Kafka Jobs in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 147 200
Rank change year-on-year +88 +53 -87
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 310 65 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.44% 1.71% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.90% 6.61% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 18 45 28
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,882 £49,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,634 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -2.61% +26.27%
75th Percentile £96,250 £84,056 £83,125
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,328 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,483 £82,500
% change year-on-year -19.98% +6.04% +10.00%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,640 983 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.78% 25.91% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 522 598 1,213
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,678 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,306 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,137 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +47 290 £65,000 -2.99%
Edinburgh +22 19 £70,000 -12.10% 6
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 98 (31.61%) FileNet
2 42 (13.55%) Apache Spark
3 36 (11.61%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (10.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (6.77%) GemFire
6 5 (1.61%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.61%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 121 (39.03%) AWS
2 102 (32.90%) Amazon S3
3 45 (14.52%) GitHub
4 29 (9.35%) GCP
5 25 (8.06%) Azure
6 9 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (2.58%) SaaS
8 7 (2.26%) Amazon MSK
8 7 (2.26%) Datadog
9 6 (1.94%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.29%) Google Docs
11 4 (1.29%) Lucidchart
11 4 (1.29%) Miro
11 4 (1.29%) Slack
12 3 (0.97%) Kong
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.65%) Serverless
13 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
14 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.48%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.32%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (50.65%) NoSQL
2 125 (40.32%) Apache Cassandra
3 123 (39.68%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (12.26%) CockroachDB
5 33 (10.65%) Big Data
6 21 (6.77%) Hazelcast
6 21 (6.77%) MongoDB
7 17 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (4.19%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.55%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.26%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.61%) Pentaho
12 4 (1.29%) Redis
12 4 (1.29%) Scylla
13 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
14 1 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 112 (36.13%) JUnit
2 46 (14.84%) Jenkins
2 46 (14.84%) Mockito
3 45 (14.52%) Jasmine
4 21 (6.77%) Jaeger
5 15 (4.84%) Cucumber
5 15 (4.84%) Cypress.io
5 15 (4.84%) Maven
6 8 (2.58%) Git
7 6 (1.94%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.61%) JIRA
9 1 (0.32%) Vite
9 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 289 (93.23%) Finance
2 282 (90.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 281 (90.65%) Law
4 97 (31.29%) Legal
5 89 (28.71%) Marketing
6 75 (24.19%) Banking
7 68 (21.94%) Investment Banking
8 22 (7.10%) Prime Brokerage
9 7 (2.26%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.94%) Private Banking
10 6 (1.94%) Social Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 290 (93.55%) Software Engineer
2 178 (57.42%) Java Engineer
3 176 (56.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 124 (40.00%) Lead
5 117 (37.74%) Lead Software Engineer
6 111 (35.81%) Full Stack Engineer
6 111 (35.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 77 (24.84%) Lead Java Engineer
8 48 (15.48%) Senior
9 40 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (10.97%) Python Engineer
10 34 (10.97%) Python Software Engineer
11 28 (9.03%) Data Engineer
12 27 (8.71%) Big Data Engineer
12 27 (8.71%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 19 (6.13%) Senior Java Engineer
13 19 (6.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 8 (2.58%) Architect
15 6 (1.94%) Principal Engineer
15 6 (1.94%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (78.71%) Spring
2 130 (41.94%) J2EE
3 127 (40.97%) React
4 121 (39.03%) GraphQL
5 120 (38.71%) AngularJS
6 109 (35.16%) Hibernate
7 102 (32.90%) Spring Integration
8 87 (28.06%) Spring Boot
9 83 (26.77%) JMS
10 73 (23.55%) CSS
10 73 (23.55%) HTML
11 61 (19.68%) JSON
12 53 (17.10%) jQuery
12 53 (17.10%) Node.js
12 53 (17.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 48 (15.48%) Web Services
14 47 (15.16%) REST
15 38 (12.26%) XML
16 36 (11.61%) PySpark
17 30 (9.68%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 172 (55.48%) Cloud Native
2 68 (21.94%) Algorithms
3 30 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 21 (6.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (6.77%) Replication
5 20 (6.45%) Public Cloud
6 16 (5.16%) Reference Data
7 15 (4.84%) Private Cloud
8 14 (4.52%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.32%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.61%) Linux
1 5 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (93.55%) Software Engineering
2 289 (93.23%) Agile
3 254 (81.94%) SDLC
4 246 (79.35%) CI/CD
5 216 (69.68%) Operational Stability
6 175 (56.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 173 (55.81%) Machine Learning
8 165 (53.23%) Microservices
9 151 (48.71%) Community of Practice
10 125 (40.32%) Full Stack Development
11 98 (31.61%) AOP
11 98 (31.61%) Decision-Making
11 98 (31.61%) Document Management
12 97 (31.29%) Risk Management
13 86 (27.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (27.42%) Visualisation
15 70 (22.58%) Computer Science
16 56 (18.06%) OO
16 56 (18.06%) Unit Testing
17 51 (16.45%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 263 (84.84%) Java
2 229 (73.87%) SQL
3 78 (25.16%) JavaScript
4 56 (18.06%) TypeScript
5 47 (15.16%) Python
6 21 (6.77%) Groovy
7 6 (1.94%) Scala
8 5 (1.61%) C#
8 5 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.29%) Bash
9 4 (1.29%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) C++
10 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 37 (11.94%) Degree
2 29 (9.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (11.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 188 (60.65%) Kubernetes
2 39 (12.58%) Grafana
3 26 (8.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 23 (7.42%) Terraform
5 21 (6.77%) HAProxy
5 21 (6.77%) Kibana
5 21 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 21 (6.77%) Zipkin
6 7 (2.26%) Graphite
Vendors
1 140 (45.16%) Oracle
2 47 (15.16%) Splunk
3 27 (8.71%) Dynatrace
4 21 (6.77%) Databricks
4 21 (6.77%) Google
5 5 (1.61%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.61%) CA
5 5 (1.61%) Sybase
6 4 (1.29%) Dell
7 2 (0.65%) Confluent
7 2 (0.65%) IBM
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.32%) Teradata