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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 56 87
Rank change year-on-year -24 +31 +50
Contract jobs citing Kafka 56 70 34
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.51% 4.16% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.47% 17.33% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 29
10th Percentile £302 £402 £400
25th Percentile £313 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -1.05% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £630
UK median daily rate £547 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -0.55% -4.56% -11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +123.21% -64.10%

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 449 404 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.15% 24.03% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 251 268
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £377 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £643 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - £51.50
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%
75th Percentile £37.81 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%

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 1 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 1 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 -16 48 £430 -8.51% 13
Edinburgh -3 8 £538 +13.16% 6
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - -
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 6 (10.71%) Apache
2 5 (8.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.57%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.79%) Camunda
4 1 (1.79%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) AWS
2 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) Snowflake
3 11 (19.64%) GCP
4 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 8 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.93%) Akamai
7 5 (8.93%) Cloudflare
7 5 (8.93%) Kong
8 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.14%) GitHub
8 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.14%) Serverless
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (5.36%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) NAS
1 4 (7.14%) SAN
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Big Data
2 10 (17.86%) Power BI
3 8 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 5 (8.93%) Flink
7 4 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
8 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.57%) Metadata
10 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.79%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.79%) MySQL
10 1 (1.79%) Redis
10 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) JUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Ant
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (44.64%) Finance
2 16 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Banking
4 9 (16.07%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.57%) Front Office
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) International Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Data Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 10 (17.86%) Architect
5 9 (16.07%) Python Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Data Integration Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Senior
7 7 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Data Architect
8 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Power BI Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 4 (7.14%) UX Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 2 (3.57%) Java Engineer
11 2 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.79%) Spring
2 14 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 12 (21.43%) RESTful
4 11 (19.64%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (17.86%) REST
6 9 (16.07%) Celery
7 8 (14.29%) React
8 7 (12.50%) OAuth
8 7 (12.50%) OAuth2
9 6 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
10 5 (8.93%) OpenID
10 5 (8.93%) SAML
10 5 (8.93%) Spring Batch
11 3 (5.36%) gRPC
11 3 (5.36%) WebSockets
12 2 (3.57%) Middleware
12 2 (3.57%) scikit-learn
12 2 (3.57%) Spark Streaming
12 2 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Data Structures
2 9 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.36%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) CMDB
6 1 (1.79%) Derivative
6 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) Replication
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Unix
2 8 (14.29%) Windows
3 5 (8.93%) Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Machine Learning
2 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
3 17 (30.36%) Data Integration
3 17 (30.36%) Microservices
4 16 (28.57%) ETL
5 15 (26.79%) AI
5 15 (26.79%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (26.79%) Event-Driven
6 13 (23.21%) Data Engineering
7 12 (21.43%) Agile
7 12 (21.43%) User Experience
8 11 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
8 11 (19.64%) Migration
8 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.86%) Analytics
9 10 (17.86%) DevOps
9 10 (17.86%) Use Case
10 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) Python
2 23 (41.07%) SQL
3 19 (33.93%) Java
4 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.93%) Bash
6 4 (7.14%) Perl
7 3 (5.36%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) Groovy
8 1 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) SnowPro
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) etcd
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (19.64%) Grafana
3 5 (8.93%) Argo
4 4 (7.14%) Terraform
5 3 (5.36%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.79%) Ansible
6 1 (1.79%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.79%) Podman
6 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Databricks
2 7 (12.50%) Splunk
3 5 (8.93%) Dynatrace
3 5 (8.93%) ForgeRock
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 4 (7.14%) Confluent
5 3 (5.36%) Veritas
6 2 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.79%) Informatica
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.79%) Okta
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) Solace
7 1 (1.79%) Talend