Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
kafka
512 live US technical postings name kafka in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 512 postings naming kafka that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer60%
- 2Data Engineer15.8%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.4%
- 4Backend Engineer5.5%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer3.7%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer3.5%
- 7AI Engineer1.2%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1San Francisco, CA17.4%
- 2New York, NY13.7%
- 3Remote11.3%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA7.6%
- 5Seattle, WA4.7%
- 6Boston, MA2.7%
- 7Washington, DC2.3%
- 8Denver, CO2%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.