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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 132 278
Rank change year-on-year -163 +146 -131
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 159 444 266
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.68% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.83% 10.74% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 127 171 212
10th Percentile £54,385 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -20.59%
75th Percentile £141,250 £127,500 £92,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% -19.48%

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 4,150 4,136 6,494
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.64% 24.94% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,132 2,793 5,313
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,611 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 2 August 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 25 (15.72%) Apache Spark
2 19 (11.95%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (8.18%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.89%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.89%) Camunda
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 118 (74.21%) AWS
2 54 (33.96%) Azure
3 45 (28.30%) GCP
4 25 (15.72%) Serverless
5 19 (11.95%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (7.55%) SaaS
8 11 (6.92%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.29%) Amazon MSK
9 10 (6.29%) dbt
10 9 (5.66%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (5.03%) GitHub
11 8 (5.03%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.40%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.77%) Broadband
2 4 (2.52%) 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%) ATM
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.21%) NoSQL
2 19 (11.95%) MongoDB
2 19 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.43%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.55%) Metadata
4 12 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.66%) Big Data
6 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
7 8 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.40%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.77%) MySQL
9 6 (3.77%) Power BI
10 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.52%) Tableau
12 3 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.89%) Flink
12 3 (1.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (13.84%) Git
2 11 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.52%) GitLab
3 4 (2.52%) JIRA
4 3 (1.89%) Postman
4 3 (1.89%) Selenium
5 2 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (35.85%) Finance
2 34 (21.38%) Front Office
3 26 (16.35%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.55%) Banking
6 11 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.03%) Law
8 6 (3.77%) Retail
9 3 (1.89%) Billing
9 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.26%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.63%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (39.62%) Developer
2 42 (26.42%) Lead
3 41 (25.79%) Software Engineer
4 40 (25.16%) Data Engineer
5 34 (21.38%) Senior
6 32 (20.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 28 (17.61%) Lead Developer
8 20 (12.58%) Java Developer
8 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (11.95%) Java Engineer
10 16 (10.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (7.55%) Integration Developer
13 11 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (6.92%) React Developer
14 10 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (6.29%) Senior Developer
15 9 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (30.19%) Node.js
2 42 (26.42%) React
3 33 (20.75%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.13%) Redux
5 25 (15.72%) RabbitMQ
6 24 (15.09%) REST
6 24 (15.09%) Spring
7 21 (13.21%) Spring Boot
8 18 (11.32%) RESTful
9 12 (7.55%) AngularJS
10 11 (6.92%) PySpark
11 9 (5.66%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (5.66%) Vue
12 7 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (3.77%) .NET
13 6 (3.77%) JWT
13 6 (3.77%) OAuth
14 4 (2.52%) JPA
15 3 (1.89%) Spring MVC
15 3 (1.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.38%) Fixed Income
2 21 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.58%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.66%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.77%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.77%) Social Media
6 5 (3.14%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.89%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.26%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.66%) Linux
2 3 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (54.09%) Agile
2 62 (38.99%) CI/CD
3 56 (35.22%) DevOps
3 56 (35.22%) Software Engineering
4 48 (30.19%) Event-Driven
5 42 (26.42%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (25.79%) Containerisation
6 41 (25.79%) Microservices
7 36 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (22.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 34 (21.38%) AI
9 32 (20.13%) Data Engineering
9 32 (20.13%) Investment Management
9 32 (20.13%) Order Management
9 32 (20.13%) Portfolio Management
10 31 (19.50%) Data Modelling
10 31 (19.50%) ETL
10 31 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (15.72%) Analytics
11 25 (15.72%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (56.60%) Python
2 88 (55.35%) Java
3 50 (31.45%) SQL
4 46 (28.93%) JavaScript
5 45 (28.30%) TypeScript
6 40 (25.16%) Go
7 13 (8.18%) Scala
8 8 (5.03%) Groovy
9 7 (4.40%) C#
10 6 (3.77%) C++
11 5 (3.14%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.14%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.52%) Bash
13 3 (1.89%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.89%) Rust
14 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.63%) Bicep
14 1 (0.63%) C
14 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.55%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.40%) Degree
6 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) GIAC
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) OCP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (30.82%) Docker
2 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (35.85%) Kubernetes
2 35 (22.01%) Terraform
3 12 (7.55%) Ansible
4 9 (5.66%) Istio
5 8 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.40%) Grafana
7 5 (3.14%) Argo
8 4 (2.52%) Puppet
9 3 (1.89%) Packer
10 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.26%) Salt
11 1 (0.63%) Cilium
11 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.66%) Databricks
3 8 (5.03%) Confluent
4 7 (4.40%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.77%) Informatica
6 5 (3.14%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.14%) Splunk
7 4 (2.52%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.89%) webMethods
9 2 (1.26%) Google
9 2 (1.26%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.26%) Solace
10 1 (0.63%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.63%) Palantir
10 1 (0.63%) Talend