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 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 58 129 196
Rank change year-on-year +71 +67 -82
Permanent jobs citing Kafka 397 84 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.81% 1.93% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.66% 6.85% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 33 49 17
10th Percentile £51,049 £60,720 £55,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.76% +43.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,328 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,236 £87,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +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 2,248 1,227 2,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.88% 28.20% 34.13%
Number of salaries quoted 644 659 1,109
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,882 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +46 354 £65,000 -2.99% 5
Edinburgh +22 41 £65,000 -26.54% 3
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 (24.69%) FileNet
2 80 (20.15%) Apache Spark
3 48 (12.09%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (8.06%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (5.29%) GemFire
6 5 (1.26%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.26%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 190 (47.86%) AWS
2 112 (28.21%) Amazon S3
3 47 (11.84%) GitHub
4 44 (11.08%) GCP
5 30 (7.56%) Azure
6 24 (6.05%) SaaS
7 19 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (3.78%) BlazeMeter
9 14 (3.53%) Google Docs
9 14 (3.53%) Lucidchart
9 14 (3.53%) Miro
9 14 (3.53%) Slack
10 7 (1.76%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (1.76%) Datadog
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.01%) Serverless
13 3 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.76%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.28%) Kerberos
2 16 (4.03%) DSL
3 1 (0.25%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (44.08%) NoSQL
2 135 (34.01%) Elasticsearch
3 134 (33.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 73 (18.39%) Big Data
5 46 (11.59%) MongoDB
6 38 (9.57%) CockroachDB
7 21 (5.29%) Hazelcast
8 18 (4.53%) Hadoop
9 17 (4.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (4.03%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.03%) DB2
10 16 (4.03%) Tableau
11 14 (3.53%) Redis
11 14 (3.53%) Relational Database
11 14 (3.53%) Scylla
12 12 (3.02%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.26%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.50%) Metadata
15 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 122 (30.73%) JUnit
2 54 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 47 (11.84%) Mockito
4 45 (11.34%) Jasmine
5 22 (5.54%) Maven
6 21 (5.29%) Jaeger
7 15 (3.78%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.78%) Cypress.io
8 12 (3.02%) Git
9 7 (1.76%) JIRA
10 6 (1.51%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.25%) Vite
13 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 365 (91.94%) Finance
2 355 (89.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 344 (86.65%) Law
4 123 (30.98%) Marketing
5 119 (29.97%) Legal
6 110 (27.71%) Banking
7 84 (21.16%) Investment Banking
8 25 (6.30%) Social Skills
9 22 (5.54%) Prime Brokerage
10 17 (4.28%) Financial Institution
11 16 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (3.78%) Private Banking
13 7 (1.76%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.50%) Games
15 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 351 (88.41%) Software Engineer
2 200 (50.38%) Java Engineer
3 196 (49.37%) Java Software Engineer
4 139 (35.01%) Lead
5 133 (33.50%) Lead Software Engineer
6 120 (30.23%) Full Stack Engineer
6 120 (30.23%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 77 (19.40%) Lead Java Engineer
8 56 (14.11%) Data Engineer
9 53 (13.35%) Senior
10 46 (11.59%) Python Engineer
10 46 (11.59%) Python Software Engineer
11 43 (10.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 39 (9.82%) Big Data Engineer
12 39 (9.82%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 19 (4.79%) Senior Java Engineer
13 19 (4.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 17 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (4.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 17 (4.28%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (69.02%) Spring
2 138 (34.76%) J2EE
3 133 (33.50%) GraphQL
4 129 (32.49%) React
5 124 (31.23%) AngularJS
6 110 (27.71%) Hibernate
7 104 (26.20%) Spring Integration
8 98 (24.69%) Spring Boot
9 91 (22.92%) JMS
10 75 (18.89%) CSS
10 75 (18.89%) HTML
11 68 (17.13%) JSON
12 59 (14.86%) Web Services
13 56 (14.11%) REST
14 53 (13.35%) jQuery
14 53 (13.35%) Node.js
14 53 (13.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 49 (12.34%) XML
16 48 (12.09%) PySpark
17 38 (9.57%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 206 (51.89%) Cloud Native
2 87 (21.91%) Algorithms
3 53 (13.35%) Public Cloud
4 38 (9.57%) Onboarding
5 30 (7.56%) Management Information System
6 21 (5.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 21 (5.29%) Replication
7 18 (4.53%) Private Cloud
8 17 (4.28%) Product Ownership
8 17 (4.28%) Reference Data
9 14 (3.53%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.50%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.50%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.50%) Robotics
10 2 (0.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.25%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.25%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.26%) Linux
1 5 (1.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (92.44%) Software Engineering
2 366 (92.19%) Agile
3 306 (77.08%) CI/CD
4 294 (74.06%) SDLC
5 279 (70.28%) Operational Stability
6 227 (57.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 223 (56.17%) Machine Learning
8 213 (53.65%) Community of Practice
9 195 (49.12%) Microservices
10 134 (33.75%) Full Stack Development
11 117 (29.47%) Risk Management
12 114 (28.72%) Decision-Making
13 107 (26.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (25.94%) Visualisation
15 98 (24.69%) AOP
15 98 (24.69%) Document Management
16 82 (20.65%) Architectural Design
17 76 (19.14%) Information Architecture
18 70 (17.63%) Computer Science
19 67 (16.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 332 (83.63%) Java
2 263 (66.25%) SQL
3 104 (26.20%) Python
4 80 (20.15%) JavaScript
5 55 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 32 (8.06%) Scala
7 21 (5.29%) Groovy
8 16 (4.03%) PL/SQL
9 14 (3.53%) Bash
9 14 (3.53%) Go
10 7 (1.76%) C#
10 7 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (9.82%) Degree
2 37 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.30%) Master's Degree
4 17 (4.28%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.03%) SLA
2 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (11.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 235 (59.19%) Kubernetes
2 48 (12.09%) Grafana
3 34 (8.56%) Terraform
4 26 (6.55%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (5.29%) HAProxy
5 21 (5.29%) Kibana
5 21 (5.29%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.29%) Zipkin
6 7 (1.76%) Graphite
7 2 (0.50%) Ansible
7 2 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 158 (39.80%) Oracle
2 56 (14.11%) Splunk
3 38 (9.57%) Databricks
4 36 (9.07%) Dynatrace
5 33 (8.31%) Google
6 21 (5.29%) Sybase
7 16 (4.03%) Alteryx
7 16 (4.03%) Cognos
8 14 (3.53%) Dell
9 5 (1.26%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.26%) CA
10 4 (1.01%) Confluent
10 4 (1.01%) IBM
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.25%) Teradata