Kafka Contracts in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 132 120
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 41 31 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.85% 1.08% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.74% 4.49% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 47
10th Percentile - £466 £346
25th Percentile £400 £485 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £738
90th Percentile £623 £660 £800
UK median daily rate £534 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -17.85% +4.00% +13.64%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 469 691 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.13% 24.14% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 527 486
10th Percentile £330 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +15.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +5 20 £400 -27.60% 8
West Lothian - 13 £520 -
Edinburgh +36 8 £600 +14.29% 7
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 12 (29.27%) Confluence
2 10 (24.39%) Apache Spark
3 4 (9.76%) Apache
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.44%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) GCP
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.88%) Serverless
4 1 (2.44%) Apigee
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.88%) Big Data
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.44%) DB2
5 1 (2.44%) HBase
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (48.78%) Git
2 16 (39.02%) JIRA
3 15 (36.59%) JUnit
4 13 (31.71%) Cucumber
4 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
5 12 (29.27%) Postman
6 5 (12.20%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.88%) Subversion
8 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.44%) GitLab
8 1 (2.44%) Gradle
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Banking
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (75.61%) Developer
2 28 (68.29%) Java Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Senior
4 8 (19.51%) Senior Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) UI Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (2.44%) Lead
7 1 (2.44%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Mobile Architect
7 1 (2.44%) React Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (70.73%) Spring
2 26 (63.41%) Spring Boot
3 21 (51.22%) REST
4 13 (31.71%) Apache Camel
5 11 (26.83%) J2EE
6 9 (21.95%) RESTful
7 7 (17.07%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (14.63%) OpenTracing
9 5 (12.20%) React
10 4 (9.76%) CSS
11 2 (4.88%) JSON
11 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (4.88%) XML
12 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
12 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.07%) Data Structures
3 6 (14.63%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Android
1 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Agile
2 21 (51.22%) Microservices
3 19 (46.34%) End-to-End Testing
4 18 (43.90%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (29.27%) TDD
6 11 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (24.39%) SDLC
8 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
9 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
10 7 (17.07%) Coaching
10 7 (17.07%) Component Testing
10 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (17.07%) Scenario Testing
11 6 (14.63%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
12 5 (12.20%) Dependency Injection
12 5 (12.20%) Event-Driven
12 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
13 3 (7.32%) Backlog Refinement
13 3 (7.32%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) Java
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) Scala
4 7 (17.07%) Kotlin
5 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
6 4 (9.76%) Python
7 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.88%) Groovy
8 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.44%) Go
9 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.88%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
2 6 (14.63%) Zipkin
3 4 (9.76%) Kibana
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (2.44%) Istio
4 1 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) IBM
3 2 (4.88%) Confluent
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Informatica
4 1 (2.44%) Solace
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.44%) Teradata