Kafka Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Kafka skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -88 +11 +62
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 5 135 374
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.16% 6.11% 5.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% 28.07% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 29
10th Percentile - £53,250 £52,137
25th Percentile - £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile - £84,688 £80,000
90th Percentile - £110,625 £107,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

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 251 481 2,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.86% 21.76% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 139 202 654
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £100,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Scotland

Kafka
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kafka

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 12 June 2026. 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 -36 3 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Edinburgh +3 2 - - 1
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) dbt
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) JPA
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) gRPC
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Twin
4 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks