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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 105 270
Rank change year-on-year -148 +165 -168
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 158 512 395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 3.53% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.69% 12.11% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 131 228 333
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.34% -17.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year +15.15% +8.20% -13.82%

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 3,368 4,229 8,593
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.84% 29.14% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 2,806 7,526
10th Percentile £41,385 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,243 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,575
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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

Kafka
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 23 May 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 30 (18.99%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (15.19%) Apache Spark
3 20 (12.66%) Apache
4 3 (1.90%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.63%) Camunda
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 128 (81.01%) AWS
2 52 (32.91%) GCP
3 46 (29.11%) Azure
4 25 (15.82%) Serverless
5 18 (11.39%) Amazon Kinesis
5 18 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.49%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.49%) dbt
7 14 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (8.23%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (7.59%) GitHub
9 12 (7.59%) SaaS
10 10 (6.33%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.06%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (4.43%) Dagster
13 7 (4.43%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (3.80%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.43%) Broadband
2 4 (2.53%) MQTT
3 2 (1.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) 4G
4 1 (0.63%) 5G
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.03%) Metadata
2 18 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.23%) Tableau
5 12 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (7.59%) BigQuery
5 12 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (7.59%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
6 11 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.96%) Apache Iceberg
6 11 (6.96%) Relational Database
7 9 (5.70%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (5.06%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.06%) Flink
8 8 (5.06%) MySQL
9 7 (4.43%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.80%) Big Data
10 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (18.35%) Git
2 9 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.53%) GitLab
4 3 (1.90%) JIRA
5 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.63%) MLflow
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 58 (36.71%) Finance
2 38 (24.05%) Front Office
3 18 (11.39%) Banking
4 17 (10.76%) Social Skills
5 10 (6.33%) Law
6 8 (5.06%) Retail
7 7 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.43%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Billing
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) International Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (36.08%) Developer
2 56 (35.44%) Lead
3 43 (27.22%) Data Engineer
4 39 (24.68%) Software Engineer
5 32 (20.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 29 (18.35%) Senior
7 28 (17.72%) Lead Developer
8 20 (12.66%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (12.66%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (10.76%) Java Engineer
10 16 (10.13%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (8.86%) React Developer
13 13 (8.23%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (8.23%) Java Developer
14 11 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
14 11 (6.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (5.70%) AWS DevOps
15 9 (5.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 9 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.65%) Node.js
2 48 (30.38%) React
3 33 (20.89%) GraphQL
4 32 (20.25%) Redux
5 21 (13.29%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (11.39%) REST
7 17 (10.76%) RESTful
8 15 (9.49%) Spring
9 13 (8.23%) Spring Boot
10 11 (6.96%) AngularJS
11 10 (6.33%) .NET
11 10 (6.33%) Vue
12 8 (5.06%) PySpark
13 6 (3.80%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (3.80%) gRPC
14 5 (3.16%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (3.16%) WebSockets
15 3 (1.90%) .NET Framework
16 2 (1.27%) Django
16 2 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.52%) Fixed Income
2 24 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 24 (15.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.43%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.43%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.80%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.80%) Social Media
6 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.53%) Blog
8 3 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.90%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.63%) Replication
10 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Linux
2 5 (3.16%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.47%) Agile
2 65 (41.14%) CI/CD
3 58 (36.71%) DevOps
4 45 (28.48%) Software Engineering
5 43 (27.22%) Data Pipeline
5 43 (27.22%) Event-Driven
6 41 (25.95%) Microservices
7 38 (24.05%) Data Engineering
8 37 (23.42%) Data Modelling
8 37 (23.42%) Investment Management
9 34 (21.52%) Analytics
9 34 (21.52%) ETL
10 32 (20.25%) Containerisation
10 32 (20.25%) Order Management
10 32 (20.25%) Portfolio Management
11 31 (19.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (17.09%) AI
15 25 (15.82%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 104 (65.82%) Python
2 79 (50.00%) Java
3 54 (34.18%) SQL
4 50 (31.65%) Go
5 48 (30.38%) JavaScript
6 43 (27.22%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.86%) Scala
8 10 (6.33%) Bash
8 10 (6.33%) C++
9 9 (5.70%) C#
10 5 (3.16%) Groovy
10 5 (3.16%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.53%) Rust
12 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.63%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) Korn
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
13 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.49%) Degree
3 11 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) CISSP
6 1 (0.63%) GIAC
6 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.16%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (35.44%) Docker
2 8 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (36.08%) Kubernetes
2 42 (26.58%) Terraform
3 13 (8.23%) Ansible
4 8 (5.06%) Istio
5 7 (4.43%) Argo
5 7 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.80%) Grafana
7 4 (2.53%) Puppet
8 3 (1.90%) Packer
9 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.27%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (6.33%) Databricks
2 8 (5.06%) Confluent
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.16%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.27%) Foundry
5 2 (1.27%) Palantir
5 2 (1.27%) Rollbar
5 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.27%) Splunk
6 1 (0.63%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.63%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.63%) Exabeam
6 1 (0.63%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.63%) Nokia
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle
6 1 (0.63%) Solace