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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 55 104
Rank change year-on-year -25 +49 +74
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 85 425 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.92% 6.31% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.27% 18.54% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23 42 62
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,867 £57,809
25th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,576 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +1.62% -12.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £97,328
90th Percentile £108,750 £92,443 £117,236
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £88,480
% change year-on-year +6.45% -12.41% +10.60%

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 441 2,292 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.13% 34.03% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 290 641 759
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £84,250 £71,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £89,882
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.89%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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
Edinburgh -18 21 £67,500 -4.36% 13
Glasgow +15 18 £63,750 -1.92% 16
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 4
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 10
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +12 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 51 (60.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 73 (85.88%) AWS
2 65 (76.47%) Azure
3 59 (69.41%) GCP
4 8 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.41%) SaaS
4 8 (9.41%) Serverless
5 6 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.06%) Snowflake
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.35%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.18%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (65.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.12%) MongoDB
3 7 (8.24%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.53%) Tableau
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.35%) Big Data
7 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.35%) MySQL
7 2 (2.35%) Power BI
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.18%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.18%) DB2
8 1 (1.18%) Metadata
8 1 (1.18%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (63.53%) GitLab
2 51 (60.00%) JIRA
2 51 (60.00%) Maven
2 51 (60.00%) Selenium
3 49 (57.65%) Bitbucket
3 49 (57.65%) Cucumber
3 49 (57.65%) SonarQube
3 49 (57.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (8.24%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.88%) Git
6 3 (3.53%) JUnit
6 3 (3.53%) Spinnaker
7 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.35%) Gradle
7 2 (2.35%) Mockito
General
1 59 (69.41%) Finance
2 55 (64.71%) Banking
3 49 (57.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (12.94%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Games
5 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 61 (71.76%) Software Engineer
2 11 (12.94%) Developer
3 9 (10.59%) Senior
4 8 (9.41%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.06%) Lead
6 4 (4.71%) Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.53%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (3.53%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.35%) Data Science Leader
8 2 (2.35%) IT Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.35%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (68.24%) React
1 58 (68.24%) Spring
2 55 (64.71%) CSS
2 55 (64.71%) HTML
2 55 (64.71%) Spring Boot
3 51 (60.00%) Hibernate
3 51 (60.00%) JPA
4 49 (57.65%) Redux
5 8 (9.41%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.41%) RESTful
6 6 (7.06%) .NET
6 6 (7.06%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.88%) REST
8 4 (4.71%) JSON
9 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.53%) PySpark
10 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.35%) gRPC
10 2 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (57.65%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (57.65%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.35%) Replication
5 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (85.88%) Agile
2 67 (78.82%) Microservices
3 65 (76.47%) Software Engineering
4 62 (72.94%) DevOps
5 61 (71.76%) TDD
6 58 (68.24%) CI/CD
7 54 (63.53%) Containerisation
7 54 (63.53%) Test Automation
8 52 (61.18%) SDLC
9 51 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (60.00%) Front End Development
9 51 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 50 (58.82%) Clean Code
11 49 (57.65%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (16.47%) Unit Testing
13 8 (9.41%) Roadmaps
14 7 (8.24%) Mentoring
15 6 (7.06%) Design Patterns
15 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (7.06%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 68 (80.00%) Java
2 55 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 54 (63.53%) SQL
4 12 (14.12%) Python
5 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.41%) C#
7 3 (3.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (62.35%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) SEPA
4 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (74.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (77.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.41%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (57.65%) Solace
2 5 (5.88%) Databricks
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle
4 1 (1.18%) IBM
4 1 (1.18%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.18%) Sybase