Kafka Jobs in Glasgow

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 51 100
Rank change year-on-year +17 +49 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 19 362 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.86% 9.07% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.79% 21.50% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 24
10th Percentile £53,625 £49,375 £61,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £103,500 £80,000 £83,750
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +3.85% -6.40% -12.51%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 66 1,684 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.41% 42.19% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 41 193 201
10th Percentile £39,250 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

Kafka
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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Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Glasgow

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
3 6 (31.58%) Azure
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (26.32%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 2 (10.53%) SaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MongoDB
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL
4 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.26%) DB2
5 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) GitLab
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) JUnit
3 3 (15.79%) Maven
3 3 (15.79%) Spinnaker
4 2 (10.53%) CircleCI
4 2 (10.53%) Gradle
4 2 (10.53%) Mockito
5 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) Selenium
5 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Front Office
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Backend Developer
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Junior
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) React
2 6 (31.58%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
4 3 (15.79%) JPA
4 3 (15.79%) PySpark
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (10.53%) JSON
5 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (10.53%) REST
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.26%) CSS
6 1 (5.26%) HTML
6 1 (5.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
6 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Investment Management
6 4 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
6 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) TDD
8 2 (10.53%) Operational Stability
8 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
4 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Solace
3 1 (5.26%) Sybase