Kafka Jobs in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 113 181
Rank change year-on-year +58 +68 -68
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 423 117 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.29% 2.53% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.45% 8.30% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 40 59 18
10th Percentile £50,686 £57,809 £49,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,180 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,788 £69,447 £79,375
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -12.51% +32.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,328 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,625 £117,236 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £88,480 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.41% +10.60% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,293 1,410 1,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.11% 30.44% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 643 737 1,107
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,199 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,911 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +53 363 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Edinburgh +21 57 £67,788 -19.39% 5
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
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 98 (23.17%) FileNet
2 93 (21.99%) Apache Spark
3 49 (11.58%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (7.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (4.96%) GemFire
6 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 209 (49.41%) AWS
2 121 (28.61%) Amazon S3
3 57 (13.48%) GCP
4 49 (11.58%) GitHub
5 39 (9.22%) SaaS
6 33 (7.80%) Azure
7 28 (6.62%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (5.44%) Google Docs
8 23 (5.44%) Lucidchart
8 23 (5.44%) Miro
8 23 (5.44%) Slack
9 15 (3.55%) BlazeMeter
10 7 (1.65%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (1.65%) Datadog
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.95%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) Serverless
13 3 (0.71%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.26%) DSL
2 17 (4.02%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.24%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (41.84%) NoSQL
2 145 (34.28%) Elasticsearch
3 135 (31.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 89 (21.04%) Big Data
5 48 (11.35%) MongoDB
6 38 (8.98%) CockroachDB
7 28 (6.62%) Hadoop
8 23 (5.44%) Redis
8 23 (5.44%) Scylla
9 21 (4.96%) Hazelcast
10 18 (4.26%) Data Lake
10 18 (4.26%) DB2
10 18 (4.26%) Tableau
11 17 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (3.78%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.31%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.18%) Pentaho
15 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
16 2 (0.47%) Metadata
16 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 125 (29.55%) JUnit
2 59 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 48 (11.35%) Mockito
4 45 (10.64%) Jasmine
5 25 (5.91%) Maven
6 21 (4.96%) Jaeger
7 16 (3.78%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.55%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.55%) Git
9 8 (1.89%) JIRA
10 6 (1.42%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.95%) Selenium
13 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.24%) Postman
14 1 (0.24%) Vite
14 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 380 (89.83%) Finance
2 373 (88.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 352 (83.22%) Law
4 129 (30.50%) Marketing
5 124 (29.31%) Legal
6 118 (27.90%) Banking
7 86 (20.33%) Investment Banking
8 38 (8.98%) Social Skills
9 22 (5.20%) Prime Brokerage
10 19 (4.49%) Financial Institution
11 18 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (3.55%) Private Banking
13 6 (1.42%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Games
15 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 370 (87.47%) Software Engineer
2 205 (48.46%) Java Engineer
3 201 (47.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 140 (33.10%) Lead
5 135 (31.91%) Lead Software Engineer
6 123 (29.08%) Full Stack Engineer
6 123 (29.08%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 77 (18.20%) Lead Java Engineer
8 59 (13.95%) Data Engineer
9 55 (13.00%) Senior
10 47 (11.11%) Python Engineer
10 47 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
11 44 (10.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 40 (9.46%) Big Data Engineer
12 40 (9.46%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 26 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (6.15%) Principal Software Engineer
14 19 (4.49%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 19 (4.49%) Senior Java Engineer
14 19 (4.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (67.38%) Spring
2 142 (33.57%) GraphQL
3 140 (33.10%) J2EE
4 132 (31.21%) React
5 128 (30.26%) AngularJS
6 112 (26.48%) Hibernate
7 107 (25.30%) Spring Boot
8 104 (24.59%) Spring Integration
9 92 (21.75%) JMS
10 76 (17.97%) CSS
10 76 (17.97%) HTML
11 71 (16.78%) JSON
12 65 (15.37%) Web Services
13 60 (14.18%) REST
14 53 (12.53%) jQuery
14 53 (12.53%) Node.js
14 53 (12.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 51 (12.06%) XML
16 49 (11.58%) PySpark
17 39 (9.22%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 213 (50.35%) Cloud Native
2 99 (23.40%) Algorithms
3 57 (13.48%) Public Cloud
4 39 (9.22%) Onboarding
5 32 (7.57%) Management Information System
6 23 (5.44%) Data Structures
7 21 (4.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (4.96%) Replication
8 19 (4.49%) Private Cloud
8 19 (4.49%) Product Ownership
8 19 (4.49%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.18%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.18%) Robotics
10 4 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.47%) Credit Risk
13 1 (0.24%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.24%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.42%) Linux
2 5 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (91.73%) Software Engineering
2 382 (90.31%) Agile
3 312 (73.76%) CI/CD
4 305 (72.10%) SDLC
5 287 (67.85%) Operational Stability
6 232 (54.85%) Artificial Intelligence
7 229 (54.14%) Machine Learning
8 219 (51.77%) Community of Practice
9 202 (47.75%) Microservices
10 137 (32.39%) Full Stack Development
11 119 (28.13%) Risk Management
12 116 (27.42%) Decision-Making
13 112 (26.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (25.06%) Visualisation
15 98 (23.17%) AOP
15 98 (23.17%) Document Management
16 86 (20.33%) Architectural Design
17 80 (18.91%) Information Architecture
18 70 (16.55%) Computer Science
19 69 (16.31%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 356 (84.16%) Java
2 272 (64.30%) SQL
3 119 (28.13%) Python
4 81 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 55 (13.00%) TypeScript
6 44 (10.40%) Scala
7 24 (5.67%) Bash
7 24 (5.67%) Go
8 21 (4.96%) Groovy
9 19 (4.49%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.89%) C#
11 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (9.69%) Degree
2 37 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (6.86%) Master's Degree
4 19 (4.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.26%) SLA
2 4 (0.95%) SEPA
3 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (12.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 256 (60.52%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.35%) Grafana
3 34 (8.04%) Terraform
4 26 (6.15%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (4.96%) HAProxy
5 21 (4.96%) Kibana
5 21 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.96%) Zipkin
6 7 (1.65%) Graphite
7 3 (0.71%) Rancher
8 2 (0.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 163 (38.53%) Oracle
2 56 (13.24%) Splunk
3 45 (10.64%) Google
4 40 (9.46%) Databricks
5 36 (8.51%) Dynatrace
6 24 (5.67%) Dell
7 23 (5.44%) Sybase
8 18 (4.26%) Alteryx
8 18 (4.26%) Cognos
9 6 (1.42%) IBM
10 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.18%) CA
11 4 (0.95%) Confluent
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.24%) StreamSets
13 1 (0.24%) Teradata