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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 68 106
Rank change year-on-year -20 +38 +29
Contract jobs citing Kafka 22 46 31
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.32% 2.82% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.10% 12.57% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 17
10th Percentile £342 £349 £398
25th Percentile £425 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -3.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £480 £538
90th Percentile £642 £550 £604
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.09% -17.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.22% +144.57% -53.33%

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 310 366 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.63% 22.47% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 262 302
10th Percentile £320 £319 £350
25th Percentile £402 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -3.16% -0.84%
75th Percentile £574 £525 £581
90th Percentile £639 £575 £684
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £35.63 - £33.58
25th Percentile £41.40 - £44.94
Median hourly rate £61.36 - £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.69%
75th Percentile £64.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 15 £449 +3.70% 5
Edinburgh +6 7 £500 - 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.55%) Dataform
3 1 (4.55%) dbt
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (18.18%) Big Data
3 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
4 3 (13.64%) Metadata
4 3 (13.64%) MySQL
4 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.09%) DB2
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.55%) Flink
6 1 (4.55%) HBase
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
6 3 (13.64%) Front Office
7 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 1 (4.55%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (4.55%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 6 (27.27%) Senior
4 5 (22.73%) Data Architect
4 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Ab Initio Developer
6 2 (9.09%) ETL Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Kafka Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Ab Initio Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Sybase Developer
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) JMS
2 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.55%) Celery
4 1 (4.55%) Express.js
4 1 (4.55%) Fluent Bit
4 1 (4.55%) J2EE
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Equities
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (36.36%) ETL
3 7 (31.82%) Data Integration
3 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 6 (27.27%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) AI
6 4 (18.18%) API Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Data Science
6 4 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
6 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (18.18%) Physical Data Model
7 3 (13.64%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) etcd
2 1 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Fluentd
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Confluent
3 3 (13.64%) Informatica
3 3 (13.64%) Talend
4 2 (9.09%) Ab Initio
4 2 (9.09%) Databricks
4 2 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (9.09%) Sybase
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk