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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 87 137
Rank change year-on-year +30 +50 -9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 58 36 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.47% 1.75% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.22% 8.53% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 16
10th Percentile £396 £400 £465
25th Percentile £421 £409 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -11.63% -11.92%
75th Percentile £544 £561 £638
90th Percentile £575 £633 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -

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 381 422 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.80% 20.47% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 285 481
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £409 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -5.85% -0.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £667 £638
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £17.46
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £23.92
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £38.87
Median % change year-on-year - +41.52% -18.18%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £50.56
90th Percentile - - £55.64
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +4 50 £470 +4.44% 17
Edinburgh +10 8 £475 -20.83% 15
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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) GCP
3 6 (10.34%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.72%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) SMS
2 1 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (63.79%) MongoDB
2 35 (60.34%) Relational Database
3 33 (56.90%) DB2
4 10 (17.24%) RDBMS
5 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (8.62%) BigQuery
6 5 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.17%) MySQL
7 3 (5.17%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.45%) Big Data
8 2 (3.45%) Looker
8 2 (3.45%) Metadata
8 2 (3.45%) Redis
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 38 (65.52%) JUnit
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) ER Studio
3 5 (8.62%) JIRA
4 3 (5.17%) GitLab
4 3 (5.17%) Maven
4 3 (5.17%) Mockito
5 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.45%) Git
5 2 (3.45%) Gradle
6 1 (1.72%) Gatling
6 1 (1.72%) JMeter
General
1 36 (62.07%) Finance
2 35 (60.34%) Social Skills
3 31 (53.45%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (37.93%) Front Office
5 16 (27.59%) Banking
6 15 (25.86%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (68.97%) Developer
1 40 (68.97%) Java Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 12 (20.69%) SQL Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Sybase Developer
3 6 (10.34%) Senior
4 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Core Java Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Data Modeller
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Modeller
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) GCP Architect
7 1 (1.72%) J2EE Specialist
7 1 (1.72%) Release Train Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (68.97%) Spring
2 25 (43.10%) JMS
3 11 (18.97%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.90%) React
4 4 (6.90%) REST
4 4 (6.90%) RESTful
5 3 (5.17%) CSS
5 3 (5.17%) J2EE
5 3 (5.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.45%) Flask
6 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.45%) JPA
6 2 (3.45%) Loki
6 2 (3.45%) MSMQ
6 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (51.72%) Data Structures
2 25 (43.10%) Equities
3 7 (12.07%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (6.90%) Derivative
5 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (55.17%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (84.48%) Agile
2 35 (60.34%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (51.72%) Multithreading
4 28 (48.28%) Open Source
5 26 (44.83%) SDLC
6 23 (39.66%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (37.93%) Database Tuning
8 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
9 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
10 10 (17.24%) Unit Testing
11 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
11 8 (13.79%) Microservices
12 7 (12.07%) DevOps
13 6 (10.34%) Concurrent Programming
13 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven
13 6 (10.34%) Performance Testing
13 6 (10.34%) Scrum
13 6 (10.34%) Task Automation
14 5 (8.62%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 46 (79.31%) Java
1 46 (79.31%) SQL
2 43 (74.14%) Python
3 32 (55.17%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
1 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (5.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Grafana
1 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.45%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (51.72%) Sybase
2 7 (12.07%) IBM
3 5 (8.62%) Google
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle
4 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.17%) Splunk
5 3 (5.17%) StreamSets
6 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.72%) Confluent
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.72%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.72%) Informatica
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft