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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

kafka

1,338 live US technical postings name kafka in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,338 postings naming kafka that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer59.5%
  2. 2Data Engineer13.2%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11%
  4. 4Backend Engineer5%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer5%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.7%
  7. 7Data Scientist1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where kafka is named
n = 875
10th
$143k
25th
$167k
Median
$195k
75th
$221k
90th
$255k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA13.9%
  2. 2Remote12.9%
  3. 3New York, NY11.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.2%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.6%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.7%
  7. 7Washington, DC3.7%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.