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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 136 278
Rank change year-on-year -201 +142 -112
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 121 383 208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 2.30% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.72% 10.17% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 91 115 150
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £95,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% +40.74% -18.18%
75th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £115,000 - £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £86,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.54% +23.93% -15.15%

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 4,451 3,767 6,625
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 22.67% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,250 2,440 4,474
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -3.70%

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 11 October 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 17 (14.05%) Apache Spark
2 14 (11.57%) Apache
3 8 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.96%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.48%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.48%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (2.48%) Camunda
5 3 (2.48%) Confluence
6 2 (1.65%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.65%) CMS
7 1 (0.83%) JBoss
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Actimize
1 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (61.98%) AWS
2 44 (36.36%) Azure
3 21 (17.36%) Serverless
4 19 (15.70%) GCP
5 18 (14.88%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (14.05%) GitHub
7 14 (11.57%) Amazon S3
8 13 (10.74%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (9.92%) SaaS
10 11 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (7.44%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.79%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (5.79%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (5.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (5.79%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (4.96%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) 4G
1 1 (0.83%) 5G
1 1 (0.83%) ATM
1 1 (0.83%) Broadband
1 1 (0.83%) MQTT
1 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) MongoDB
1 19 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 18 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.26%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (6.61%) Big Data
6 8 (6.61%) DynamoDB
7 7 (5.79%) Power BI
8 6 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (4.96%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.96%) Metadata
9 5 (4.13%) MySQL
9 5 (4.13%) Tableau
10 4 (3.31%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.48%) Flink
11 3 (2.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (12.40%) Git
2 12 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.96%) JUnit
4 5 (4.13%) JIRA
4 5 (4.13%) Mockito
4 5 (4.13%) Poetry
5 3 (2.48%) GitLab
5 3 (2.48%) Postman
5 3 (2.48%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.83%) Mocha
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.36%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Retail
6 5 (4.13%) Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Front Office
8 3 (2.48%) Billing
8 3 (2.48%) iGaming
8 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.65%) Games
9 2 (1.65%) Law
9 2 (1.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.83%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Senior
2 30 (24.79%) Data Engineer
2 30 (24.79%) Developer
3 22 (18.18%) Lead
4 21 (17.36%) Java Engineer
5 14 (11.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (11.57%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.74%) Java Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Integration Developer
8 10 (8.26%) Architect
9 9 (7.44%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.96%) Kafka Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Integration Architect
13 4 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (29.75%) Spring
2 31 (25.62%) REST
3 28 (23.14%) Terraform
4 27 (22.31%) RabbitMQ
5 25 (20.66%) Spring Boot
6 21 (17.36%) RESTful
7 17 (14.05%) Node.js
8 13 (10.74%) PySpark
9 11 (9.09%) React
10 8 (6.61%) .NET
11 7 (5.79%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (5.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (4.96%) JWT
12 6 (4.96%) OAuth
13 5 (4.13%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.13%) OpenAPI
14 4 (3.31%) JPA
14 4 (3.31%) Swagger
14 4 (3.31%) WebSockets
15 3 (2.48%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.53%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.13%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.48%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.65%) Blog
7 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (58.68%) CI/CD
2 54 (44.63%) Agile
3 51 (42.15%) Event-Driven
3 51 (42.15%) Microservices
4 47 (38.84%) DevOps
5 40 (33.06%) Software Engineering
6 39 (32.23%) AI
7 38 (31.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (28.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 34 (28.10%) Containerisation
10 31 (25.62%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (25.62%) Mentoring
11 28 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (22.31%) Observability
13 25 (20.66%) Data Engineering
14 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (19.01%) Data Modelling
15 23 (19.01%) TDD
16 22 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (50.41%) Java
2 45 (37.19%) Python
3 41 (33.88%) SQL
4 14 (11.57%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.57%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.79%) C#
6 7 (5.79%) Scala
7 6 (4.96%) Bash
7 6 (4.96%) Groovy
8 4 (3.31%) Go
8 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.48%) DataWeave
9 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.83%) Ada
10 1 (0.83%) C
10 1 (0.83%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.65%) Degree
5 2 (1.65%) OCP
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) GIAC
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) SSCP
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.65%) QA
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
System Software
1 51 (42.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (44.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Ansible
2 5 (4.13%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.31%) Argo
3 4 (3.31%) Grafana
4 3 (2.48%) Cilium
5 2 (1.65%) Istio
5 2 (1.65%) Packer
6 1 (0.83%) Control-M
6 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.83%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
1 9 (7.44%) MuleSoft
2 8 (6.61%) Databricks
3 7 (5.79%) Informatica
3 7 (5.79%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Splunk
5 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.31%) Google
5 4 (3.31%) HubSpot
6 3 (2.48%) Solace
6 3 (2.48%) webMethods
7 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.65%) Talend
8 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.83%) Dell
8 1 (0.83%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.83%) VMware