Kafka Jobs with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 108 93
Rank change year-on-year -162 -15 +46
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 402 1,239 2,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 3.06% 3.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.45% 9.02% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 339 761 1,108
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,809 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,735 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £91,962 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £143,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.24% +10.60% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,026 13,738 31,783
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.68% 33.97% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,528 10,307 17,107
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 81 (20.15%) Apache Spark
2 24 (5.97%) Apache
3 11 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.74%) Confluence
5 6 (1.49%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 218 (54.23%) AWS
2 92 (22.89%) Azure
3 90 (22.39%) GCP
4 40 (9.95%) SaaS
5 39 (9.70%) Amazon S3
6 30 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (6.22%) Serverless
8 24 (5.97%) GitHub
8 24 (5.97%) Slack
9 23 (5.72%) Google Docs
9 23 (5.72%) Lucidchart
9 23 (5.72%) Miro
10 19 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.24%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) Firewall
2 6 (1.49%) AMQP
2 6 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.24%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (23.13%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (15.92%) Redis
3 63 (15.67%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (12.94%) Big Data
4 52 (12.94%) Relational Database
5 49 (12.19%) NoSQL
6 48 (11.94%) MySQL
7 47 (11.69%) Hadoop
8 42 (10.45%) MongoDB
9 29 (7.21%) SQL Server
10 23 (5.72%) BigQuery
10 23 (5.72%) Scylla
11 19 (4.73%) Flink
12 15 (3.73%) CouchDB
13 12 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.49%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.49%) Tableau
16 9 (2.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (18.91%) Git
2 55 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.97%) Maven
4 27 (6.72%) GitLab
5 24 (5.97%) JIRA
6 10 (2.49%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.49%) Spinnaker
7 9 (2.24%) JUnit
8 8 (1.99%) Gradle
9 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.74%) Eclipse
9 7 (1.74%) Selenium
10 6 (1.49%) Mocha
10 6 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.24%) GDB
12 3 (0.75%) Postman
13 2 (0.50%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.50%) Mockito
13 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 148 (36.82%) Finance
2 136 (33.83%) Social Skills
3 60 (14.93%) Banking
4 36 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.72%) Retail
6 22 (5.47%) Games
7 20 (4.98%) Law
8 15 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.23%) Marketing
10 11 (2.74%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.99%) Automotive
12 8 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.74%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.49%) Advertising
15 5 (1.24%) Legal
15 5 (1.24%) Retail Finance
16 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 155 (38.56%) Developer
2 144 (35.82%) Senior
3 93 (23.13%) Software Engineer
4 78 (19.40%) Senior Developer
5 42 (10.45%) Lead
6 38 (9.45%) Java Developer
7 37 (9.20%) Data Engineer
8 33 (8.21%) Principal Engineer
9 32 (7.96%) .NET Developer
10 31 (7.71%) Java Engineer
11 29 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (5.97%) Architect
13 23 (5.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (5.72%) Full Stack Engineer
13 23 (5.72%) Principal Software Engineer
14 22 (5.47%) Python Engineer
15 18 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
16 17 (4.23%) C# Developer
16 17 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
16 17 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (23.13%) Spring Boot
2 78 (19.40%) RabbitMQ
3 76 (18.91%) Spring
4 73 (18.16%) GraphQL
5 68 (16.92%) REST
6 66 (16.42%) AngularJS
7 63 (15.67%) React
8 61 (15.17%) .NET
9 50 (12.44%) Web Services
10 48 (11.94%) RESTful
11 47 (11.69%) gRPC
12 39 (9.70%) Node.js
13 26 (6.47%) .NET Core
13 26 (6.47%) CSS
13 26 (6.47%) JSON
14 23 (5.72%) Django
15 17 (4.23%) HTML
16 12 (2.99%) Apache Beam
16 12 (2.99%) FastAPI
16 12 (2.99%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.19%) Algorithms
2 41 (10.20%) Data Structures
3 34 (8.46%) Client/Server
4 32 (7.96%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.73%) PropTech
6 14 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.74%) Cyberattack
8 11 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 10 (2.49%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.24%) Sports Betting
11 8 (1.99%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.99%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.99%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.99%) Replication
11 8 (1.99%) Robotics
12 5 (1.24%) Blog
12 5 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.20%) Linux
2 14 (3.48%) Unix
3 13 (3.23%) Solaris
3 13 (3.23%) Windows
4 12 (2.99%) CentOS
4 12 (2.99%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.99%) zOS
5 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.50%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (45.77%) Agile
2 177 (44.03%) Microservices
3 159 (39.55%) Software Engineering
4 117 (29.10%) CI/CD
5 107 (26.62%) TDD
6 78 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (16.17%) Design Patterns
8 64 (15.92%) Continuous Integration
9 55 (13.68%) DevOps
10 46 (11.44%) Data Science
11 45 (11.19%) Fintech
12 40 (9.95%) Continuous Deployment
13 39 (9.70%) Full Stack Development
14 37 (9.20%) Analytics
14 37 (9.20%) High Availability
14 37 (9.20%) Regression Testing
15 34 (8.46%) Computer Science
15 34 (8.46%) SDLC
15 34 (8.46%) User Experience
16 33 (8.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 184 (45.77%) Java
2 130 (32.34%) Python
3 112 (27.86%) SQL
4 94 (23.38%) Go
5 71 (17.66%) C#
6 67 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 62 (15.42%) TypeScript
8 46 (11.44%) Scala
9 24 (5.97%) Bash
10 21 (5.22%) Kotlin
11 14 (3.48%) C
12 7 (1.74%) Clojure
13 5 (1.24%) VBA
14 3 (0.75%) Rust
14 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) PHP
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (5.97%) Degree
2 11 (2.74%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.24%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.00%) CISM
5 4 (1.00%) CISSP
6 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.99%) QA
3 6 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.00%) NIST
4 4 (1.00%) SEPA
5 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (41.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 187 (46.52%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.96%) Terraform
3 17 (4.23%) Ansible
4 13 (3.23%) Grafana
5 12 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.00%) Kibana
7 3 (0.75%) logstash
8 2 (0.50%) Argo
8 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) Podman
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Rancher
9 1 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 47 (11.69%) Google
2 23 (5.72%) Dell
3 18 (4.48%) Oracle
4 17 (4.23%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.48%) Databricks
6 13 (3.23%) Splunk
7 12 (2.99%) IBM
8 11 (2.74%) Teradata
9 8 (1.99%) YouTube
10 7 (1.74%) Confluent
11 4 (1.00%) Facebook
11 4 (1.00%) Qualys
12 3 (0.75%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.50%) Apple
13 2 (0.50%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.50%) Informatica
13 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.25%) New Relic