Kafka Contracts in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 87 143
Rank change year-on-year +30 +56 -11
Contract jobs citing Kafka 68 34 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.85% 1.64% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.63% 7.82% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 14
10th Percentile £369 £400 £457
25th Percentile £415 £409 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -11.63% -6.52%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £638
90th Percentile £575 £633 -
UK median daily rate £550 £573 £650
% change year-on-year -3.93% -11.92% +1.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 409 435 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.13% 21.02% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 298 489
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £403 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £541
90th Percentile £600 £679 £635
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £36.10 £18.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% +1.02%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +17.37%

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 13 July 2025.

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 13 July 2025. 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 +9 60 £470 +4.44% 9
Edinburgh +7 8 £475 -20.83% 13
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 2 (2.94%) Anypoint
1 2 (2.94%) Confluence
1 2 (2.94%) Mule
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) GCP
4 6 (8.82%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.41%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.47%) Collibra
8 1 (1.47%) Datadog
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) AMQP
1 2 (2.94%) DSL
1 2 (2.94%) SMS
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (60.29%) MongoDB
2 37 (54.41%) Relational Database
3 35 (51.47%) DB2
4 10 (14.71%) RDBMS
5 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.35%) BigQuery
7 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (4.41%) Big Data
9 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.41%) MySQL
9 3 (4.41%) Redis
9 3 (4.41%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.94%) Looker
10 2 (2.94%) Metadata
10 2 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 41 (60.29%) JUnit
2 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.82%) GitLab
4 5 (7.35%) ER Studio
4 5 (7.35%) JIRA
5 4 (5.88%) Git
6 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.41%) Maven
6 3 (4.41%) Mockito
7 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.94%) Gradle
8 1 (1.47%) Gatling
8 1 (1.47%) JMeter
General
1 40 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 39 (57.35%) Finance
3 33 (48.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (35.29%) Front Office
5 18 (26.47%) Banking
6 17 (25.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (64.71%) Developer
1 44 (64.71%) Java Developer
2 14 (20.59%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 14 (20.59%) SQL Developer
2 14 (20.59%) Sybase Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Core Java Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Data Modeller
6 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Senior Data Modeller
6 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (67.65%) Spring
2 27 (39.71%) JMS
3 14 (20.59%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.29%) RESTful
5 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (8.82%) React
6 5 (7.35%) OAuth
6 5 (7.35%) OAuth2
6 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (7.35%) REST
7 4 (5.88%) CSS
7 4 (5.88%) J2EE
8 3 (4.41%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.41%) Apache Camel
8 3 (4.41%) Flask
8 3 (4.41%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
8 3 (4.41%) SOAP
8 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (47.06%) Data Structures
2 28 (41.18%) Equities
3 7 (10.29%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.88%) Derivative
5 3 (4.41%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (82.35%) Agile
2 39 (57.35%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 31 (45.59%) Open Source
5 29 (42.65%) SDLC
6 26 (38.24%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (35.29%) Database Tuning
8 18 (26.47%) Software Engineering
9 15 (22.06%) Microservices
10 14 (20.59%) CI/CD
11 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
12 12 (17.65%) DevOps
12 12 (17.65%) Unit Testing
13 10 (14.71%) Scrum
14 9 (13.24%) Event-Driven
15 8 (11.76%) Performance Testing
16 7 (10.29%) Task Automation
17 6 (8.82%) Concurrent Programming
17 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 6 (8.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 54 (79.41%) Java
2 50 (73.53%) SQL
3 47 (69.12%) Python
4 34 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.94%) C++
7 2 (2.94%) DataWeave
7 2 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.24%) Grafana
3 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.88%) Terraform
5 3 (4.41%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) Sybase
2 7 (10.29%) IBM
3 5 (7.35%) Google
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle
3 5 (7.35%) Splunk
4 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.41%) StreamSets
6 2 (2.94%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.47%) Confluent
7 1 (1.47%) Databricks
7 1 (1.47%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.47%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.47%) Informatica