Kafka Jobs in Edinburgh

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 53 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 +65
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 16 57 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.79% 3.82% 3.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 13.57% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9 32 36
10th Percentile £53,100 £50,867 £55,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,788 £84,092
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -19.39% +10.79%
75th Percentile £108,750 £91,934 £97,328
90th Percentile £118,000 £102,625 £117,236
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% -11.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 420 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 25.56% 28.17% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 162 295 432
10th Percentile £40,250 £45,000 £42,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £65,977
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -7.54% +14.74%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £91,934 £97,328
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

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

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Edinburgh

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 6 (37.50%) SaaS
4 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Tableau
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Games
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Science Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Chief Technology Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) RESTful
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) React
2 3 (18.75%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (12.50%) gRPC
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
1 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) TDD
3 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
4 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (25.00%) SOLID
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Coaching
7 3 (18.75%) High Availability
7 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
7 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 2 (12.50%) Neural Network
8 2 (12.50%) SOA
8 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks