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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 130 137
Rank change year-on-year +53 +7 -24
Contract jobs citing Kafka 36 17 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.92% 0.69% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.33% 3.00% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 34
10th Percentile £359 £464 £351
25th Percentile £400 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +6.38% +9.30%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £750
90th Percentile £625 £660 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +6.84%

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 386 566 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.60% 23.02% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 398 642
10th Percentile £356 £388 £400
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -1.89% +8.50%
75th Percentile £564 £540 £545
90th Percentile £700 £613 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
10th Percentile - £27.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.37 £13.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.03 £59.68
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -1.09% +109.40%
75th Percentile £57.50 £66.39 £60.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £62.58
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.13% +27.72%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +26 28 £450 -28.00% 2
Edinburgh +21 7 £606 +10.23% 10
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 7 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (13.89%) Camunda
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (69.44%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
3 12 (33.33%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) JIRA
2 10 (27.78%) Git
3 5 (13.89%) Ant
3 5 (13.89%) Eclipse
3 5 (13.89%) IntelliJ
3 5 (13.89%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) JMeter
4 1 (2.78%) Mockito
4 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (27.78%) Banking
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Developer
2 20 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) UI Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Automation Tester
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (2.78%) Java Analyst Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Writer
5 1 (2.78%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Test Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (66.67%) Spring
2 20 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 11 (30.56%) React
4 10 (27.78%) CSS
5 9 (25.00%) REST
6 7 (19.44%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (19.44%) OpenTracing
6 7 (19.44%) RESTful
7 6 (16.67%) Middleware
8 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
8 5 (13.89%) CSS3
8 5 (13.89%) HTML
8 5 (13.89%) HTML5
8 5 (13.89%) jBPM
8 5 (13.89%) Node.js
9 3 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.56%) PySpark
11 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
11 1 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
11 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Structures
2 9 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (13.89%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Unix
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Microservices
2 19 (52.78%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 11 (30.56%) End-to-End Testing
5 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 9 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (25.00%) SDLC
6 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
8 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 6 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
8 6 (16.67%) DevOps
8 6 (16.67%) Multithreading
8 6 (16.67%) Release Management
9 5 (13.89%) Distributed Cache
9 5 (13.89%) Post-Production
9 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Scala
4 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 7 (19.44%) Kotlin
5 5 (13.89%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO 20022
1 2 (5.56%) ISO 8583
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (19.44%) Prometheus
2 7 (19.44%) Zipkin
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 4 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Splunk
2 5 (13.89%) TIBCO
3 2 (5.56%) F5
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Qualys
4 1 (2.78%) Confluent
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) StreamSets