Kafka Contracts in Glasgow

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 85
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 -8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 44 28 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.79% 3.45% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.78% 14.58% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 2
10th Percentile £377 - £462
25th Percentile £415 £400 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £548
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -17.81% +9.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £602
90th Percentile £575 £550 £623
Scotland median daily rate £473 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -0.53% -9.52% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 202 192 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.58% 23.67% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 127 113
10th Percentile £300 £325 £383
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -13.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £507 £638
90th Percentile £590 £575 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £51.50 £16.62
25th Percentile - £51.88 £21.80
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year - +80.65% -52.98%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £39.09
90th Percentile - - £44.27
Scotland median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%

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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 30 May 2025.

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 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (77.27%) Relational Database
2 33 (75.00%) MongoDB
3 31 (70.45%) DB2
4 10 (22.73%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.82%) MySQL
6 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (81.82%) JUnit
2 2 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) Gradle
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) Maven
2 2 (4.55%) Mockito
3 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.27%) Gatling
3 1 (2.27%) JMeter
General
1 28 (63.64%) Finance
2 27 (61.36%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (61.36%) Social Skills
3 21 (47.73%) Front Office
4 13 (29.55%) Banking
4 13 (29.55%) Investment Banking
5 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (84.09%) Developer
1 37 (84.09%) Java Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 9 (20.45%) SQL Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Sybase Developer
3 3 (6.82%) Core Java Developer
3 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) Senior
3 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
3 3 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) J2EE Specialist
5 1 (2.27%) Java Server Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) MongoDB Developer
5 1 (2.27%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (84.09%) Spring
2 26 (59.09%) JMS
3 9 (20.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.55%) JPA
4 2 (4.55%) MSMQ
4 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.55%) React
4 2 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) RESTful
4 2 (4.55%) Spring MVC
5 1 (2.27%) Ext JS
5 1 (2.27%) J2EE
5 1 (2.27%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 28 (63.64%) Data Structures
2 23 (52.27%) Equities
3 7 (15.91%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (9.09%) Derivative
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (70.45%) Linux
2 7 (15.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) Agile
2 34 (77.27%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (65.91%) Multithreading
4 26 (59.09%) Open Source
5 23 (52.27%) SDLC
6 22 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (47.73%) Database Tuning
8 11 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
10 8 (18.18%) Concurrent Programming
11 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven
11 6 (13.64%) Unit Testing
12 4 (9.09%) Code Quality
12 4 (9.09%) DevOps
13 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
13 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 3 (6.82%) Data Protection
13 3 (6.82%) Investment Management
13 3 (6.82%) Scrum
13 3 (6.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (95.45%) Java
2 37 (84.09%) SQL
3 35 (79.55%) Python
4 26 (59.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
2 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (68.18%) Sybase
2 3 (6.82%) IBM
2 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Greenplum