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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 41 58
Rank change year-on-year -86 +17 +46
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 13 130 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.35% 5.20% 4.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.14% 31.48% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 9
10th Percentile - £53,250 -
25th Percentile - £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -3.89%
75th Percentile - £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +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 253 413 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.71% 16.53% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 177 110 481
10th Percentile - £33,050 £37,270
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,938 £71,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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
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 5 September 2026. 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 -34 13 £65,000 +13.04% 36
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 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) GitHub
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub Copilot
3 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (23.08%) Datadog
4 3 (23.08%) dbt
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MongoDB
1 7 (53.85%) MySQL
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (38.46%) Law
2 4 (30.77%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Messaging Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Spring
1 10 (76.92%) Spring Boot
2 8 (61.54%) REST
3 7 (53.85%) Hibernate
3 7 (53.85%) JPA
4 3 (23.08%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) Terraform
5 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 1 (7.69%) gRPC
5 1 (7.69%) Memcached
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) AI Agents
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (7.69%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Analytics
3 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 9 (69.23%) Microservices
4 7 (53.85%) Data Analytics
4 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) Observability
6 3 (23.08%) Chaos Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Community of Practice
6 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 3 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) GitOps
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Release Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (92.31%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded C
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Argo
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
1 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle