Scala Contracts in London

Scala
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 210 170 177
Rank change year-on-year -40 +7 -59
Contract jobs citing Scala 197 427 658
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 1.58% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.10% 3.86% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 306 432
10th Percentile £375 £463 £488
25th Percentile £500 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £778 £747 £750
90th Percentile £850 £900 £863
England median daily rate £575 £575 £615
% change year-on-year - -6.50% +6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £49.75 £47.75
25th Percentile - £67.13 £66.88
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £79.38
Median % change year-on-year - -5.51% -
75th Percentile - - £82.94
90th Percentile - £82.50 £83.73
England median hourly rate £30.50 £68.50 £79.38
% change year-on-year -55.47% -13.70% +234.21%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala in London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala in London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the London 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
West London +29 17 £330 - 1
Central London +11 14 £684 +18.96% 12
East London 0 5 £825 +65.00%
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 47 (23.86%) Apache Spark
2 16 (8.12%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.51%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.06%) AWS
2 50 (25.38%) GCP
3 41 (20.81%) Azure
4 12 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (6.09%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (5.08%) dbt
7 8 (4.06%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.06%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.55%) Serverless
9 6 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.52%) Datadog
12 3 (1.52%) PaaS
13 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.20%) HTTP
2 2 (1.02%) BGP
2 2 (1.02%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) FTP
3 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.30%) Big Data
2 36 (18.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 19 (9.64%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (7.11%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.60%) Apache Hive
7 12 (6.09%) Power BI
8 11 (5.58%) Hadoop
9 9 (4.57%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
9 9 (4.57%) Tableau
10 8 (4.06%) Apache Arrow
10 8 (4.06%) Apache Ignite
10 8 (4.06%) Dremio
10 8 (4.06%) Impala
11 7 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.05%) HBase
12 6 (3.05%) Redis
13 5 (2.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (9.14%) Git
2 13 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.57%) ScalaTest
4 8 (4.06%) Maven
5 7 (3.55%) Subversion
6 6 (3.05%) Mockito
6 6 (3.05%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.54%) Gatling
7 5 (2.54%) JIRA
7 5 (2.54%) MLflow
8 4 (2.03%) JUnit
9 3 (1.52%) Gradle
10 2 (1.02%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.02%) Deequ
10 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.51%) GitLab
11 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.51%) Spinnaker
General
1 66 (33.50%) Finance
2 42 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (19.29%) Banking
3 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
4 22 (11.17%) Investment Banking
5 15 (7.61%) Front Office
6 5 (2.54%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.02%) Czech Language
7 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.51%) Law
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing
8 1 (0.51%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (51.78%) Developer
2 76 (38.58%) Scala Developer
3 41 (20.81%) Data Engineer
4 26 (13.20%) Senior
5 24 (12.18%) Architect
6 16 (8.12%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.61%) Lead
8 13 (6.60%) Scala Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) Java Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Azure Data Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Senior Scala Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.06%) Agile Developer
14 7 (3.55%) AWS Architect
14 7 (3.55%) AWS Solution Architect
14 7 (3.55%) Senior Agile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (29.95%) Kafka
2 40 (20.30%) Akka
3 31 (15.74%) RESTful
4 23 (11.68%) PySpark
5 12 (6.09%) Web Services
6 9 (4.57%) NumPy
6 9 (4.57%) Pandas
7 8 (4.06%) gRPC
7 8 (4.06%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (4.06%) SAML
7 8 (4.06%) SciPy
8 7 (3.55%) Spring
9 5 (2.54%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (2.03%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.03%) JPA
10 4 (2.03%) Play Framework
10 4 (2.03%) spray
10 4 (2.03%) Spring MVC
11 3 (1.52%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.66%) Hedge funds
2 13 (6.60%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.60%) Derivative
3 9 (4.57%) Equities
4 8 (4.06%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.06%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.03%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.60%) Linux
2 10 (5.08%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.61%) Agile
2 48 (24.37%) Microservices
3 45 (22.84%) TDD
4 40 (20.30%) Analytics
5 37 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (18.27%) DevOps
6 36 (18.27%) ETL
7 32 (16.24%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (16.24%) Machine Learning
8 31 (15.74%) Pair Programming
8 31 (15.74%) Software Engineering
9 26 (13.20%) Data Modelling
10 25 (12.69%) GitOps
11 24 (12.18%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (11.17%) CI/CD
12 22 (11.17%) Personalization
13 21 (10.66%) Clean Code
14 20 (10.15%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (9.64%) Unit Testing
16 18 (9.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 83 (42.13%) Python
2 64 (32.49%) Java
3 51 (25.89%) SQL
4 10 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.57%) Ruby
6 8 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.55%) C++
7 7 (3.55%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.05%) Go
8 6 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.03%) C#
9 4 (2.03%) R
10 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.02%) Bash
11 2 (1.02%) C
11 2 (1.02%) Groovy
11 2 (1.02%) Haskell
12 1 (0.51%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Clojure
12 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 19 (9.64%) Degree
2 14 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.57%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) OCP
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.02%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (8.63%) Docker
2 5 (2.54%) HDFS
3 4 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.02%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 43 (21.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.06%) Grafana
2 8 (4.06%) Prometheus
2 8 (4.06%) Terraform
3 5 (2.54%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
4 2 (1.02%) Puppet
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (16.24%) Databricks
2 18 (9.14%) Typelevel
3 10 (5.08%) Informatica
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.57%) Talend
5 5 (2.54%) Google
6 3 (1.52%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.02%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.02%) F5
7 2 (1.02%) Genesys
7 2 (1.02%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.02%) New Relic
7 2 (1.02%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.51%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.51%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) Reuters
8 1 (0.51%) Solace
8 1 (0.51%) Sybase