The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Scala 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.360% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.288% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £368 £308
% change year-on-year
+15.64% +19.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
233 191 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.97% 17.57% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 103
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £237 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £32.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.28% +52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Scala
Scotland

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Scala Jobs Demand Trend

Scala
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) C++

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C++/Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C++