Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
kafka
1,257 live US technical postings name kafka in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 1,257 postings naming kafka that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer58.5%
- 2Data Engineer14%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.9%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer5.6%
- 5Backend Engineer4.3%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer3.9%
- 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, CA14.9%
- 2Remote13.1%
- 3New York, NY12.8%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA10%
- 5Seattle, WA4.7%
- 6Boston, MA3.6%
- 7Washington, DC2.9%
- 8Los Angeles, CA2.3%
How we counted
668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.