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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 133 89
Rank change year-on-year -145 -44 +51
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 382 957 3,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 2.54% 4.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.09% 7.73% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 320 727 1,155
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,735 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,483 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +2.92% +21.43%
75th Percentile £91,993 £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 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 9,345 12,383 34,609
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.49% 32.81% 45.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,699 9,698 17,347
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £46,250
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 9 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 69 (18.06%) Apache Spark
2 25 (6.54%) Apache
3 12 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.83%) Confluence
4 7 (1.83%) nginx
5 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 212 (55.50%) AWS
2 88 (23.04%) Azure
3 74 (19.37%) GCP
4 32 (8.38%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.54%) SaaS
6 24 (6.28%) Serverless
7 21 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (4.45%) GitHub
9 14 (3.66%) Slack
10 13 (3.40%) Google Docs
10 13 (3.40%) Lucidchart
10 13 (3.40%) Miro
11 12 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.57%) AMQP
1 6 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.31%) Firewall
2 5 (1.31%) Network Security
3 2 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (25.39%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (14.40%) Relational Database
3 53 (13.87%) Redis
4 52 (13.61%) Elasticsearch
5 48 (12.57%) NoSQL
6 45 (11.78%) MySQL
7 43 (11.26%) MongoDB
8 42 (10.99%) Big Data
9 38 (9.95%) Hadoop
10 29 (7.59%) SQL Server
11 24 (6.28%) BigQuery
12 19 (4.97%) Flink
13 15 (3.93%) CouchDB
14 13 (3.40%) Scylla
15 11 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (2.62%) Tableau
17 9 (2.36%) Data Lake
17 9 (2.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 71 (18.59%) Git
2 44 (11.52%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.59%) GitLab
4 23 (6.02%) JIRA
5 20 (5.24%) Maven
6 10 (2.62%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.62%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.36%) JUnit
8 8 (2.09%) Gradle
9 7 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.83%) Eclipse
10 6 (1.57%) Mocha
10 6 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (1.57%) Spinnaker
11 5 (1.31%) GDB
11 5 (1.31%) Selenium
12 4 (1.05%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) Mockito
14 2 (0.52%) IntelliJ
15 1 (0.26%) Ant
General
1 135 (35.34%) Finance
2 123 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.30%) Banking
4 26 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.50%) Retail
6 20 (5.24%) Law
7 16 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.19%) Games
8 13 (3.40%) Marketing
9 11 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.62%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.36%) Automotive
12 8 (2.09%) Advertising
12 8 (2.09%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.31%) Retail Finance
15 4 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.79%) Legal
17 2 (0.52%) Front Office
17 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (39.01%) Developer
2 145 (37.96%) Senior
3 80 (20.94%) Software Engineer
4 75 (19.63%) Senior Developer
5 46 (12.04%) Lead
6 37 (9.69%) Java Developer
7 35 (9.16%) Data Engineer
8 33 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (7.59%) .NET Developer
10 26 (6.81%) Java Engineer
11 23 (6.02%) Full Stack Engineer
12 22 (5.76%) Architect
12 22 (5.76%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (5.50%) Python Engineer
14 19 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.71%) Technical Leader
16 17 (4.45%) C# Developer
16 17 (4.45%) Senior Java Developer
17 16 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
18 15 (3.93%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (20.16%) Spring Boot
2 75 (19.63%) RabbitMQ
3 65 (17.02%) React
4 64 (16.75%) Spring
5 63 (16.49%) GraphQL
6 62 (16.23%) AngularJS
7 60 (15.71%) REST
8 57 (14.92%) .NET
9 47 (12.30%) Web Services
10 46 (12.04%) gRPC
10 46 (12.04%) RESTful
11 41 (10.73%) Node.js
12 25 (6.54%) CSS
13 24 (6.28%) .NET Core
14 23 (6.02%) Django
15 20 (5.24%) JSON
16 16 (4.19%) HTML
17 13 (3.40%) Apache Beam
18 12 (3.14%) FastAPI
18 12 (3.14%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.21%) Algorithms
2 34 (8.90%) Client/Server
3 31 (8.12%) Data Structures
4 30 (7.85%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.93%) PropTech
6 14 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.88%) Cyberattack
7 11 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.62%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.36%) Sports Betting
9 9 (2.36%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.09%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.09%) Data Fabric
10 8 (2.09%) Replication
11 5 (1.31%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.31%) Blog
11 5 (1.31%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.16%) Linux
2 14 (3.66%) Unix
3 13 (3.40%) Solaris
3 13 (3.40%) Windows
4 12 (3.14%) CentOS
4 12 (3.14%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.14%) zOS
5 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.05%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (44.24%) Microservices
2 165 (43.19%) Agile
3 149 (39.01%) Software Engineering
4 116 (30.37%) CI/CD
5 98 (25.65%) TDD
6 70 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (16.23%) Design Patterns
8 58 (15.18%) DevOps
9 57 (14.92%) Continuous Integration
10 40 (10.47%) Continuous Deployment
11 39 (10.21%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (9.69%) Computer Science
12 37 (9.69%) Fintech
12 37 (9.69%) Regression Testing
13 36 (9.42%) Analytics
14 35 (9.16%) Data Science
15 34 (8.90%) Event-Driven
16 33 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence
17 32 (8.38%) Data Pipeline
18 30 (7.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 165 (43.19%) Java
2 119 (31.15%) Python
3 101 (26.44%) SQL
4 85 (22.25%) Go
5 67 (17.54%) C#
5 67 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 67 (17.54%) TypeScript
6 39 (10.21%) Scala
7 24 (6.28%) Kotlin
8 14 (3.66%) C
9 13 (3.40%) Bash
10 10 (2.62%) Clojure
11 5 (1.31%) VBA
12 3 (0.79%) Rust
13 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Perl
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (6.28%) Degree
2 17 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.05%) CISM
4 4 (1.05%) CISSP
4 4 (1.05%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.83%) QA
3 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.05%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 154 (40.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 164 (42.93%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.90%) Terraform
3 17 (4.45%) Ansible
4 13 (3.40%) Grafana
5 12 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.05%) Kibana
7 3 (0.79%) logstash
8 2 (0.52%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Podman
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (8.38%) Google
2 17 (4.45%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.19%) Oracle
4 13 (3.40%) Databricks
4 13 (3.40%) Dell
4 13 (3.40%) Splunk
5 11 (2.88%) Teradata
6 9 (2.36%) IBM
7 6 (1.57%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.57%) YouTube
8 4 (1.05%) Facebook
8 4 (1.05%) Qualys
9 3 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.79%) Confluent
9 3 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.52%) Apple
10 2 (0.52%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.52%) Informatica
10 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.26%) Murex