The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 171 201 243
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +42
Contract jobs citing Scala 39 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.575% 0.142% 0.080%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.343% 0.381% 0.186%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 7
Average daily rate £550 £625 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +83.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £568 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £685 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £311
% change year-on-year
- +36.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2903 2888 4295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 42.82% 37.31% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2232 2209 3290
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £288 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 29 36
Average hourly rate £39.75 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.57% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £18.47 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.30 £48.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Scala
London

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Scala across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London Scala Jobs Demand Trend

Scala
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Scala across the City of London region.

City of London Scala Daily Rate Trend

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scala across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Scala Daily Rate Histogram

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Scala also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Scala.

1 55 (85.94%) Java
2 19 (29.69%) TDD
3 17 (26.56%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (25.00%) Scrum
4 16 (25.00%) Spring
5 15 (23.44%) Oracle
5 15 (23.44%) Hadoop
6 14 (21.88%) Hibernate
7 13 (20.31%) Banking
7 13 (20.31%) Python
8 12 (18.75%) Ruby
8 12 (18.75%) Groovy
9 11 (17.19%) Investment Banking
9 11 (17.19%) SQL
10 10 (15.63%) C#
10 10 (15.63%) E-Commerce
10 10 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 10 (15.63%) Degree
10 10 (15.63%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (14.06%) MapReduce
11 9 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (14.06%) Maven
11 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
11 9 (14.06%) C++
11 9 (14.06%) RDBMS
12 8 (12.50%) Front Office
12 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
12 8 (12.50%) Web Services
12 8 (12.50%) Multithreading
12 8 (12.50%) Kanban

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Scala also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Scala. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (25.00%) Spring
2 14 (21.88%) Hibernate
3 9 (14.06%) MapReduce
4 8 (12.50%) Web Services
5 7 (10.94%) .NET
6 4 (6.250%) XML
6 4 (6.250%) CSS
6 4 (6.250%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.250%) RESTful
7 3 (4.688%) WCF
7 3 (4.688%) ASP
7 3 (4.688%) HTML
7 3 (4.688%) Flash
7 3 (4.688%) Grails
7 3 (4.688%) jQuery
8 2 (3.125%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (3.125%) JMS
8 2 (3.125%) REST
8 2 (3.125%) CSS3
8 2 (3.125%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.94%) Apache Pig
2 6 (9.375%) Apache
2 6 (9.375%) SAS
3 2 (3.125%) GemFire
4 1 (1.563%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.563%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.563%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.563%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.563%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (9.375%) SPSS
2 4 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (6.250%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.250%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.250%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.250%) Internet
2 3 (4.688%) AMQP
2 3 (4.688%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Hadoop
2 10 (15.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (14.06%) RDBMS
4 8 (12.50%) Apache Hive
4 8 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 7 (10.94%) HBase
5 7 (10.94%) Big Data
6 6 (9.375%) Data Mining
6 6 (9.375%) Mahout
7 5 (7.813%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.563%) Sqoop
8 1 (1.563%) Redis
8 1 (1.563%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.563%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Maven
2 7 (10.94%) Git (software)
3 6 (9.375%) JUnit
4 4 (6.250%) FrontPage
5 2 (3.125%) Selenium
5 2 (3.125%) Ant
6 1 (1.563%) Mockito
6 1 (1.563%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.563%) EasyMock
6 1 (1.563%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 1 (1.563%) Hudson
6 1 (1.563%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.563%) FitNesse
General
1 13 (20.31%) Banking
2 11 (17.19%) Investment Banking
3 8 (12.50%) Front Office
4 6 (9.375%) Finance
5 2 (3.125%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.563%) Back Office
6 1 (1.563%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.563%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (70.31%) Developer
2 26 (40.63%) Java Developer
3 19 (29.69%) Scala Developer
4 13 (20.31%) Senior Java Developer
4 13 (20.31%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Agile Java Developer
6 6 (9.375%) Java Programmer
6 6 (9.375%) Programmer
6 6 (9.375%) Research Engineer
6 6 (9.375%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.250%) Incident Manager
7 4 (6.250%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.250%) Front Office Developer
8 3 (4.688%) Research Scientist
9 2 (3.125%) Java Web Developer
9 2 (3.125%) Senior Web Developer
9 2 (3.125%) Analyst
9 2 (3.125%) Web Developer
9 2 (3.125%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.125%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
2 7 (10.94%) Visualisation
2 7 (10.94%) Open Source
2 7 (10.94%) Statistics
3 6 (9.375%) Grid Computing
3 6 (9.375%) Neural Network
3 6 (9.375%) Social Network
3 6 (9.375%) Derivative
3 6 (9.375%) Mathematics
3 6 (9.375%) Physics
4 4 (6.250%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.250%) PDA
4 4 (6.250%) Blackberry
5 3 (4.688%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.688%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.563%) Social Media
6 1 (1.563%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (1.563%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.563%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.563%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.813%) Linux
2 4 (6.250%) Windows 2000
2 4 (6.250%) Windows
3 3 (4.688%) UNIX
4 1 (1.563%) Android
4 1 (1.563%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) TDD
2 17 (26.56%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (25.00%) Scrum
4 10 (15.63%) E-Commerce
4 10 (15.63%) Software Engineering
5 9 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 8 (12.50%) Kanban
7 7 (10.94%) OO
7 7 (10.94%) Data Analysis
8 6 (9.375%) Predictive Modelling
8 6 (9.375%) BDD
8 6 (9.375%) Analytics
9 5 (7.813%) Pair Programming
10 4 (6.250%) Extreme Programming
10 4 (6.250%) Incident Management
10 4 (6.250%) ITIL
10 4 (6.250%) Service Management
10 4 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (4.688%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 55 (85.94%) Java
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) Ruby
3 12 (18.75%) Groovy
4 11 (17.19%) SQL
5 10 (15.63%) C#
6 9 (14.06%) C++
7 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 7 (10.94%) R
9 4 (6.250%) Clojure
10 2 (3.125%) C
10 2 (3.125%) PHP
10 2 (3.125%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.563%) VB
11 1 (1.563%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.563%) Perl
11 1 (1.563%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 6 (9.375%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.563%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.563%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (6.250%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 2 (3.125%) Oozie
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Oracle
2 4 (6.250%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.250%) Adobe
2 4 (6.250%) Citrix
2 4 (6.250%) Remedy
3 1 (1.563%) hybris
3 1 (1.563%) 29West
3 1 (1.563%) Twitter
3 1 (1.563%) Endeca
3 1 (1.563%) FatWire
City, London
My client is looking for Scala Developers to develop, enhance & support there current platform... Java... Agile with Scrum or Kanban. Hibernate. …and also desirable is experience with: RDBMS (...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £600 - £800 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013