Kafka Contracts in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 89 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 +43 -21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 46 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.83% 1.80% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.92% 8.57% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 17
10th Percentile £363 - £466
25th Percentile £408 £400 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -10.48% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £555 £624 £660
UK median daily rate £565 £536 £650
% change year-on-year +5.36% -17.50% +4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +24 44 £470 +17.50% 24
Edinburgh -1 2 - - 13
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 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) AWS
2 4 (8.70%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (67.39%) DB2
1 31 (67.39%) MongoDB
1 31 (67.39%) Relational Database
2 11 (23.91%) RDBMS
3 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (69.57%) JUnit
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (2.17%) Gatling
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (60.87%) Finance
2 25 (54.35%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
4 18 (39.13%) Front Office
5 12 (26.09%) Banking
6 10 (21.74%) Investment Banking
7 5 (10.87%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (82.61%) Developer
1 38 (82.61%) Java Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Sybase Developer
3 3 (6.52%) Core Java Developer
3 3 (6.52%) Database Developer
4 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Environment Manager
5 1 (2.17%) J2EE Specialist
5 1 (2.17%) Java Server Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (2.17%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (76.09%) Spring
2 24 (52.17%) JMS
3 12 (26.09%) Spring Boot
4 7 (15.22%) REST
5 5 (10.87%) Middleware
5 5 (10.87%) SOAP
6 4 (8.70%) J2EE
7 2 (4.35%) MSMQ
8 1 (2.17%) Ext JS
8 1 (2.17%) Java EE
8 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (60.87%) Data Structures
2 20 (43.48%) Equities
3 6 (13.04%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.52%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.52%) Derivative
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (69.57%) Linux
2 9 (19.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) Agile
2 33 (71.74%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (56.52%) Multithreading
3 26 (56.52%) SDLC
4 24 (52.17%) Open Source
5 19 (41.30%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (39.13%) Database Tuning
7 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 8 (17.39%) Concurrent Programming
10 6 (13.04%) Event-Driven
11 5 (10.87%) Code Quality
11 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (10.87%) Waterfall
12 4 (8.70%) API Integration
12 4 (8.70%) Software Testing
12 4 (8.70%) Unit Testing
13 3 (6.52%) Investment Management
13 3 (6.52%) Wealth Management
13 3 (6.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) Java
2 36 (78.26%) SQL
3 33 (71.74%) Python
4 25 (54.35%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Grafana
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Sybase
2 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.87%) IBM
4 3 (6.52%) DocuSign
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) Confluent
5 2 (4.35%) Informatica
5 2 (4.35%) StreamSets