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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +71
Contract jobs citing Kafka 41 45 49
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.20% 2.85% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.13% 11.90% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 31
10th Percentile £298 £361 £400
25th Percentile £402 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £550
90th Percentile £605 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -17.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.60 £31.50
% change year-on-year -18.22% +171.75% -59.62%

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 338 378 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.10% 23.91% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 268 292
10th Percentile £320 £323 £325
25th Percentile £405 £412 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% - -1.04%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £550
90th Percentile £652 £600 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £35.63 - £36.10
25th Percentile £41.40 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.36 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.03%
75th Percentile £64.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -9 33 £439 -6.70% 7
Edinburgh +4 9 £500 +5.26%
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 7 (17.07%) Apache Spark
2 6 (14.63%) Apache
3 3 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.44%) JBoss
4 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Snowflake
3 10 (24.39%) Power Platform
4 7 (17.07%) Azure
5 6 (14.63%) OpenShift
6 5 (12.20%) GCP
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.44%) Dataform
8 1 (2.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) NAS
1 2 (4.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Big Data
2 10 (24.39%) Power BI
3 6 (14.63%) MongoDB
4 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
5 4 (9.76%) Hadoop
5 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (7.32%) Flink
6 3 (7.32%) Metadata
6 3 (7.32%) MySQL
6 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.44%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.44%) HBase
7 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Ant
4 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.44%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (48.78%) Finance
2 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (29.27%) Banking
5 8 (19.51%) Investment Banking
6 5 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.44%) Front Office
8 1 (2.44%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Data Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Architect
4 8 (19.51%) Data Integration Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Integration Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Java Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Kafka Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) Python Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Data Architect
7 5 (12.20%) Senior
8 4 (9.76%) Power BI Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Python Developer
8 4 (9.76%) UX Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) ETL Architect
10 2 (4.88%) Kafka Architect
10 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Celery
1 7 (17.07%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (17.07%) RESTful
1 7 (17.07%) Spring
2 5 (12.20%) REST
2 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.32%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.88%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (4.88%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.44%) Express.js
5 1 (2.44%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (2.44%) J2EE
5 1 (2.44%) Middleware
5 1 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) CMDB
5 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Unix
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
3 4 (9.76%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Data Integration
1 17 (41.46%) ETL
1 17 (41.46%) Machine Learning
2 16 (39.02%) Data Engineering
2 16 (39.02%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (36.59%) AI
4 12 (29.27%) Analytics
5 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (24.39%) Microservices
6 10 (24.39%) Use Case
6 10 (24.39%) User Experience
7 8 (19.51%) Data Modelling
7 8 (19.51%) Event-Driven
7 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
8 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
8 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
9 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
9 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
9 6 (14.63%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) SQL
3 12 (29.27%) Java
4 4 (9.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) Perl
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) etcd
2 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (24.39%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Fluentd
3 1 (2.44%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.44%) Podman
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Databricks
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) Confluent
4 3 (7.32%) Informatica
4 3 (7.32%) Talend
5 2 (4.88%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas