The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.214% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.601% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
333 467 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.69% 36.15% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 271 175
Average daily rate £295 £300 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +13.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £230 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 15
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.57 £15.00 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £131.70 £39.10 £35.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Scala
North West

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Scala Daily Rate Trend

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) OO
3 4 (50.00%) Haskell
4 3 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Spring
4 3 (37.50%) Maven
4 3 (37.50%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) MySQL
5 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (25.00%) Java EE
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Groovy
5 2 (25.00%) JPA
5 2 (25.00%) Grails
5 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) BDD
6 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (12.50%) jQuery
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (12.50%) Batik
6 1 (12.50%) Spring Security
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Java EE
2 2 (25.00%) JPA
2 2 (25.00%) Grails
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) Batik
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Security
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) SVG
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Haskell
3 3 (37.50%) Ruby
4 2 (25.00%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript