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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 245 105
Rank change year-on-year +110 -140 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 373 424 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.46% 1.25% 3.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.32% 4.73% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 248 359 799
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,137 £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% +2.94%
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 4,001 8,965 14,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.37% 26.50% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,176 7,503 10,828
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £99,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

Kafka
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 3 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 (30.83%) Apache Spark
2 93 (24.93%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (24.40%) Apache
4 68 (18.23%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) GemFire
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.54%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 271 (72.65%) AWS
2 153 (41.02%) Azure
3 115 (30.83%) GCP
4 99 (26.54%) Serverless
5 96 (25.74%) AWS Lambda
6 89 (23.86%) OpenShift
7 84 (22.52%) Amazon ECS
8 81 (21.72%) dbt
9 25 (6.70%) SaaS
10 18 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.49%) AWS KMS
12 11 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (2.95%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.68%) GitHub
14 9 (2.41%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.70%) HTTP
2 13 (3.49%) Network Security
3 4 (1.07%) Internet
4 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (29.49%) SQL Server
2 84 (22.52%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (21.98%) Apache Iceberg
4 74 (19.84%) Apache Ignite
5 73 (19.57%) Dremio
6 71 (19.03%) Apache Arrow
7 41 (10.99%) MongoDB
8 40 (10.72%) NoSQL
9 32 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (5.63%) MySQL
11 18 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (4.83%) Hadoop
12 17 (4.56%) Relational Database
13 15 (4.02%) Redis
14 13 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (3.49%) Big Data
15 11 (2.95%) Data Lake
16 10 (2.68%) BigQuery
17 9 (2.41%) Apache Hudi
17 9 (2.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (26.01%) GitLab
2 93 (24.93%) Bitbucket
2 93 (24.93%) Maven
3 92 (24.66%) JIRA
4 85 (22.79%) Selenium
4 85 (22.79%) SonarQube
5 82 (21.98%) Cucumber
5 82 (21.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 72 (19.30%) Artifactory
7 25 (6.70%) Git
8 23 (6.17%) Jenkins
9 12 (3.22%) JUnit
10 8 (2.14%) Gradle
10 8 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (1.61%) Mockito
12 4 (1.07%) NUnit
13 3 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.54%) Subversion
14 2 (0.54%) Xcode
General
1 220 (58.98%) Finance
2 118 (31.64%) Banking
3 115 (30.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (22.25%) Front Office
5 65 (17.43%) Social Skills
6 48 (12.87%) Retail
7 45 (12.06%) Games
8 23 (6.17%) Investment Banking
9 21 (5.63%) Advertising
9 21 (5.63%) Corporate Banking
10 14 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (3.49%) Law
11 13 (3.49%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.61%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.80%) Legal
14 2 (0.54%) Marketing
14 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.27%) Back Office
15 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 137 (36.73%) Software Engineer
2 103 (27.61%) Data Engineer
3 87 (23.32%) Python Engineer
4 83 (22.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (21.72%) Senior
6 80 (21.45%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (21.18%) AWS DevOps
7 79 (21.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (15.55%) Developer
9 40 (10.72%) Lead
10 32 (8.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (7.51%) Java Developer
12 25 (6.70%) Architect
13 20 (5.36%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.02%) Java Engineer
15 14 (3.75%) AWS Architect
16 13 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
17 12 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
18 10 (2.68%) C# Developer
18 10 (2.68%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (35.12%) React
2 112 (30.03%) Spring
3 109 (29.22%) Spring Boot
4 90 (24.13%) CSS
4 90 (24.13%) HTML
5 84 (22.52%) JPA
5 84 (22.52%) PySpark
6 82 (21.98%) Redux
7 73 (19.57%) J2EE
8 66 (17.69%) Hibernate
9 40 (10.72%) RESTful
10 33 (8.85%) REST
11 31 (8.31%) .NET
12 27 (7.24%) AngularJS
13 26 (6.97%) Jest
13 26 (6.97%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (6.17%) CSS3
14 23 (6.17%) HTML5
15 22 (5.90%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (5.63%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 95 (25.47%) Product Ownership
2 85 (22.79%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (10.46%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (9.12%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.22%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.22%) Mobile Games
8 11 (2.95%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.07%) Derivative
12 4 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.80%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (0.80%) Equities
13 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.80%) IoT
14 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.29%) Unix
2 13 (3.49%) Linux
3 3 (0.80%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Debian
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (70.24%) Software Engineering
2 245 (65.68%) Agile
3 229 (61.39%) DevOps
4 221 (59.25%) CI/CD
5 161 (43.16%) Microservices
6 123 (32.98%) Containerisation
7 110 (29.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 104 (27.88%) SDLC
9 97 (26.01%) Test Automation
10 96 (25.74%) Data Engineering
11 93 (24.93%) Performance Optimisation
12 91 (24.40%) Front End Development
13 90 (24.13%) TDD
14 86 (23.06%) Mentoring
15 83 (22.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 78 (20.91%) Open Source
17 75 (20.11%) Clean Code
18 74 (19.84%) Asset Management
19 69 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
20 58 (15.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 251 (67.29%) Java
2 160 (42.90%) SQL
3 156 (41.82%) Python
4 117 (31.37%) JavaScript
5 82 (21.98%) Go
6 55 (14.75%) TypeScript
7 36 (9.65%) C#
8 30 (8.04%) Scala
9 7 (1.88%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.07%) Bash
11 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
12 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.54%) Rust
13 1 (0.27%) COBOL
13 1 (0.27%) JCL
13 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (17.43%) Degree
2 31 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.24%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.97%) AWS Certification
5 25 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 19 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (24.13%) QA
2 33 (8.85%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.02%) GDPR
3 15 (4.02%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.61%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.27%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 249 (66.76%) Docker
2 10 (2.68%) HDFS
3 6 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 262 (70.24%) Kubernetes
2 106 (28.42%) Terraform
3 21 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 16 (4.29%) Grafana
5 11 (2.95%) Argo
6 7 (1.88%) Istio
7 2 (0.54%) Ansible
8 1 (0.27%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.27%) Kibana
8 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.27%) logstash
8 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (23.06%) Solace
2 42 (11.26%) Google
3 25 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.70%) Oracle
4 22 (5.90%) Databricks
5 21 (5.63%) Apple
6 11 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.14%) Splunk
8 7 (1.88%) Confluent
8 7 (1.88%) New Relic
9 6 (1.61%) VMware
10 5 (1.34%) Okta
11 4 (1.07%) Informatica
12 3 (0.80%) SAP
12 3 (0.80%) Teradata
12 3 (0.80%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.54%) IBM
13 2 (0.54%) OpenLink