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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 121 85
Rank change year-on-year +35 -36 +57
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 59 36 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.18% 1.09% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.34% 5.13% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 62
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,774 £48,944
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -11.44% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,313 £72,500 £83,042
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £96,250 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +28.33% -6.25% -5.88%

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 361 702 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.37% 21.18% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 108 400 505
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £40,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £89,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,900
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.36% +1.38%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +44 51 £77,500 - 3
Edinburgh -18 8 £60,000 -4.00% 6
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 9 (15.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Apache
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.08%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.69%) JBoss
4 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.85%) AWS
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
3 6 (10.17%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) GitHub
5 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.08%) Serverless
6 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.39%) Dagster
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.39%) Prefect
8 1 (1.69%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.69%) dbt
8 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) MongoDB
1 13 (22.03%) Relational Database
2 11 (18.64%) Big Data
3 7 (11.86%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.86%) RDBMS
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.17%) Apache Iceberg
4 6 (10.17%) KDB
4 6 (10.17%) Kdb+
5 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.08%) Apache Hive
6 3 (5.08%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (5.08%) Impala
6 3 (5.08%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (5.08%) Parquet
6 3 (5.08%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) JUnit
2 5 (8.47%) Maven
3 4 (6.78%) Git
4 3 (5.08%) Subversion
5 2 (3.39%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) Ant
6 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (76.27%) Finance
2 42 (71.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (71.19%) Law
3 28 (47.46%) Banking
4 15 (25.42%) Marketing
5 13 (22.03%) Investment Banking
6 6 (10.17%) Social Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Legal
7 3 (5.08%) Private Banking
7 3 (5.08%) Publishing
7 3 (5.08%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (83.05%) Software Engineer
2 31 (52.54%) Java Engineer
2 31 (52.54%) Java Software Engineer
3 18 (30.51%) Lead
3 18 (30.51%) Lead Software Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) Lead Java Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) Developer
5 11 (18.64%) Java Developer
6 10 (16.95%) Kafka Developer
7 9 (15.25%) Python Engineer
7 9 (15.25%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (13.56%) Senior
8 8 (13.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (11.86%) Core Java Developer
10 6 (10.17%) AWS Software Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (64.41%) Spring
2 22 (37.29%) React
2 22 (37.29%) Spring Boot
3 13 (22.03%) RESTful
4 10 (16.95%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.17%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (10.17%) Hibernate
5 6 (10.17%) Web Services
6 5 (8.47%) CSS
7 4 (6.78%) HTML
7 4 (6.78%) J2EE
7 4 (6.78%) REST
8 3 (5.08%) Django
8 3 (5.08%) Pandas
8 3 (5.08%) SOAP
8 3 (5.08%) Vue
9 1 (1.69%) .NET
9 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (22.03%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Credit Risk
4 3 (5.08%) Derivative
4 3 (5.08%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) Equities
4 3 (5.08%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (96.61%) Agile
2 49 (83.05%) Software Engineering
3 39 (66.10%) SDLC
4 35 (59.32%) Operational Stability
5 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
6 27 (45.76%) Community of Practice
7 21 (35.59%) AI
7 21 (35.59%) Machine Learning
8 15 (25.42%) Architectural Design
8 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (25.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (23.73%) Information Architecture
10 13 (22.03%) Visualisation
11 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (20.34%) TDD
12 11 (18.64%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (18.64%) Microservices
13 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
13 10 (16.95%) Multithreading
14 9 (15.25%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 52 (88.14%) Java
2 18 (30.51%) SQL
3 13 (22.03%) Python
4 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.86%) C#
6 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.69%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (33.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Podman
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Oracle
2 7 (11.86%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.69%) IBM
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Splunk