Remote Kafka jobs in the UK
Live remote Kafka jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.
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We are currently tracking 17 live vacancies matching remote Kafka jobs in the UK, advertised by 8 different employers. 4 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Soliduslabs, Methodsdigital, Keyrock and Remotefriendly. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Too few of these roles publish a salary for a reliable benchmark. Where a figure is quoted it appears on the listing, and contract day rates are annualised so they can be compared against permanent salaries.
On working pattern, 100% are fully remote and 18% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 47% at mid level and 41% at senior level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for Kafka in this slice most often ask for it alongside Java, Machine Learning, SAP, SQL, C++ and Python. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
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Data Engineer
Data Scientist – Luxembourg – 12-24 month freelance contract
Data Engineer- Luxembourg – 6 months – freelance contract
Data Engineer Engineer – Luxembourg 3-6 month contract
AI Engineer
Senior Data Analyst
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer
Sr Data Engineer Opening - DataSpot Consulting Group
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many remote Kafka jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 17 live vacancies across 8 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
18% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Soliduslabs, Methodsdigital, Keyrock, Remotefriendly and Dataspotcg. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often Java, Machine Learning, SAP, SQL and C++. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
Are there entry-level or graduate Kafka developer jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Machine Learning Engineer, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Senior Data Analyst, AI Engineer and Data Engineer Engineer – Luxembourg 3-6 month contract. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
How much experience do these roles need?
The largest group is mid level (47% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.
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