Kafka Contracts in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 134 106
Rank change year-on-year +53 -28 +8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 44 26 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.05% 0.96% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.02% 4.08% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 47
10th Percentile £400 £483 £346
25th Percentile £409 £491 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £750
90th Percentile £625 £644 £800
UK median daily rate £540 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +11.11%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Scotland

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +27 26 £450 -18.55% 12
Edinburgh +29 9 £600 +14.29% 6
West Lothian - 9 £488 -
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 12 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 8 (18.18%) Confluence
3 4 (9.09%) Apache
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.27%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) AWS
2 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 16 (36.36%) GCP
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Apigee
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.27%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) JIRA
2 15 (34.09%) Git
3 11 (25.00%) JUnit
4 9 (20.45%) Cucumber
5 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 8 (18.18%) Postman
6 4 (9.09%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.55%) Subversion
8 1 (2.27%) GitLab
8 1 (2.27%) Gradle
8 1 (2.27%) Mockito
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Banking
3 8 (18.18%) Finance
4 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (79.55%) Developer
2 31 (70.45%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Senior
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.27%) Lead
8 1 (2.27%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Mobile Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.27%) React Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Test Automation Specialist
8 1 (2.27%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (70.45%) Spring
2 27 (61.36%) Spring Boot
3 17 (38.64%) REST
4 10 (22.73%) RESTful
5 9 (20.45%) Apache Camel
6 8 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (18.18%) J2EE
6 8 (18.18%) OpenTracing
7 7 (15.91%) React
8 5 (11.36%) CSS
9 2 (4.55%) JSON
9 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.55%) XML
10 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.27%) PySpark
10 1 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
10 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 10 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.36%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
1 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Microservices
2 25 (56.82%) Agile
3 20 (45.45%) End-to-End Testing
4 15 (34.09%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (27.27%) SDLC
6 10 (22.73%) TDD
6 10 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
8 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.91%) Backlog Refinement
9 7 (15.91%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (15.91%) Release Management
9 7 (15.91%) Scrum
10 6 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
10 6 (13.64%) Post-Production
10 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.36%) Coaching
11 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
11 5 (11.36%) Scenario Testing
11 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (88.64%) Java
2 17 (38.64%) SQL
3 10 (22.73%) Scala
4 9 (20.45%) Kotlin
5 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.09%) Python
6 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.27%) Go
7 1 (2.27%) Groovy
7 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.55%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 8 (18.18%) Zipkin
3 4 (9.09%) Grafana
4 3 (6.82%) Kibana
5 1 (2.27%) Istio
5 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Oracle
2 5 (11.36%) IBM
3 4 (9.09%) Splunk
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.55%) Confluent
6 1 (2.27%) Adobe
6 1 (2.27%) Databricks
6 1 (2.27%) F5
6 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) Qualys
6 1 (2.27%) Solace
6 1 (2.27%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.27%) Teradata