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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 54 73
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 +51
Contract jobs citing Kafka 59 68 37
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.47% 4.25% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.55% 14.53% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 29
10th Percentile £302 £383 £359
25th Percentile £378 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% - -24.00%
75th Percentile £472 £549 £550
90th Percentile £589 £575 £625
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 511 468 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.43% 29.25% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 274 272
10th Percentile £320 £377 £351
25th Percentile £400 £432 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.35% -3.97%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £546
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 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -23 51 £402 -14.92% 41
Edinburgh -10 7 £505 +6.32% 17
West Lothian - 1 - - 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 (11.86%) Apache
1 7 (11.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.69%) Camunda
3 1 (1.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 28 (47.46%) AWS
2 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 16 (27.12%) GCP
4 13 (22.03%) Snowflake
5 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (11.86%) Akamai
7 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.86%) Cloudflare
7 7 (11.86%) Kong
7 7 (11.86%) OpenShift
7 7 (11.86%) Serverless
8 6 (10.17%) GitHub
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (6.78%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) DNS
1 5 (8.47%) HTTP
2 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) NAS
2 4 (6.78%) SAN
3 1 (1.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Big Data
1 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (16.95%) Power BI
2 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.78%) Flink
4 4 (6.78%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.69%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.69%) Metadata
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (32.20%) Git
2 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.86%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.08%) JUnit
5 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.39%) GitLab
5 2 (3.39%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Ant
6 1 (1.69%) Gradle
6 1 (1.69%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (44.07%) Finance
2 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
3 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.42%) Banking
4 9 (15.25%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.69%) Front Office
7 1 (1.69%) International Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Data Engineer
2 14 (23.73%) Java Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Python Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Data Integration Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Integration Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Architect
5 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Senior
6 6 (10.17%) Kafka Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Databricks Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Power BI Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.78%) UX Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) Spring
2 17 (28.81%) Spring Boot
3 14 (23.73%) REST
3 14 (23.73%) RESTful
4 12 (20.34%) React
5 11 (18.64%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (16.95%) OAuth
6 10 (16.95%) OAuth2
7 9 (15.25%) Celery
8 8 (13.56%) OpenID
9 7 (11.86%) AngularJS
9 7 (11.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (10.17%) SAML
11 5 (8.47%) gRPC
11 5 (8.47%) Terraform
11 5 (8.47%) WebSockets
12 4 (6.78%) JPA
12 4 (6.78%) Spring Batch
13 2 (3.39%) JSON
13 2 (3.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.34%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (18.64%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.78%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Data Fabric
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.69%) Replication
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Unix
2 7 (11.86%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 21 (35.59%) Microservices
3 20 (33.90%) Machine Learning
4 18 (30.51%) AI
5 17 (28.81%) ETL
5 17 (28.81%) Event-Driven
6 15 (25.42%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.42%) Data Integration
6 15 (25.42%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (23.73%) Agile
7 14 (23.73%) DevOps
8 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
8 13 (22.03%) Migration
9 12 (20.34%) Analytics
10 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.64%) Use Case
10 11 (18.64%) User Experience
11 10 (16.95%) Observability
12 9 (15.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Python
1 27 (45.76%) SQL
2 21 (35.59%) Java
3 9 (15.25%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.78%) Bash
4 4 (6.78%) Go
4 4 (6.78%) Perl
5 1 (1.69%) Groovy
5 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (52.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.64%) Grafana
3 7 (11.86%) Argo
4 3 (5.08%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) Podman
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Databricks
2 9 (15.25%) Splunk
3 8 (13.56%) Dynatrace
4 6 (10.17%) ForgeRock
5 4 (6.78%) Google
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle
6 3 (5.08%) Veritas
7 2 (3.39%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.69%) Confluent
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.69%) Okta
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.69%) Solace