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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 52 76
Rank change year-on-year -31 +24 +53
Contract jobs citing Kafka 60 68 39
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.52% 4.24% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.72% 14.59% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 31
10th Percentile £302 £383 £356
25th Percentile £378 £428 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +5.56% -28.00%
75th Percentile £472 £549 £550
90th Percentile £589 £575 £619
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%

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 512 466 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.49% 29.07% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 274 270
10th Percentile £320 £381 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.61% -3.79%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £549
90th Percentile £638 £625 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -4.70%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -19 52 £402 -14.92% 54
Edinburgh -9 6 £505 +6.32% 23
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - - 7
West Lothian - 1 - - 4
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 (11.67%) Apache
1 7 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.67%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) AWS
2 17 (28.33%) Azure
2 17 (28.33%) GCP
3 13 (21.67%) Snowflake
4 10 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 8 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (11.67%) Akamai
6 7 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (11.67%) Cloudflare
6 7 (11.67%) Kong
6 7 (11.67%) OpenShift
6 7 (11.67%) Serverless
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub
8 4 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) DNS
1 5 (8.33%) HTTP
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 4 (6.67%) NAS
2 4 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (1.67%) Broadband
3 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Big Data
1 10 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (16.67%) Power BI
2 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.67%) Flink
4 4 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.33%) Redis
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (31.67%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.00%) JUnit
4 2 (3.33%) GitLab
4 2 (3.33%) Gradle
4 2 (3.33%) Maven
5 1 (1.67%) Ant
5 1 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (40.00%) Finance
2 16 (26.67%) Banking
3 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.33%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Prime Brokerage
6 2 (3.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) International Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Developer
2 15 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 14 (23.33%) Data Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Python Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Data Integration Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior
7 6 (10.00%) Architect
7 6 (10.00%) Kafka Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Databricks Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Power BI Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) UX Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) Spring
2 18 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 14 (23.33%) REST
3 14 (23.33%) RESTful
4 12 (20.00%) React
5 11 (18.33%) OAuth
5 11 (18.33%) OAuth2
6 10 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (15.00%) OpenID
8 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 8 (13.33%) Celery
8 8 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (10.00%) gRPC
9 6 (10.00%) SAML
10 5 (8.33%) Terraform
10 5 (8.33%) WebSockets
11 4 (6.67%) JPA
11 4 (6.67%) Spring Batch
12 2 (3.33%) CSS
12 2 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (18.33%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Data Fabric
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.33%) Equities
6 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Replication
6 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Unix
2 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.33%) Microservices
3 19 (31.67%) Machine Learning
4 18 (30.00%) AI
4 18 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 17 (28.33%) ETL
6 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (23.33%) Agile
7 14 (23.33%) Data Integration
7 14 (23.33%) DevOps
8 12 (20.00%) Analytics
8 12 (20.00%) Migration
9 11 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (18.33%) Observability
9 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.33%) Use Case
9 11 (18.33%) User Experience
10 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) SQL
2 26 (43.33%) Python
3 23 (38.33%) Java
4 10 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.67%) Bash
5 4 (6.67%) Go
5 4 (6.67%) Perl
6 1 (1.67%) Groovy
6 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (56.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.00%) Grafana
3 7 (11.67%) Argo
4 3 (5.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Ansible
6 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.67%) Podman
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Databricks
2 9 (15.00%) Splunk
3 8 (13.33%) Dynatrace
4 7 (11.67%) ForgeRock
5 4 (6.67%) Google
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle
6 3 (5.00%) Veritas
7 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.33%) Okta
8 1 (1.67%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.67%) Confluent
8 1 (1.67%) F5
8 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.67%) Solace