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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 85 121
Rank change year-on-year +30 +36 +24
Contract jobs citing Kafka 64 33 18
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.97% 1.83% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.44% 8.73% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 17
10th Percentile £381 £349 £398
25th Percentile £402 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -16.67% -11.30%
75th Percentile £525 £536 £638
90th Percentile £575 £594 £653
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 367 378 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.78% 20.92% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 243 349
10th Percentile £360 £350 £390
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.15% -1.13%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £683 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £70.07
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +18 56 £450 +18.42% 1
Edinburgh +12 8 £475 -26.92% 6
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 (9.38%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Mule
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) GCP
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.69%) BlazeMeter
5 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) Datadog
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) AMQP
1 2 (3.13%) DSL
1 2 (3.13%) HTTP
1 2 (3.13%) SMS
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 20 (31.25%) DB2
2 20 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 11 (17.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (9.38%) Redis
5 5 (7.81%) BigQuery
5 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.25%) Big Data
6 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.69%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.13%) Looker
8 2 (3.13%) Metadata
8 2 (3.13%) MySQL
8 2 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) JUnit
2 13 (20.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.38%) Git
4 5 (7.81%) ER Studio
4 5 (7.81%) GitLab
4 5 (7.81%) JIRA
5 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.69%) Maven
6 3 (4.69%) Mockito
7 2 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 40 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (48.44%) Finance
3 22 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (29.69%) Banking
5 18 (28.13%) Front Office
5 18 (28.13%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (59.38%) Developer
2 36 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 17 (26.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 17 (26.56%) SQL Developer
3 17 (26.56%) Sybase Developer
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Data Modeller
8 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (59.38%) Spring
2 18 (28.13%) JMS
3 17 (26.56%) Spring Boot
4 12 (18.75%) React
5 11 (17.19%) RESTful
6 10 (15.63%) AngularJS
7 9 (14.06%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 8 (12.50%) OAuth
8 8 (12.50%) OAuth2
8 8 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (9.38%) Ext JS
9 6 (9.38%) FastAPI
9 6 (9.38%) Flask
9 6 (9.38%) LangChain
9 6 (9.38%) LangGraph
10 5 (7.81%) Loki
10 5 (7.81%) PyTorch
10 5 (7.81%) REST
10 5 (7.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) Data Structures
1 21 (32.81%) Equities
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) AI Agents
3 5 (7.81%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.69%) Market Risk
5 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Clustering
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.56%) STIX
7 1 (1.56%) TAXII
7 1 (1.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 22 (34.38%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (71.88%) Agile
2 34 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (48.44%) Multithreading
4 26 (40.63%) Microservices
5 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
6 22 (34.38%) Open Source
7 21 (32.81%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (32.81%) SDLC
8 19 (29.69%) DevOps
9 18 (28.13%) Database Tuning
10 12 (18.75%) Scrum
10 12 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 12 (18.75%) Unit Testing
11 9 (14.06%) AI
11 9 (14.06%) Containerisation
11 9 (14.06%) Machine Learning
11 9 (14.06%) Observability
11 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
12 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (67.19%) Java
1 43 (67.19%) SQL
2 35 (54.69%) Python
3 26 (40.63%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.25%) Go
4 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.69%) C++
5 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.13%) DataWeave
7 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.31%) Grafana
3 7 (10.94%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.81%) Kustomize
5 3 (4.69%) Terraform
6 2 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Sybase
2 8 (12.50%) Splunk
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle
4 5 (7.81%) Google
4 5 (7.81%) IBM
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.13%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.13%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.56%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.56%) Databricks
8 1 (1.56%) DocuSign
8 1 (1.56%) Greenplum
8 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow