Scala Contracts in England

Scala
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 247 219
Rank change year-on-year -49 -28 -67
Contract jobs citing Scala 260 575 928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.70% 1.14% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.40% 3.22% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 414 580
10th Percentile £375 £463 £452
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -6.50% +6.96%
75th Percentile £709 £688 £725
90th Percentile £838 £846 £844
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 4
10th Percentile £22.93 £19.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £24.74 £24.10 £66.88
Median hourly rate £30.50 £68.50 £79.38
Median % change year-on-year -55.47% -13.70% +234.21%
75th Percentile £51.00 £75.00 £82.94
90th Percentile £61.65 £78.00 £83.73
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £64.75 £78.75
% change year-on-year -35.91% -17.78% +231.58%

All Programming Languages
England

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in England

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in England.

Daily rate trend for Scala in England

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in England

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in England

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in England

Scala
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -40 197 £625 +8.70% 72
North of England +10 27 £425 -26.09% 10
South East +13 19 £575 +9.52% 4
Yorkshire +14 15 £425 -24.44% 2
North West -1 10 £463 -19.57% 7
Midlands +13 9 £513 -13.87% 3
East Midlands +23 6 £513 +2.50%
East of England +17 3 £338 -28.95% 1
West Midlands +15 3 £420 -29.41% 3
North East +20 2 £525 +16.67% 1
South West -5 2 £450 -18.18% 3
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 22 (8.46%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.69%) Apache
4 5 (1.92%) Confluence
5 3 (1.15%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.15%) nginx
6 2 (0.77%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 103 (39.62%) AWS
2 59 (22.69%) GCP
3 52 (20.00%) Azure
4 18 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 17 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (6.15%) Snowflake
7 11 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (3.85%) dbt
8 10 (3.85%) Serverless
9 9 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (3.08%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.69%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (2.69%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.92%) CloudBees
13 5 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.31%) HTTP
2 3 (1.15%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) BGP
3 2 (0.77%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (20.00%) Big Data
2 44 (16.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 27 (10.38%) NoSQL
4 25 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (9.23%) Hadoop
6 21 (8.08%) Data Lake
7 18 (6.92%) Apache Hive
7 18 (6.92%) MongoDB
7 18 (6.92%) Power BI
8 13 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.62%) Tableau
10 11 (4.23%) Impala
11 10 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (3.46%) HBase
13 8 (3.08%) Apache Arrow
13 8 (3.08%) Apache Ignite
13 8 (3.08%) Dremio
13 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 26 (10.00%) Git
2 23 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.15%) JIRA
4 11 (4.23%) Gatling
4 11 (4.23%) Maven
5 9 (3.46%) ScalaTest
6 8 (3.08%) Subversion
7 6 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.31%) Mockito
7 6 (2.31%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.92%) JUnit
8 5 (1.92%) MLflow
8 5 (1.92%) Selenium
9 4 (1.54%) GitLab
9 4 (1.54%) Gradle
9 4 (1.54%) JMeter
9 4 (1.54%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.77%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.77%) Ant
10 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (26.54%) Finance
2 55 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.38%) Banking
5 23 (8.85%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.77%) Front Office
7 9 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.54%) Marketing
8 4 (1.54%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.77%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Electronics
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (48.08%) Developer
2 89 (34.23%) Scala Developer
3 61 (23.46%) Data Engineer
4 45 (17.31%) Senior
5 24 (9.23%) Architect
6 22 (8.46%) Senior Developer
7 19 (7.31%) Lead
8 18 (6.92%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
10 14 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.00%) Senior Scala Developer
11 13 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.85%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Azure Data Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.08%) Agile Developer
14 8 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (2.69%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.31%) Kafka
2 42 (16.15%) Akka
3 37 (14.23%) RESTful
4 26 (10.00%) PySpark
5 23 (8.85%) Web Services
6 11 (4.23%) SAML
7 10 (3.85%) NumPy
7 10 (3.85%) Pandas
8 9 (3.46%) Spring
8 9 (3.46%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.08%) gRPC
9 8 (3.08%) Protocol Buffers
9 8 (3.08%) React
9 8 (3.08%) SciPy
10 5 (1.92%) OAuth
10 5 (1.92%) OpenID
10 5 (1.92%) Play Framework
10 5 (1.92%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (1.54%) JPA
11 4 (1.54%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.08%) Hedge funds
2 16 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.00%) Derivative
4 11 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.46%) Equities
6 8 (3.08%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.92%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.54%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.31%) Linux
2 16 (6.15%) Unix
3 4 (1.54%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.15%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (40.38%) Agile
2 56 (21.54%) TDD
3 55 (21.15%) Microservices
4 49 (18.85%) ETL
5 48 (18.46%) Analytics
5 48 (18.46%) DevOps
6 47 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (16.92%) Data Pipeline
8 41 (15.77%) Data Modelling
9 40 (15.38%) Machine Learning
10 37 (14.23%) Software Engineering
11 33 (12.69%) Data Engineering
11 33 (12.69%) Pair Programming
12 32 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (11.54%) CI/CD
14 29 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (10.00%) Design Patterns
15 26 (10.00%) GitOps
16 24 (9.23%) Computer Science
17 23 (8.85%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 116 (44.62%) Python
2 104 (40.00%) Java
3 74 (28.46%) SQL
4 17 (6.54%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.00%) Ruby
6 11 (4.23%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.85%) Go
7 10 (3.85%) Groovy
8 9 (3.46%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.08%) C++
9 8 (3.08%) R
10 4 (1.54%) C#
11 3 (1.15%) C
11 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.77%) Bash
12 2 (0.77%) Haskell
12 2 (0.77%) Perl
13 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.38%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 26 (10.00%) Degree
2 20 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.46%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.08%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.77%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.77%) PhD
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) OCP
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.77%) MiFID
3 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) GxP
3 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 27 (10.38%) Docker
2 8 (3.08%) HDFS
3 5 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.77%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 54 (20.77%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.77%) Terraform
3 12 (4.62%) Grafana
4 9 (3.46%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.31%) Ansible
6 5 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.77%) Puppet
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 38 (14.62%) Databricks
2 19 (7.31%) Typelevel
3 16 (6.15%) Informatica
4 13 (5.00%) Talend
5 12 (4.62%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.31%) Google
7 5 (1.92%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.54%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.77%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.77%) F5
9 2 (0.77%) Genesys
9 2 (0.77%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.77%) IBM
9 2 (0.77%) New Relic
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle
9 2 (0.77%) Teradata
10 1 (0.38%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.38%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.38%) Reuters
10 1 (0.38%) Sybase