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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 135 91
Rank change year-on-year -143 -44 +52
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 383 976 3,022
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 2.54% 4.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.16% 7.70% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 322 739 1,128
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £70,735 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £91,991 £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 9,196 12,680 34,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.47% 32.97% 45.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,648 9,884 17,213
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,482 £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 £79,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%

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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 1 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 68 (17.75%) Apache Spark
2 24 (6.27%) Apache
3 11 (2.87%) 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 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 210 (54.83%) AWS
2 87 (22.72%) Azure
3 76 (19.84%) GCP
4 32 (8.36%) Amazon S3
5 27 (7.05%) SaaS
6 24 (6.27%) Serverless
7 22 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (4.96%) GitHub
10 15 (3.92%) Slack
11 14 (3.66%) Google Docs
11 14 (3.66%) Lucidchart
11 14 (3.66%) Miro
12 12 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.35%) Power Platform
16 8 (2.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.57%) AMQP
1 6 (1.57%) Firewall
1 6 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.31%) Network Security
3 2 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (25.07%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (14.10%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (14.10%) Redis
2 54 (14.10%) Relational Database
3 47 (12.27%) NoSQL
4 46 (12.01%) MySQL
5 43 (11.23%) MongoDB
6 40 (10.44%) Big Data
7 37 (9.66%) Hadoop
8 29 (7.57%) SQL Server
9 23 (6.01%) BigQuery
10 19 (4.96%) Flink
11 15 (3.92%) CouchDB
12 14 (3.66%) Scylla
13 11 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (2.61%) RDBMS
14 10 (2.61%) Tableau
15 9 (2.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (19.32%) Git
2 49 (12.79%) Jenkins
3 28 (7.31%) GitLab
4 25 (6.53%) Maven
5 24 (6.27%) JIRA
6 11 (2.87%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.87%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.61%) JUnit
8 8 (2.09%) Gradle
9 7 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.83%) Eclipse
9 7 (1.83%) Spinnaker
10 6 (1.57%) Mocha
10 6 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (1.57%) Selenium
11 5 (1.31%) GDB
12 4 (1.04%) Postman
13 3 (0.78%) Mockito
14 2 (0.52%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (36.55%) Finance
2 125 (32.64%) Social Skills
3 51 (13.32%) Banking
4 27 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.48%) Retail
6 20 (5.22%) Law
7 16 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.18%) Games
8 13 (3.39%) Marketing
9 11 (2.87%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.35%) Automotive
11 8 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.57%) Advertising
14 5 (1.31%) Retail Finance
15 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Legal
17 2 (0.52%) Front Office
17 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (39.43%) Developer
2 143 (37.34%) Senior
3 81 (21.15%) Software Engineer
4 76 (19.84%) Senior Developer
5 44 (11.49%) Lead
6 38 (9.92%) Java Developer
7 35 (9.14%) Data Engineer
8 31 (8.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (7.57%) .NET Developer
10 27 (7.05%) Java Engineer
11 23 (6.01%) Full Stack Engineer
11 23 (6.01%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (5.74%) Architect
13 21 (5.48%) Python Engineer
14 20 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (4.44%) C# Developer
15 17 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
15 17 (4.44%) Technical Leader
16 16 (4.18%) Senior .NET Developer
17 15 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (21.41%) Spring Boot
2 76 (19.84%) RabbitMQ
3 69 (18.02%) Spring
4 64 (16.71%) GraphQL
4 64 (16.71%) REST
5 63 (16.45%) AngularJS
5 63 (16.45%) React
6 57 (14.88%) .NET
7 48 (12.53%) Web Services
8 47 (12.27%) gRPC
8 47 (12.27%) RESTful
9 40 (10.44%) Node.js
10 25 (6.53%) CSS
11 24 (6.27%) .NET Core
12 23 (6.01%) Django
12 23 (6.01%) JSON
13 16 (4.18%) HTML
14 12 (3.13%) Apache Beam
14 12 (3.13%) FastAPI
14 12 (3.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.44%) Algorithms
2 34 (8.88%) Client/Server
3 32 (8.36%) Data Structures
4 31 (8.09%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.92%) PropTech
6 14 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.87%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.87%) Cyberattack
9 10 (2.61%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.35%) Sports Betting
10 9 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (2.09%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.09%) Data Fabric
11 8 (2.09%) Replication
12 5 (1.31%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.31%) Blog
12 5 (1.31%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.14%) Linux
2 14 (3.66%) Unix
3 13 (3.39%) Solaris
3 13 (3.39%) Windows
4 12 (3.13%) CentOS
4 12 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.13%) zOS
5 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.04%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (44.65%) Microservices
2 170 (44.39%) Agile
3 149 (38.90%) Software Engineering
4 116 (30.29%) CI/CD
5 100 (26.11%) TDD
6 70 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (16.19%) Design Patterns
8 60 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
9 55 (14.36%) DevOps
10 40 (10.44%) Continuous Deployment
10 40 (10.44%) Fintech
11 39 (10.18%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (9.66%) Data Science
12 37 (9.66%) Regression Testing
13 35 (9.14%) Analytics
13 35 (9.14%) Computer Science
14 34 (8.88%) Event-Driven
15 33 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence
16 31 (8.09%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (7.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (43.34%) Java
2 119 (31.07%) Python
3 103 (26.89%) SQL
4 86 (22.45%) Go
5 67 (17.49%) C#
5 67 (17.49%) JavaScript
6 65 (16.97%) TypeScript
7 38 (9.92%) Scala
8 22 (5.74%) Kotlin
9 14 (3.66%) Bash
9 14 (3.66%) C
10 8 (2.09%) Clojure
11 5 (1.31%) VBA
12 3 (0.78%) Rust
12 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (6.01%) Degree
2 15 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.04%) CISM
4 4 (1.04%) CISSP
4 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.83%) QA
3 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.04%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 159 (41.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 169 (44.13%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.88%) Terraform
3 18 (4.70%) Ansible
4 13 (3.39%) Grafana
5 12 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.04%) Kibana
7 3 (0.78%) 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
8 2 (0.52%) Rancher
9 1 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (9.14%) Google
2 17 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.44%) Oracle
3 14 (3.66%) Dell
4 13 (3.39%) Splunk
5 12 (3.13%) Databricks
6 11 (2.87%) Teradata
7 10 (2.61%) IBM
8 6 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.57%) YouTube
9 4 (1.04%) Confluent
9 4 (1.04%) Facebook
9 4 (1.04%) Qualys
10 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.52%) Apple
11 2 (0.52%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.52%) Informatica
11 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.26%) Murex