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 84 live vacancies matching remote Kafka jobs in the UK, advertised by 36 different employers. 16 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Remotefriendly, Ftmo, Monzo and Jagaad. 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.
Of the 84 roles, 6 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £110,000. The middle half of the market sits between £100,000 and £170,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for remote Kafka jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.
On working pattern, 100% are fully remote and 7% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 56% at mid level and 25% 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, AWS, Python, Kubernetes and SQL. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
AffirmUSDirector, Software Engineering (Service Infrastructure)$234k - $325k
AffirmUSPrincipal Software Engineer (Developer Platform)$234k - $325k
AffirmUSSr. Credit Analyst, Full Stack$125k - $208kSQL, Python
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Financial Reporting)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager (Developer Productivity)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Collections)310k - 387k PLNSQL, Jupyter
AffirmPolandSenior Engineering Manager, Merchant Servicing362k - 453k PLN
AffirmPolandSoftware Engineer, Backend (Merchant Servicing)226k - 282k PLN
AffirmPolandSoftware Engineer, Backend (Purchasing)226k - 282k PLN
AffirmPolandSenior Backend Engineer, Financial Crimes265k - 331k PLN
Brooklyn Data CompanyWorldwideMid-to-Senior Analytics Engineer$126k - $162kSQL, dbt
BudUKSenior Frontend Developer£75k - £100kReact.js, TypeScript, Storybook
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Professional Software Engineering experience
Front-end development of a customer facing web portal
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Java Developer
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 84 live vacancies across 36 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.
What do remote Kafka jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £110,000, based on the 6 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £100,000 to £170,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
7% 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 Remotefriendly, Ftmo, Monzo, Jagaad and Dualitsoft. 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, AWS, Python and Kubernetes. 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.
How much does a Kafka developer earn in the UK?
£110,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 100% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 78 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
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 QA Lead, Head of Software Engineering, AI Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer and Principal Machine Learning Engineer. 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 (56% 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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