Kafka Jobs with Work from Home 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 134 90
Rank change year-on-year -161 -44 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 377 952 3,095
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 2.53% 4.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.01% 7.73% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 315 728 1,155
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,676 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £86,932 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +2.27% +17.24%
75th Percentile £91,995 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £143,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +6.67%

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 9,405 12,322 34,653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.54% 32.74% 45.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,743 9,703 17,349
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,351 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +4.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%

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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 11 June 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 67 (17.77%) Apache Spark
2 25 (6.63%) Apache
3 12 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.12%) nginx
5 7 (1.86%) Confluence
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 208 (55.17%) AWS
2 86 (22.81%) Azure
3 71 (18.83%) GCP
4 31 (8.22%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.37%) Serverless
6 23 (6.10%) SaaS
7 21 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (5.57%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (4.24%) GitHub
9 13 (3.45%) Slack
10 12 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.18%) Google Docs
10 12 (3.18%) Lucidchart
10 12 (3.18%) Miro
11 11 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.59%) AMQP
1 6 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.33%) Firewall
2 5 (1.33%) Network Security
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (25.46%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (14.32%) Relational Database
3 52 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
3 52 (13.79%) Redis
4 48 (12.73%) NoSQL
5 43 (11.41%) MySQL
6 41 (10.88%) MongoDB
7 40 (10.61%) Big Data
8 36 (9.55%) Hadoop
9 28 (7.43%) SQL Server
10 23 (6.10%) BigQuery
11 18 (4.77%) Flink
12 15 (3.98%) CouchDB
13 12 (3.18%) Scylla
14 11 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (2.65%) Tableau
16 9 (2.39%) Power BI
16 9 (2.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 70 (18.57%) Git
2 44 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.69%) GitLab
4 23 (6.10%) JIRA
5 20 (5.31%) Maven
6 11 (2.92%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.92%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.65%) JUnit
8 8 (2.12%) Gradle
9 7 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.86%) Eclipse
10 6 (1.59%) Mocha
10 6 (1.59%) Spinnaker
11 5 (1.33%) GDB
11 5 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.33%) Postman
11 5 (1.33%) Selenium
12 4 (1.06%) Mockito
13 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.53%) IntelliJ
General
1 134 (35.54%) Finance
2 122 (32.36%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.94%) Banking
4 25 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.57%) Retail
6 20 (5.31%) Law
7 17 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.24%) Games
9 13 (3.45%) Marketing
10 12 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.65%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.39%) Automotive
12 9 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.12%) Advertising
14 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.33%) Retail Finance
16 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.80%) Legal
18 2 (0.53%) Front Office
18 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 147 (38.99%) Developer
2 142 (37.67%) Senior
3 78 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 72 (19.10%) Senior Developer
5 45 (11.94%) Lead
6 38 (10.08%) Java Developer
7 34 (9.02%) Data Engineer
8 33 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (7.43%) .NET Developer
10 25 (6.63%) Java Engineer
11 23 (6.10%) Full Stack Engineer
12 22 (5.84%) Architect
13 21 (5.57%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (5.57%) Python Engineer
14 19 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.77%) Technical Leader
16 17 (4.51%) C# Developer
16 17 (4.51%) Senior Java Developer
17 15 (3.98%) C# .NET Developer
17 15 (3.98%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (20.42%) Spring Boot
2 72 (19.10%) RabbitMQ
3 65 (17.24%) React
4 64 (16.98%) Spring
5 62 (16.45%) AngularJS
5 62 (16.45%) GraphQL
6 60 (15.92%) REST
7 56 (14.85%) .NET
8 46 (12.20%) gRPC
8 46 (12.20%) RESTful
8 46 (12.20%) Web Services
9 39 (10.34%) Node.js
10 25 (6.63%) CSS
11 24 (6.37%) .NET Core
12 23 (6.10%) Django
13 19 (5.04%) JSON
14 16 (4.24%) HTML
15 12 (3.18%) Apache Beam
15 12 (3.18%) FastAPI
15 12 (3.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.08%) Algorithms
2 34 (9.02%) Client/Server
3 29 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 28 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.98%) PropTech
6 14 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.92%) Cyberattack
7 11 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.39%) Sports Betting
10 8 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.12%) Data Fabric
10 8 (2.12%) Replication
10 8 (2.12%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.33%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.33%) Blog
11 5 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.28%) Linux
2 14 (3.71%) Unix
3 13 (3.45%) Solaris
3 13 (3.45%) Windows
4 12 (3.18%) CentOS
4 12 (3.18%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.18%) zOS
5 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.06%) Debian
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (44.03%) Microservices
2 162 (42.97%) Agile
3 147 (38.99%) Software Engineering
4 116 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 95 (25.20%) TDD
6 70 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (16.18%) Design Patterns
8 57 (15.12%) DevOps
9 55 (14.59%) Continuous Integration
10 40 (10.61%) Continuous Deployment
11 39 (10.34%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (9.81%) Computer Science
12 37 (9.81%) Regression Testing
13 36 (9.55%) Analytics
14 34 (9.02%) Data Science
14 34 (9.02%) Event-Driven
14 34 (9.02%) Fintech
15 33 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
16 31 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
17 29 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 163 (43.24%) Java
2 117 (31.03%) Python
3 97 (25.73%) SQL
4 83 (22.02%) Go
5 67 (17.77%) JavaScript
5 67 (17.77%) TypeScript
6 66 (17.51%) C#
7 37 (9.81%) Scala
8 24 (6.37%) Kotlin
9 14 (3.71%) C
10 12 (3.18%) Bash
11 10 (2.65%) Clojure
12 5 (1.33%) VBA
13 3 (0.80%) Rust
14 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (6.10%) Degree
2 17 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.06%) CISM
4 4 (1.06%) CISSP
4 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.86%) QA
3 6 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.06%) NIST
5 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (40.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 160 (42.44%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.28%) Terraform
3 18 (4.77%) Ansible
4 13 (3.45%) Grafana
5 12 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.80%) logstash
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.53%) Packer
8 2 (0.53%) Podman
8 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (7.96%) Google
2 17 (4.51%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.98%) Oracle
4 13 (3.45%) Databricks
4 13 (3.45%) Splunk
5 12 (3.18%) Dell
6 10 (2.65%) Teradata
7 8 (2.12%) IBM
8 7 (1.86%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.59%) YouTube
10 4 (1.06%) Facebook
10 4 (1.06%) Qualys
11 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.80%) Confluent
11 3 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.53%) Apple
12 2 (0.53%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.53%) Informatica
12 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.27%) Sybase