Kafka Contracts in Glasgow

Apache Kafka
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 85 77
Rank change year-on-year +42 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Kafka 28 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.45% 0.67% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.58% 3.49% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 7
10th Percentile - £462 £300
25th Percentile £400 £487 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £548 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +9.50% +3.63%
75th Percentile £538 £602 -
90th Percentile £550 £623 £640
Scotland median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow 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 192 172 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.67% 19.35% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 113 132
10th Percentile £325 £383 £325
25th Percentile £400 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £507 £638 £538
90th Percentile £575 £738 £613
Scotland median daily rate £463 £488 £490
% change year-on-year -5.13% -0.51% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £51.50 £16.62 £49.53
25th Percentile £51.88 £21.80 £54.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.45 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.65% -52.98% +55.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.09 £74.81
90th Percentile - £44.27 £80.18
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) GCP
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) Mockito
General
1 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (96.43%) Developer
2 23 (82.14%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.71%) UI Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (82.14%) Spring
2 19 (67.86%) Spring Boot
3 9 (32.14%) RESTful
4 8 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (28.57%) OpenTracing
5 7 (25.00%) REST
6 6 (21.43%) React
7 5 (17.86%) CSS
8 2 (7.14%) JSON
8 2 (7.14%) PySpark
8 2 (7.14%) XML
9 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
9 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 8 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Microservices
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) SDLC
4 11 (39.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
6 7 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (25.00%) Release Management
6 7 (25.00%) Scrum
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (21.43%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (21.43%) Post-Production
7 6 (21.43%) TDD
8 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
10 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) Kotlin
2 9 (32.14%) Scala
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 8 (28.57%) Zipkin
3 4 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) IBM