Kafka Contracts in Glasgow

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 75 79
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 19 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.27% 1.36% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.90% 7.32% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile - £459 £300
25th Percentile - £480 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £495
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +26.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £453 £650 £500
90th Percentile £543 £665 £512
Scotland median daily rate £473 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 192 164 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.94% 18.55% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 108 138
10th Percentile £330 £388 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.10% +12.87%
75th Percentile £513 £650 £538
90th Percentile £618 £738 £604
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £51.50 - £46.71
25th Percentile £51.88 - £47.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.73 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -3.65% -25.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.65
90th Percentile - - £76.91
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
% change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +15.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) DB2
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) HBase
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Backend Developer
3 3 (15.79%) UI Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (84.21%) Spring
2 14 (73.68%) Spring Boot
3 7 (36.84%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (36.84%) REST
3 7 (36.84%) RESTful
4 6 (31.58%) OpenTracing
5 4 (21.05%) CSS
5 4 (21.05%) React
6 2 (10.53%) JSON
6 2 (10.53%) XML
7 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Structures
1 7 (36.84%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Microservices
2 11 (57.89%) Agile
3 10 (52.63%) SDLC
4 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
5 7 (36.84%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (31.58%) TDD
7 5 (26.32%) Dependency Injection
7 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
9 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
9 3 (15.79%) Release Management
9 3 (15.79%) Scrum
9 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (10.53%) Post-Production
11 1 (5.26%) Front End Development
11 1 (5.26%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Kotlin
2 7 (36.84%) Scala
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
2 6 (31.58%) Zipkin
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) IBM
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk