Kafka Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Kafka
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 49 85
Rank change year-on-year -28 +36 +45
Contract jobs citing Kafka 53 72 33
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.32% 4.54% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.86% 15.96% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 26
10th Percentile £302 £381 £391
25th Percentile £308 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -22.45%
75th Percentile £526 £548 £550
90th Percentile £590 £575 £634
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.36% -8.30% -7.73%

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 488 451 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.34% 28.45% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 273 262
10th Percentile £320 £358 £357
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +3.79% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £573
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +3.03%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £36.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Scotland

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

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 28 August 2026. 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 -21 46 £425 -9.57% 34
Edinburgh -10 7 £505 +6.32% 17
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - - 2
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.55%) Apache
1 4 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.89%) Camunda
3 1 (1.89%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) AWS
2 13 (24.53%) Snowflake
3 12 (22.64%) Azure
3 12 (22.64%) GCP
4 11 (20.75%) Power Platform
5 8 (15.09%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (15.09%) OpenShift
6 7 (13.21%) Akamai
6 7 (13.21%) Cloudflare
6 7 (13.21%) Kong
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.43%) GitHub
7 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.43%) Serverless
8 4 (7.55%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.89%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) DNS
1 5 (9.43%) HTTP
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 4 (7.55%) NAS
2 4 (7.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) Big Data
1 11 (20.75%) Power BI
2 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.55%) Flink
4 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.89%) Metadata
7 1 (1.89%) Redis
7 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Bitbucket
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) JUnit
4 1 (1.89%) Ant
4 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Maven
4 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (47.17%) Finance
2 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 15 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (22.64%) Banking
5 7 (13.21%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.77%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) International Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Data Engineer
3 11 (20.75%) Java Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Python Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Data Integration Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Kafka Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Architect
7 6 (11.32%) Senior
8 4 (7.55%) Power BI Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Python Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.55%) UX Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Kafka Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) Spring
1 15 (28.30%) Spring Boot
2 13 (24.53%) RESTful
3 11 (20.75%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (20.75%) REST
4 10 (18.87%) React
5 9 (16.98%) Celery
5 9 (16.98%) OAuth
5 9 (16.98%) OAuth2
6 8 (15.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (13.21%) OpenID
8 6 (11.32%) SAML
9 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
9 5 (9.43%) gRPC
9 5 (9.43%) Spring Batch
9 5 (9.43%) Terraform
9 5 (9.43%) WebSockets
10 2 (3.77%) scikit-learn
10 2 (3.77%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Data Structures
1 12 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (18.87%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.55%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.55%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.77%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Unix
2 8 (15.09%) Windows
3 5 (9.43%) Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
2 19 (35.85%) Machine Learning
3 17 (32.08%) Microservices
4 16 (30.19%) Data Integration
5 15 (28.30%) AI
5 15 (28.30%) ETL
6 14 (26.42%) Event-Driven
7 13 (24.53%) Data Engineering
7 13 (24.53%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (22.64%) Agile
8 12 (22.64%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (22.64%) User Experience
9 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
9 11 (20.75%) DevOps
9 11 (20.75%) Migration
10 10 (18.87%) Analytics
10 10 (18.87%) Use Case
11 9 (16.98%) Observability
11 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
12 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Python
2 22 (41.51%) SQL
3 17 (32.08%) Java
4 9 (16.98%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.43%) Bash
6 4 (7.55%) Go
6 4 (7.55%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) Groovy
7 1 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) etcd
Systems Management
1 27 (50.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (20.75%) Grafana
3 7 (13.21%) Argo
4 3 (5.66%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.89%) Podman
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Databricks
2 9 (16.98%) Splunk
3 7 (13.21%) Dynatrace
4 6 (11.32%) ForgeRock
5 3 (5.66%) Google
5 3 (5.66%) Veritas
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle
7 1 (1.89%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.89%) Confluent
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.89%) Okta
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.89%) Solace