Kafka Contracts in Edinburgh

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 88 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 14 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.92% 1.18% 2.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 4.06% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 40
10th Percentile £500 £487 £414
25th Percentile £556 £493 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -11.41% +28.14%
75th Percentile £753 £556 £788
90th Percentile £788 £595 £800
Scotland median daily rate £475 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.33% +17.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 177 345 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.34% 29.19% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 271 351
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £420 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £562
90th Percentile £743 £613 £680
Scotland median daily rate £461 £488 £490
% change year-on-year -5.38% -0.51% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £28.65 - -
25th Percentile £32.63 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.40%
75th Percentile £49.63 - £48.75
90th Percentile £54.35 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +17.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (12.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Gradle
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Security
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) Key Management
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Management
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Qualys
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Solace
2 1 (12.50%) StreamSets