Kafka Contracts in Edinburgh

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 92 82
Rank change year-on-year +26 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 14 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.98% 1.07% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.21% 3.59% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 36
10th Percentile £490 £485 £391
25th Percentile £550 £499 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £547 £763
90th Percentile £640 £600 £800
Scotland median daily rate £450 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.45% +12.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh 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 190 390 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.37% 29.73% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 322 297
10th Percentile £363 £410 £379
25th Percentile £425 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -0.77% +15.29%
75th Percentile £605 £538 £561
90th Percentile £689 £612 £650
Scotland median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.40%
75th Percentile - - £51.25
90th Percentile - - £52.75
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.00
% change year-on-year -8.94% +25.60% +8.05%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Edinburgh

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (12.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Apigee
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Management
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Go
5 1 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Istio
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Confluent
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Informatica
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Solace
3 1 (12.50%) StreamSets
3 1 (12.50%) Teradata