The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 222 238 250
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +12
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.026% 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.078% 0.033% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £475 £310 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+53.22% -
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2578 3036 3499
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.08% 29.92% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1284 1472 1535
Average daily rate £343 £329 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.18% +1.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 203 293
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £20.50 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £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
England

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Scala Daily 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 South East 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
Berkshire +15 1 £475 +53.22%
East Sussex - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Scala
England

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Spring
3 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) HTML
4 4 (50.00%) Web Services
4 4 (50.00%) XML
4 4 (50.00%) XSLT
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) Subversion
5 3 (37.50%) Maven
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) RESTful
5 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
5 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
5 3 (37.50%) XML Schema
5 3 (37.50%) CSS
5 3 (37.50%) BDD
6 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) MySQL
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (25.00%) Intranet
6 2 (25.00%) Extranet
6 2 (25.00%) Open Source

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) XML Schema
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) Grails
5 1 (12.50%) Django
5 1 (12.50%) jQuery
5 1 (12.50%) Ajax
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) Velocity
5 1 (12.50%) JSR 168
5 1 (12.50%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) Alfresco
2 1 (12.50%) Liferay
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intranet
1 2 (25.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Subversion
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) FitNesse
4 1 (12.50%) JBehave
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
4 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) XML Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) CentOS
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Web Development
6 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (12.50%) MVC
6 1 (12.50%) OOP
6 1 (12.50%) OO
6 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
4 1 (12.50%) XQuery
4 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) GigaSpaces
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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