservices
7 38 (23.03%) Containerisation
8 37 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (21.21%) ETL
10 34 (20.61%) Data Engineering
10 34 (20.61%) Data Modelling
10 34 (20.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 32 (19.39%) Investment Management
11 32 (19.39%) Order Management
11 32 (19.39%) Portfolio Management
12 30 (18.18%) Analytics
12 30 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (17.58%) AI
14 25 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 99 (60.00%) Python
2 90 (54.55%) Java
3 57 (34.55%) SQL
4 46 (27.88%) TypeScript
5 43 (26.06%) JavaScript
6 41 (24.85%) Go
7 12 (7.27%) Scala
8 8 (4.85%) Bash
8 8 (4.85%) C#
8 8 (4.85%) Groovy
9 6 (3.64%) C++
10 5 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.42%) Rust
12 3 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.21%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.61%) Bicep
14 1 (0.61%) C
14 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.06%) Degree
5 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) CISSP
7 1 (0.61%) GIAC
7 1 (0.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.64%) QA
3 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (29.70%) Docker
2 8 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (35.15%) Kubernetes
2 40 (24.24%) Terraform
3 13 (7.88%) Ansible
4 9 (5.45%) Istio
4 9 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.85%) Grafana
6 5 (3.03%) Argo
7 4 (2.42%) Puppet
8 3 (1.82%) Packer
9 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.21%) Salt
10 1 (0.61%) Cilium
10 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.85%) Confluent
2 8 (4.85%) Databricks
3 7 (4.24%) Informatica
4 5 (3.03%) HubSpot
4 5 (3.03%) MuleSoft
4 5 (3.03%) Splunk
5 4 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.21%) Google
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle
7 2 (1.21%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.21%) webMethods
8 1 (0.61%) Dell
8 1 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.61%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.61%) Solace
8 1 (0.61%) Yahoo!