Kafka Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 247 105
Rank change year-on-year +87 -142 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 292 429 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.27% 3.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.43% 4.78% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 248 365 800
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -17.14% +5.42%
75th Percentile £115,000 £91,991 £115,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -13.89% +12.50%

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 3,931 8,983 14,504
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.29% 26.55% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,184 7,517 10,899
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,927
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,627 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £114,694 £98,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kafka.

Kafka salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kafka over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Kafka salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 115 (39.38%) Apache Spark
2 93 (31.85%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (31.16%) Apache
4 7 (2.40%) Confluence
5 3 (1.03%) GemFire
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) Endur
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 190 (65.07%) AWS
2 99 (33.90%) Serverless
3 96 (32.88%) AWS Lambda
4 89 (30.48%) OpenShift
5 84 (28.77%) Amazon ECS
6 81 (27.74%) dbt
7 71 (24.32%) Azure
8 54 (18.49%) GCP
9 25 (8.56%) SaaS
10 18 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.45%) AWS KMS
12 11 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.77%) Snowflake
13 10 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.42%) GitHub
14 9 (3.08%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.56%) HTTP
2 13 (4.45%) Network Security
3 4 (1.37%) Internet
4 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (28.77%) Amazon Athena
2 82 (28.08%) Apache Iceberg
3 74 (25.34%) Apache Ignite
4 73 (25.00%) Dremio
5 71 (24.32%) Apache Arrow
6 41 (14.04%) MongoDB
6 41 (14.04%) NoSQL
7 32 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (9.59%) SQL Server
9 21 (7.19%) MySQL
10 18 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (6.16%) Hadoop
11 17 (5.82%) Relational Database
12 15 (5.14%) Redis
13 13 (4.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (4.45%) Big Data
14 11 (3.77%) Data Lake
15 10 (3.42%) BigQuery
16 9 (3.08%) Apache Hudi
16 9 (3.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 72 (24.66%) Artifactory
2 25 (8.56%) Git
3 23 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.14%) GitLab
5 12 (4.11%) JUnit
6 11 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.77%) Maven
7 10 (3.42%) JIRA
8 8 (2.74%) Gradle
8 8 (2.74%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (2.05%) Mockito
10 4 (1.37%) NUnit
11 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.03%) Selenium
11 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.68%) Postman
12 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.68%) Subversion
12 2 (0.68%) XCTest
General
1 138 (47.26%) Finance
2 83 (28.42%) Front Office
3 65 (22.26%) Social Skills
4 45 (15.41%) Games
5 36 (12.33%) Banking
6 33 (11.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (9.25%) Retail
8 21 (7.19%) Advertising
9 15 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.45%) Law
10 13 (4.45%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.05%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.37%) Legal
13 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.34%) Back Office
14 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (35.27%) Data Engineer
2 87 (29.79%) Python Engineer
3 83 (28.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 81 (27.74%) Senior
5 80 (27.40%) AWS Engineer
6 79 (27.05%) AWS DevOps
6 79 (27.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 58 (19.86%) Developer
8 56 (19.18%) Software Engineer
9 40 (13.70%) Lead
10 32 (10.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (9.59%) Java Developer
12 25 (8.56%) Architect
13 20 (6.85%) Senior Developer
14 15 (5.14%) Java Engineer
15 14 (4.79%) AWS Architect
16 13 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
17 12 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
18 10 (3.42%) C# Developer
18 10 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (28.77%) PySpark
2 73 (25.00%) J2EE
3 49 (16.78%) React
4 31 (10.62%) .NET
5 30 (10.27%) Spring
6 27 (9.25%) AngularJS
6 27 (9.25%) Spring Boot
7 26 (8.90%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (6.51%) RESTful
10 16 (5.48%) .NET Core
11 12 (4.11%) Node.js
11 12 (4.11%) REST
12 9 (3.08%) PyArrow
13 8 (2.74%) CSS
13 8 (2.74%) HTML
14 7 (2.40%) GraphQL
14 7 (2.40%) Vue
15 6 (2.05%) Express.js
15 6 (2.05%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (11.64%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.48%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.45%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.45%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.11%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.11%) Mobile Games
7 10 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.40%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Derivative
10 4 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.03%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.03%) Equities
11 3 (1.03%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.03%) IoT
12 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.48%) Unix
2 13 (4.45%) Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Windows
4 2 (0.68%) Android
4 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.68%) Debian
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (61.99%) Software Engineering
2 164 (56.16%) Agile
3 147 (50.34%) DevOps
4 140 (47.95%) CI/CD
5 96 (32.88%) Data Engineering
6 83 (28.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 79 (27.05%) Microservices
8 78 (26.71%) Open Source
9 74 (25.34%) Asset Management
10 66 (22.60%) Mentoring
11 58 (19.86%) Computer Science
12 50 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (16.78%) Event-Driven
14 44 (15.07%) Design Patterns
15 41 (14.04%) Analytics
15 41 (14.04%) Containerisation
15 41 (14.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 38 (13.01%) Machine Learning
17 34 (11.64%) Technical Leadership
18 29 (9.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 169 (57.88%) Java
2 156 (53.42%) Python
3 83 (28.42%) Go
4 78 (26.71%) SQL
5 36 (12.33%) C#
6 35 (11.99%) JavaScript
7 34 (11.64%) TypeScript
8 30 (10.27%) Scala
9 7 (2.40%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.37%) Bash
11 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) Groovy
12 2 (0.68%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.68%) Ruby
12 2 (0.68%) Rust
13 1 (0.34%) COBOL
13 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 65 (22.26%) Degree
2 31 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 26 (8.90%) AWS Certification
5 25 (8.56%) SC Cleared
6 19 (6.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.14%) Data Quality
1 15 (5.14%) GDPR
1 15 (5.14%) HIPAA
2 12 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.08%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 167 (57.19%) Docker
2 10 (3.42%) HDFS
3 6 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 181 (61.99%) Kubernetes
2 106 (36.30%) Terraform
3 21 (7.19%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.48%) Grafana
5 11 (3.77%) Argo
6 7 (2.40%) Istio
7 2 (0.68%) Ansible
8 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.34%) logstash
8 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (14.38%) Google
2 25 (8.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.56%) Oracle
3 22 (7.53%) Databricks
4 21 (7.19%) Apple
5 11 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.74%) Splunk
7 7 (2.40%) Confluent
7 7 (2.40%) New Relic
8 6 (2.05%) VMware
9 5 (1.71%) Okta
10 4 (1.37%) Informatica
10 4 (1.37%) Solace
11 3 (1.03%) SAP
11 3 (1.03%) Teradata
11 3 (1.03%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.68%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.68%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.68%) Talend