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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 108 94
Rank change year-on-year +59 -14 +76
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 130 45 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.97% 1.36% 2.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.42% 6.21% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 57
10th Percentile £51,750 - £49,811
25th Percentile £52,688 £52,500 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.36% +1.62%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £73,125 £79,500 £86,434
UK median annual salary £88,750 £72,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year +22.41% -10.77% -4.41%

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 389 725 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.88% 21.83% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 89 387 544
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £38,803
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,960 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 October 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 17 October 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 +39 72 £70,000 -
Lanarkshire - 18 - -
Edinburgh -1 10 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 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 49 (37.69%) Confluence
2 12 (9.23%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.62%) Apache
4 5 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (3.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.77%) JBoss
6 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 91 (70.00%) AWS
2 60 (46.15%) Azure
3 58 (44.62%) GCP
4 9 (6.92%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.38%) GitHub
6 6 (4.62%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.08%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.08%) Serverless
8 3 (2.31%) Dagster
8 3 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.31%) Prefect
9 2 (1.54%) SaaS
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.77%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (43.08%) SQL Server
2 19 (14.62%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.85%) Relational Database
4 17 (13.08%) Big Data
5 11 (8.46%) NoSQL
6 10 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (7.69%) RDBMS
7 9 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.92%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (6.15%) KDB
8 8 (6.15%) Kdb+
8 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.85%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (3.85%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.85%) Parquet
10 4 (3.08%) Apache Hive
10 4 (3.08%) Impala
10 4 (3.08%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 56 (43.08%) Maven
2 51 (39.23%) JIRA
3 50 (38.46%) GitLab
3 50 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (37.69%) Bitbucket
4 49 (37.69%) Cucumber
4 49 (37.69%) Selenium
4 49 (37.69%) SonarQube
5 11 (8.46%) Jenkins
6 9 (6.92%) JUnit
7 6 (4.62%) Git
8 4 (3.08%) Subversion
9 1 (0.77%) Ant
9 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.77%) Gradle
9 1 (0.77%) Mockito
General
1 112 (86.15%) Finance
2 107 (82.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 87 (66.92%) Banking
4 58 (44.62%) Law
5 20 (15.38%) Marketing
6 17 (13.08%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.69%) Social Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Legal
9 4 (3.08%) Private Banking
9 4 (3.08%) Publishing
10 3 (2.31%) Games
10 3 (2.31%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 116 (89.23%) Software Engineer
2 41 (31.54%) Java Engineer
2 41 (31.54%) Java Software Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) Lead
3 24 (18.46%) Lead Software Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) Developer
4 16 (12.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) Java Developer
4 16 (12.31%) Lead Java Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) Senior
6 13 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Kafka Developer
7 12 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Core Java Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (77.69%) Spring
2 80 (61.54%) React
3 79 (60.77%) Spring Boot
4 58 (44.62%) Hibernate
5 54 (41.54%) CSS
6 53 (40.77%) HTML
7 50 (38.46%) JPA
8 49 (37.69%) Redux
9 18 (13.85%) RESTful
10 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
11 8 (6.15%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (6.15%) Web Services
12 5 (3.85%) J2EE
12 5 (3.85%) REST
13 4 (3.08%) Django
13 4 (3.08%) Pandas
13 4 (3.08%) SOAP
13 4 (3.08%) Vue
14 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
14 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 53 (40.77%) Enterprise Software
2 49 (37.69%) Product Ownership
3 27 (20.77%) Cloud Native
4 20 (15.38%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.08%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.08%) Derivative
6 4 (3.08%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.08%) Equities
6 4 (3.08%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Unix
2 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (97.69%) Agile
2 117 (90.00%) Software Engineering
3 104 (80.00%) SDLC
4 93 (71.54%) CI/CD
5 70 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (53.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (50.77%) Microservices
8 65 (50.00%) TDD
9 57 (43.85%) DevOps
10 55 (42.31%) Clean Code
11 54 (41.54%) Containerisation
11 54 (41.54%) Front End Development
12 53 (40.77%) Test Automation
13 49 (37.69%) Operational Stability
13 49 (37.69%) Performance Optimisation
14 38 (29.23%) Community of Practice
15 29 (22.31%) AI
15 29 (22.31%) Machine Learning
16 20 (15.38%) Architectural Design
17 19 (14.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (91.54%) Java
2 78 (60.00%) SQL
3 59 (45.38%) JavaScript
4 20 (15.38%) Python
5 11 (8.46%) C#
6 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.77%) Bash
7 1 (0.77%) C
7 1 (0.77%) C++
7 1 (0.77%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (38.46%) QA
2 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (58.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.92%) Terraform
3 2 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.77%) Podman
4 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (37.69%) Solace
2 19 (14.62%) Oracle
3 9 (6.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.54%) IBM
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.54%) Splunk
4 2 (1.54%) Sybase
5 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace