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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 62 103
Rank change year-on-year +18 +41 +76
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 134 203 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.32% 4.59% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 36.02% 17.31% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 54
10th Percentile £52,650 - £51,230
25th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -3.89% -2.61%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £72,250 £79,500 £86,467
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +17.86% -17.65% -

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 372 1,173 709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.76% 26.51% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 96 438 571
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,700 £39,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,563 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £64,244 £66,056
% change year-on-year +5.07% -2.74% +1.62%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kafka.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kafka

Kafka
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +15 76 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 3
Edinburgh +3 10 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
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 49 (36.57%) Confluence
2 12 (8.96%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.48%) Apache
4 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.99%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 92 (68.66%) AWS
2 61 (45.52%) Azure
3 59 (44.03%) GCP
4 9 (6.72%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.22%) GitHub
6 6 (4.48%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.99%) Serverless
8 3 (2.24%) Dagster
8 3 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.24%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.24%) Prefect
9 2 (1.49%) SaaS
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.75%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (44.03%) SQL Server
2 23 (17.16%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.43%) Relational Database
4 17 (12.69%) Big Data
5 12 (8.96%) NoSQL
6 10 (7.46%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (7.46%) RDBMS
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.72%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (5.97%) KDB
8 8 (5.97%) Kdb+
8 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.73%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.73%) Parquet
10 4 (2.99%) Apache Hive
10 4 (2.99%) Impala
10 4 (2.99%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 57 (42.54%) Maven
2 51 (38.06%) GitLab
2 51 (38.06%) JIRA
3 50 (37.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (36.57%) Bitbucket
4 49 (36.57%) Cucumber
4 49 (36.57%) Selenium
4 49 (36.57%) SonarQube
5 12 (8.96%) Jenkins
6 10 (7.46%) JUnit
7 7 (5.22%) Git
8 4 (2.99%) Subversion
9 2 (1.49%) Gradle
9 2 (1.49%) Mockito
10 1 (0.75%) Ant
10 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
General
1 115 (85.82%) Finance
2 107 (79.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 87 (64.93%) Banking
4 58 (43.28%) Law
5 20 (14.93%) Marketing
6 17 (12.69%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.21%) Social Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Legal
9 4 (2.99%) Games
9 4 (2.99%) Private Banking
9 4 (2.99%) Publishing
10 2 (1.49%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.75%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 116 (86.57%) Software Engineer
2 41 (30.60%) Java Engineer
2 41 (30.60%) Java Software Engineer
3 24 (17.91%) Lead
3 24 (17.91%) Lead Software Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Developer
4 20 (14.93%) Java Developer
5 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) Lead Java Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) Senior
6 13 (9.70%) Python Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Kafka Developer
8 10 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Core Java Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (76.87%) Spring
2 84 (62.69%) React
3 80 (59.70%) Spring Boot
4 59 (44.03%) Hibernate
5 53 (39.55%) CSS
6 52 (38.81%) HTML
7 51 (38.06%) JPA
8 49 (36.57%) Redux
9 19 (14.18%) RESTful
10 16 (11.94%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.97%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (5.97%) Web Services
12 5 (3.73%) J2EE
12 5 (3.73%) REST
13 4 (2.99%) Django
13 4 (2.99%) Pandas
13 4 (2.99%) SOAP
13 4 (2.99%) Vue
14 3 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
15 2 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 53 (39.55%) Enterprise Software
2 49 (36.57%) Product Ownership
3 27 (20.15%) Cloud Native
4 20 (14.93%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.99%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.99%) Derivative
6 4 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.99%) Equities
6 4 (2.99%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.75%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (97.76%) Agile
2 117 (87.31%) Software Engineering
3 104 (77.61%) SDLC
4 94 (70.15%) CI/CD
5 71 (52.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (52.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (49.25%) Microservices
8 64 (47.76%) TDD
9 58 (43.28%) DevOps
10 55 (41.04%) Clean Code
10 55 (41.04%) Containerisation
11 54 (40.30%) Front End Development
12 53 (39.55%) Test Automation
13 49 (36.57%) Operational Stability
13 49 (36.57%) Performance Optimisation
14 38 (28.36%) Community of Practice
15 29 (21.64%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (21.64%) Machine Learning
16 20 (14.93%) Architectural Design
17 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 123 (91.79%) Java
2 79 (58.96%) SQL
3 58 (43.28%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.93%) Python
5 11 (8.21%) C#
6 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.75%) C
7 1 (0.75%) C++
7 1 (0.75%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (38.06%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 64 (47.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (57.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Podman
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (36.57%) Solace
2 22 (16.42%) Oracle
3 9 (6.72%) Databricks
4 2 (1.49%) IBM
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.49%) Splunk
4 2 (1.49%) Sybase
5 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace