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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 62 87
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 +50
Contract jobs citing Kafka 46 60 35
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.14% 3.62% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.33% 15.50% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 28
10th Percentile £303 £396 £400
25th Percentile £405 £421 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £547 £544 £561
90th Percentile £616 £575 £633
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.60 £28.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +152.14% -64.10%

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 406 387 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.87% 23.33% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 253 284
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £396 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.66% -6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £543
90th Percentile £650 £600 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile - - £36.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.25 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% - +41.52%
75th Percentile £64.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -14 38 £447 -4.89% 9
Edinburgh -6 9 £600 +26.32% 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 7 (15.22%) Apache
1 7 (15.22%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Snowflake
3 10 (21.74%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.39%) GCP
4 8 (17.39%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.17%) Akamai
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.17%) dbt
7 1 (2.17%) Kong
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) NAS
1 4 (8.70%) SAN
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) Big Data
2 10 (21.74%) Power BI
3 5 (10.87%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.70%) Flink
4 4 (8.70%) Metadata
4 4 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.52%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Ant
4 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
4 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (28.26%) Banking
5 8 (17.39%) Investment Banking
6 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.35%) Law
8 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Front Office
8 1 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Data Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Architect
4 9 (19.57%) Python Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Data Integration Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Integration Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Java Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Data Architect
6 7 (15.22%) Kafka Engineer
6 7 (15.22%) Senior
6 7 (15.22%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Power BI Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Python Developer
8 4 (8.70%) UX Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (19.57%) Celery
2 9 (19.57%) RESTful
2 9 (19.57%) Spring
3 8 (17.39%) REST
3 8 (17.39%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.52%) Spring Batch
5 2 (4.35%) OAuth
5 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.35%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.35%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.35%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.17%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (2.17%) gRPC
6 1 (2.17%) React
6 1 (2.17%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Data Structures
2 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.35%) Data Fabric
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Unix
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Machine Learning
2 18 (39.13%) Data Integration
3 17 (36.96%) AI
3 17 (36.96%) ETL
4 15 (32.61%) Data Engineering
4 15 (32.61%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (28.26%) Microservices
6 12 (26.09%) Analytics
6 12 (26.09%) Event-Driven
7 11 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (23.91%) User Experience
8 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
8 10 (21.74%) Use Case
9 9 (19.57%) Migration
10 8 (17.39%) Data Architecture
10 8 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
10 8 (17.39%) Visualisation
11 7 (15.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) Python
2 21 (45.65%) SQL
3 12 (26.09%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
4 4 (8.70%) Perl
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) SnowPro
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) etcd
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (23.91%) Grafana
3 3 (6.52%) NetBackup
4 2 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Fluentd
5 1 (2.17%) Podman
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Databricks
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) Confluent
3 3 (6.52%) Informatica
3 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 3 (6.52%) Talend
3 3 (6.52%) Veritas
4 2 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft