Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 317 308
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 -118
Contract jobs citing Scala 100 131 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.56% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.92% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 93 129
10th Percentile £396 £392 £419
25th Percentile £425 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +1.85% +3.45%
75th Percentile £587 £594 £615
90th Percentile £698 £655 £782
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.43% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £23.54 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.50 £41.49 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +108.36% -17.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £64.25 £77.25 -
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Scotland +73 39 £453 -9.40% 10
North of England +12 29 £450 -21.74% 11
South East +16 19 £575 +15.00% 6
Yorkshire +20 18 £425 -24.44% 2
North West -3 9 £475 -17.39% 9
Midlands +27 8 £513 -13.87% 1
East Midlands - 6 £513 -
North East +13 2 £525 +16.67%
West Midlands +8 2 £485 -18.49% 1
East of England +7 2 £375 -21.05% 2
South West -16 2 £450 -18.18% 4
Northern Ireland +5 1 £500 - 7
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 26 (26.00%) Apache Spark
2 16 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (8.00%) Apache
4 5 (5.00%) Confluence
5 3 (3.00%) Jupyter
5 3 (3.00%) nginx
6 1 (1.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.00%) AWS
2 30 (30.00%) Azure
3 19 (19.00%) Snowflake
4 18 (18.00%) GCP
5 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.00%) CloudBees
7 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.00%) GitHub
9 2 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) HTTP
2 3 (3.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 11 (11.00%) Big Data
4 10 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
6 7 (7.00%) Data Lake
6 7 (7.00%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.00%) Power BI
7 6 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.00%) Apache Hive
9 4 (4.00%) MySQL
10 3 (3.00%) BigQuery
10 3 (3.00%) ClickHouse
10 3 (3.00%) HBase
10 3 (3.00%) Impala
10 3 (3.00%) Pentaho
10 3 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (15.00%) JIRA
2 12 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.00%) Git
4 5 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.00%) Gatling
4 5 (5.00%) Selenium
5 4 (4.00%) JMeter
5 4 (4.00%) WebDriver
6 3 (3.00%) GitLab
6 3 (3.00%) Maven
7 2 (2.00%) Gradle
8 1 (1.00%) Ant
8 1 (1.00%) ERwin
8 1 (1.00%) JUnit
8 1 (1.00%) Mockito
8 1 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (14.00%) Finance
1 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.00%) Financial Institution
3 5 (5.00%) Banking
4 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Back Office
7 1 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Publishing
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (50.00%) Developer
2 33 (33.00%) Java Developer
3 25 (25.00%) Scala Developer
4 22 (22.00%) Data Engineer
5 19 (19.00%) Senior
6 16 (16.00%) Java Scala Developer
7 12 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Linux Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Backend Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.00%) Kafka
2 17 (17.00%) RESTful
3 15 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.00%) Spring
4 10 (10.00%) Web Services
5 8 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (8.00%) OpenTracing
6 6 (6.00%) PySpark
7 5 (5.00%) Apache Beam
7 5 (5.00%) React
8 4 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (4.00%) OAuth
8 4 (4.00%) OpenID
9 3 (3.00%) Keycloak
9 3 (3.00%) SAML
10 2 (2.00%) Akka
10 2 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 1 (1.00%) Pandas
11 1 (1.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.00%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.00%) Linux
2 11 (11.00%) Unix
3 4 (4.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.00%) Agile
2 29 (29.00%) Software Engineering
3 27 (27.00%) DevOps
4 26 (26.00%) Data Engineering
5 21 (21.00%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (18.00%) Microservices
6 18 (18.00%) Test Automation
7 16 (16.00%) Computer Science
8 14 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (14.00%) Data Modelling
9 12 (12.00%) Design Patterns
9 12 (12.00%) ETL
9 12 (12.00%) MLOps
9 12 (12.00%) SDLC
10 11 (11.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 11 (11.00%) DataOps
10 11 (11.00%) GitOps
10 11 (11.00%) TDD
11 10 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 76 (76.00%) Java
2 45 (45.00%) Python
3 21 (21.00%) SQL
4 12 (12.00%) Kotlin
5 8 (8.00%) Groovy
5 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.00%) Go
7 4 (4.00%) R
7 4 (4.00%) Ruby
8 2 (2.00%) Perl
9 1 (1.00%) C
9 1 (1.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.00%) GxP
System Software
1 32 (32.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (33.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (20.00%) Terraform
3 12 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.00%) Zipkin
5 5 (5.00%) Grafana
6 4 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (17.00%) Databricks
2 5 (5.00%) Informatica
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.00%) Talend
4 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.00%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.00%) IBM
5 2 (2.00%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.00%) JDA
6 1 (1.00%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.00%) Sybase
6 1 (1.00%) Teradata
6 1 (1.00%) Typelevel