The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 418 470 546
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +76
Contract jobs citing Scala 95 89 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.228% 0.167% 0.044%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.611% 0.471% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 61 19
Average daily rate £550 £525 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £368 £308
% change year-on-year
+15.64% +19.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £72.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15538 18900 21502
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.37% 35.43% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9795 11399 12698
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 684 872
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Scala
UK

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Scala Daily Rate Histogram

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Scala across the England region.

England Scala Hourly Rate Trend

Scala
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +44 89 £550 +4.76%
South East +16 2 £475 +53.22%
North West - 2 - -
Yorkshire 0 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Scala
UK

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 224 (91.06%) Java
2 97 (39.43%) TDD
3 96 (39.02%) Spring
4 72 (29.27%) Ruby
5 60 (24.39%) JavaScript
6 56 (22.76%) Agile Software Development
7 53 (21.54%) Hadoop
8 50 (20.33%) Linux
9 43 (17.48%) RDBMS
9 43 (17.48%) Scrum
9 43 (17.48%) Continuous Integration
9 43 (17.48%) Groovy
10 41 (16.67%) Hibernate
11 39 (15.85%) Banking
12 38 (15.45%) CSS
12 38 (15.45%) Web Services
12 38 (15.45%) XML
12 38 (15.45%) Open Source
12 38 (15.45%) BDD
13 37 (15.04%) Multithreading
14 36 (14.63%) Python
15 35 (14.23%) OO
16 31 (12.60%) Big Data
17 30 (12.20%) J2EE
17 30 (12.20%) Oracle
18 28 (11.38%) UNIX
19 27 (10.98%) JUnit
19 27 (10.98%) MySQL
19 27 (10.98%) SQL
19 27 (10.98%) C#

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 96 (39.02%) Spring
2 41 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 38 (15.45%) CSS
3 38 (15.45%) Web Services
3 38 (15.45%) XML
4 30 (12.20%) J2EE
5 26 (10.57%) HTML
6 24 (9.756%) REST
7 21 (8.537%) RESTful
7 21 (8.537%) Grails
8 18 (7.317%) Ruby on Rails
8 18 (7.317%) Drools
8 18 (7.317%) HTML5
9 17 (6.911%) MapReduce
10 16 (6.504%) Ajax
10 16 (6.504%) Spring Batch
11 15 (6.098%) JSON
12 14 (5.691%) KnockoutJS
13 13 (5.285%) .NET
13 13 (5.285%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 22 (8.943%) Apache Pig
2 16 (6.504%) Tomcat
3 15 (6.098%) Apache
4 14 (5.691%) CMS
5 11 (4.472%) Adobe CQ
6 9 (3.659%) SAS
7 5 (2.033%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.626%) MQSeries
9 3 (1.220%) Google App Engine
9 3 (1.220%) Amazon AWS
9 3 (1.220%) Liferay
9 3 (1.220%) Alfresco
9 3 (1.220%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.813%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.813%) Jetty
10 2 (0.813%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.813%) GemFire
11 1 (0.407%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 9 (3.659%) SPSS
2 2 (0.813%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.407%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.407%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.407%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.407%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.407%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.407%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.626%) HTTP
2 3 (1.220%) AMQP
3 2 (0.813%) Intranet
3 2 (0.813%) Extranet
4 1 (0.407%) NFC
4 1 (0.407%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.407%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.54%) Hadoop
2 43 (17.48%) RDBMS
3 31 (12.60%) Big Data
4 27 (10.98%) MySQL
4 27 (10.98%) MongoDB
5 25 (10.16%) Apache Cassandra
6 24 (9.756%) NoSQL
7 23 (9.350%) Apache Hive
8 15 (6.098%) HBase
8 15 (6.098%) QlikView
9 11 (4.472%) Mahout
10 8 (3.252%) Data Mining
10 8 (3.252%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.033%) DB2
12 4 (1.626%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.626%) CouchDB
13 3 (1.220%) Redis
14 2 (0.813%) OLAP
14 2 (0.813%) MarkLogic
14 2 (0.813%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (10.98%) JUnit
2 23 (9.350%) Maven
3 21 (8.537%) Git (software)
4 12 (4.878%) Subversion
4 12 (4.878%) Eclipse
5 10 (4.065%) Selenium
6 8 (3.252%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.439%) JBehave
8 5 (2.033%) GitHub
8 5 (2.033%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.033%) Mockito
8 5 (2.033%) Ant
9 4 (1.626%) Gradle
9 4 (1.626%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.220%) EasyMock
10 3 (1.220%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.813%) jMock
11 2 (0.813%) FitNesse
11 2 (0.813%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.813%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 39 (15.85%) Banking
2 27 (10.98%) Finance
3 25 (10.16%) Front Office
4 14 (5.691%) Investment Banking
5 13 (5.285%) Publishing
6 7 (2.846%) Games
7 3 (1.220%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.813%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.407%) Marketing
9 1 (0.407%) Automotive
9 1 (0.407%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.407%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 194 (78.86%) Developer
2 137 (55.69%) Java Developer
3 38 (15.45%) Scala Developer
4 29 (11.79%) Senior Developer
5 26 (10.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 18 (7.317%) Software Engineer
7 11 (4.472%) Agile Java Developer
8 10 (4.065%) Data Scientist
8 10 (4.065%) Web Developer
9 8 (3.252%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (3.252%) Hadoop Developer
10 7 (2.846%) Software Manager
10 7 (2.846%) Applications Manager
10 7 (2.846%) Java Programmer
10 7 (2.846%) Programmer
10 7 (2.846%) Architect
11 6 (2.439%) C++ Developer
11 6 (2.439%) C# Developer
11 6 (2.439%) Research Engineer
11 6 (2.439%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.45%) Open Source
2 27 (10.98%) Computer Science
3 24 (9.756%) Derivative
4 16 (6.504%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (5.691%) Mathematics
5 14 (5.691%) Statistics
5 14 (5.691%) Visualisation
6 13 (5.285%) iPhone
7 12 (4.878%) Equity Derivative
8 10 (4.065%) Video on Demand
9 9 (3.659%) Grid Computing
10 8 (3.252%) Fixed Income
10 8 (3.252%) Social Network
10 8 (3.252%) Physics
10 8 (3.252%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.846%) Mobile App
11 7 (2.846%) Neural Network
12 6 (2.439%) Machine Learning
12 6 (2.439%) Digital Media
13 5 (2.033%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.33%) Linux
2 28 (11.38%) UNIX
3 27 (10.98%) Android
4 17 (6.911%) Windows
5 12 (4.878%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.626%) CentOS
7 3 (1.220%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.407%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.407%) Solaris
8 1 (0.407%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.43%) TDD
2 56 (22.76%) Agile Software Development
3 43 (17.48%) Scrum
3 43 (17.48%) Continuous Integration
4 38 (15.45%) BDD
5 37 (15.04%) Multithreading
6 35 (14.23%) OO
7 25 (10.16%) E-Commerce
7 25 (10.16%) Kanban
8 19 (7.724%) Unit Testing
9 17 (6.911%) MVC
9 17 (6.911%) Pair Programming
10 16 (6.504%) ITIL
10 16 (6.504%) Service Management
11 15 (6.098%) Benchmarking
11 15 (6.098%) Software Engineering
12 14 (5.691%) Data Analysis
12 14 (5.691%) Domain-Driven Design
13 12 (4.878%) Web Development
14 11 (4.472%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 224 (91.06%) Java
2 72 (29.27%) Ruby
3 60 (24.39%) JavaScript
4 43 (17.48%) Groovy
5 36 (14.63%) Python
6 27 (10.98%) SQL
6 27 (10.98%) C#
7 25 (10.16%) C++
8 17 (6.911%) C
9 13 (5.285%) Clojure
10 10 (4.065%) R
10 10 (4.065%) Perl
11 9 (3.659%) Haskell
12 7 (2.846%) PHP
13 5 (2.033%) XQuery
14 4 (1.626%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.626%) Erlang
14 4 (1.626%) F#
15 2 (0.813%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.813%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Degree
2 25 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.098%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.065%) PhD
5 7 (2.846%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.407%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.813%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.220%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.813%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.407%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (0.407%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 30 (12.20%) Oracle
2 13 (5.285%) Google
3 8 (3.252%) FatWire
3 8 (3.252%) Endeca
3 8 (3.252%) hybris
4 5 (2.033%) DataSynapse
4 5 (2.033%) Sybase
5 4 (1.626%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.626%) JBoss
6 3 (1.220%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.813%) Adobe
7 2 (0.813%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.407%) Demandware
8 1 (0.407%) Twitter
8 1 (0.407%) 29West
8 1 (0.407%) GigaSpaces
8 1 (0.407%) Omniture
8 1 (0.407%) IBM
8 1 (0.407%) VMware
8 1 (0.407%) ATG
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