Kafka Jobs in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 109 183
Rank change year-on-year +52 +74 -81
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 423 124 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.31% 2.61% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.57% 8.42% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 46 66 17
10th Percentile £51,593 £56,405 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,882 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £69,447 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -13.19% +28.00%
75th Percentile £78,438 £97,328 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,217 £117,236 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +10.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,278 1,472 1,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.98% 30.96% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 644 772 1,098
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,546 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Scotland.

Salary trend for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +50 358 £66,000 -1.49% 3
Edinburgh +18 62 £70,576 -16.07% 8
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 96 (22.70%) FileNet
2 93 (21.99%) Apache Spark
3 49 (11.58%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (7.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (4.96%) GemFire
6 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 207 (48.94%) AWS
2 119 (28.13%) Amazon S3
3 56 (13.24%) GCP
4 48 (11.35%) GitHub
5 42 (9.93%) SaaS
6 33 (7.80%) Azure
7 28 (6.62%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (5.44%) Google Docs
8 23 (5.44%) Lucidchart
8 23 (5.44%) Miro
8 23 (5.44%) Slack
9 15 (3.55%) BlazeMeter
10 7 (1.65%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (1.65%) Datadog
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.95%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) Serverless
13 3 (0.71%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.26%) DSL
2 17 (4.02%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (41.37%) NoSQL
2 140 (33.10%) Elasticsearch
3 133 (31.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 94 (22.22%) Big Data
5 47 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 38 (8.98%) CockroachDB
7 28 (6.62%) Hadoop
8 23 (5.44%) Redis
8 23 (5.44%) Scylla
9 21 (4.96%) Hazelcast
10 18 (4.26%) Data Lake
10 18 (4.26%) DB2
10 18 (4.26%) Tableau
11 17 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (3.55%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.31%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.18%) Pentaho
15 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
16 2 (0.47%) Metadata
17 1 (0.24%) HBase
Development Applications
1 123 (29.08%) JUnit
2 58 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 47 (11.11%) Mockito
4 44 (10.40%) Jasmine
5 23 (5.44%) Maven
6 21 (4.96%) Jaeger
7 15 (3.55%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.31%) Cypress.io
8 14 (3.31%) Git
9 8 (1.89%) JIRA
10 6 (1.42%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.95%) Selenium
13 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 380 (89.83%) Finance
2 367 (86.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 346 (81.80%) Law
4 128 (30.26%) Legal
5 127 (30.02%) Marketing
6 122 (28.84%) Banking
7 84 (19.86%) Investment Banking
8 38 (8.98%) Social Skills
9 22 (5.20%) Prime Brokerage
10 19 (4.49%) Financial Institution
11 18 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (3.55%) Private Banking
13 6 (1.42%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Games
15 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 364 (86.05%) Software Engineer
2 199 (47.04%) Java Engineer
3 195 (46.10%) Java Software Engineer
4 137 (32.39%) Lead
5 132 (31.21%) Lead Software Engineer
6 120 (28.37%) Full Stack Engineer
6 120 (28.37%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 74 (17.49%) Lead Java Engineer
8 59 (13.95%) Data Engineer
9 52 (12.29%) Senior
10 47 (11.11%) Python Engineer
10 47 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
11 42 (9.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 40 (9.46%) Big Data Engineer
12 40 (9.46%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 26 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (6.15%) Principal Software Engineer
14 20 (4.73%) Architect
15 19 (4.49%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 19 (4.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (67.38%) Spring
2 140 (33.10%) GraphQL
3 138 (32.62%) J2EE
4 128 (30.26%) React
5 126 (29.79%) AngularJS
6 110 (26.00%) Hibernate
6 110 (26.00%) Spring Boot
7 101 (23.88%) Spring Integration
8 91 (21.51%) JMS
9 73 (17.26%) CSS
9 73 (17.26%) HTML
10 69 (16.31%) JSON
11 65 (15.37%) Web Services
12 59 (13.95%) REST
13 52 (12.29%) jQuery
13 52 (12.29%) Node.js
13 52 (12.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 50 (11.82%) XML
15 49 (11.58%) PySpark
16 39 (9.22%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 209 (49.41%) Cloud Native
2 97 (22.93%) Algorithms
3 55 (13.00%) Public Cloud
4 39 (9.22%) Onboarding
5 32 (7.57%) Management Information System
6 23 (5.44%) Data Structures
7 21 (4.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (4.96%) Replication
8 19 (4.49%) Product Ownership
8 19 (4.49%) Reference Data
9 18 (4.26%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.36%) Blockchain
10 10 (2.36%) Robotics
11 7 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.24%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.24%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.42%) Linux
2 5 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (90.31%) Agile
1 382 (90.31%) Software Engineering
2 307 (72.58%) CI/CD
3 306 (72.34%) SDLC
4 283 (66.90%) Operational Stability
5 230 (54.37%) Artificial Intelligence
6 227 (53.66%) Machine Learning
7 217 (51.30%) Community of Practice
8 206 (48.70%) Microservices
9 133 (31.44%) Full Stack Development
10 117 (27.66%) Risk Management
11 113 (26.71%) Decision-Making
12 108 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (24.59%) Visualisation
14 96 (22.70%) AOP
14 96 (22.70%) Document Management
15 86 (20.33%) Architectural Design
16 80 (18.91%) Information Architecture
17 69 (16.31%) Computer Science
17 69 (16.31%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 357 (84.40%) Java
2 268 (63.36%) SQL
3 119 (28.13%) Python
4 78 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 53 (12.53%) TypeScript
6 44 (10.40%) Scala
7 24 (5.67%) Bash
7 24 (5.67%) Go
8 21 (4.96%) Groovy
9 19 (4.49%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.65%) C#
10 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (9.69%) Degree
2 37 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (6.86%) Master's Degree
4 19 (4.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.26%) SLA
2 8 (1.89%) SEPA
3 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 59 (13.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 256 (60.52%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.35%) Grafana
3 34 (8.04%) Terraform
4 26 (6.15%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (4.96%) HAProxy
5 21 (4.96%) Kibana
5 21 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.96%) Zipkin
6 7 (1.65%) Graphite
7 3 (0.71%) Rancher
8 2 (0.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 159 (37.59%) Oracle
2 56 (13.24%) Splunk
3 45 (10.64%) Google
4 40 (9.46%) Databricks
5 36 (8.51%) Dynatrace
6 24 (5.67%) Dell
7 23 (5.44%) Sybase
8 18 (4.26%) Alteryx
8 18 (4.26%) Cognos
9 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.18%) CA
9 5 (1.18%) IBM
10 4 (0.95%) Confluent
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.24%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.24%) Teradata