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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 56 112
Rank change year-on-year -29 +56 +71
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 84 420 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.74% 6.25% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.37% 18.40% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 21 38 57
10th Percentile £53,250 £50,686 £56,685
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £97,328
90th Percentile £108,750 £95,875 £117,236
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £89,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.20% +11.88%

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 393 2,282 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.81% 33.97% 30.55%
Number of salaries quoted 254 634 724
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £85,000 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,667 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%

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 20 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 20 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
Glasgow +15 19 £63,750 -1.92% 27
Edinburgh -17 19 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 15
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +6 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 (58.33%) Confluence
2 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 73 (86.90%) AWS
2 65 (77.38%) Azure
3 60 (71.43%) GCP
4 8 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.52%) Serverless
5 7 (8.33%) SaaS
6 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.19%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (65.48%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.57%) Big Data
4 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.57%) Tableau
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.19%) DB2
6 1 (1.19%) Power BI
6 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (64.29%) GitLab
2 51 (60.71%) Maven
3 49 (58.33%) Bitbucket
3 49 (58.33%) Cucumber
3 49 (58.33%) JIRA
3 49 (58.33%) Selenium
3 49 (58.33%) SonarQube
3 49 (58.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (5.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.57%) Git
5 3 (3.57%) JUnit
5 3 (3.57%) Spinnaker
6 2 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.38%) Gradle
6 2 (2.38%) Mockito
General
1 58 (69.05%) Finance
2 53 (63.10%) Banking
3 49 (58.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Games
6 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 60 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 12 (14.29%) Developer
3 10 (11.90%) Senior
4 9 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 5 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (3.57%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.38%) Lead Architect
8 2 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.38%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (2.38%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.38%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.38%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (71.43%) React
2 57 (67.86%) Spring
3 54 (64.29%) Spring Boot
4 53 (63.10%) CSS
4 53 (63.10%) HTML
5 51 (60.71%) Hibernate
5 51 (60.71%) JPA
6 49 (58.33%) Redux
7 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 6 (7.14%) RESTful
9 5 (5.95%) .NET
9 5 (5.95%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.57%) PySpark
10 3 (3.57%) REST
11 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (2.38%) gRPC
11 2 (2.38%) JSON
11 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.38%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (58.33%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (58.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.38%) Replication
4 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.19%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (84.52%) Agile
2 64 (76.19%) Microservices
2 64 (76.19%) Software Engineering
3 60 (71.43%) DevOps
4 58 (69.05%) TDD
5 56 (66.67%) CI/CD
6 54 (64.29%) Containerisation
7 52 (61.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 52 (61.90%) SDLC
7 52 (61.90%) Test Automation
8 51 (60.71%) Clean Code
8 51 (60.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (60.71%) Front End Development
9 49 (58.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (11.90%) Unit Testing
11 8 (9.52%) Roadmaps
12 5 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (5.95%) Machine Learning
12 5 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (5.95%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 68 (80.95%) Java
2 54 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 54 (64.29%) SQL
3 13 (15.48%) Python
4 8 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.33%) C#
6 3 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (63.10%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) SEPA
4 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (73.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (77.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.52%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (58.33%) Solace
2 5 (5.95%) Databricks
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) IBM
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.19%) Sybase