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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 110 93
Rank change year-on-year -149 -17 +49
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 399 1,242 2,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 3.06% 3.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 8.99% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 336 762 1,116
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,000 £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 £91,948 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £143,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £89,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.20% +11.88% +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 9,017 13,821 32,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 34.06% 45.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,518 10,357 17,246
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £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 20 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 (20.30%) Apache Spark
2 24 (6.02%) Apache
3 11 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.75%) Confluence
5 6 (1.50%) 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 (54.64%) AWS
2 92 (23.06%) Azure
3 89 (22.31%) GCP
4 39 (9.77%) Amazon S3
4 39 (9.77%) SaaS
5 29 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
6 25 (6.27%) Serverless
7 24 (6.02%) GitHub
8 23 (5.76%) Slack
9 22 (5.51%) Google Docs
9 22 (5.51%) Lucidchart
9 22 (5.51%) Miro
10 20 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.26%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.26%) Firewall
2 6 (1.50%) AMQP
2 6 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.25%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (23.56%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (15.79%) Redis
3 62 (15.54%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (13.03%) Relational Database
5 50 (12.53%) Big Data
6 49 (12.28%) NoSQL
7 48 (12.03%) MySQL
8 46 (11.53%) Hadoop
9 42 (10.53%) MongoDB
10 29 (7.27%) SQL Server
11 23 (5.76%) BigQuery
12 22 (5.51%) Scylla
13 19 (4.76%) Flink
14 15 (3.76%) CouchDB
15 12 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (2.51%) RDBMS
17 10 (2.51%) Tableau
18 9 (2.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (19.05%) Git
2 55 (13.78%) Jenkins
3 28 (7.02%) GitLab
3 28 (7.02%) Maven
4 24 (6.02%) JIRA
5 10 (2.51%) Cucumber
5 10 (2.51%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.51%) Spinnaker
6 9 (2.26%) JUnit
7 8 (2.01%) Gradle
8 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.75%) Eclipse
8 7 (1.75%) Selenium
9 6 (1.50%) Mocha
9 6 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.25%) GDB
11 3 (0.75%) Postman
12 2 (0.50%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.50%) Mockito
12 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 146 (36.59%) Finance
2 135 (33.83%) Social Skills
3 59 (14.79%) Banking
4 35 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.51%) Games
5 22 (5.51%) Retail
6 20 (5.01%) Law
7 15 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.26%) Marketing
9 11 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.01%) Automotive
12 7 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.75%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.50%) Advertising
14 5 (1.25%) Legal
14 5 (1.25%) Retail Finance
15 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (38.35%) Developer
2 145 (36.34%) Senior
3 93 (23.31%) Software Engineer
4 78 (19.55%) Senior Developer
5 42 (10.53%) Lead
6 38 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 37 (9.27%) Data Engineer
8 31 (7.77%) .NET Developer
8 31 (7.77%) Java Engineer
8 31 (7.77%) Principal Engineer
9 30 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (5.76%) Architect
10 23 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.76%) Full Stack Engineer
11 22 (5.51%) Principal Software Engineer
11 22 (5.51%) Python Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Senior .NET Developer
13 17 (4.26%) C# Developer
13 17 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (22.56%) Spring Boot
2 77 (19.30%) RabbitMQ
3 74 (18.55%) Spring
4 72 (18.05%) GraphQL
5 67 (16.79%) REST
6 65 (16.29%) AngularJS
7 63 (15.79%) React
8 60 (15.04%) .NET
9 49 (12.28%) Web Services
10 48 (12.03%) RESTful
11 47 (11.78%) gRPC
12 39 (9.77%) Node.js
13 26 (6.52%) .NET Core
13 26 (6.52%) CSS
13 26 (6.52%) JSON
14 23 (5.76%) Django
15 17 (4.26%) HTML
16 12 (3.01%) Apache Beam
16 12 (3.01%) FastAPI
16 12 (3.01%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.03%) Algorithms
2 40 (10.03%) Data Structures
3 34 (8.52%) Client/Server
4 31 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.76%) PropTech
6 14 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.76%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.76%) Cyberattack
9 10 (2.51%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.51%) Video\Live Streaming
10 9 (2.26%) Sports Betting
11 8 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.01%) Data Fabric
11 8 (2.01%) Replication
12 7 (1.75%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.75%) Robotics
13 5 (1.25%) Blog
13 5 (1.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.27%) Linux
2 14 (3.51%) Unix
3 13 (3.26%) Solaris
3 13 (3.26%) Windows
4 12 (3.01%) CentOS
4 12 (3.01%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.01%) 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
1 182 (45.61%) Agile
2 177 (44.36%) Microservices
3 159 (39.85%) Software Engineering
4 118 (29.57%) CI/CD
5 105 (26.32%) TDD
6 76 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (16.04%) Continuous Integration
7 64 (16.04%) Design Patterns
8 56 (14.04%) DevOps
9 45 (11.28%) Data Science
9 45 (11.28%) Fintech
10 40 (10.03%) Continuous Deployment
11 39 (9.77%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (9.27%) Analytics
12 37 (9.27%) Regression Testing
13 36 (9.02%) High Availability
14 34 (8.52%) Computer Science
14 34 (8.52%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (8.27%) Event-Driven
15 33 (8.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 181 (45.36%) Java
2 129 (32.33%) Python
3 111 (27.82%) SQL
4 93 (23.31%) Go
5 70 (17.54%) C#
6 67 (16.79%) JavaScript
7 63 (15.79%) TypeScript
8 46 (11.53%) Scala
9 23 (5.76%) Bash
10 22 (5.51%) Kotlin
11 14 (3.51%) C
12 8 (2.01%) Clojure
13 5 (1.25%) 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 (6.02%) Degree
2 11 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.26%) 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 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.01%) QA
3 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.50%) 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
1 165 (41.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 186 (46.62%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.02%) Terraform
3 17 (4.26%) Ansible
4 13 (3.26%) Grafana
5 12 (3.01%) 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 46 (11.53%) Google
2 22 (5.51%) Dell
3 18 (4.51%) Oracle
4 17 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.51%) Databricks
6 13 (3.26%) Splunk
7 12 (3.01%) IBM
8 11 (2.76%) Teradata
9 8 (2.01%) YouTube
10 7 (1.75%) 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