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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 +32 +35
Contract jobs citing Kafka 65 65 34
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.69% 4.07% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.40% 14.32% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £307 £381 £352
25th Percentile £400 £425 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +3.26% -26.40%
75th Percentile £464 £545 £538
90th Percentile £576 £575 £594
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 524 454 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.65% 28.43% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 267 257
10th Percentile £320 £370 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -4.39%
75th Percentile £533 £568 £538
90th Percentile £625 £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 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 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 15 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 -13 54 £402 -13.55% 3
Edinburgh -3 9 £458 -3.68% 3
West Lothian - 1 - -
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 7 (10.77%) Apache
1 7 (10.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) nginx
2 2 (3.08%) Traefik
2 2 (3.08%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.54%) Camunda
3 1 (1.54%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.15%) AWS
2 20 (30.77%) Azure
3 19 (29.23%) GCP
4 13 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 10 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 8 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (10.77%) Akamai
7 7 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.77%) Cloudflare
7 7 (10.77%) GitHub
7 7 (10.77%) Kong
7 7 (10.77%) OpenShift
7 7 (10.77%) Serverless
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (6.15%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) DNS
1 5 (7.69%) HTTP
2 4 (6.15%) Firewall
2 4 (6.15%) NAS
2 4 (6.15%) SAN
3 2 (3.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (15.38%) Power BI
3 9 (13.85%) Big Data
4 7 (10.77%) NoSQL
5 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.15%) Flink
7 4 (6.15%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (4.62%) Redis
8 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.08%) MySQL
10 1 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.54%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Git
2 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.31%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.15%) JUnit
5 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.08%) GitLab
6 2 (3.08%) Gradle
6 2 (3.08%) Maven
7 1 (1.54%) Ant
7 1 (1.54%) JIRA
7 1 (1.54%) Mockito
7 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (35.38%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Banking
3 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (16.92%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Law
6 2 (3.08%) Prime Brokerage
6 2 (3.08%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.54%) Front Office
7 1 (1.54%) International Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Developer
2 17 (26.15%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Python Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) Architect
5 8 (12.31%) Data Integration Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Senior
7 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Kafka Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Databricks Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Java Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Power BI Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) UX Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Integration Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.38%) Spring
2 18 (27.69%) Spring Boot
3 15 (23.08%) REST
4 14 (21.54%) RESTful
5 13 (20.00%) React
6 12 (18.46%) OAuth
6 12 (18.46%) OAuth2
6 12 (18.46%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (15.38%) OpenID
8 9 (13.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (12.31%) AngularJS
9 8 (12.31%) Celery
10 7 (10.77%) gRPC
11 6 (9.23%) SAML
12 5 (7.69%) JPA
12 5 (7.69%) Terraform
12 5 (7.69%) WebSockets
13 4 (6.15%) JWT
13 4 (6.15%) Middleware
14 3 (4.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.46%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.62%) Replication
7 2 (3.08%) Data Fabric
7 2 (3.08%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (3.08%) Equities
7 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.08%) Taxonomies
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Unix
2 7 (10.77%) Windows
3 6 (9.23%) Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) CI/CD
2 25 (38.46%) Microservices
3 21 (32.31%) Event-Driven
4 18 (27.69%) AI
4 18 (27.69%) Machine Learning
5 16 (24.62%) ETL
6 15 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (21.54%) Agile
7 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
7 14 (21.54%) Data Engineering
7 14 (21.54%) Data Integration
7 14 (21.54%) DevOps
7 14 (21.54%) Observability
8 12 (18.46%) Analytics
8 12 (18.46%) Migration
9 11 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (15.38%) Use Case
10 10 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 26 (40.00%) Python
3 25 (38.46%) Java
4 11 (16.92%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.15%) Go
5 4 (6.15%) Perl
6 3 (4.62%) Bash
7 1 (1.54%) Groovy
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (58.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (18.46%) Grafana
3 7 (10.77%) Argo
4 3 (4.62%) NetBackup
4 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.08%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.54%) Ansible
6 1 (1.54%) Podman
6 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Databricks
2 10 (15.38%) Splunk
3 9 (13.85%) Dynatrace
4 8 (12.31%) ForgeRock
5 4 (6.15%) Google
6 3 (4.62%) Okta
6 3 (4.62%) Oracle
6 3 (4.62%) Veritas
7 2 (3.08%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.08%) F5
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.54%) Confluent
8 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.54%) Solace