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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 65 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +75 +64
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 138 334 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.21% 5.14% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 29.18% 17.12% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 44
10th Percentile £52,875 - £56,165
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,567
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.80% -14.20%
75th Percentile £74,063 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,625 £122,500 £97,328
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -14.29% +6.06%

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 473 1,951 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.44% 30.04% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 192 618 614
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £38,803
25th Percentile £48,438 £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 £85,000 £70,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.43% +2.71%

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 July 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 July 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 +20 77 £57,500 -11.54% 45
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
Edinburgh +15 15 £67,500 +3.85% 17
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 1
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 (35.51%) Confluence
2 14 (10.14%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.62%) Apache
3 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.90%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 96 (69.57%) AWS
2 62 (44.93%) Azure
3 60 (43.48%) GCP
4 10 (7.25%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.80%) GitHub
5 8 (5.80%) Snowflake
6 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.07%) Serverless
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.90%) SaaS
8 3 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.17%) Dagster
8 3 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.17%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.17%) Prefect
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (42.75%) SQL Server
2 23 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 19 (13.77%) Big Data
4 18 (13.04%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 10 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (7.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (7.25%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (7.25%) RDBMS
7 9 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.52%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (5.80%) KDB
8 8 (5.80%) Kdb+
9 7 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.62%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (3.62%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.62%) Parquet
11 4 (2.90%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.90%) Impala
11 4 (2.90%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 56 (40.58%) Maven
2 54 (39.13%) GitLab
3 50 (36.23%) JIRA
4 49 (35.51%) Bitbucket
4 49 (35.51%) Cucumber
4 49 (35.51%) Selenium
4 49 (35.51%) SonarQube
4 49 (35.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (10.14%) Jenkins
6 10 (7.25%) JUnit
7 7 (5.07%) Git
8 4 (2.90%) Subversion
9 2 (1.45%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.45%) Gradle
9 2 (1.45%) Mockito
General
1 117 (84.78%) Finance
2 107 (77.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 91 (65.94%) Banking
4 58 (42.03%) Law
5 20 (14.49%) Marketing
6 19 (13.77%) Investment Banking
7 14 (10.14%) Social Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Games
8 5 (3.62%) Legal
9 4 (2.90%) Private Banking
9 4 (2.90%) Publishing
10 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Front Office
11 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (85.51%) Software Engineer
2 41 (29.71%) Java Engineer
2 41 (29.71%) Java Software Engineer
3 25 (18.12%) Lead
4 24 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
5 17 (12.32%) Developer
5 17 (12.32%) Java Developer
6 16 (11.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (11.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 16 (11.59%) Lead Java Engineer
6 16 (11.59%) Senior
7 13 (9.42%) Python Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) Python Software Engineer
8 12 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Core Java Developer
12 4 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (76.81%) Spring
2 83 (60.14%) React
3 79 (57.25%) Spring Boot
4 59 (42.75%) Hibernate
5 52 (37.68%) CSS
6 51 (36.96%) HTML
6 51 (36.96%) JPA
7 49 (35.51%) Redux
8 19 (13.77%) RESTful
9 16 (11.59%) AngularJS
10 8 (5.80%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (5.80%) REST
10 8 (5.80%) Web Services
11 6 (4.35%) J2EE
12 4 (2.90%) Django
12 4 (2.90%) Pandas
12 4 (2.90%) SOAP
12 4 (2.90%) Vue
13 3 (2.17%) JSON
13 3 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (38.41%) Enterprise Software
2 49 (35.51%) Product Ownership
3 29 (21.01%) Cloud Native
4 20 (14.49%) Algorithms
5 10 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.35%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.90%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.90%) Derivative
7 4 (2.90%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.90%) Equities
7 4 (2.90%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.45%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.45%) Replication
9 1 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Linux
1 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (94.20%) Agile
2 120 (86.96%) Software Engineering
3 104 (75.36%) SDLC
4 96 (69.57%) CI/CD
5 71 (51.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (51.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (50.00%) Microservices
7 67 (48.55%) TDD
8 61 (44.20%) DevOps
9 58 (42.03%) Containerisation
10 56 (40.58%) Test Automation
11 55 (39.86%) Clean Code
12 53 (38.41%) Front End Development
13 49 (35.51%) Operational Stability
13 49 (35.51%) Performance Optimisation
14 38 (27.54%) Community of Practice
15 29 (21.01%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (21.01%) Machine Learning
16 20 (14.49%) Architectural Design
16 20 (14.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (89.86%) Java
2 79 (57.25%) SQL
3 57 (41.30%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.39%) Python
5 13 (9.42%) C#
6 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) C
8 1 (0.72%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (38.41%) QA
2 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) SEPA
4 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (48.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 83 (60.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.14%) Terraform
3 6 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (35.51%) Solace
2 22 (15.94%) Oracle
3 11 (7.97%) Databricks
4 2 (1.45%) IBM
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.45%) Splunk
4 2 (1.45%) Sybase
5 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace