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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 112 285
Rank change year-on-year -166 +173 -159
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 152 489 354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 3.13% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.09% 11.49% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 120 215 297
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £92,000
90th Percentile - £141,771 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -15.24%

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 3,714 4,256 8,901
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.18% 27.24% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,789 2,870 7,573
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -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

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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 27 June 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 (17.11%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (13.82%) Apache Spark
3 15 (9.87%) Apache
4 3 (1.97%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.32%) Camunda
5 2 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 121 (79.61%) AWS
2 50 (32.89%) GCP
3 47 (30.92%) Azure
4 26 (17.11%) Serverless
5 20 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (9.21%) dbt
7 13 (8.55%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (7.24%) Amazon S3
8 11 (7.24%) SaaS
9 10 (6.58%) GitHub
9 10 (6.58%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.92%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (5.92%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.61%) Dagster
13 6 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) Broadband
2 5 (3.29%) MQTT
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.66%) 4G
4 1 (0.66%) 5G
4 1 (0.66%) AMQP
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.53%) Metadata
3 16 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 15 (9.87%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.24%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (5.92%) Tableau
9 8 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.26%) DynamoDB
10 7 (4.61%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.95%) MySQL
11 6 (3.95%) Power BI
12 5 (3.29%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (3.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 25 (16.45%) Git
2 10 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.29%) GitLab
4 3 (1.97%) JIRA
4 3 (1.97%) Postman
4 3 (1.97%) Selenium
5 2 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.66%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (34.87%) Finance
2 33 (21.71%) Front Office
3 23 (15.13%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.21%) Banking
5 10 (6.58%) Law
5 10 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Retail
7 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Billing
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (38.16%) Developer
2 48 (31.58%) Lead
3 40 (26.32%) Software Engineer
4 39 (25.66%) Data Engineer
5 32 (21.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (18.42%) Lead Developer
6 28 (18.42%) Senior
7 20 (13.16%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (13.16%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (11.84%) Java Engineer
9 17 (11.18%) Java Developer
10 13 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (7.89%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (7.24%) React Developer
13 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (5.92%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (32.24%) Node.js
2 42 (27.63%) React
3 34 (22.37%) GraphQL
4 32 (21.05%) Redux
5 24 (15.79%) Spring
6 23 (15.13%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (14.47%) REST
8 20 (13.16%) Spring Boot
9 13 (8.55%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.55%) RESTful
10 10 (6.58%) Vue
11 9 (5.92%) .NET
12 7 (4.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (3.95%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (3.95%) PySpark
14 4 (2.63%) JPA
15 3 (1.97%) .NET Framework
15 3 (1.97%) Hibernate
15 3 (1.97%) Spring MVC
15 3 (1.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.71%) Fixed Income
2 26 (17.11%) Cloud Native
3 19 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.61%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.95%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.95%) Social Media
7 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.63%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.63%) Blog
8 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.97%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.66%) Replication
11 1 (0.66%) Robotics
11 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.89%) Linux
2 3 (1.97%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (53.29%) Agile
2 62 (40.79%) CI/CD
3 51 (33.55%) Software Engineering
4 49 (32.24%) DevOps
5 45 (29.61%) Event-Driven
6 39 (25.66%) Microservices
7 38 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 37 (24.34%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (22.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 33 (21.71%) Data Modelling
11 32 (21.05%) Investment Management
11 32 (21.05%) Order Management
11 32 (21.05%) Portfolio Management
12 30 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (19.08%) Data Engineering
14 28 (18.42%) ETL
15 27 (17.76%) AI
15 27 (17.76%) Analytics
16 25 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 93 (61.18%) Python
2 82 (53.95%) Java
3 48 (31.58%) SQL
4 46 (30.26%) TypeScript
5 45 (29.61%) JavaScript
6 41 (26.97%) Go
7 13 (8.55%) Scala
8 10 (6.58%) Bash
9 8 (5.26%) C#
10 6 (3.95%) C++
11 5 (3.29%) Groovy
11 5 (3.29%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.29%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.63%) Rust
13 3 (1.97%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.66%) Bicep
14 1 (0.66%) PHP
14 1 (0.66%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Degree
4 8 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) GIAC
7 1 (0.66%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.95%) QA
3 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (33.55%) Docker
2 8 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (38.16%) Kubernetes
2 39 (25.66%) Terraform
3 13 (8.55%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) Istio
4 9 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.26%) Grafana
6 5 (3.29%) Argo
7 4 (2.63%) Puppet
8 3 (1.97%) Packer
9 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.32%) Salt
10 1 (0.66%) Cilium
10 1 (0.66%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.26%) Confluent
2 8 (5.26%) Databricks
3 5 (3.29%) HubSpot
3 5 (3.29%) Splunk
4 4 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.32%) Foundry
5 2 (1.32%) Informatica
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle
5 2 (1.32%) Palantir
5 2 (1.32%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.66%) Solace
6 1 (0.66%) Talend